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Special Report
The Media’s Gunsmoke
Its lamentations are empty.
Eliminating guns is a separate goal from eliminating violence. The media supports the former but opposes the latter. It routinely props up the culture of death, guarding abortion with even more zeal than it condemns gun rights. “We need to have a conversation about the killing of unborn children,” is a line you will never hear from CNN’s Piers Morgan or Soledad O’Brien.
The lamentations of posturing pro-abortion journalists over a coarsened culture don’t count for much. Piers Morgan, when not hectoring the NRA, can usually be seen interviewing actors and directors who have profited off the corruption of children through demented depictions of violence. Will Piers hereby resolve to cancel all bookings of violence-and-gore actors and rappers? Will he ask the guard in front of the CNN building to disarm unilaterally? Will he show the ultrasounds of “precious little” (a favorite phrase of journalists in recent days) unborn children to stay the scalpels of Planned Parenthood doctors?
No, the more commonplace violence of abortion leaves the media untroubled. Journalists scoffed when Mother Teresa appeared at a D.C. prayer breakfast in the 1990s to say that “any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use any violence to get what it wants.”
The media likes to isolate evil, suggesting that it exists only on the margins of society, while ignoring the violence at the center of it. As C.S. Lewis said, violence sanctioned “in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices” poses the greatest risk to civilization. The respectably violent often turn up at the media’s cocktail parties: domestic terrorists from the 1960s, musicians sprung from prison, partial-birth abortionists feted for their “bravery.”
Polite society will even turn children over to them. One of the most influential figures over public education in the last few decades is a radical who tried to blow up buildings, Bill Ayers. “Guilty as hell, free as a bird,” he bragged of his crimes. From his perch as vice president for curriculum of the American Education Research Association, Ayers determined what public school teachers would learn at education schools. Violence in the name of vague resentments — which is only slightly more intellectualized than the thinking of lunatics recently in the news — is the chief idea Ayers sought to advance. “I don’t regret setting bombs,” Ayers said. “I feel we didn’t do enough.”
The self-righteous gasping over “unthinkable violence” is a little hard to take from pols who blurb books by Ayers or from pundits who consistently ignore the mass-murdering lunacy of radical Muslims. “If [Adam Lanza] had had an Arab name, people would be going nuts about what we ought to do right now,” claimed CBS’s Bob Schieffer. No, it is more likely that journalists would be downplaying it. After the worst shooting on a U.S. military base ever at Fort Hood by an open jihadist, they shrugged. They cautioned against backlash and hasty prescriptions. Obama’s top brass appeared on their shows to fret over the loss of “diversity” stricter policies in light of the shooting might cause.
“We are the only country that regularly experiences horrors of this sort,” harrumphed pundit E.J. Dionne. Never mind the steady stream of stories from abroad in which children are blown up by suicide bombers. The proximity of the shootings to the media center of New York City accounts for some of this intense navel-gazing, making the spree more real and singular to journalists than if it had occurred in the Middle East or even the Midwest. Dionne’s insular comment also fits with the media’s agenda here, which is to advance the idea that America is a peculiarly misgoverned country in need of a good gun sweep.
The media’s proposed solutions are always collective and federal, not individual and local. Rousseau’s idea that evil comes not from the human heart but from a poorly designed society has been much in evidence in the media’s pontifications. Panelists nodded vigorously on Meet the Press as Tom Ridge said that no one is born bad but only becomes bad as a consequence of collective failings.
In a less de-Christianized society, at least one of the panelists might have noticed that he had just repudiated the foundational idea of original sin. Don’t expect any “conversations” on that subject.
About the Author
George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.
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Cobalt| 12.19.12 @ 6:25AM
The media read from their politically correct script, and toe the party line. They are not credible.
