I dunno..

[docwebster]

Maybe it's the exposure to all that gunpowder?

Jeff Cooper On Inner-City Violence:
"…the consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition."
Cooper's Corner, Guns and Ammo

Ted Nugent on South Africans:
"Apartheid isn't that cut and dry. All men are not created equal. The preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man. I mean that with no disrespect. I say that with great respect. I love them because I'm one of them. They are still people of the earth, but they are different. They still
put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands … These are different people. (Me: I dunno, Ted, sounds like a pretty typical Aerosmith tour to me) You give 'em toothpaste, they fucking eat it ... I hope they don't become civilized. They're way ahead of the game."
--Detroit Free Press Magazine

Ted Nugent on homosexuality:
A "despicable act" performed by "guys that have sex with each other's anal cavities."
--Hannity and Colmes

Marion Hammer on police-maintained databases of gun buyers:
"We don't want government to know who has the guns. If the government knows who has guns and where to find them, they can ban them and then confiscate them."
--Miami Herald

"And Commander XOgswsk from the planet Feelldbub will sneak into our homes and eat our brains and steal all the pretty neon twinkies that go boing boing boing all night long and oh god where's my medication?" Hammer did NOT go on to say.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Careful with that scorn, there. I know of at least one very sane and reasonable individual who has seriously proposed offering free firearms training to LA gangbangers, on the basis that if the crackheads could HIT the broad side of a barn with a 12-guage at ten feet, they might kill off more of each other and mow down less innocent bystanders with stray gunfire in the process. Frankly, I think he has a point. Jeff Cooper's perfectly correct -- the largest single segment of gunshot deaths, after suicides, IS gangbangers murdering each other. I say, good riddance to'em. Maybe after they've selected each other all out of the gene pool, we can have our cities back.

And Marion Hammer? She's only citing history. It's happened before. Including in the US. It just hasn't ever happened *nationwide* in the US.

(Hint: Most of the first "gun control" laws, like New York's Sullivan law, were originally passed to keep arms out of the hands of those filthy, criminal, lower-class immigrant scum. Like, you know, blacks and the Irish. Yup, 1890s upper-class New York abhorred a mick with a gun like nature is reputed to abhor a vacuum.
[For something she supposedly abhors, she sure made one unholy hell of a lot of it.]
And that term "Saturday night special" that the gun control lobbyists toss around with such abandon? They've shortened it. Back when they first coined it, the full phrase was "Niggertown Saturday night special." It's quite enlightening to see how much of historical gun control in the US has been inherently racist.)

Unbelievable

[beernotbombs.livejournal.com]

What a bunch of pinheads.

I have no particular opposition to guns. As a matter of fact, I find them quite useful as tools. However, like most tools, I don't feel an overpowering need to own one simply because I can. Unless I have several acres of lawn to mow, I am not buying a riding mower, y'know?

I am different from most left-leaning Americans in that I interpret the 2nd Amendment fairly literally, ie I believe that people have the right to possess firearms to protect their property, their family and to keep themselves free of tyranny and oppression.

(I should point out that I have never held, much less fired a gun, and, I have no plans to do so at this time.)

I like to say that guns are like children: There are too many of them and all the wrong people seem to have them. It is for these reasons, amongst others, that I signed on to the NRA Blacklist. It doesn't seem to me to be unreasonable to expect a ban of semi-automatic weapons and ask for more stringent sentencing laws when a crime is committed with such a weapon.

I am chuckling a bit at this ironic tidbit: My dad is a fairly vocal member of the NRA. Our last name isn't very common and we share a ZIP code. I can't wait for the brass at the NRA to see my name on the blacklist and then match it up with my dad's name on their membership roster.

Cheap thrills such as this are the spice of life.

Cheers!

[nsingman.livejournal.com]

Cooper may simply be reaching for a very specific corollary of Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crud), but I disagree with him anyway. When criminals die, I don't mourn. But too many innocents die in inner-city gunfights to be as sanguine as Cooper seems to be. Nuge is great when he hunts and plays, and very funny when he ridicules animal rights activists, but he's just silly on apartheid and homosexuality. Laugh at Hammer if you wish, but she is absolutely right; governments have done precisely that (banning and confiscation) in the past. Disarming the populace is a sine qua non of tyranny.