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2007-01-31 Fifth Column

NY Slimes: A day without guns (Editorial)

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Posted by BA 2007-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I've got a great idea: Let's have a New York police Day Without Guns.™

No NYC police to protect the NYSlimes and its "people" (and I use the term loosely). (The cop ain't stupid enough to come to work without firearms.)

No armed private security guards, either.

Ain't gonna happen, though. Like Rosie O'Donnell *spit*, NYSlimes trash believe in "security for me, but not for thee."©

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-01-31 01:49|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-01-31 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Nice opposing-view commentary and facts. Too bad the Slimes has no room for either.

Posted by Bobby 2007-01-31 06:36|| 2007-01-31 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 My prediction: look for a renewed push by the Democrats on gun control and confiscation over the next couple of years. They're salivating over the prospect of a Donk presidential victory in 2008, and if they get it they will want complete freedom to undertake a drastic restructuring of American society along Socialist lines-- and that means freedom from opposition by an angry, armed citizenry.

Fair warning.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-01-31 06:59|| 2007-01-31 06:59|| Front Page Top

#4 only in non-election years, DD. They figgered out that gun-control is a loser at the ballot box, and confiscation will have to be by other means...
say..."for the children"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-31 07:02|| 2007-01-31 07:02|| Front Page Top

#5 "They figgered out that gun-control is a loser at the ballot box..."

Don't count on it, Frank.

Expect a full-court press by their paid propagandists in the MSM to make it a winner, instead. Their propaganda worked on the WoT, and very likely they're figuring it can work regarding gun control, too.

Fair warning: expect a LOT more of this kind of editorial.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-01-31 07:17|| 2007-01-31 07:17|| Front Page Top

#6 More editorials, perhaps, but significantly fewer readers thereof.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-31 07:27|| 2007-01-31 07:27|| Front Page Top

#7 I will lay 10/1 odds that the editorial writer either lives in a gated community or a Manhattan high rise with a doorman and extensive security.

Posted by Sic_Semper_Tyrannus 2007-01-31 07:44|| 2007-01-31 07:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually, I like that the NY Slimes is doing this. There are far too many NY expats in my sleepy little backwater town, anyway. If the hurricane threat doesn't keep them home, maybe the "violent redneck" thing will work. Especially since not a freakin' one of them remembered to bring a decent pizza recipe with them. ;)

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-01-31 08:46|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2007-01-31 08:46|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm reloading. I'll read this later (maybe). Might print it out and line the litter box. There are a lot of people that don't beleive in the Constitution.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-01-31 08:51|| 2007-01-31 08:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Cravenly? Corrupt? Cowardly? Gruesome? I ask you NYT, why is that so?

Enacting laws which have saved THOUSANDS of lives, reduced the violent crime rate, reduced the murder rate, and made people safer is cowardly? It's gruesome? You people are trash. Go to hell, and I hope it's hot. Oh, and by the way, you stinking leftist criminal lovers, come and get my guns. I'm waiting.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-01-31 09:23|| 2007-01-31 09:23|| Front Page Top

#11 I got halfway through, this is pure crap, pardon me while i go re-read the constitution, I hope I didn"t miss the part where Florida was excluded from following the law.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-01-31 09:26|| 2007-01-31 09:26|| Front Page Top

#12 We got an author on this editorial? I mean, somebody had to write it.
I can almost see the veins throbbing in their temples...

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-31 09:31|| 2007-01-31 09:31|| Front Page Top

#13 I looked for an author, tu, but to no avail. So, I assume it's "Brave Sir Robbin" who wrote it. How "cowardly" of the NYT.

Posted by BA 2007-01-31 10:51|| 2007-01-31 10:51|| Front Page Top

#14 1,400 is about 1/3 of 1%

And New York hardly has room to pontificate about gun violence, even with their "total ban" on CCW permits (except for celebs and friends of da mayor).

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-01-31 11:08|| 2007-01-31 11:08|| Front Page Top

#15 If the evil Gun Lobby is mentioned in the first paragraph, such as this, it should be a clue that a sophomoric argument based on arbitrary statistics with no context will certainly follow.
Heres a figure the authors may want to chew on. In December of 1997, 478,000 Floridians were issued right-to-carry permits, yet only .018% had their permits revoked. Do the math. Seems to me there can only be two conclusions. Either the law enforcement officers that gun-control advocates always cite as being the sole arbiters for personal safety are derelict in their duties or more likely the vast majority of citizens that exercise their right to carry personal firearms are indeed law abiding.

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-01-31 12:34|| 2007-01-31 12:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Interesting, if the Dems really push for gun legislation it will put Guiliani in an interesting position.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-31 13:32|| 2007-01-31 13:32|| Front Page Top

#17 I'm sure that my fine Senator Harry Reid will look out for our gun rights, just as he's promised. No, really. Honest.

Posted by Secret Master 2007-01-31 15:23|| 2007-01-31 15:23|| Front Page Top

#18 Make me a deal.
Real estate is preferred.

Posted by Sen. Harry Reid 2007-01-31 15:26|| 2007-01-31 15:26|| Front Page Top

#19 An armed society is a peaceful society.

I've heard a number of people spouting off about how the Old West was not nearly as violent as westerns make it out to be. Indeed, statistically, the Old West was a very peaceful society.

What most of these people forget, however, is that a man who was not armed in the Old West was considered either a fool, a pansie, or to have a death wish. The fact that almost every man in most towns went "well-heeled" and felt as naked without his sidearm or rifle as if he'd walked out of the house without his pants made for a society where gunfire was an extremely rare event (shows like Little House On The Prairie notwithstanding).

When you know the other guy has a gun and knows how to use it, you're much less likely to use a gun to commit violence or mayhem against that guy.

Wyatt Earp and a number of other famous gunfighters proved this over and over again.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-01-31 15:42|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-01-31 15:42|| Front Page Top

#20 It has always been a prudent approach to get there firstest with the mostest when trouble comes knocking. This lesson often gets forgotten.

Recently we had a horrific double murder of a young man and woman in out city. The young man was killed; the woman raped and killed. The man's body was set on fire. They were a nice couple in their early 20s. They were carjacked by three thugs--one just released from prison. The couple was not armed. Had they been armed they might have had a chance. Screw the misguided gun grabbers.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-01-31 17:44|| 2007-01-31 17:44|| Front Page Top

#21 ...478,000 Floridians were issued right-to-carry permits, yet only .018% had their permits revoked.

The stats are very similar here in Texas as well. It really torques the Liberals off to no end. They screamed and wailed that passing a must issue CCW law would result in raging torrents of blood in the streets, and non-stop gun play. Sheesh.

I want to know when are we going to classify Liberalism as a mental disease and start confining these wacky people to institutions for treatment.

Or not. Treatment that is. I'd settle for just confining them.

The fact that almost every man in most towns went "well-heeled" and felt as naked without his sidearm or rifle...

You don't hear much about it, but the ladies had shootin' irons as well. Cute little things!

Posted by Chuck Darwin 2007-01-31 18:06|| 2007-01-31 18:06|| Front Page Top

#22 The classic pearl handled revolver, Chuck Darwin? Suitable for pocket or garter? (Although the garter placement always struck me as problematic, given the layers of petticoats and skirts the ladies wore...)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-31 20:13|| 2007-01-31 20:13|| Front Page Top

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