Jack in Wi| 12.19.12 @ 7:05AM
We can stop almost 50% of all murders if we take the guns and knives away from the people who have the same skin color as Obama. Of course we all know the gun grabbers are coming for the guns of old, white, law abiding people, not of Obama supporters. To quote the words of the late great Charleton Heston. " From , my cold dead, hands. " I sat next to Heston at a political dinner about 20 years ago. He was quite a guy.
TLP| 12.19.12 @ 9:46AM
There sits Bob Schieffer-Super Lib. Piers Morgan-Super Homo. And the recipient of Ted Turner's CNN Casting Couch - Soledad (where did you say you got that free Vibrator?) O'Brien.
And of course Mr. Outta touch with anyone and anything that doesn't exist within a 5 Block Stretch of his Dead Mother's Rent Controlled Apartment, where he lives with his Mom's Mummified Corpse, just in case anyone from the Housing Dept. comes snooping around. (I know that I'm not the only one who sees Tony Perkins in Psycho when I look at this guy)
How did these people get the way they are?
That Limey "Cigarette" is who he is because he still refuses to accept that the hole between his "Cheeks" is for pushing things OUT and not for pushing things IN. So why would anyone expect him to get anything else right?
The Girl? She's a Girl. She likes to wear Pretty Dresses and Pretty Shoes and get her Hair done and put Makeup and Jewelry on and go Dancing. All she's missing is the Blonde Hair, a finger to Twirl it, and the Bubble Gum for blowing bubbles.
I could go on and on but what's the point? I'll just boil it down to its basics.
Dith Pron. Sydney Schanberg. Cambodia. Pol Pot. Killing Fields.
None of these Useful Idiots will ever accept the Fact of History that clearly shows time and again that, Useful Idiots are only Useful until they are not. Be careful what you wish for cause you might get it. And that None are so Blind as those who REFUSE to see.
And then everybody Dies.
Wash Rinse Repeat.
RCV| 12.19.12 @ 11:52AM
Jack adds racism to his antisemitism. They're often found together.
Jack in Wi| 12.19.12 @ 3:30PM
RCV never heard of the word Irony. Of course every sane person should be able to defend himself from criminals. That includes people of color.
Frank Drackman| 12.19.12 @ 12:29PM
Mullatos committ that much crime???
and surprised you forgot Charlton Heston's greatest line
"Get your hands off me, you dirty stinking APE!!!"
Frank "cold and dead? leave my wife out of this"Drackman
Appleby| 12.19.12 @ 6:32AM
I have been wondering what we'd be hearing (and saying) if a 20 year old Black man with his pants on the ground and his hat on backwards had shot up two first grade classes in a public school in New York City.
drudge ette obama| 12.19.12 @ 6:47AM
We would blame society - certainly not the man and crtainly not rap music or Spike Lee.
TLP| 12.19.12 @ 9:05AM
I can answer that one: Nothing.
This happens every day of the week, and 50 times by Sunday in the Windy City with the Big Shoulders. CHICAGO. Maybe you've heard of it? IT's chock full of Black people who spend most of their "Down Time" (which is ALL THE TIME) killing and maiming each other. You just never hear about it because, well..............you know.
Murder Central is run by yet another Corrupt, in the pocket of the Unions, up to his Ass with Organized Crime, Dirtier than a Dog Pound Floor on a Monday morning, Democrat Politician - Rham Emanuel. He just finished a short stint Serving the Most Corrupt, in the pocket of the Unions, up to its Ass with Organized Crime, Administration, that this Country has ever seen. Did I mention that the head of that Administration is from Chicago, and that he's Black?
Hundreds upon Hundreds of Gun Murders have happened since Barack the First ascended to his Throne, and they all look just like his kids might've looked, if he wasn't a Gay Bathhouse Regular, and had Hundreds and Hundred's of Kids, with that Man-looking Wife a his.
But we never hear about those kids who look like him.
Just the one in Florida, who thought he was a tough guy, and got what he was Destined to get one of these days: a Bullet for his trouble.
