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Thursday, December 01, 2011
One examination of the anti-Second Amendment mentality
There is plenty of authoritarianism on both the Left and Right to go around in this country. This article is a good examination of the Left's opposition to the Second Amendment and gun ownership.
Good explanation regarding anti-gun psychology. I'm very familiar with projection as my wife and I have been subjected to malicious gossip and outright lies by self-serving neighbors and family members. Evil does exist. It's for this reason that my "defense mechanism" has a barrel.
David Rooney's article in the American Rifleman at http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/12018/it-will-never-happen-here/ explains well the insidious nature of tyrannical legislation.
I was watching the progressive's Current TV program on Guns in America. Talk about deceitful. One could only notice the camera mainly focused on people's firearms, to include .50 caliber fully automatic weapons and flame throwers. Talk about using scare tactics. A gun dealer who stated that "firearms don't kill people , people do" was followed by the brainless journalist saying guns may not but bullets do. Duh! Any solider, cop, hunter or self-defender knows bullets kill. But bullets don't murder. I had to wonder about this journalistic genius who failed to see a lack of crime around his demonized gun toting citizens while cry babying on America's guns murdering folks in New Jersey and Mexico, both of which essentially ban firearm ownership. Seems to me Current's reporter would help save lives by encouraging high crime communities to adopt America's proven defense "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms".
Each side of this argument clings to a common theme . . . that "strange" personalities and motives should not determine gun policy. Dr. Flick provides a good inventory of the flawed logic of many anti-gunners. On the other hand, as a life member of a superb local range, I do encounter a number of other shooters who look and act just as "peculiar". Therein lies the rub . . . how do you keep the nutty from usurping freedom or, on the other hand, pulling off an Anders Behring Breivik?
Ridgway & 44: Thanks for the comments. Ridge: There is no right to commit crimes with a gun. Just a right to keep and bear arms. People can abuse that right by using a gun and committing a crime. There are few, if any rights that can't be abused by someone. My driver's license gives me a right to drive a car. If I decide to run down some innocent person, I have abused the right. However, should abuse of a right by a few justify taking it away from the many. I vote "No."
Good explanation regarding anti-gun psychology. I'm very familiar with projection as my wife and I have been subjected to malicious gossip and outright lies by self-serving neighbors and family members. Evil does exist. It's for this reason that my "defense mechanism" has a barrel.
ReplyDeleteDavid Rooney's article in the American Rifleman at http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/12018/it-will-never-happen-here/ explains well the insidious nature of tyrannical legislation.
ReplyDeleteI was watching the progressive's Current TV program on Guns in America. Talk about deceitful. One could only notice the camera mainly focused on people's firearms, to include .50 caliber fully automatic weapons and flame throwers. Talk about using scare tactics. A gun dealer who stated that "firearms don't kill people , people do" was followed by the brainless journalist saying guns may not but bullets do. Duh! Any solider, cop, hunter or self-defender knows bullets kill. But bullets don't murder. I had to wonder about this journalistic genius who failed to see a lack of crime around his demonized gun toting citizens while cry babying on America's guns murdering folks in New Jersey and Mexico, both of which essentially ban firearm ownership. Seems to me Current's reporter would help save lives by encouraging high crime communities to adopt America's proven defense "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms".
Each side of this argument clings to a common theme . . . that "strange" personalities and motives should not determine gun policy. Dr. Flick provides a good inventory of the flawed logic of many anti-gunners. On the other hand, as a life member of a superb local range, I do encounter a number of other shooters who look and act just as "peculiar". Therein lies the rub . . . how do you keep the nutty from usurping freedom or, on the other hand, pulling off an Anders Behring Breivik?
ReplyDeleteRidgway & 44: Thanks for the comments.
ReplyDeleteRidge: There is no right to commit crimes with a gun. Just a right to keep and bear arms. People can abuse that right by using a gun and committing a crime. There are few, if any rights that can't be abused by someone. My driver's license gives me a right to drive a car. If I decide to run down some innocent person, I have abused the right. However, should abuse of a right by a few justify taking it away from the many. I vote "No."