LA Times
There are plenty of reasons to worry about some future act of violence committed by a gaggle of well-armed sociopaths. The number of threats against the president is astonishing. Militia-type groups are proliferating. The rhetoric spewed by numerous loose cannons on the right is more and more extreme. Still, it is doubtful that all the guns piling up in private homes will ever be used for anything more violent than blasting a Forest Service sign on a back country road.
All those guns will just sit there unused until their owners die off and their heirs, one by one, join the majority of Americans who have noticed that, apart from pockets of serious danger in a few big cities, this fine country has grown more peaceful in recent years.
As a great man once said, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- and, these days, only the fearful are stockpiling guns.
On my blog, I wrote an open letter to David Horsey. He hasn't responded yet, but I'll keep you posted.
ReplyDeleteGreg, there awaits a special place in Gulag for thee.
DeleteHe's probably afraid to respond because of the acuity of your argument.
DeleteYes, sheeple, simply ignore that your government plans on having 30,000 drones in the sky above, over 2,700 armored vehicles roaming your streets and neighborhoods below, and 1.6 billion bullets ready to be used to protect you in an increasingly 'peaceful' country.
ReplyDeleteorlin sellers
The cartoon illuminates the collective wisdom of the American people, and their understanding that it is simply not the position of the common subject to engage in the individual possession of weapons. As a result of such the collective State may impose a prohibitive legal situation with regards to the possession, use and proliferation of firearms and all other objects intended to be used as a weapon by the common civilian (with exceptions for approved persons who can demonstrate a valid need to keep a weapon), without fear of any significant effect on the next election cycle.
ReplyDeleteAlso illustrated is another interesting point- with regards to the decline in the population with hunting licenses. As hunting has long served as a common excuse for the common subject having a "need" to poses lethal arms, the progressive decline and eventual demise of such a pastime may also serve the cause of arms control. It is therefore imperative the the legislatures of the several States enact legislation prohibiting the hunting of game and foul with exceptions for culling by appropriate State actors and for those who may be endowed by the State with special permission to take wild game. With the elimination of hunting, the national conversation on arms prohibition will take upon a more rational tone, free from such erroneous excuses for the creation and maintenance of a danger to the State.
It would be advisable for those social lepers who still own firearms to surrender all forms of weapons that are in their possession with imminent frequency to law enforcement, discontinue to engage in firearms or anti-State activity and disavow any and all association with seditious groups or persons which advocate the proliferation of arms by the common civilian. Otherwise you may find on self the defendant in an ex post facto prosecution after such prohibitive measures are taken (and ex post facto prosecutions allowed) in order to enforce YOUR RIGHT to civilian disarmament.
Ah, here comes E.N. once more to entertain us with his advocacy of tyranny. E.N., you do realize that the laughter is at you, not with you, no?
ReplyDeleteGreg, you are the ideological leper here, not me.
DeleteYou are the one who makes outlandish statements about allowing the common man to obtain deadly weapons.
The deranged comments and stated goals of your side do not go unnoticed.
Neither do your comments--whether here or on my weblog. I make no effort to hide. I don't conceal my true identity and use fake e-mail accounts when posting. But have fun with your little games. If you were really the Illuminati badass that you make yourself out to be, you wouldn't be here yammering.
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