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2007-04-20 Home Front: Culture Wars

CNN OpEd: Let's lay down our right to bear arms

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Posted by Frank G 2007-04-20 20:04|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 forgot to add: this would be the first b*tch to cry "lawsuit" if he were not completely protected by the police from the consequences of his disarmament campaign. Perhaps he could do the "introductory knocks" on the confiscation tour?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-20 20:10|| 2007-04-20 20:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Geeeze, where to start with this disgusting specimen of invertebrate?

The use of guns is often the American technique of choice for all kinds of conflict resolution.

Guess why, you insensate moron: It's because they work. An enemy falls down and does not get back up again. This is how numerous wars were fought and won in case that happened to escape your notice.

Our famous Constitution, about which many of us are generally so proud, enshrines -- along with the right to freedom of speech, press, religion and assembly -- the right to own guns. That's an apples and oranges list if there ever was one.

Without a gun to defend the other rights they often vanish with astonishing rapidity. Just ask the Soviet Russians or communist Chinese.

Not all of us are so proud and triumphant about the gun-guarantee clause.

Not all of us resemble jellyfish either.

Let me explain. Some misguided people will focus on the fact that the 23-year-old student who killed his classmates and others at Virginia Tech was ethnically Korean. This is one of those observations that's 99.99 percent irrelevant.

Horseshit! Guess what, Cho's lack of American heritage may well have played a part. Unaccustomed to life in the states, Cho was more susceptible to feelings of alienation and less well-prepared to deal with them when they arose. The guy's total lack of friends should have triggered concern in his parents but evidently did not. This in no way excused the "go back to China" taunting that should have gotten hammered by teachers who let it slide. They will have to deal with their own heavy consciences regarding this. None of it changes how what Cho did was wrong and the fact that he knew that it was wrong.

So let's just disregard all the hoopla about the race of the student responsible for the slayings. These students were not killed by a Korean, they were killed by a 9 mm handgun and a .22-caliber handgun.

Sure enough, the guns jumped up into the air all by themselves and fired bullets into all those students without the least human intervention. What unmitigated balderdash!

Gah! Nearly every sentence this useful idiot writes is the focal point for another rant. I'll stop here.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-20 20:48|| 2007-04-20 20:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, Plate? You don't have to like the rights conferred by the Constitution, and you sure as Hell don't have to stay here. The rest of us DO like those rights, however, so if you want to live in a gun-free society, I suggest you move.

Posted by Mac 2007-04-20 20:53|| 2007-04-20 20:53|| Front Page Top

#4 You first asshole. Try to take mine and I'll put a .308 hollowpoint through your thick skull.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-20 20:55|| 2007-04-20 20:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Darth, calm down and mutter, "I find your lack of confidence disturbing", whilst administering the usual throat pinch.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-20 21:30|| 2007-04-20 21:30|| Front Page Top

#6 What little childish minds like Mr. Plate don't seem to grasp, is that the 'militia' clause is the basis of what he and others erroneously refer to as the 'draft'. It is the selective activation of the federal militia. Take away that clause and a 'draft' become involuntary servitude per the 13th Amendment. Not only will you disarm the law abiding public who use their lawful weapons in self defense in far greater numbers to stop violence against themselves, their families, and others, but it will also disarm the nation. However, then again, I'm sure Mr. Plate believes he's one of the chosen to rule us all.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-04-20 22:14|| 2007-04-20 22:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds like "Rosie can have/carry a gun but no one else can" controversy from years back - and is he Mr.Plate willing to pay the degree of higher public taxation needed in order to have his level of third-party, "perfect" absolutist-totalitarian protection, WHERE CRIMINALS HAVE NO RIGHTS BUT NEITHER DOES THE VICTIM, i.e. TOM PLATE HIMSELF AND HIS? AND - DRUM ROLL PLEASE - THE ANSWER EVERY TIME IS "NO". All this article shows, once again, is that EQUALISM IS UNEQUAL, UNIVERSAL REGULATION IS FOR EVERYONE BUT NOT FOR RULING-SOCIAL ELITES. Its for FDR whom didn't kill scores of millions of his own people before WW2 to lay down America's guns, but NOT for Stalin whom did kill scores of millions of his own people before WW2 to lay down the USSR's guns.

*SOUTH PARK >Radical Enviro activists whom DON'T LIVE/WORK IN THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST, AND NEVER WILL, ARE DEMANDING THAT THE AMAZON BASIN BE UN-TOUCHED = UN-DEVELOPED, ERGO ITS MOSTLY POOR ANDOR UN-MODERN INDIGENS PEOPLES WILL BE BE DENIED "PROGRESS" OR MODERNITY, i.e. DENIED THE VERY SAME EQUALITY = "PROGRESS" [LEFTY] RADICALS PROCLAIM TO WANT FOR INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS IN AMAZON AND EVERYWHERE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-04-20 23:19|| 2007-04-20 23:19|| Front Page Top

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