FTA:"A few thousand civilian deaths seem insignificant against the imaginary scenario of totalitarian government “turning on” its disarmed citizens."
Imaginary scenario? David, you should Google and study the following names: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Il, Fidel Castro, Lenin, and STASI. Then compare with King George III and see the difference an armed citizenry makes. Liberals. Impervious to reason.

Tell this to Chicago where more illegal guns mow down more people each day than in Afghanistan.

If those victims were alive they´d tell you they wish they had been armed and able to defend themselves.

The author seems enormously narrow minded and otherwise simplistic for someone who is capable of writing.

When Sessioms says "the South is the most violent part of America", he must mean SOuth Chicago. What a biased diatribe.

Obviously he hasn´t heard the saying, "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away." Seems the article also contains some prevarication. As was pointed out on this site yesterday, no "troubled teenager" can order an assault rifle on the Internet, as simply as implied. But his mind is made up, don´t confuse him with the facts.

His ignorance in breathtaking. A rebuttal would run to a dozen pages. Who is responsible for letting this get public?

To be a liberal is to rejoice in ignorance. To be a liberal is to be relentlessly, irretrievably, and belligerently stupid. To be a liberal is to hate truth and love evil. To be a liberal is to know your feelings are who you are, and you are NEVER wrong.

I grouched to my neighbor about how long I have waited for my legal CCW here in Florida. He asked why I wanted to carry - I´m married so I shouldn´t have to worry about some bigger guy giving me any hassle.

After I sprained my eyeballs from rolling them so hard, I told him, ´´Because 9mm is faster than 911.´´

why the left spouts tripe . . .

I fear the U.S. government.

That´s why I am armed.

The big push is coming, lock and load.


Live Free or Die

Wow, what a stunningly wrong-headed article!

The ignorance, so boldly expressed, is amazing. The ´facts´ are false, the logic is wrong, and the conclusions were determined before the arguments were made.

Is this really the sort of thing liberals believe?

Thanks, David Sessions, for publishing proof that you are a clueless blithering idiot. If you possessed any analytical abilities, you would know that a single concealed carry pistol could have saved lives at the school in Newtown. If any of the people that confronted the shooter had a weapon, some of the dead kids would be alive, right now. That is not an "empty slogan", you fool. It is a practical solution. Citizens are armed to stop insane people from doing what insane people do.

And if you had the first clue on how to do a proper investigation, you would know your statement about the South is wildly wrong and provides more proof of your idiocy. Look at the crime rates where gun laws are overly restrictive. (Free clue: Chicago and DC)

David, you are a fool.

I did not read this article. I don´t have to. I have been reading this article ever since Bill Clinton was President. The argument is always the same and follows right after some tragic shooting.

What is never addressed, never examined, is the difference between the culture of America before G-d and Christain morality was removed from our schools and after.

Perhaps if the "progressives" would examine the difference, they might realize just where they went wrong.

The house that kid was living in sure didn´t look like a doublewide in rural Texas. You are a dolt Sessions. I guess some libs can´t pass up any chance to to disparage the South.

Thanks to all the posters for giving words to my thoughts.
These fools are beyond reason. Once they have their alleged minds made up, you couldn´t convince them the sky is blue. They are the ones that allow this sort of thing to happen by ignoring reality in favor of their utopian view of the world. "Gun free zones make us safer", et al.
Read this article only after you´ve taken your blood pressure pills.

"Come out of the woodwork"

Perhaps the author might want to write about why blacks in Chicago kill other blacks in Chicago every single night of the week.

We all know the president spends his time in Chicago consoling the families of the mrudered. He then moves on to Philadelphia to console the families of the dead black youths.

Here is a little test that will help you find out if you are a Republican, a Democrat, or an Alabamian. Just pick which answer most closely mirrors your likely response to the following situation:You’re walking down a deserted street with your family. Suddenly, an man in black, wearing a kefir and carrying a huge knife comes around the corner. He locks eyes with you, screams “Alahu Akbar!” and “Death to the Infidels”, and brandishes the knife wildly as he runs toward your children. You are carrying a Glock 40-caliber semi-automatic pistol.

You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family. What do you do?


Democrat’s Answer:

Darn George Bush! If only he tried to TALK to these poor, oppressed people. The man looks poor! He must be REALLY oppressed! Now, let me see… Have I ever done anything to him that would cause him to attack?

I wonder if we should run away? What does my wife think? What about the kids? Maybe we should call a family meeting to discuss this. What does the law say about this situation? Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children? Does he definitely want to kill us, or does he just want to send a message? Can I call 9-1-1? He must have had an unhappy childhood… What can I do to understand his behavior, to relate to his concerns?

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Republican’s Answer:

BANG!

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Alabamian’s Answer:

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Click!

….. (Sounds of reloading) BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Daughter: “Nice grouping Daddy! Were those the Winchester SilverTips or the Federal Hollow Points?”

Son: “Can I shoot the next one?!”

Wife: “No, you are NOT taking that to the taxidermist!”

I think David is young and naive.

More preachy tripe from the libs...

The never-ending drumbeat to try to convince us to sell our 2md Amendment rights to keep and bear arms for a mess of liberal pottage...

And almost always timed to some terrible tragedy for highest emotional impact rather than reasoned discussion.


Another timeless truth:
Libs base decisions on emotional

Conservative base decision on reasoned discussion and are careful to change what works

This Sessions clown will be one of the first to be staring out through the barbed wire and wondering what happened.