Him, we hear about. Him, the Media couldn't get enough of. One Black, killed by the Half White that he tried to Brutalize, is a BIG STORY.
A buncha Blacks killing a buncha other Blacks, every night of the week?
Please.
Gr0w1er601| 12.19.12 @ 11:22AM
Don't forget Washington, D.C..
Frank Drackman| 12.19.12 @ 12:29PM
umm it'd be in the Metro section, you know, where they report ordinary everyday crimes...
Frank
Anthony| 12.19.12 @ 12:44PM
Appleby, They would either do what drudge suggests, blame society, or, they would create a new classification of "white African-American", hence, absolving the "black" youth from any culpability.
I hope Mr. Zimmerman takes NBC to the cleaners!!!!
MelvinNC| 12.19.12 @ 7:19AM
I'm not going to go into the hypocrisy of the Left because this is a fact that is painfully aware of those who follow American Spectator.
It just sucks that those kids had to pay for the failures of Liberalism.
Yes, thats right failures of Liberalism. I grew up in an age where firearms were respected and not trifled with. I grew up in an age where TV was in its infancy and there there wasn't MTV, Jersey Shore, or Thug TV with it's senseless violence and guttural fornicating.
Kids knew who there father and mother was and respected them, there wasn't this embrace of,
"Single motherhood, and urban ghettos.
I went to school were kids weren't force fed mind and mood altering drugs because the faculty wanted zombies that would sit expressionless and silent in classrooms to make the kids more manageable.
Kids that were full of energy and life are called hyperactive and the parents are ordered to medicate their child before school.
I grew up in an age where life was celebrated and fostered, now if a woman has a late term abortion she is honored as a pathfinder for woman's rights. I grew up in an age where the aged were honored and taken care of by the kids now the kids look for ways with assistance from the state to euthanize mom and dad.
I grew up in an age were we were called backward and simple, by the Liberals and we needed to be more hip, cool, and get with the times. So how is this hipness and coolness working out for ya?
Maxwell| 12.19.12 @ 8:13AM
And I remember the time when if you said a word that was not nice there was a bar of soap ready! I also remember there were a few times that I was not able to sit down because of the application of a riding crop to my arse! When mama would take me & my sister shopping & I was told to STAND RIGHT THERE, I knew, don't even think of moving!
Mama being a lady of the South felt comfortable around firearms. While there were out & available I knew touch with your eyes & not your hands.
MelvinNC| 12.19.12 @ 8:28AM
I though my mom was the only one who did that. I was partial to Dial Soap. Mother incurred the cruelest form of punishment.
We had a plethora of Willow Trees in the front yard, and when mother and I didn't see eye to eye she made me choose what switch I was to be whacked with.
Oh the agony.
Nancy in NC| 12.19.12 @ 8:34AM
And heaven help the child who comes back with a puny switch! (Mine was a peach tree!)
C'mon Man!| 12.19.12 @ 11:40AM
I was the one assigned to get the switch for my three siblings and I. Hmm, wonder if that's why I am the black sheep now?
Frank Drackman| 12.19.12 @ 12:31PM
wow a little kinky if you ask me...
what ever floats your freak boat...
Frank
pogybait| 12.19.12 @ 8:46AM
But don’t forget one of the biggest forces has been the cultural change in the education system. I cannot recall a time in which young minds have been subjected to a complete indoctrination based on the systematic soul sapping, hollowed out progressive ideology that has contributed to the dehumanization of our culture by blurring the perceptions of right and wrong and seamlessly cultivating notions of class strife, division, and envy based on phantom grievances while erasing the value of individual life. How has this provided a base for a happy, self-sustaining, professional individual?
Joellen| 12.19.12 @ 7:22AM
The fact that the "media" once again got it all wrong, 1) the mother was a teacher at the school; 2) the father was murdered; 3) it was the brother who was the shooter; 4) and of course they had the wrong weapon - it just had to be a full automatic to enhance their anti 2nd amendment agenda, tells me all I need to know of this evil arm of the liberal/progessive agenda.
