One More Massacre

Once again, I offer this post on a blog that appleannie offered in a previous post. Goes directly to what everyone seems so intent on doing - disproving everyone else's opinions about guns and gun control: http://www.stonekettle.com/

Again, I believe our focus needs to be on those who lost loved ones and those who've had loved ones injured before we descend into discussions and arguments about gun control and banning guns. Right now it doesn't make one iota of difference one way or the other. Just my opinion.

TEACH PEACE!

At least 35 million is a pittance? You must be playing with Obama money. Plus many members are life members which costs $500.

Trust me, if individual member donations were a pittance, they wouldn't spend so much money trying to get me to give more.

Excellent article....

FredHayek wrote: At least 35 million is a pittance? You must be playing with Obama money.

No...Romney money... There's so much more of it...If you can bring it in from off-shore...

Democracy4Sale wrote:

FredHayek wrote: At least 35 million is a pittance? You must be playing with Obama money.

No...Romney money... There's so much more of it...If you can bring it in from off-shore...

Good. As long as he's playing the game legally, I hope he sinks a boatload of his money into getting elected. Works for me. The left is just whining because Obama just can't get it up. rofllol rofllol

And back to guns. Guns are for killing something (and occasionally for target practice. If someone is pointing a gun at me, I want to have an even play field to be able to deny him his target practice.

The rest of you chicken droppings can hide in the corner... we'll protect you too!!!

How many more Raees? Unfortunately, the cost of individual freedom and liberty will claim many more as time marches forward.

The lives sacrificed on the alter of freedom last week are not any different than the lives of our armed service members that have been sacrificed on the field of battle to ensure that this union of ours remains one where individual liberty and the rule of law reign supreme.

Freedom comes with a price attached to it - sometimes a very high one. The freedom to act to do good deeds comes at the price of extending that same freedom to do bad ones. The freedom to own guns lawfully with which to defend yourself, your neighbor and when necessary your State or the union to which it belongs, comes with the price of that freedom being used for unlawful offensive purposes.

The right of self defense, whether it be from the aggression of an individual criminal, the aggression of a foreign government, or even from the tyranny of one's own government, is, in our union at least, one of the inalienable rights that we were endowed with upon our creation. That is why the individual right to keep and bear arms may not be infringed; that is why defense of self or others using those arms carries with it no penalties imposed by society even when it results in the death of another. That is why the Constitution of the union prohibits any level of government from disarming the citizens that they govern.

Horrible events such as the one last week, last year in Tuscon, or 13 years ago at Columbine, are part of the price that comes with the individual right to keep and bear arms and the inability of our government to disarm the populace which is essential to ensuring that the people of this union will never again be returned to being the subjects of, or subjugated to, a despotic and tyrannical government.

Freedom is a very scary thing to some Raees - so scary in fact that they wish to see it taken away from others in order that they may feel more secure. Security, like freedom, comes with a price attached to it, and the cost of security is your individual freedom and liberty. The government can take care of you from the first slap of the doctor's hand on your behind until the first shovel full of dirt from the undertaker hits you in the face if you want it to. All that is required from you in exchange is the freedom to live your life as you wish to live it so that the government has the control it needs to make that happen. All that is necessary is for you to surrender the ability to govern yourself to the greatest possible extent and agree, one small step at a time, to be governed to the greatest possible extent so that you feel more secure.

The threat of something terrifying happening if nothing is done and this crisis is allowed to go to waste is more real than the threat itself is Raees. There will be more mass casualty events in our union going forward, everyone knows that. Whenever you ask the law abiding to give up their ability to defend themselves from someone intent on harming them you have created the perfect environment for a mass casualty event. One person acting offensively set against everyone else deprived of their ability to act defensively is the perfect storm for a mass casualty event. The goal then, since we know we can't deprive those who would harm us of every ability to do so, is to have society be absolutely defenseless as infrequently as is possible, not as frequently as possible. One wolf who manages to get amongst the flock is going to kill a lot of sheep when there is an absence of either shepherd or sheep dogs.

Science Chic wrote:

ZHawke wrote: Once again, I offer this post on a blog that appleannie offered in a previous post. Goes directly to what everyone seems so intent on doing - disproving everyone else's opinions about guns and gun control: http://www.stonekettle.com/

Again, I believe our focus needs to be on those who lost loved ones and those who've had loved ones injured before we descend into discussions and arguments about gun control and banning guns. Right now it doesn't make one iota of difference one way or the other. Just my opinion.

TEACH PEACE!

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I disagree that nothing can be done, it's just something that's going to take huge amount of effort - a change in our basic attitudes/lifestyles/physiological responses, and a whole lot of time (evolution doesn't happen over night).

I totally agree with you. Something can ALWAYS be done. What that depends on, in my opinion, is whether or not anyone can set aside their own individual agendas and be willing to listen to each other instead of talking AT each other. TEACH PEACE!

PrintSmith, your chances of getting blown away by someone carrying a gun in the U.S. are pretty good. Your chances of "being the subjects of, or subjugated to, a despotic and tyrannical government" are not even calculable.

ZHawke wrote: Once again, I offer this post on a blog that appleannie offered in a previous post. Goes directly to what everyone seems so intent on doing - disproving everyone else's opinions about guns and gun control: http://www.stonekettle.com/

Again, I believe our focus needs to be on those who lost loved ones and those who've had loved ones injured before we descend into discussions and arguments about gun control and banning guns. Right now it doesn't make one iota of difference one way or the other. Just my opinion.

TEACH PEACE!

If you don't want to participate in the discussion others are having on this subject, or feel that it is the proper time for you to be involved in it, then I respectfully suggest you follow your heart's desires and refrain from participating at this time. There are those who wish to have this discussion at this time and you should be respectful of their desire to do so whether you agree that it is the proper time and place or not. If you wish to focus your energy on those that have had their loved ones injured or killed to the exclusion of this discussion at this time, that is your choice to make, we understand, and we'll be here when you are ready to have this discussion. I believe that each of us has the capability of discerning where our focus is, and ought to be, for ourselves without anyone else thinking that they know where it is and where it ought to be for us.