An open letter to DUmmies / gun grabbers

[FlippyDoo]

Another tragedy. Another call for outlawing guns. I keep trying to wrap my mind around it. I just can’t understand it. I can’t understand the logic of it.

With this particular situation you have a guy who I’ll just call Crazy Man, a long gun that I’ll just call rifle, and a hand gun that I’ll just call pistol. Let me preface what follows by saying that I’m not a gun expert. With that confession out of the way, I’ve never found a case where a firearm has, of its own accord and under its own power, jumped up and commenced to killing people. I even read of a case where a guy did a test by leaving his “assault style” firearm loaded and out of its locked cabinet for a week. The “assault style” firearm just sat there for an entire week. Not once did it set out on its own in search of victims. What I’m saying is that based on what I understand about firearms, the rifle and pistol in this latest situation would have never murdered anyone without the aid of someone like Crazy Man. Now, can the same be said about Crazy Man?

Alexander the Great. Atilla the Hun. Julius Caesar. Hannibal of Carthage. All of these men were able to kill thousands before firearms were ever created. In other words, while the rifle and pistol needed someone like Crazy Man in order to kill, Crazy Man did NOT need the rifle and pistol to kill. All Crazy Man really needed was something the rifle and pistol did NOT have: hate and a will to kill.

The fault in this situation falls solely on Crazy Man, but we’re talking about outlawing guns. We already have a law against killing. Since Crazy Man did not mind violating that law I’m pretty sure that he would not have minded violating a law against owning a gun. Now I’m sure some will say that they are talking about doing away with guns altogether. To that I ask: do you mean like we’ve outlawed heron, cocaine, etc? How has that worked out? And even if you did miraculously manage to do away with every single gun in the USA I again remind you about the gunless Alexander, Atilla, Julius, and Hannibal.

So what would have stopped Crazy Man? I guess that is a complicated question for some. Maybe simple for others. While we think about it let’s think back on these past shootings and where they took place. Places like schools, colleges, churches, nightclubs, offices. All gun free zones. You never seem to hear about one of these shootings taking place at Billy Bob’s Bring-Your-Own-Firearm Bar and Grill. Maybe it’s because people like Crazy Man realize that God made men and Samuel Colt made men equal. Maybe people like Crazy Man don’t really like the idea of equality.

But back to the question of what would have stopped Crazy Man? More “equality” I suppose, but I'm just a spirit-guide so I may be wrong.

[BlueStateSaint]

H5!

[catsmtrods]

Stolen from facebook this nice comment

"I swear to all the Gods, I was going to do my best not to make anymore political comments concerning the reaction to the recent atrocity in Florida.
Evidently, I'm going to **** that up.
I simply can't listen to hysterical squawking from people who are profoundly ignorant of both guns and gun laws crawl to the top of the pulpy mass of 49 dead citizens and claim a culture of victimization as the moral high ground. It is simply vile, disgusting, and repugnant.
You do not get to pretend to care about people you would disarm. People you do not love, or respect enough, to allow them to defend themselves. You do not pretend to care about people, and further nurture and promote the culture and atmosphere of victimization.
If you babble incoherently about 'military style assault weapons,' it is obvious you understand neither guns, the 2nd Amendment, or history.
It takes a very special kind of truly horrible human being, to look at a long disenfranchised and maligned minority group, in the wake of yet another tragedy, and tell them point blank they, as individuals, don't deserve to be able to defend themselves. Because that's exactly what you're doing.
Some of you may even think you care, but you really don't. What you want to do, is to not take responsibility for yourself. You don't want to carry a gun, it's too heavy, and it's dangerous. You're too weak, intellectually and morally, to trust yourself with the tools, and deep down you feel guilty because not everyone is as big a whiny ***** you are, and you just can't ****ing stand that.
You don't get to pretend to care about people, when you wish to literally leave them fodder for those who would do them harm.
**** you."

[BlueStateSaint]

Stolen from facebook this nice comment

"I swear to all the Gods, I was going to do my best not to make anymore political comments concerning the reaction to the recent atrocity in Florida.
Evidently, I'm going to **** that up.
I simply can't listen to hysterical squawking from people who are profoundly ignorant of both guns and gun laws crawl to the top of the pulpy mass of 49 dead citizens and claim a culture of victimization as the moral high ground. It is simply vile, disgusting, and repugnant.
You do not get to pretend to care about people you would disarm. People you do not love, or respect enough, to allow them to defend themselves. You do not pretend to care about people, and further nurture and promote the culture and atmosphere of victimization.
If you babble incoherently about 'military style assault weapons,' it is obvious you understand neither guns, the 2nd Amendment, or history.
It takes a very special kind of truly horrible human being, to look at a long disenfranchised and maligned minority group, in the wake of yet another tragedy, and tell them point blank they, as individuals, don't deserve to be able to defend themselves. Because that's exactly what you're doing.
Some of you may even think you care, but you really don't. What you want to do, is to not take responsibility for yourself. You don't want to carry a gun, it's too heavy, and it's dangerous. You're too weak, intellectually and morally, to trust yourself with the tools, and deep down you feel guilty because not everyone is as big a whiny ***** you are, and you just can't ****ing stand that.
You don't get to pretend to care about people, when you wish to literally leave them fodder for those who would do them harm.
**** you."

I'm going to put that into an email.