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By fcb on 03-10-13 @ 12:49 pm
Gun control is a failure in protecting victims. Rapists and other Criminals love gun free zones…
Look at the failures of Mexico, Chicago, and other gun free zones.
Socialists like Hitler, Stalin , and Mao were gun grabbers , too.
By GATE on 03-10-13 @ 4:26 pm
The Nauseating hypocrisy of the Gun Grabbers is endless. Gabby Gifford’s husband, Mark Kelly, just purchased a 45 Cal. semi-automatic pistol, an AR-15[assault weapon] and several ‘high capacity’
magazines. Kelly and Giffords have founded their own Gun Grabbing advocacy group called ‘Americans
for responsible solutions’ to restrict Gun Rights…There are always Two sets of rules with these self-
anointed left-wing’ elite’s’.
By brucelanc on 03-10-13 @ 5:00 pm
A shoe in for reelection? I don’t know about that. The reason many continue to vote for Baucus is his powerful chairmanship. he hasn’t been using it to benefit Montana for quite a
long time. And, he has some ethincs problems to deal with. Remember when he was caught
trying to give his then girlfriend, now wife, the Montana Federal Prosecutor job? Mike Cotter
really pulled Max’s behind out fo the fire by taking the job so quickly after he got caught.
Remember when he said The Affordable helath Care Act would save everyone money and
they’d be able to keep their insurance plans and doctors. My insurance cost has about
doubled. My FSA is now capped at 1/3 of what it used to be. My elderly father lost his doctor
because he won’t serve medicaid medicare patients any more. Max is hardly a shoe in.
By bopho on 03-10-13 @ 8:49 pm
Gate - you make it so easy to trace your meandering through the web. Mark Kelly purchased those guns to make a point. He made no secret of it. He is for universal background checks. He wanted to
show how quick and painless the background checks are.
Gate - Mark Kelly is more of a patriot than you can even hope to be. He had a distinguished career
as a Naval Aviator and as an astronaut. He served in combat. He has more medals than you have
IQ.
Mark Kelly’s wife was shot in the head. That was his call to action, not as a gun grabber but as a
concerned American. Gate - all you do is shoot yourself in the foot spewing mean spirited nonsense.
By GATE on 03-11-13 @ 7:24 am
When you catch a Gun Grabbing hypocrite with their pants down, it’s at the very least entertaining to vision our In-house Post Traumatic Village Idiot storming the beaches of Normandy, waving the
American Flag while singing G od Bless America in defense of the hypocrisy!
By DrJ on 03-11-13 @ 10:44 am
The gun control issue is representative of a much larger issue involving the appropriate scope and size of government.
On the one side are people who believe our society and economy will be better if there is MORE
federal government involvement and control because the they don’t believe that local governments
and the population at large can’t be trusted to do the ‘right’ things.
On the other side are people who believe that while government has an appropriate and necessary
function, our society and economy would be better off with LESS federal government involvement
and control over local governments and individuals.
The way I see it, the gun control debate is really a proxy for the larger debate about the appropriate
scope and power of the federal government.
For the folks who say that they want tighter gun laws so we can be safer and save lives, my
question is this: If it is really all about saving lives, why don’t we ban alcohol? We would save a lot
more lives than we would by banning some types of guns and/or magazines.
By Fast on 03-11-13 @ 2:26 pm
All I know is that we need away to get the guns out of the hands of the nut cases. Let me know when that is done soI can come out from underneath my bed.
By mooseberryinn on 03-11-13 @ 5:12 pm
The idiocy of the whole gun control debate is nonsense. “Laws” impact only law abiding people. Cirminals and/or wackos couldn’t care less about laws. If they want weapons, they will find weapons.
By LogicalOne on 03-11-13 @ 5:38 pm
The gun proliferation over the last two decades came after a relative long period of gun control in the late 19th century. Back then, city folk got tired people packing guns into town and disturbing the
peace and shooting folks in bar brawls. Not really like the old west movies, but town folks like in
Tombstone Az, Dodge City Ks and Virginia City Mt made guns in town illegal to stop the violence….
and it worked.
Over time as gun slingers became less prevalent (except on Indian lands with the advent of the
Prairie Wars).
After Hitler, the 2nd Amendment became a lot more clear to at least half of society that “Hitler took
over that way.” So that Hitler would never happen again, Americans armed themselves.
With 313 million people in US and 30,000 gun deaths a year, you have a .00009556756% of being a
victim. About the same (of a little more) as your possibility of getting killed in a car.
Both weapons, (cars and guns) have killed about the same number of people from accidents, insane
behavior and from suicide.
Now Americans are arming themselves to protect themselves from the insane, suicidal and criminals.
As soon as we reduce the insane and the criminals who have access to guns and cars…. the better…
would you not think?
By DrJ on 03-12-13 @ 8:14 am
In Response to Fast… There are no guarantees no matter what they promise you and no matter how much you want to believe it - government can’t make you safe from the ‘crazies’. It is a fantasy
to think that more laws or regulations will protect you from ‘crazies’.
I believe most of us are statistically more at risk of being killed by a drunk driver than we are by a
‘crazy’ with a gun. If we are really serious and really rational about making our society safer, how
about we ban alcohol in the USA?
By GATE on 03-12-13 @ 8:31 am
‘So-Called ‘Gun Control’, using the Alcohol analogy, would be like trying to reduce Drunk Driving by making it tougher for Sober people to own Cars”!
By waterman on 03-14-13 @ 12:06 pm
Fast, stay under your bed. The gov’t is not going to make you safer. No more than the citizens of New Orleans from the city police after Katrina hit.
In fact when the gov’t succeeds in total gun control you’ll be less safe from the gov’t and the
crazies.
Let more “responsible” people pack some heat and we will all be safer. Emphasis on
responsible.
By mooseberryinn on 03-14-13 @ 5:33 pm
Gate - your analogy is dead-on. The very best I’ve heard in all this gun debate.
By Armed4life on 03-16-13 @ 11:49 am
...the way I see it, the people wanting the “bans” on guns keep saying… “What about our rights??”, so, if they “ban” the weapons, I ask you… “What about OUR rights????” We Should
NOT have to have our rights dictated by those of you that don’t agree with, or support our
rights….
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