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2015-01-02 -Land of the Free

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Posted by badanov 2015-01-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 These people think they have a moral right to infringe on Your rights.
The ultimate do-gooders are the ultimate intolerant goons that complicate life without your consent for their corrupt failed concepts.

Willfully ignorant and even more arrogant, they have no place running Civilized Society.
Ergo, they must destroy it.

Posted by newc 2015-01-02 01:08|| 2015-01-02 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow
the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all
conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms
have prepared their own downfall by so doing.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-02 03:12|| 2015-01-02 03:12|| Front Page Top

#3 He used handguns not a rifle.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-01-02 07:23|| 2015-01-02 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Why is the FBI misleading the public about active shooters ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-02 07:55|| 2015-01-02 07:55|| Front Page Top

#5 legislative prophylactics that prevent gunmakers, almost uniquely among American manufacturers, from ever being held responsible for the deaths that their products cause

Lie. Gun manufacturers don't benefirt from any special privilege. Electrical companies aren't held responsible for electrocutions: they delivered perfectly good electricity: customer carelessness or defective home installations aren't their responsibility. They are responsible if a defective power line they maintain causes a fire.

Car manufacturers are not held responsible for people overrun by cars. But GM or Ford (don(t remember) got a four billion fine for as a cost saving measure deliberately having designed a gas tank who punctured easily thus resulting into a number of cars catching fire after an accident and people getting killed.

And gun manufacturers get exactly the same treatment: they are held responsible for deaths caused by defective products like a gun exploding and killing its user, not through the normal use of the weapon.

Now let's talk about some people who should get multi-million dollar fines and even jail: like journalists, "intellectuals" and "community organizers" who dtir racial tensions and cause cops to be killed or shops set afire, who have forced an inocent persons (Zimmerman) to hide after falsely depeciting an accident as a racist crime, like falmsely accusing a group of people from rape. Let's begin by you Mr activist, when people are killed or raped because the good guys were unable to oppose the bad ones.

Posted by JFM 2015-01-02 09:06|| 2015-01-02 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Adam Gopnik completely ignores the moral argument, statistics or anecdotal information in favor of firearms. He must think his 1st Amendment right will be guaranteed by the good will and kindness of men.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-01-02 09:14|| 2015-01-02 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 JFM, that was Ford with the Pinto runabout/sedan gas tank.
figures at the time showed a per unit savings of under $5.00 (IIRC) by not making the tank more crashworthy.
Tanks would rupture due to being impaled on a bolt in the rear-end housing area. Some reports said that simply turning the bolt around would have prevented many of the explosions.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-01-02 10:21|| 2015-01-02 10:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Well said JFM.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-01-02 10:32|| 2015-01-02 10:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Hmmm??? And the people responsible for disarming civilians and creating "Gun Free" zones aren't responsible for the high number of deaths in those said zones? Interesting!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2015-01-02 11:15|| 2015-01-02 11:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Yes, AlmostAnonymous. I remind having heard of a shooting spree in a school stopped because a teacher confronted the attacker with his gun. Attacker immediately surrended. The cops came well later.

Posted by JFM 2015-01-02 11:54|| 2015-01-02 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 get back to me when the state disarms first.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-01-02 12:43|| 2015-01-02 12:43|| Front Page Top

#12 What's Canadian for putz?

Posted by Glith Ebboluper1488 2015-01-02 13:35|| 2015-01-02 13:35|| Front Page Top

#13 "Trudeau"?

Posted by Pappy 2015-01-02 14:39|| 2015-01-02 14:39|| Front Page Top

#14 Pappy wins the thread! :-D

Posted by Barbara 2015-01-02 14:55|| 2015-01-02 14:55|| Front Page Top

#15 Morality is legalese for cashing in.

Posted by regular joe 2015-01-02 15:21|| 2015-01-02 15:21|| Front Page Top

#16 Writers like this should be subject to prison time for deliberately and purposely misleading people.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-02 15:44|| 2015-01-02 15:44|| Front Page Top

#17 I guess the summation of this article can be liberalism is a mental defect.
The FBI and CDC have concluded from multiple studies (that were funded to prove the opposite) that when more people are armed crime goes down. I am a Benefactor Life Member of the NRA. I am constantly asked by non-shooters for NRA stickers to put on their cars and home. Thousands of interviews with criminals in prison have proven when a criminal sees an NRA sticker or any other indication the occupant is armed they go somewhere else where the risk of being shot is lower.

Posted by David169 2015-01-02 18:04|| 2015-01-02 18:04|| Front Page Top

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