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2013-12-27 -Land of the Free

Saloon: Our sick gun fetish is destroying us

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Posted by badanov 2013-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 A more focused study that concentrated on medical costs concluded that gun injuries lead to 31,000 hospitalizations each year at an annual cost of approximately $2.3 billion. More than 80 percent of that cost is borne by the government through Medicaid and other public assistance programs.

The author should delve in more depth into these statistics before coming up with knee-jerk solutions.

A gun-free society is one that invites unbridled tyranny and lawlessness. Those who are doing many of the intentional shootings are also those who have illegal firearms. BTW, they also do many of the unintentional collateral damage shootings.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-12-27 08:25|| 2013-12-27 08:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The sick lust for power fetish by progressives, formerly known as communists, has destroyed us.

FIFY

They just can't finish it till they confiscate any means of resistance.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2013-12-27 08:41|| 2013-12-27 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 We are the People of the Gun.

No, we 'are the People' of a failed justice system. Convicted horse thieves were once hung by the neck until dead. A man's (or woman's) horse was the way they earned a living.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-27 09:32|| 2013-12-27 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Connecticut gun owners rush to register.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-27 09:42|| 2013-12-27 09:42|| Front Page Top

#5 yes, it never dawns on the gullible lead by these wannabe tyrants that if the ruling class actually delivered a safe and relatively just society, the resistance to 'gun control' would shrink to unimportant levels. The tyrants know they can't so deliver, but they need the arms out of the hands of those they desperately want to rule.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2013-12-27 09:43|| 2013-12-27 09:43|| Front Page Top

#6 I never wanted a gun until there was all this talk about guns.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2013-12-27 11:17|| 2013-12-27 11:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Gov. Nikki Haley finds new Beretta PX4 under the Christmas tree.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-12-27 11:29|| 2013-12-27 11:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Unarmed Good People vs Always Armed Bad Guys

Van Gogh was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri as he was cycling to work on 2 November 2004 at about 9 o'clock in the morning, in front of the Amsterdam East borough office (stadsdeelkantoor), on the corner of the Linnaeusstraat and Tweede Oosterparkstraat (52°21′32.22″N 4°55′34.74″E). The killer shot van Gogh eight times with an HS 2000 handgun. Initially from his bicycle, Bouyeri fired several bullets at Van Gogh, who was hit, as were two bystanders. Wounded, Van Gogh ran to the other side of the road and fell to the ground on the cycle lane. According to eyewitnesses, Van Gogh's last words were: "Mercy, mercy! We can talk about it, can't we?" Bouyeri then walked up to Van Gogh, who was still lying down, and calmly shot him several more times at close range. Bouyeri then cut Van Goghs throat, and tried to decapitate him with a large knife, after which he stabbed the knife deep into Van Gogh's chest, reaching his spinal cord. He then attached a note to the body with a smaller knife. Van Gogh died on the spot. The two knives were left implanted. The note was addressed, and contained a death threat to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was subsequently forced to go into hiding, threatened Western countries and Jews and also referred to the ideologies of the Egyptian organization Takfir wal-Hijra. (Wikipedia)

Posted by Threreling Munster6125 2013-12-27 12:09|| 2013-12-27 12:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Many years ago my wife was asked by her liberal family just why she wanted a gun; her answer - "Because THEY don't want me to have one."

Posted by Glenmore 2013-12-27 13:24|| 2013-12-27 13:24|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder how many massacres there were back in the 1800's, when everyone owned a gun. The per-capita murder rate must've been sky high, eh? And everybody in Wyoming should be murdered off by next Tuesday.

Posted by Bobby 2013-12-27 13:31|| 2013-12-27 13:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Cerberus played it well. After the Newtown shooting protestors showed up at the CEO and CFO's home. Their kids received death threats. They had to move the families because the threats were real. The CEO Came out and said they would sell all of the Freedom works firearms. The wacko's stopped the harassment and Freedom was never sold. A well played plan.

Posted by 49 Pan 2013-12-27 13:39|| 2013-12-27 13:39|| Front Page Top

#12 What's the value of a human life?

To who?
The thug, (Who obeys NO laws, or the human who fights against them)

Thug, has an illegal gun.

The Person, who must Defend against thedm.
And The people who would Disarm him.(Like this twit)

There's a saying "When seconds count, the Police are Minutes away, and will get there AFTER it's all over.

I for one, would rather be standing, maybe with the perp at my feet, (Alive, or dead) maybe he's fled.
Either way, I'm standing.

(Yes, I'm always armed and i'm friendly too.)
Nobody feels scared talking to me.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-12-27 14:00|| 2013-12-27 14:00|| Front Page Top

#13 When the state is disarmed then it could be time to think about it.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-12-27 17:45|| 2013-12-27 17:45|| Front Page Top

#14 PX4 Storm, nice. I have one in in .40 S&W full frame. And the CX4 Carbine, same caliber. Both weapons use the same magazine.

Beretta or SIG, those are my hand gun choices.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2013-12-27 20:30|| 2013-12-27 20:30|| Front Page Top

#15 But then, when you name your fund after the two-headed dog that is said to guard the gates of hell where every Mayan New Year Thor would ride out on Anansi the Spider, armed by Shiva with a high capacity assault rifle shotgun, you're not exactly presenting yourself as a socially responsible fish tank filter.

Cerberus is Greco-Roman, Hell is Judeo-Christian, and you are a failure. Think tank, guess they need the sucker fish as well.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-12-27 22:06|| 2013-12-27 22:06|| Front Page Top

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