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2015-10-04 -Land of the Free

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Posted by badanov 2015-10-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Then the primary purpose of Cars is to run people over and kill them. After all there are far more more deaths by autos than by guns.

And we are much safer than most of the world. We don't have tyrants. Women can walk down the street without fear of being raped (except in liberal enclaves like occupy camps). And there are school shootings and bombings in the rest of the world - our media just hypes ours up for their agenda.

As for Obama... I always thought it was shitworker but that's just me. He's sure been delivering it since he's been in office.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-10-04 01:32|| 2015-10-04 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 To me American guns are more somewhat of a mystery---why so heavily armed a population allows itself to be so oppressed?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-04 02:53|| 2015-10-04 02:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Yo G, because it is illegal to kill some people.

Posted by Steven 2015-10-04 03:08|| 2015-10-04 03:08|| Front Page Top

#4 If guns really conferred stability and protection, we’d be the safest, most peaceful nation on Earth. We are, instead, the most violent and deadly.

This is, quite simply, bullshit. We are not. We are not even in the top 25. In fact, a quick google suggests the US is just a tad below the median murder rate for all the countries in the world.

The other thing missing from this frothy piece is any discussion of geography. Murder is not uniformly distributed. Roughly half the murders in the US are committed in urban black communities. Last Memorial Day weekend, over 100 people were shot in Chicago, Baltimore and New York in 3 days. But we can't talk about that because to even point it out is 'racist'. Care to bet that most of those murders were committed with unlicensed/illegal guns?

Posted by SteveS 2015-10-04 04:14|| 2015-10-04 04:14|| Front Page Top

#5 To recognize the level of gun violence in urban America you must also recognize the causes and participants. While the stats are quietly rolled into the national record, urban recognition will not happen on Champ's watch or the watch of any democrat.

Demographics, educational failure, chronic unemployment and welfare, the narcotics enterprise and drug culture, and fatherless families all play a contributing role in urban failure and crime. Did I mention the the urban drug enterprise ?

No need to sort the apples, that would be discriminatory and racist, we'll just call the entire basket spoiled.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-04 04:35|| 2015-10-04 04:35|| Front Page Top

#6 To me American guns are more somewhat of a mystery---why so heavily armed a population allows itself to be so oppressed?

Because the American legal system isn't done destroying its "Mandate of Heaven".

Posted by badanov 2015-10-04 07:22|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-10-04 07:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Let's take this to its logical endpoint: Because the political system and the tax code have both been misused on a regular basis, they must be eradicated. They are nothing less than a national disgrace.

Posted by M. Murcek 2015-10-04 07:46|| 2015-10-04 07:46|| Front Page Top

#8 When Shariah law becomes common in the US, we need to re-invoke Texas Common Law: "He needed killin'"

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2015-10-04 10:24|| 2015-10-04 10:24|| Front Page Top

#9 #5 Parts of USA are Third World?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-04 10:39|| 2015-10-04 10:39|| Front Page Top

#10 ...yes, and more are imported daily.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-10-04 11:08|| 2015-10-04 11:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Planned Parenthood kills around 300,000 people a year. Mostly minorities. Homicides involving guns maybe 10,000. So who is more dangerous gun owners or Social Workers?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-10-04 12:07|| 2015-10-04 12:07|| Front Page Top

#12 The chief reason America has remained a free country is the widespread private ownership of firearms. Individual ownership of guns made the American Revolution possible. The principal purpose of the Second Amendment was to maintain our freedom from government.

The founding fathers have much more to say about firearm ownership. Citizens have the right to live. No one has the right to deprive us of life and liberty.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-10-04 13:03|| 2015-10-04 13:03|| Front Page Top

#13 If you Really want to save Lives, ban "Liberals".

Posted by newc 2015-10-04 14:01|| 2015-10-04 14:01|| Front Page Top

#14 I've been having a discussion with a person who identifies himself as a Liberal. Here are his exact words, You should have to register your firearm, so that if by some chance you sell that firearm to someone who is not supposed to have a firearm, you will be held responsible."

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-10-04 15:29|| 2015-10-04 15:29|| Front Page Top

#15 So that watery tart who threw me a 22 rifle, I was only a tool to fulfill Its destiny of plinking half empty cans?

And magnets are possesses by spirits who, when close, become madly in love and want to hold each other.

I have no concerns about the handgun I purchased from Mordor Armory. Its my precious.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-10-04 17:04|| 2015-10-04 17:04|| Front Page Top

#16 Parts of USA are Third World?

“The only difference between Detroit and the Third World in terms of corruption is Detroit don't have no goats in the streets.”
― Charlie LeDuff, Detroit: An American Autopsy

Posted by SteveS 2015-10-04 17:54|| 2015-10-04 17:54|| Front Page Top

#17 Parts of USA are Third World?

WTF, g, haven't you been paying attention? Why do you think Obama leaves the border open? Why do you think this country encourages immigration from Third World countries? His plan, Clinton's plan, Bush's plan have all been the same: they want to turn the United States into a Third World hell hole and they are succeeding at an alarming pace. We won't be so uppity when we're all poor.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-10-04 18:19|| 2015-10-04 18:19|| Front Page Top

#18 Parts of USA are Third World?

See central California and downtown LA and San Diego.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-10-04 19:51|| 2015-10-04 19:51|| Front Page Top

#19 welllll... San Diego, not so much

Posted by Frank G 2015-10-04 20:09|| 2015-10-04 20:09|| Front Page Top

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