The media cannot be trusted. They have taken sides and trust me it isn't ours, and this did not just happen in the past few years. They're just more blatant about it.
But that's ok, I enjoy hearing that Newsweek is in the gutter, NYT's is barely hanging on, etc., etc., - see GOD is just, we just have to be patient.
Remember there have been FIVE terrorist attacks on US Soil since Obama took office - FORT HOOD COUNTS!
Von Mises Jr| 12.19.12 @ 9:05AM
The errors of commission are only exceeded by the willful omissions.
If we wish to have a dialog about gun violence and gun control, let us start with "Fast and Furious." To date, some 200-300 innocent dead Mexicans (including a classroom full of children and now a beauty queen) were discovered only because whistle blowers involved in the operation exposed Brian Terry's death working as a Border Agent was due to a "Fast and Furious" fully-automatic weapon. Call Holder and Obama to the Congress for Hearings.
Benghazi is alleged to have been a gun running operation to Syrian Al Qaeda to take out Assad. At a minimum, we helped oust Kaddafi that put his arsenal in the hands of Al Qaeda. So when Muslims kill each other, or they attack Israel, are these people not victims of U.S. gun policy?
Then we have some 40 black-on-black murders in Chicago every month with illegal guns. That is one-and-a-half times more dead blacks every month than Sandy Hook.
So based on the words and actions of liberal politicians and the MSM, dead Mexicans, dead Muslims and Jews and dead blacks don't matter. It is the 26 dead white people from suburbia that matter. Is this their "equality?" Is this "Social Justice?" What the hell is this? We need an explanation!
Al Adab| 12.19.12 @ 10:35AM
The media and leftist respose was so predictable that most of us just ignore it. Of course they demand more gun restrictions. Instead it should be against the law to violate the law. Makes just as much sense.
What they do not understand is that the appearance of the weapon has nothing to do with its function. All they fear is those that look dangerous. It is the camels nose so to speak and gives them a first step to the elimination of private weapon ownership.
About half the businessmen I associate with in my small town carry. Our morning coffee group of 12 to 15 hase four or five (maybe more) who carry every day. We haven't shot each other yet.
Nancy in NC| 12.19.12 @ 8:24AM
The liberal media is to stupid to look at anything but guns as the problem. After all, they might have to look at themselves and see their part in the problem, and that might make them uncomfortable, and we wouldn't want that.
Any fool who thinks this is progress is terribly confused.
C'mon Man!| 12.19.12 @ 11:43AM
They decry the fact that we carry, yet insist that their body/bldg guards carry. And then refuse to acknowledge the hypocrisy. Let's not fool ourselves, they know, they are not stupid. It's all about power.
Nancy in NC| 12.19.12 @ 8:32AM
Juan Williams, liberal, says on O'Reilley "we have to do something". And that's the liberal problem, doing something to make themselves FEEL better. Forget the facts that so called assault weapons were banned in the 90s and it made no difference in violence.
If they feel so inclined to do something they might want to look at this fact: all these shooters were under 30 and white (with the exception of Husan who is a Mulim nutcase). But they don't want to do the heavy lifting...it requires looking at their part in the problem.
And the 24 hour days on end coverage almost guarantees we will have a repeat soon. We give the nuts too much publicity and exposure.
pogybait| 12.19.12 @ 8:59AM
It’s just far too easy to create and pass some magic law in Washington that somehow will fix all of the problems just like the “War on Poverty”, “The War On Drugs” and "Prohibition" which are blatant examples of “do something now” in order to avoid any meaningful discussions.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.19.12 @ 9:59AM
“all these shooters were under 30 and white”
Please let us not give diversity short shrift. The 2007 Virginia Tech shooter Cho was born in Korea, and the Long Island Railroad shooter during the 1990s, (Colin Ferguson if I recall correctly) was over 30, black, and born in the West Indies. Brenda “I don’t like Mondays” Spencer in the late 1970s was a white female teenager who shot up a schoolyard, and Sylvia Seegrist was in her mid-20s when she (a white female) shot up the Springfield, Pa. mall. These few examples alone show that the Left’s desire to integrate all aspects of once all white male bastions of power has shot out this glass ceiling.
