This is the country they want
As we mourn yet more children massacred at their elementary school, and lament that our country is being destroyed by sick, selfish, mean, fear-driven people, do not forget that last month, Republican members of Congress were proudly wearing assault rifle lapel pins to work.
Where are these assault weapon pins coming from? Who is passing these out? pic.twitter.com/CVtzNHX9k2
— Rep. Jimmy Gomez (@RepJimmyGomez) February 1, 2023
You must never vote for a Republican for anything, ever again.
AMEN!
ReplyDeleteDon’t own a gun. But, I’ll defend anyone’s right to possess a legal weapon.
ReplyDeleteAlso, did my homework.
AR doesn’t stand for assault rifle.
I own guns. I would gladly give them up if it would save even one innocent life. Machines designed to rapidly take human life have no place in the possession of civilians. I don't condone the ammosexual lifestyle, but people should be able to have guns for hunting and in the home for personal protection. That's all. People going about their ordinary daily business with loaded weapons is barbaric and stupid.
DeleteYes, that’s the point — we desperately need to change the definition of legal weapons.
ReplyDeleteWe have an over abundance of mentally ill who seek vengeance on those who recognize them as being mentally ill.
ReplyDeleteFor nearly 100 years gun owners have accepted the gun laws that protect waterfowl from abusive hunting practices. These laws restrict the type of weapons that can be carried in the field, and the type and amount of ammunition that can be used in the gun while hunting waterfowl. No second amendment issues here when we're protecting ducks and geese. Too bad politicians don't have the same courage to place some restrictions on the ownership and use of military grade assault weapons and armor-piercing ammunition. Apparently our children are not as important as the ducks.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is with the crazy that pulls the trigger.
ReplyDeleteThat fact gets lost among the well meaning voices
DeleteFunny thing though. A lot more people are grievously injured, and a lot more people die when the trigger is pulled by a crazy who has multiple weapons with large magazines, that fire especially deadly ammunition. Here's a good look at the ballistics of ammo fired from an AR-15 on the human body. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-damage-to-human-body/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f002.
DeleteAll the gun huggers can come up with when addressing the devastation on a scale that no other advanced economy faces is that there are too many crazy people. The US doesn't have that many more crazy people than the rest of the world. The obvious difference is that we have a glut of weapons that gun nuts and gun manufacturers won't consent to regulate or add safety features to in any way, and that won't support restricting access to those weapons in any meaningful way. Just the opposite, in fact. Glorification of absurdly deadly weaponry and increased access to it is relentlessly promoted by the sociopathic firearms community.
Regardless of your position on gun ownership, the argument is really moot. The horse is out of the barn and there is no way to put it back. Gun laws only apply to people who obey laws.
ReplyDeleteGreat dumb argument, which can be applied to anything at all. Why make theft a crime, when that won't stop the criminals for stealing?
DeleteIs theft a constitutionally protected right that would require repealing?
DeleteYou don't have to repeal to regulate. Remember, "well regulated" is right in the amendment. You can't buy a full-auto weapon without special licenses, and you can't buy an operational tank at all. So there is precedent for restricting the purchase and sale of certain classes of weapons, and who may lawfully own them. Broadening that is constitutional. I'm really sick of the nihilist argument that our hands are tied when it comes to trying to end this nightmare.
DeleteAlso, not admitting the flaw in your theft comparison renders your original argument invalid. But feel free to move the goalposts.
DeleteThank you, I do reserve the right to advance my argument in pursuit of the truth. Now, address the gaping flaw in your argument that the constitution prevents regulation of firearms.
DeleteI never said it prevents regulation. I said the horse was out of the barn and it's an exercise in futility because it really is. You can't possibly confiscate the existing guns, so what's left? An armed society is a polite society.
DeleteWe sure charmed the hell out of those third graders with our polite society. It's fascinating to listen to sociopaths muse on societal values.
DeleteWith the sheer volume of guns already in private hands both criminal and law abiding, anything other than nationwide constitutional carry is an exercise in futility.
ReplyDeleteHidden carry nation wide scares the starch out of the Soros advocates
DeleteHeller.
ReplyDeleteScalia is dead.
DeleteKennedy is gone.
Thomas won't be around in five years.
Alito qualified for his first required minimum 401k distribution last year.
Roberts is a car note away from his own required distribution.
I know there are others. They cannot last forever.
It's gonna take time.
I'm patient.
I'm determined.
Heller will be gone within my lifetime.
I'm with Beto. Take away their guns already.
ReplyDeleteLiability insurance. Make it mandatory for gun ownership and use. My 5 cents.
ReplyDeleteParadox
ReplyDeleteregarding the comparison to laws against theft, well, those aren't being enforced now are they? It's the official policy of our DA not to do so. Maybe if those laws were enforced (along with other laws generally promoting the feeling of personal security) we wouldn't have so many people who feel like arming themselves.
ReplyDeleteThe progressives here have ushered in civilizational decay. They can't cry wolf if normal citizens are responding as a result.
These aren't normal citizens. They're domestic terrorists. They've LOVED guns long before "civilizational decay". Their fetish doesn't have anything to do with that. We could clean the streets of Portland, rehabilitate every junkie and give them a six-figure job and a mortgage, and turn Pioneer Place into a Cabella's, and the nuts would still cling to their guns.
DeleteBecause they can.
THAT'S why they do it. Because they can.
It's time to end this nonsense.
Yes, gun violence is strictly a Portland problem, and can be explained by recent events. How desperate you are to find a winning argument. Try to stop the loop in your head that goes more guns, more guns, more guns, and stop being part of the problem.
DeleteYou can make all the laws you want but it's useless unless you enforce them.
DeleteWell, according to every internet ammosexual ever, we have nothing to fear from law abiding gun owners, and it’s those “other” people who are the problem. Well, if they’re so law abiding, we can reinstitute the assault weapons ban and collect them. Oh, wait, what’s that? You say that all these assault weapons owners aren’t THAT law abiding after all?
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