Wrong, Brad. First of all "America" is not a country. The United States is a country, Canada is a country, Mexico is a country, and none of them was founded on guns. That's the most ridiculous gun-nut talk possible. It's as bad as saying the Holocaust was caused by disarming the Jews.He told the Daily Mail's Live magazine: "America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere."That's my thinking, right or wrong."
Secondly, your house is less safe with a gun "hidden somewhere," especially with all those kids.
Thirdly, "it's in our DNA?" Really?
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
He's right. If the Canadians had thrown out the British, instead of being let go, they'd enjoy gun rights today. If the Mexicans had completed their revolution instead of allowing corrupt leaders to stifle it, the same would be true for them.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about children and guns earlier. They have a fascination with guns. Human beings have a fascination with power. While it's important to develop that into a controlled expression, it still exists.
You apparently got a defective gene that has made you a pacifist. Unfortunately, medical doctors don't see that as diseased these days. But here in America--you know, the country where we respect gun rights--there are plenty of people who'd be happy to get you back to health.
"the Holocaust was caused by disarming the Jews"
ReplyDeleteYet another distortion of an accurate fact. The Holocaust was not caused by disarmament any more than an unplanned pregnancy is caused by a leaky condom. It did not cause it.
It did, however (warning, critical thinking coming) grease the wheels to make the holocaust much easier to perpetrate and to increase the scale of suffering.
Please stop twisting words.
I'm not twisting words, those are the very words gun-activists often use. I'm pointing out that they're wrong.
DeleteI would love it if you could find someone saying exactly that ... "the Holocaust WAS CAUSED by disarming the Jews".
DeleteRobert Farago said it. I'm not going to go look for the quote, you can do that if you like.
DeleteMikeb wrote: "First of all "America" is not a country."
ReplyDeleteThis makes me suspect that Obama isn't really an African-American because Africa isn't a country, either.
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I wonder what that represents of Mr. Pitt's state of mind- the use of a deadly weapon kept in the domicile as a childish "security blanket" against possible threats which may (but are quite unlikely to) arise. I wonder if this merits a clinical definition of paranoia, and in which case an armed paranoid person represents a danger to himself or others. Or is this rather the result of our national social-fetish, the "right" to "keep and bear" certain "arms" for "traditionally lawful purposes"? In regards to the question of the legality of civilian possession of weapons being serving as an impediment to ethnic cleansing/the imposition of a police state, I wonder if the common availability of arms (such as Kalashnikov type weapons)to civilians in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, prevented the massacre of Kurdish and Shiite minorities? After all we all know about the thriving democracy which existed in the Baath controlled Parliament!
ReplyDeleteYou control freaks love to denegrate us with words like "fetish" and "security blanket" and "paranoia." My interpretation is that you fear a power that you don't understand and can't trust yourself with. Fortunately, America is a nation that cares about rights, not about psychobabble.
DeleteOh, right, what you're into is too lofty and righteous for us to even understand.
DeleteNo, the concept is easy to understand. Some are determined to fail in logic, however.
DeleteSpeaking of psycho-babble, RIP Thomas Szasz.
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Mikey, why don't you just put a tampon back in your hole, go to the kitchen and make a sandwich. That's about all you're good for.
ReplyDeleteCute.
DeleteI thought it was ;)
DeleteSeriously though, I just can't see wasting any time writing a sensible reply because it'll be completely wasted on you. So it's just easier to write nonsense and crap because that's about what your articles amount to...
ReplyDeleteSure, you tell yourself that. No one else believes it.
DeleteReally? Are you sure about that Mike?
DeleteNo one else believes it? That's easily refuted. I believe what Jolly Roger said. See how it's not no one?
DeleteI also believe it. MikeyBoy has shown time and time again that he is oblivious even when faced with irrefutable evidence. He continues to mindlessly parrot the Joyce funded drivel and Ladd Everitt's latest verbal diarrhea. I doubt that there is a reader on here that takes you seriously. And I think that even includes your co-bloggers who are only interested in pushing the agenda. They really seem to have a disdain for you otherwise.
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