Joellen| 12.19.12 @ 11:06AM
Albert, dont forget the Fort Hood, Islamic Terrorist Fort Hood Killer.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.19.12 @ 11:44AM
I hadn't, but Nancy righteously pointed out he was an Islamist terrorist nutcase, as opposed to presumably apolitical or non-religiously motivated one.
TLP| 12.19.12 @ 3:00PM
You also forgot the serial killer - Mohammed - and his Black Boy Toy, who drove around shooting people from the trunk of his car.
And, let's not forget the Black Mass Muderer of Black Children, in Atlanta.
How soon we forget.
Rhoetus| 12.19.12 @ 11:44PM
Isn’t a “hostile work environment” a crime? ;-)
Frank Drackman| 12.19.12 @ 12:34PM
Damn You for reminding me of that Boontown Rats Song...
"Tell me whyIdontlikemondaystellmewhyIdontlikemondaystellmewhyIdontlikemondays....
there now you get to suffer too..
Frank
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.19.12 @ 12:48PM
You are correct, Doctor, that is where Bob Geldof got the inspiration for that hit, before he became a fundraiser for Ethiopia.
TLP| 12.19.12 @ 3:04PM
I saw them in Concert, in the 80's, in Philadelphia.
Great Band.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.19.12 @ 7:00PM
Live Aid '84, perhaps?
Louis Jenkins| 12.19.12 @ 8:42AM
Yesterday 3,000 unborn were slaughtered. But they're not children, they were useless lumps of fleshy material destined for flushing. Abortion will rear its ugly head. And the quote from Mother Teresa is very appropriate.
Aspergher's Syndrome can be of a dangerous variety of mental disease. I know of one set of parents who have an older child with the same, and yes, they remain concerned.
Fast and Furious is still out there. Finally, the truth be known about a recent killing in Mexico. How many Mexicans have been killed by that foolish program?
"A gun found at the scene of a shootout between a Mexican drug cartel and soldiers where a beauty queen died was part of the botched “Fast and Furious” operation, CBS News reports.
Authorities had said that Maria Susana Flores Gamez was likely used as a human shield and that an automatic rifle had been found near her body after the Nov. 23 shootout.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, tells CBS News that the Justice Department did not notify Congress that a Fast and Furious firearm was found at the scene in Sinaloa.
CBS News learned the Romanian AK-47-type WASR-10 rifle found near her body was purchased by Uriel Patino at an Arizona gun shop in 2010. Patino is a suspect who allegedly purchased 700 guns while under the ATF’s watch."
TLP| 12.19.12 @ 10:00AM
Move along. Nothing to see, here. Why don't you go back to your Tea Party Klan meeting, and stop bothering our wonderful President as he goes about Saving the World.
Fast and Furious is from Bush. Every one of those Guns had a Tracing Transponder on them. Those 8,000 Pages of Documents that Congress wants, have already been looked at by this most Transparent Administration in History, and they have assured us that there is nothing in them. And besides, he's already claimed Executive Privilege, so SCREW YOU. And, nobody but the Worst Racists care that this is NOT an instance where Executive Privilege is allowed.
So, SCREW YOU, again.
Losing our Liberties is Fun.
Al Adab| 12.19.12 @ 10:36AM
Took your cynical pills this morning I see.
TLP| 12.19.12 @ 10:54AM
Does it show?
Louis Jenkins| 12.19.12 @ 11:21AM
Transparent Administration ehh?
C'mon Man!| 12.19.12 @ 11:46AM
Yes, very easy to see through them, but they just look back and refuse to comply with the law. Transparency!
