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Topic: Guns are dangerous, but people are more so |
Guns are dangerous, but people are more so
Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
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Posted By:davesenior, 12/30/2012 12:55:30 AM
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| I don’t know anything about guns. I have no fascination with them, and no particular interest in them.Perhaps that stems from an incident when I was 12 years old and shot my best friend Stephen Folster in the base of the skull with a CO2 pellet gun that we were using to hunt sparrows in the now vanished woods on Filors Lane near Annie’s Snack Shack in Stony Point, N.Y. [SNIP]Guns, in other words, were not the problem; I was the problem.Which brings us forward 45 years to the raging debate about gun control that has ensued
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jl80863, 12/30/2012 1:49:36 AM (No. 9089450)
If you know nothing about guns and have no interest in them don´t try to tell me anything you think about them. Guns are no more dangerous than a thousand other things around us.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Manitouman, 12/30/2012 1:56:30 AM (No. 9089452)
Read the article number one. That´s what he says.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 12/30/2012 2:29:02 AM (No. 9089465)
Then ban people. Problem solved.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mrduc, 12/30/2012 5:19:06 AM (No. 9089517)
Several days ago, some nutcase woman pushed a man to his death in the subway. Ban all subways.
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TunnelRat, 12/30/2012 9:47:10 AM (No. 9089845)
Another interesting article (with only one particularly obvious, glaring error) -- I´d have happily posted it to my Facebook page, but for the utterly ignorant comments that follow.
Sometimes I think we on Lucianne have been spoiled -- we have come to expect the intelligent discussion that is a rarity elsewhere.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Stopstoreload, 12/30/2012 10:38:53 AM (No. 9089953)
If you impose gun restrictions on those rational enough to understand and obey them, that leaves guns in the hands of the irrational.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mickturn, 12/30/2012 11:28:41 AM (No. 9090037)
So are knives, chains, tools, cars, bicycles, streets, politicians...the list of dangerous things is endless...so what else is new?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
craige, 12/30/2012 12:07:11 PM (No. 9090082)
It´s not about guns. It´s about control. If a government is the only entity with firepower, the populace is at it´s mercy.
Extremely simple, isn´t it?
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craige, 12/30/2012 12:21:29 PM (No. 9090097)
Interesting scenario: Assume a large carpenter is doing some work near a kindergarten class. Assume he is insane. Also assume he also has a big hammer and a utility knife. He can go into the class, kill the teacher and lock the door. He can then kill each child at his leisure, before anyone can get past the locked door.
Now assume the teacher has a loaded GLOCK...
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Should we be worried about cyberterrorism? Without a doubt
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Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
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Posted By: davesenior- 5/18/2013 9:15:14 PM
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On Monday May 6, I stumbled across an Internet news story in the Washington Times about a threatened cyberterror attack that was scheduled to occur on Tuesday, May 7.According to this story by Shaun Waterman, the Department of Homeland Security had sent a bulletin to “the private sector” [SNIP] I am not a bank, a major corporation or a government agency, so although I found the story interesting, I promptly put it out of my mind—at least until I woke up the following morning, May 7, and discovered that my Internet service was down
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What Benghazi reveals about our nation ...
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Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
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Posted By: davesenior- 5/12/2013 2:13:44 AM
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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,/But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”—Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” (Act I,Scene ii.)The ambiguity of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy about the end of the Roman republic and the onset of dictatorship teaches us that no matter how much we yearn for clarity, there is always an element of uncertainty in the fate of nations.Motive is subjective. Intention is debatable. Facts are elusive.[SNIP]But when you get right down to it, the fault for the nation’s general ignorance about the Benghazi coverup does not belong to the media;it belongs to ourselves.
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Has climate agenda run out of steam?
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Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
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Posted By: davesenior- 5/5/2013 2:50:30 AM
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I got an e-mail from Democratic lobbyist John Podesta last week that began “Dear Friend,” so I knew it had arrived at my inbox by accident. Podesta was the last chief of staff during the Bill Clinton presidency, and is currently the chair of the Center for American Progress, which as you can tell by the name is one of those groups trying to undermine our nation’s values and traditions under the guise of marching us into the 21st century’s version of “1984.” (Are we there yet?) One of the best levers the progressives have found to muscle us
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Immigration: Assimilation or devastation
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Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
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Posted By: davesenior- 4/21/2013 1:54:57 AM
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On Friday, we were warned by Sen. Chuck Schumer not to “jump to conclusions” about “the events in Boston” or “to try to conflate those events” with the immigration reform bill hammered out by Schumer and the other seven senators who have appropriately identified themselves as gangsters. Schumer, a N.Y. Democrat, and the bipartisanly incorrect “Gang of Eight” unveiled their massive, 844-page immigration “reform” bill last week and hoped to rush it to a vote before anyone even knew what was in it.[SNIP] so let’s call it what it is: The Illegal Immigrant Legalization Bill.
