This is a lot like the previous posting about how we cant hold a candle to Europe in various areas. With all these reasons why we're so much worse, its a mystery why we haven't had to order our border patrol to face the other direction in order to keep us in the country as opposed to keeping other people out....
I am organizing a grass roots movement to censor free speech. Too many people are lying and using speech to harm victims. Too many people are disseminating ideas that scare me and endanger my family. After all I have a right to feel safe.
My organization is going to censor any video, audio, print, or electronic speech that is dangerous. And we are going to enact limits to Internet connection speeds and daily data transfer to make sure that no one can disseminate too much speech too quickly. After we implement that, we are going to limit individual speeches to 7 words or less.
Oh, and if you commit a felony in violation of our censorship standards, we will send armed police to arrest you and imprison you. And you will have no recourse because a majority of voting citizens support this censorship.
You can't do that. The Second Amendment supporters would never allow it. Isn't that what you guys say? Yet, you've sat still for indefinite detention, illegal eavesdropping and all the rest. I'm confused.
I voted for Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008 because I was so disgusted by Bush's civil rights violations. I knew those guys were anti-gun, but weighed it against what I thought were strengths for other rights. Joke's on me. Obama was exactly what I expected on guns, and worse than Bush for the other civil rights.
88.8 per 100? I think we're being shortchanged. If not--if we've only mustered a paltry 275,000,000 (and change)--we can, and must, do better. One for one at least (and before you ask, Mikeb, be assured that I'm doing my part--but I do pledge to do better still).
Are you so bored you're searching the archives for old arguments?
Your recent post about the UN also has "The greatest country on Earth" tag, and I just wanted to see what other whiny complaints about the U.S. you had, and this was the only other post so tagged.
As for your "average number of guns owned per person is increasing, but the individual people who own guns is declining," I know that's the standard line among "gun control" advocates, and may even be true, for all I know, but it's not what I was talking about.
My point is that I think 88.8 per 100 is significantly short of reality, and as a patriotic American, I felt compelled to challenge it.
Good for us.
ReplyDeleteThis is a lot like the previous posting about how we cant hold a candle to Europe in various areas. With all these reasons why we're so much worse, its a mystery why we haven't had to order our border patrol to face the other direction in order to keep us in the country as opposed to keeping other people out....
ReplyDeleteOh Yeah, well answer me this: What other country can say they have Barack Obama!
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I am organizing a grass roots movement to censor free speech. Too many people are lying and using speech to harm victims. Too many people are disseminating ideas that scare me and endanger my family. After all I have a right to feel safe.
ReplyDeleteMy organization is going to censor any video, audio, print, or electronic speech that is dangerous. And we are going to enact limits to Internet connection speeds and daily data transfer to make sure that no one can disseminate too much speech too quickly. After we implement that, we are going to limit individual speeches to 7 words or less.
Oh, and if you commit a felony in violation of our censorship standards, we will send armed police to arrest you and imprison you. And you will have no recourse because a majority of voting citizens support this censorship.
Is everyone on board? No? Why not?
-- TruthBeTold
You can't do that. The Second Amendment supporters would never allow it. Isn't that what you guys say? Yet, you've sat still for indefinite detention, illegal eavesdropping and all the rest. I'm confused.
DeleteMikeb, why do you keep lying about us? We keep telling you how we've opposed those other violations, but apparently, you can't hear.
DeleteI voted for Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008 because I was so disgusted by Bush's civil rights violations. I knew those guys were anti-gun, but weighed it against what I thought were strengths for other rights. Joke's on me. Obama was exactly what I expected on guns, and worse than Bush for the other civil rights.
DeleteIn a free society, people can afford guns.
ReplyDeleteIn America, the people own the government.
ReplyDeleteIn many of the other (disarmed) examples, the government owns the people.
E.N., as suspicious as I am about your new point of view, it is refreshing to see you get things right for a change.
Delete88.8 per 100? I think we're being shortchanged. If not--if we've only mustered a paltry 275,000,000 (and change)--we can, and must, do better. One for one at least (and before you ask, Mikeb, be assured that I'm doing my part--but I do pledge to do better still).
ReplyDeleteAre you so bored you're searching the archives for old arguments?
DeleteThe average number of guns owned per person is increasing, but the individual people who own guns is declining. It's like concentrated fanaticism.
Are you so bored you're searching the archives for old arguments?
ReplyDeleteYour recent post about the UN also has "The greatest country on Earth" tag, and I just wanted to see what other whiny complaints about the U.S. you had, and this was the only other post so tagged.
As for your "average number of guns owned per person is increasing, but the individual people who own guns is declining," I know that's the standard line among "gun control" advocates, and may even be true, for all I know, but it's not what I was talking about.
My point is that I think 88.8 per 100 is significantly short of reality, and as a patriotic American, I felt compelled to challenge it.