JGW| 12.19.12 @ 9:29AM
In 1963 Madalyn Murray O'Hair brought Murray v. Curlet before SCOTUS. The year before Engel v. Vitale was decided.
Those two decisions effectively evicted God from the schoolhouse and the public square.
At the time I was a student at Baltimoe Polytecnic HS.
Her oldest son, William J. Murray was a classmate. He was never bullied or tormented, simply ignored. He became a Christian in 1980 and leads the Religious Freedom Coalition in DC. God works in mysterious ways.
I contend this is where our nation made the Big Left turn.
This is'nt a firearms issue, it's a cultural and spiritual decline that continues in avalanche proportions led by a decadent political class and corrupt media all for the sake of power and control.
"From my cold dead hands". Indeed.
c. j. acworth| 12.19.12 @ 9:55AM
Cultural and spiritual decline indeed. There have been high-capacity rapid-fire weapons available since just after the Civil War. (You can do a lot of damage with a lever-action Winchester.) The schools have always been "gun-free" zones, not by explicit policy but because no-one would've thought to bring a gun to school. And there have always been homicidal crazy people. But why are OUR crazy people shooting up schools? What has changed in the last 150 years? Death and mayhem have become entertainment, life is cheapened, and crazy people are allowed to walk the streets instead of being institutionalized. And those who are mentally damaged and in psychic pain see the attention to be had from 24/7 news coverage when they cause great pain in others.
c. j. acworth| 12.19.12 @ 9:58AM
And by the way, would those calling for a ban on "assault weapons" be happier if this atrocity had been committed with a lever-action carbine?
Al Adab| 12.19.12 @ 11:30AM
c. j. :
They are simply afraid of the looks of the weapon. Wasn't this done with handguns? I thought the AR was left in the car.
Any lever action or pump would be just as fast as the AR in any event.
Harry the Horrible| 12.19.12 @ 10:08AM
Sure folks brought guns to school back then.
You went hunting after school and didn't want to have to walk all the way home to fetch your rifle.
This actually continued into the 1960s.
JGW| 12.19.12 @ 10:23AM
Harry,
I commented on another thread the other day that we had rifle teams in the Baltimore school system in the early sixties. Team members carried their .22 rifles (cased) on the MTA. We did'nt ride school buses.
Frank Drackman| 12.19.12 @ 12:35PM
Wow, I just took my pistol so the black guys wouldn't rape me(they do that)...
Frank "like a virgin" Drackman
Cobalt| 12.19.12 @ 12:58PM
It doesn't just happen in prison.
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/new.....rro/nFT9K/
Black-on-white crime is only going to continue to get worse, but you already know that, don't you?
Butch| 12.19.12 @ 1:25PM
They were sure out in all the boys' jalopies out in the parking lot, clearly visible. I had three in plain sight. We walked down main street carrying guns and people just smiled and talked with us. Dove hunting after football practice.
spike59| 12.20.12 @ 5:41AM
it was still common in the late 1970's in Maine...and a Buck knife in a belt sheath was considered (along with Dingo boots) a 'fashion statement'
of course, Maine got overrun with NY/NJ/CT/PA/MD former commune dwellers, and has become a virtual Leftist breeding ground
Stan Redmond| 12.20.12 @ 2:32PM
Rural Oregon... The kids, high school, would still take shotguns and .22s in their trunk in 2000 (post Columbine). There was a forest clearing across the school parking lot they would shoot clay pigeons and target. No one cared.
delahaya| 12.19.12 @ 9:39AM
Hollywood pumps out incredibly violent filth these days and then turns around and lectures people on gun use. Seriously, look at an older movie - even a gangster or detective thriller and you will see a fraction of the violence that the average thriller of today has.
Anthony| 12.19.12 @ 9:49AM
I wonder how many of these disgusting leftist hypocrites carry firearms or have them in their homes, like Finestein and Reid?