We in the North love guns just as much David. Not talking about your delusional circle of jerks of course.

And yet there sits Vermont. For smug would be authoritarians like Sessions, Vermont is there, in the face of every argument they throw up. Even with a crazy carpetbagger like the trust fund baby, Dean as Gov., Vermont still maintains the most open handgun, long gun, policies in the US. Be a resident and pass a minimal background check and you are armed. Compare NY, or any state to Vermont for death by firearm, David and then get back to me. Also look up murder committed by baseball bats in the US.

Clueless sheeple like Sessions are determined to open your home and person to every low life out there. I´m real tired of being lectured to by people who have no understanding of weapons or reality. It´s like having a tax policy with oversight by a guy who cheated on his taxes.

Comparing the murder rate in the UK to the rate in the US is ludicrous. Different culture. Like saying deaths from blowguns are much, much higher in the Upper Amazon than they are in DC.

THEY have already destroyed everything I believe in.

Do THEY really think I´m just going to roll over and hand over my arms?

Guess again. Real hard.

Florida has about a million gun owners with permits to carry. Guess what? Crime has gone down.
New york has the most stringent laws about guns. Has crime gone down?? Has the murder rate gone down?

You can take it to the bank that these same liberals advocating gun control and who are using this tragedy to push their agenda, have another agenda item.......supporting the murderous Palistinians.

Think about it; their support goes to a people who would celebrate a massacre of a first grade class in Israel every day

When it happens in the USA it is a tragedy worthy of shredding the Constitution. If Paistinians massacre a first grade class in Israel it´s "yes it´s wrong BUT.....".

I went on democraticunderground.com yesterday, to see what the other side was saying. One (typically) breathtakingly ignorant poster was ranting about how all the people in her town owned guns, and how stupid that was because there was hardly ever break-ins or robberies. And, of course, she got a bunch of agreement from the rest of the liberal idiots about her self-righteous blather.

I might have thought she was being sarcastic, if I didn´t know they are truly that dense.

Why pick on the South? School massacres have occurred in Connecticut, Virginia and Colorado. Given the gun murder rate in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Oakland it would seem the areas most prone to gun violence are the North and the West.

FTA: I would wager most people in my hometown are unaware that the South is, many times over, more violent than any other part of America.

I grew up in the south and his statement about the south wasn´t the south I grew up in. But then anyone can say anything today and people don´t challenge them for the proof.

Prove your statement David!

Let me get this straight... a mentally challenged individual in MASSACHUSETTS kills people and we get this article about people in the South? How good is that?

And then he doesn´t know the current stats which show violent crime down as gun ownership goes up.... or how violent crime has doubled in England as they instituted a total gun ban... or how murder rates have dropped in D.C. over the last four years as gun ownership was judicially recognized as a Constitutional right.

Don´t need no stinkin´ facts, does he?

When did Connecticut become a Southern state? When did Colorado become a Southern state? Is China a Southern state (22 children were knifed on Dec 14)? Is Norway a Southern state (77 killed, 151 wounded in 2011)? Is South Korea a Southern State (57 killed, 35 wounded in 1982)? Is Australia a Southern state (35 killed, 21 wounded in 1996)? Is Columbia a Southern state (30 killed, 15 wounded in 1986)?

This is how the campaign is going to go: demonizing the South to paint all gun owners as low life rednecks who are incapable of understanding The Real Issues As Defined By Leftists.

BTW, check out this article about all the killings that have taken place on scumbama´s watch. By the lefties own standards, he´s responsible for all these murders and must be impeached immediately.

http://gawker.com/5968561/five-of-the-twelve-deadliest-gun-massacres-in-us-history-took-place-during-obamas-first-term/gallery/1

The government should ban the use of he word Southerner as it has done with the words Islamic Radicals. Given the fact that they don´t want to besmirch the reputation of good Muslims, the same should be in order for Southerners. I´m just making a point how ridiculous this writer is behaving.

Notice - there was no chart detailing violence by race. Large numbers of black and hispanic males in the south and southwest are responsible for these numbers.

My bad. Connecticut not Massachusetts.

Others here have made reference to Chicago as an example of the problem. Allow me to expand on that as a native Chicagoan who has lived downstate 20 years since retiring from the military. Chicago is nestled in the ONLY state not to allow concealed carry AND adds to that by outlawing residents from even owning a firearm. Yet, it is one of the most violent places you´ll ever see. Most days 8 - 10 people get shot with one or two dying. The lib/progs have all the statistics and other evidence anyone could need to see that even total gun control is ineffective. What is it with these touchy-feely people anyway? Literally every idea they ever have is always wrong. They ignore facts and never anticipate the unexpected outcomes of their nitwit ideas. Look no further than 13 years of Prohibition and the hell and human carnage it produced.


Girl´s Hubby

Could it be because they´ve already been invaded by the Government once...

Thank you #7. I copied that observation of what it means to be a liberal to my desktop. Those are the reasons why the article´s author does not get it.

What is more troubling is this writer is Newsweek´s religion editor? Seriously?? No wonder the news rag is mercifully going down the tubes with idiot writing like this.

What if Vicki Soto had been armed?

Good point, #35.

I hate to say it, but I have this ominous feeling that the NRA is in for the fight of it´s life. That loud sucking sound is all the Leftard Buzzards sucking back and getting ready to hyper-bloviate in unison.

I wonder if the depth of the divisions in America today is getting anywhere close to the levels of 1861?