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Waiting for genocide: Islam and the West
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Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
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Posted By: davesenior- 4/14/2013 9:09:07 AM
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Before the rise to power of the Nazis in Germany — which was arguably Europe’s most civilized country — there were approximately 9.5 million Jews living in Europe. As a result of Hitler’s genocidal policies, two out of three Jews were killed over the next 20 years. [SNIP]Which brings us to the carpet under which the contemporary world is sweeping the remains of murdered Christians, along with their living cousins — the falsely imprisoned, persecuted, and tortured — who survive for now among an increasingly hostile Muslim population in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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Equal Pay Day: Think before you parrot the empty rhetoric
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Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
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Posted By: davesenior- 4/7/2013 1:20:28 AM
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When I was a kid, women were demanding “Equal Pay for Equal Work.” Somewhere along the way in the last 50 years, that has been conveniently truncated to “Equal Pay— Period.”At least, that SHOULD be the slogan — if truth in advertising laws could be applied to political posturing — because Equal Pay Day, which falls on Tuesday, April 9, is not about equal pay for equal work, but just about increasing women’s pay arbitrarily as a form of Marxist social engineering.The press release I got from the (George Soros-funded) National Partnership for Women & Families lamented
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Restoring the Constitution — with a little help from my friends
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Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele
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Posted By: davesenior- 3/31/2013 6:40:54 PM
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Last week, I somewhat audaciously proposed a “Restoration Amendment” to free the U.S. Constitution from decades of judicial precedent and neglect and return it as much as possible to the original intent of our nation’s founders.Many readers were grateful for the effort and pitched in with their own ideas for how the federal leviathan could be tamed, but many others were dismal and dismayed — certain that any honest effort to reform the nation was already a lost cause, and that the Constitution was already good enough if only people would follow it. Probably all of us who are concerned about
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/22/2013 10:21:38 PM
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The public got its first look Thursday at Lois Lerner, who has gone from faceless IRS bureaucrat to the face that launched what feels like 1,000 congressional hearings and conspiracy theories. But it was only a brief sighting since she didn´t stay long at a House hearing to further probe her role in how some IRS workers came to target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. (Snip)She did make a short statement to declare her innocence, however. Lerner´s motivation was more transparent than much of what the IRS has done in connection with this controversy. She was determined to
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Criminality Appears To Lie at the Heart of the IRS Scandal
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New York Sun, by Lawrence Kudlow
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/23/2013 5:59:27 AM
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When you get right down to it, the political targeting and stalling of tax-exempt applications by the IRS was an effort to defund the Tea Party. Rick Santelli, one of the Tea Party founders and my CNBC colleague, was the first to make this point. I’ve taken it a step further: The IRS was taking the Tea Party out of play for the 2012 election, as it looked to avoid a repeat of 2010 and another Tea Party landslide.There are a lot of numbers out there.
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Eva Longoria graduates with master´s degree in Chicano studies
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/23/2013 3:03:53 PM
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Eva Longoria is backing up her beauty with a whole lot of brain. The actress graduated with a master´s degree Wednesday. Longoria, 38, took home a real degree (not an honorary one) in Chicano studies from Cal State Northridge, where she physically attended classes for three years, according to TMZ. "Big day today!!! Very excited to graduate for my master´s degree in Chicano studies! You´re never too old or too busy to continue your education!" the actress wrote on her Who Say site Wednesday, sharing loads of pics of her big day, posing with her family, cohorts and diploma.
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Obama nominates Nuland for assistant secretary of state
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Politico, by Reid J. Epstein
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 10:08:52 PM
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President Obama on Thursday nominated Victoria Nuland, a State Department official involved in the editing of the administration´s talking points on Benghazi, to be the next assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Nuland, a career foreign service officer who was until recently State´s top spokesperson, had long been expected to be nominated the post to replace Philip Gordon, who Obama picked to serve as Middle East coordinator for the National Security Council. Nuland´s nomination -- which requires Senate confirmation -- could come under scrutiny from Republicans who see her as playing a central role in shaping
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Why was the Department of Homeland Security monitoring Tea Party IRS demonstrations?
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American Thinker, by Sally Zelikovsky
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Posted By: magnante- 5/23/2013 8:09:21 AM
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What´s so interesting about 60 tea partiers protesting the IRS in San Jose, California on Tuesday, May 21st? The fact that this bit of information was conveyed to the protesters by a Department of Homeland Security officer who was also in attendance. What was a DHS agent doing at the San Jose Tea Party protest? (snip) they weren´t just spying on us in San Jose and monitoring us in San Francisco, they were watching us throughout the entire state
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Mark Levin Tears Into Obama: ‘Flat- Out, Bald-Faced Lie’ That He Knew Nothing About IRS Targeting
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Mediaite, by Josh Feldman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 9:48:28 PM
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Conservative radio host Mark Levin is very skeptical of the idea that President Obama had absolutely no idea about the IRS tea party targeting before the story broke in the news mere weeks ago. Levin declared adamantly that it is a “flat-out, bald-faced lie” that Obama didn’t know beforehand, citing prior reports by a few conservative news outlets picking up on the news well before the 2012 presidential election. Levin said, “I don’t believe for two seconds that Obama wasn’t aware of this.”
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Anthony Weiner says Houston psychiatric facility made him ‘a new man’
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Houston Chronicle, by Nicole Narea
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/23/2013 10:52:02 PM
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Anthony Weiner’s New York mayoral candidacy was only made more improbable today after he revealed that he visited a Houston psychiatric facility following his resignation from Congress in 2011. Haunted by scandal surrounding his sexually explicit online communications with women, the Democratic former congressman sought treatment for his compulsive behavior from mental health professionals at the Gabbard Center. According to its website, the facility provides “3-day outpatient psychiatric evaluation,” particularly to “professionals who are in personal or professional crises.” While Weiner did not disclose
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