I remember decades ago a big lefty living in Washington D.C., Carl Rowan, who was a member of 60 Minutes, I believe, was rabid anti-gun.
Turns out one night, Rowan shot a teenager, who, as a lark, decided to go swimming in Rowan's pool.
The incident was quickly hush up, because Rowan, who was black, who shot a white teenager with a firearm in D.C., had violated D.C. gun laws.
Every lefty should be FORCED to have a sign in front of their homes, hovels, caves, or mommy's basement, THIS IS A GUN FREE ZONE.
Al Adab| 12.19.12 @ 10:38AM
Good idea Anthony. Then the burglers would know which houses to hit and leave the rest of us alone.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.19.12 @ 10:44AM
If I recall correctly, Rowan had been given the handgun he brandished with the intruder from his son, whom I believe was a special agent with the FBI. I think if I were to investigate further, the son went on to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association.
Anthony| 12.19.12 @ 10:52AM
Al, Fortunately, the apple fell far from the tree!!
ArmyAviator| 12.19.12 @ 11:07AM
Rowan was never charged in that case. The DC prosecutor claimed there was "insufficient evidence" to prosecute. Even the firearm that Rowan used was returned as it belonged to his son, an active FBI Agent at the time. So, the Elite in LiberalWorld get a pass for even the most "heinous" of crimes, like defending yourself. In Florida, had George Zimmerman been BLACK and "Little Trayvon" been WHITE, we would never have even heard about the case.
Stan Redmond| 12.20.12 @ 2:34PM
Well of course media figures and politicians are way more equal then us mere serfs.
ArmyAviator| 12.19.12 @ 11:03AM
Liberals will get their way, regarding the banning and confiscation of firearms. It's on the horizon and bearing down on us now. Once firearms are no longer available, the Adam Lanza's and the Nidal Hassan's will simply switch to another method in which they will KILL MULTIPLE human beings. Improvised explosives, or actual explosives come to mind. Additionally, gasoline bombs (Molotov Cocktails) can be made by any imbecile. What will the Liberal Socialists do then? Demand a ban on glass bottles, gasoline or explosives? What we should be examining is WHY these nutcases are bent on KILLING and what we can do to lock them up, before they KILL. I've been around fireams all my life. Rockets as well, that were designed as weapons of war. Never known of one yet, that went hunting for an enemy, unless a man or a woman was in control of that weapon. Adam Lanza MURDERED those children. Nidal Hassan MURDERED those soldiers at Ft. Hood. The guns were simply the tools used to do the job.
JGW| 12.19.12 @ 11:57AM
Army Av,
About 12 years ago I had a letter published in the Salisbury Daily Times (MD) illustrating your point.
To paraphrase, I noted that I had loaded my revolver placed it on the kitchen table and gone to bed. Much to my amazement, when I woke up the next morning, it had not jumped off the table, come upstairs and shot either me or the wife!
Received many comments, none negative.
Thanks for your service.
SUBVET| 12.19.12 @ 11:11AM
Last night Mr. Bill on the factor said don't break into my house you will be shot. He also said that he has had attempts on his life and some moron is in jail that tried to DO him.
Then he stands their and says he want's gun control......what a POS.
TLP| 12.19.12 @ 3:07PM
He really is.
I stopped watching him, and Fox News, a long time ago.
Joellen| 12.19.12 @ 4:55PM
Subvet & TLP, Bill O really is a bloviator - and I am guilty of every once in a while turning him on - and everytime I do, I regret it.
spike59| 12.20.12 @ 5:44AM
if i could only program my DVR to isolate and record the portion of his show that features Dennis Miller; i just can't force myself to watch long enough
Petronius| 12.19.12 @ 11:14AM
The exercise is about what Liberal activism is always about: emotional satisfaction and wiping out traditional American Culture with the stated purpose being eliminating risk. What we need to do is force them to ADMIT their goal is Our subjugation. I've managed to do that to a few of them. And it's always the same "we're smart and you're stupid so you need to be bossed around" trope which animates them. If we lose this one, the country really is finished. There are now 3 generations of liberally indoctrinated sheeple who were brought up to look to government as a substitute for Mommy. And the only thing they're afraid of is the thought of, "those bible thumping hicks telling me what to do, (or not do)." They call this a tipping point. That happened in 1968 and 1972. The clock has now run out and Liberals control every institution which controls US.
