tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post722063631409589156..comments2024-02-05T03:41:13.688+01:00Comments on Mikeb302000: Obama Gets Gun-ShyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-89875160314390906902009-04-14T18:52:00.000+02:002009-04-14T18:52:00.000+02:00So MikeB, what do "reasonable" and "infringement" ...So MikeB, what do "reasonable" and "infringement" mean to you?<br /><br />Your buddies (The Brady's) think outright bans like the one in DC are reasonable and not infringements.<br /><br />How do you define those terms? Do you need a dictionary?Mike W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03425962910696301026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-38222145082497086872009-04-14T16:02:00.000+02:002009-04-14T16:02:00.000+02:00Read the whole thing...you'll find much of what we...<I>Read the whole thing...you'll find much of what we've been telling you is endorsed by the Editorial staff of a major metropolitan newspaper. <br /><br />It has to be true if we read it in a newspaper, right?"</I>Good one, Bob. I'm glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humor.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-548359212909267552009-04-13T16:16:00.000+02:002009-04-13T16:16:00.000+02:00MikeB,You talked about "common sense" regulations ...MikeB,<BR/><BR/>You talked about "common sense" regulations like requiring all firearms to be registered.<BR/><BR/>Here is a reply to that...from the Washington Times (h/t to Alphecca)<BR/><BR/>http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/13/39we-want-them-registered39/<BR/><BR/><I>Politicians and bureaucrats routinely claim that registration helps solve crimes. If a registered gun is used in a crime and left at the crime scene, registration supposedly lets the police trace the gun back to the criminal. Though this turn of events might work on fictional TV crime shows, <B>it virtually never occurs in real life. Criminals' guns are rarely left at crime scenes</B>. When guns are left behind, it usually is because a crook has been seriously injured or killed and the police are poised to catch him anyway. </I><BR/><BR/>Seems like that kills two canards in one shoot. Criminals leaving behind guns (you tried that one,didn't you MikeB?) and that registration helps solves crimes.<BR/><BR/><I>The few guns left at crime scenes rarely - if ever - are registered to the perpetrator. If they are registered at all, it is to someone else, whose piece was stolen. <B>Despite what Mrs. Pelosi might think, those who use guns to commit major crimes such as robbing and killing are unlikely to respect her request to file paperwork so the government can catalog the tools of their trade. </B></I><BR/><BR/><BR/>Get that MikeB, criminals aren't going to obey registration.<BR/><BR/><I>Numerous examples disprove gun-control propaganda. <B>Hawaii has had licensing and registration of guns for about 50 years.</B> After all of the administrative expenses and inconvenience imposed on gun owners, police there <B>cannot point to a single crime that has been solved </B>as a result of those programs</I><BR/><BR/>Not a single crime on an ISLAND state has been solved by registration. If not there, what good would it do elsewhere?<BR/><BR/>Sounds like another island location where gun control hasn't worked, perhaps the U.K.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Perhaps those are the only two places where gun control doesn't work, eh?<BR/><BR/><I>Other jurisdictions with a history of strict handgun bans, such as the <B>District of Columbia and Chicago,</B> have even <B>required registration of hunting rifles and shotguns for more than 20 years. Neither the District nor Chicago can point to any crimes that have been solved using registration records</B></I><BR/><BR/>And are gun owners paranoid that registration can lead to confiscation?<BR/><BR/><I>Because registration doesn't help solve crime, it is important to ask why government wants to register the people's firearms. History provides the answer. <B>In countries from Australia to England, registration has been used to create lists of guns that later were confiscated by their governments.</B> Despite Mrs. Pelosi's assurances to the contrary, Americans' fear that registration will lead to confiscation is well-founded. Indeed, Mrs. Pelosi's own <B>state of California already has used existing registration lists to confiscate so-called assault weapons just a half-dozen years ago. </B></I><BR/><BR/>Read the whole thing...you'll find much of what we've been telling you is endorsed by the Editorial staff of a major metropolitan newspaper. <BR/><BR/>It has to be true if we read it in a newspaper, right?Bob S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15882819735831651314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-74649912002919764672009-04-13T16:01:00.000+02:002009-04-13T16:01:00.000+02:00Yeah well, I've seen some pretty silly tantrums on...Yeah well, I've seen some pretty silly tantrums on this blog, now off to bed, Now Bob! AND NO ICE CREAM!<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, here's a pretty interesting link to atory about a Conservative Republican New Hampshire <BR/>ex Congressman who was in the news in the early part of this decade and managed to get in the news again.<BR/>He likes guns, but he says he's too chicken to go shoot a cop, himself.<BR/><BR/>http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/<BR/>apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/<BR/>20090411/NEWS01/304119961/<BR/>-1/newsblogmicrodothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01564820031343630871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-8753221339570549692009-04-13T15:39:00.000+02:002009-04-13T15:39:00.000+02:00Sorry Mike, defense of a specifically enumerated C...Sorry Mike, defense of a specifically enumerated CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT is NOT self-centered thinking.<BR/><BR/>If constant, vehement defense of my Constitutional rights is somehow "wrong," then I don't want to be right.<BR/><BR/><I>"It seems to me that intelligence and reasonableness are part and parcel of the anti-gun mentality while the opposite traits too often seem to describe the pro-gun characters."</I><BR/><BR/>You're kidding right Mike? Theres is nothing "reasonable" about anti-gunners in this country. Their notion of "compromise" is "don't fight us when we try to infringe on your rights at every turn." <BR/><BR/>Their notion of "reasonable" is an outright gun ban. They don't consider even that an "infringment." Who exactly are the one's being unreasonable again Mike?<BR/><BR/> It is mind-boggling that you could possibly call the pro-rights, pro-logic, pro-freedom crowd "unintelligent and unreasonable"<BR/><BR/>All we want is to be left the hell alone, yet our rights are continually under assault. As a law-abiding citizen I think wanting the gov. to stay the hell off of my guns and my rights is perfectly reasonable.Mike W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03425962910696301026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-68336197356241643902009-04-13T12:03:00.000+02:002009-04-13T12:03:00.000+02:00And you say you are respectful to those that disag...And you say you are respectful to those that disagree with you.<BR/><BR/><I>But, I do suggest he is like a tantrum-prone 5-year-old boy who will do or say anything so mommy and daddy don't take his toys away. That kind of self-centered thinking is unconscionable in adult people who are supposed to be reasonable</I><BR/><BR/>UNTRUTHBob S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15882819735831651314noreply@blogger.com