Gang up? If you see it as a trend, perhaps you should realize that most Americans are tired of being told what is important to us.
We know what is important to us and it is not the socialism and utopic nonsense that is being taught in most of todays institutes of learning.
So you failed to get your point across, were called out about your tangents, realize the popular support for the issue and cast a veiled aspersion or two that you probably think passes for wit.
Yet I am sure, as with most young people who have never done much with their lives yet and are in the warping and coddling arms of Academia, you will continue to think it is everyone else with the problem.
Bait and switch. This is emotional, bad journalism and intellectually dishonest. All the Amendments are important and to make an assertion that those who support the 2nd Amendment somehow lose sight of the others is just not true. If anything, the press in this country has far more of a track record of picking and chosing Amendments to play favorites with.
Also, the proverbial "You cant yell fire" and then pointing out how it is a limit on free speach is true but to relate it to gun control is dishonest. Someone cant yell "Fire" and someone cant shoot people in a theater either but they dont take your ability to yell fire away to prevent it. Just like they dont take your pen away if there arises a need to censor a press release.
If you believe various rights are being encorached upon, I not only agree but I support your endeavours to point such things out. However, it needs to be kept in mind that the only Amendment that protects the rest is the 2nd Amendment. If this is a hard concept for you to understand or agree with, you need to take a sabbatical from expressing in print and listen and learn what print has to say about insurgency, guerrilla war, gun control, revolution and a number of other topics.
The nature of power doesnt change, just the setting. Your ideals, no matter how self important you think they are, are the ideals of downfall. It is not the good men who bear arms that bring societies down. It is those who would enable the destruction of the self responsible class with ideas clothed in the robes of nobleness that leads to a real gap that can not be bridged between power and dependant.
Mailman, you make a good point. The truth of the matter is these things are legal in most states and there is no problems with them at all.
Yet time and time again, dishonest or ignorant people claim the same things about how they fear they will be shot or the streets will run with blood. Everytime a new state passes right to carry laws, a few self rightious people fear monger about how there will be gunfights everywhere. The only thing that happens is that crime goes down.
Some people dont care about the facts they are committed to ideas that have failed and they are unable to move on. In all honesty that means people like Mr. Stewart is not concerned with the safety of others, they use that as a disguise to mask their own fears and emotional hopes for an unrealistic idea that has failed.
Go to Church and pray because about 70 or so people are struck by lightning every year. The number of people harmed by civilian owned NFA weapons (machine guns, short barrel shotguns, etc...) is O in most years.
I find it sad that an adult would write such alarmist tripe in order to alleviate a misguided fear. A pen in the hand of a liar will do more damage than a good persons gun ever will. If you seriously worry about someone shooting you, I suggest you purchase a firearm and train with it often. However, if that is not for you, dont try and impose your weakness and fear on those of us who would fight when confronted by evil. It is not about the tool, just like your pen doesnt make you a writer a firearm doesnt make a person good or bad. It is about the purpose and choice people put behind the tool.
Williams: Gun nuts, what about the other amendments?
Gang up? If you see it as a trend, perhaps you should realize that most Americans are tired of being told what is important to us.
We know what is important to us and it is not the socialism and utopic nonsense that is being taught in most of todays institutes of learning.
So you failed to get your point across, were called out about your tangents, realize the popular support for the issue and cast a veiled aspersion or two that you probably think passes for wit.
Yet I am sure, as with most young people who have never done much with their lives yet and are in the warping and coddling arms of Academia, you will continue to think it is everyone else with the problem.
April 15, 2008 at 7:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Williams: Gun nuts, what about the other amendments?
Bait and switch. This is emotional, bad journalism and intellectually dishonest. All the Amendments are important and to make an assertion that those who support the 2nd Amendment somehow lose sight of the others is just not true. If anything, the press in this country has far more of a track record of picking and chosing Amendments to play favorites with.
Also, the proverbial "You cant yell fire" and then pointing out how it is a limit on free speach is true but to relate it to gun control is dishonest. Someone cant yell "Fire" and someone cant shoot people in a theater either but they dont take your ability to yell fire away to prevent it. Just like they dont take your pen away if there arises a need to censor a press release.
If you believe various rights are being encorached upon, I not only agree but I support your endeavours to point such things out. However, it needs to be kept in mind that the only Amendment that protects the rest is the 2nd Amendment. If this is a hard concept for you to understand or agree with, you need to take a sabbatical from expressing in print and listen and learn what print has to say about insurgency, guerrilla war, gun control, revolution and a number of other topics.
The nature of power doesnt change, just the setting. Your ideals, no matter how self important you think they are, are the ideals of downfall. It is not the good men who bear arms that bring societies down. It is those who would enable the destruction of the self responsible class with ideas clothed in the robes of nobleness that leads to a real gap that can not be bridged between power and dependant.
April 15, 2008 at 10:52 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Stewart: Guns don’t kill people; recent House bill does
Mailman, you make a good point. The truth of the matter is these things are legal in most states and there is no problems with them at all.
Yet time and time again, dishonest or ignorant people claim the same things about how they fear they will be shot or the streets will run with blood. Everytime a new state passes right to carry laws, a few self rightious people fear monger about how there will be gunfights everywhere. The only thing that happens is that crime goes down.
Some people dont care about the facts they are committed to ideas that have failed and they are unable to move on. In all honesty that means people like Mr. Stewart is not concerned with the safety of others, they use that as a disguise to mask their own fears and emotional hopes for an unrealistic idea that has failed.
April 2, 2008 at 11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Stewart: Guns don’t kill people; recent House bill does
Go to Church and pray because about 70 or so people are struck by lightning every year. The number of people harmed by civilian owned NFA weapons (machine guns, short barrel shotguns, etc...) is O in most years.
I find it sad that an adult would write such alarmist tripe in order to alleviate a misguided fear. A pen in the hand of a liar will do more damage than a good persons gun ever will. If you seriously worry about someone shooting you, I suggest you purchase a firearm and train with it often. However, if that is not for you, dont try and impose your weakness and fear on those of us who would fight when confronted by evil. It is not about the tool, just like your pen doesnt make you a writer a firearm doesnt make a person good or bad. It is about the purpose and choice people put behind the tool.
April 2, 2008 at 3:33 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )