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| -Land of the Free |
| Lt. Col Robert Bateman attacks the NRA |
| 2014-01-04 |
| Another antigun article written for the fever swamp at Esquire. A lot of ad hominem trolling from the left, not a lot of facts, just like Bateman's article. Way back in 2007, I personally invited Wayne LaPierre, the director of the National Rifle Association, to live in Baghdad. I had been there, less than 24 months earlier, and I thought LaPierre might appreciate the opportunity to live in a society which lived up to his standards. Surprisingly, he never took this offer up, nor did he ever visit the troops in Iraq, or Afghanistan for that matter, which is, well, normal for him. He likes his guns, but he is really not cool with being surrounded by them, like he would have been, had he ever visited our troops in Baghdad, or Helmand, or Kabul...or basically anywhere. He was preparing the battleground for fools like Bateman who want to trade on their military service for personal and political gain. I appreciate your service to the country but your ugly views to destroy a fundamental constitutional right cancels out my appreciation. In Iraq, every single household (with a male that is) may have one assault rifle. This seems to be Mr. Wayne LaPierre's ideal. And interestingly, we have a country (a couple, actually) where his vision exists. Iraq and Afghanistan. The comparison of Iraq or Afghanistan is fatuous, but does reveal the utter contempt Lt. Col Bateman had for the fundamental mission of US armed forces, and that is to allow people to make their own way wit as little oppression from the offices of government and its armed wing as possible. That is also known as freedom. Not only did Bateman miss that point, his sycophantic followers at Esquire missed it as well. Somewhat curiously, for Mr. LaPierre anyway, this social experiment is not really working out the way that Mr. LaPierre contends that it must, that a "well armed" society is a more polite one. Gun deaths are off the scale in both countries and all forms of violence exceed anything we see in countries with fewer guns. So how is that working out Mr. LaPierre? You would appear to prefer to turn us into a nation like Iraq. Myself, I consider your position to be prostitution for the purpose of profit. But more on that later. The first resort of the fascist: "Concern" for public safety using statistics, as though those numbers and the metrics thereof should be the only consideration when it comes to basic rights. It also shows more than a tiny tinge of racism against people of color for whom the US military spent a considerable amount of blood and treasure to make free, racial hatred which is a hallmark of leftist politics from Bateman's corner of the world. Contrast that, if you would, Mr. LaPierre, with the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Hell, the whole country, if you like. They have a rate of 0.30/100K dead from weapons. The rate in America is 10.3 per 100K. Are the people of India so much more advanced than us Mr. LaPierre? Do you really think Americans are that much more ignorant than the Indians? Apparently, you do, Bateman. I understand that during the time of the nation's need you had other pressing needs that kept you from serving in Vietnam, but surely, despite your lack of travel, you might have learned at least a little about the rest of the world? Yes....ah, OK. No. Apparently, we have to be more concerned about domestic enemies, the ones pressing for gun confiscation, as Bateman did last month. I get it Mr. LaPierre, you are a political operative for a single-issue topic and you probably never heard of Uttar Pradesh, despite the fact that it is a proud, and honorable, state in the country of India. Were it independent, it would be about 1/3 of the size of the US, and the sixth largest country (by population) on the planet. More than 30M Muslims live there, more than in all of Iraq. And the violence there is horrific...more than 100 died there in Muslim/Hindi attacks. Oh, wait, 100 people...that's less than a single day in America. But, if you think that the Shia/Sunni split caused this violence there, you would be wrong. Oh heck, who am I kidding? You probably do not even know what a Shia Muslim is, let alone what a Sunni Muslim is, besides what you have been told by your minders. (Who are now, no doubt, desperately using Google to figure that out.) Mr. LaPierre, perhaps you need to return to the nation of your forefathers from 40 or 50 years ago, and leave America to others more vested in the security of the nation. That number not to include Lot. Col. Robert Bateman. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 I give the writing a solid 16 year's old in the "best not take my boyfriend" category. So...two years after he spent time in Iraq, as a nobody he sent a letter. That puts him Iraq in 2005, the time of the Anbar Awakening? Tell me more of the muslim/hindi fighting in the USA...or is that just poor writing. If his Handlers looked it up and told Mr. LaPierre, as so hipsterly put, then...Mr. LaPierre would know about them, right? Let's see..nation of our forefathers...2014-50 = 1964. WTF Army, LTC? Was the US not poised to go to war with Asian Communists, who just disarmed the population and promptly murdered VIPs? Or do you mean 2014-40 = 1974, where Asian Communists were poised to grab the guns of South Vietnamese and murder the VIPs? Or does he mean, the nation of our forefathers as they were understood back in the 60's and 70's, as opposed to what the little Batemans of today think about them? If he gave orders like he writes, sounds like the kind of a-hole who would order something vague, and either gobble the praise or dish the blame before your boots back. "More than 100 died there!!!" Missing a time period, you dolt. AWH3's video hits it, this guy shouldn't be in charge of installing batteries. Thats the little AAA ones. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-01-04 16:37 |
| #5 Every household in Switzerland is also required to have a firearm and it is a rather peaceful place. Perhaps it is due to a society based on Judeo Christian values rather than those of a 7th century pedofile. Just a thought. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2014-01-04 12:19 |
| #4 "In Iraq, every single household (with a male that is (Oh noes! Male privilege!)) may have one assault rifle." Ya' mean an AR-15 "assault rifle?" Or something else, like a true automatic weapon, which is illegal to own by private U.S. citizens and, to my knowledge, uncontested as such by Mr. LaPierre? O-5 Bateman was either seriously distracted during weapons orientation or is a lib tool with an axe to grind. Wake me up when the Mormons begin bombing Lutheran churches... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-01-04 11:45 |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-01-04 10:52 |
| #2 There are enough straw men in that piece to fill a football stadium. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2014-01-04 08:55 |
| #1 There is a reason Robert Bateman only made Lt. Colonel. |
| Posted by: George Alowishus Hatrack III 2014-01-04 01:19 |