OregonBuzz| 12.19.12 @ 11:16AM
Let's how Senator Harry Reid applies the papyrus to his exterior when this gets out.
“I had a lot of bad people after me and I carried a gun every place I went. . . But for me, guns are more than that. In fact, the most important part of guns as far as I’m concerned in my personal life is the recreational aspect of guns.” Senator Harry Reid -- 2010
Frank Drackman| 12.19.12 @ 12:32PM
Can you imagine If Lee Harvey Oswald had access to an Assault Rifle????
He probably would have missed...
Frank
Commander Kelly | 12.19.12 @ 12:50PM
Love the CS lewis quote! http://americanconservativeinl.....pot.co.uk/
Anthony| 12.19.12 @ 12:53PM
I'm still waiting for that sclerotic old leftist fool, Schieffer, and CBS news to demand that Obozo and Holder be indicted as accessories to the murders of agents Terry and Zapata as a result of Fast & Furious.
Alas, for Schieffer, Fast & Furious is medicine he uses to soften his hard stools.
rubbersole| 12.19.12 @ 2:20PM
This Soledad O'brien person is supposedly a journalist, not an overemotional anti-gun lobbyist. She appears to struggle with understanding the authors position on the topic, yet refuses to listen to him. This is what boggles my mind.
rubbersole| 12.19.12 @ 2:22PM
The other thing, it's getting rather tiresome watching media people like Ms. O'brien calling for a ban on something they don't fully understand.
Anthony| 12.19.12 @ 3:40PM
To paraphrase Dean Wormer," Arrogant and ignorant is no way to go through life".
Amazing how many leftists manage to do just exactly that, each and every day!!
spike59| 12.20.12 @ 5:53AM
"it's getting rather tiresome watching media people like Ms. O'brien calling for a ban on something they don't fully understand."
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wow, Soleftist O'Brainless called for a ban on REALITY? musta missed that...
Jasperfenton| 12.19.12 @ 4:15PM
I didn't know Bob Schieffer was still alive.
Joellen| 12.19.12 @ 4:58PM
He's not, he's like Frank Lautenberg, NJ, they're democrats you know, so although they are truly past their prime, they are still proped up and someone behind them moves their bodies and talks for them. They're quite amazing arent they.
Louis Jenkins| 12.19.12 @ 4:34PM
Actually, Bob Shieffer is dead. He's been dead for several years now. Instead, after a good deal of stage make-up, Obama just runs his hand up into the back of what once was Bob's skull. Obama then moves his hand in such a way as to mimic a normal live person's way of speaking, complete with facial expressions. Several MSM broadcasters are dead, and they have the same facilities available for Obama's usage.
Kingofthenet| 12.19.12 @ 11:18PM
I envision a GREAT day, when the TSA at Airports are checking for guns, but ONLY to find those without them and ARM them well...some call me a dreamer, but I am not the only one...
spike59| 12.20.12 @ 5:51AM
Queenofthenuts, did you think that up ALL BY YOURSELF? Awwwww...how pwecious is THAT?
Marc Jeric| 12.20.12 @ 5:06PM
"Planned Parenthood" performs 320,000 abortions every year; for that "work" it receives $335 million every year from the federal government - about a little more than $1,000 per abortion. As for breast cancer screenings the PP performs exactly ZERO such screenings - they only refer such cases to other doctors.
Jimbobogie| 12.20.12 @ 5:47PM
Why oh why hasn't the NRA come out with a complete set of instructions on how we should think about this tragedy?