Comments on: The Second Amendment is misunderstood, he writes

By: gdad

gdad — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:35:38 +0000

And then, Dan, Frank’s sister goes home and has a great laugh rerunning memories of her family’s antediluvian antics.

By: gdad

gdad — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:26:09 +0000

Frank’s family also uses made-up words like “alot” around his sister, and when they write to her they don’t use caps or proper punctuation. It gives them a false sense of superiority.

Can you imagine how miserable it would be to have a brother like Frank?

By: Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:52:01 +0000

Yes Frank, we’ve been treated to your subtle wit plenty on this blog. How fortunate for your sister that you “take it easy on her”.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:45:49 +0000

Frank, I know you think your little story is humorous, but most people find it disrespectful. I have a conservative uncle who has never met an anti-liberal, anti-Obama email that he doesn’t believe. I discovered last year that even other conservative members of the family disregard the silliness he sends, yet none of us disrespect him at family gatherings.

By: John Wilburn

John Wilburn — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:48:26 +0000

Duh… I was thinking about the 300+ firemen who died in the twin towers. Yes, there were thousands who died overall.

Terrorists with box cutters don’t hijack armed pilots.

By: John Wilburn

John Wilburn — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:43:26 +0000

Jason Perdue:

“Introduce factors such as distance (past about 15 yards, handguns can be very inaccurate), complicated by a moving target that may be shooting back, complicated by the presence of bystanders, complicated by your own body’s adrenaline rush, all combine to produce a recipe for disaster. That is how I view it.”

33 dead in Norris Hall, hundreds dead on 9-11, and 27 dead at Sandy Hook ARE the worst possible outcome. Even in the scenario you present, no amount of missing one’s target could have possibly resulted in any more death and carnage. That is how I view it.

By: Dan Casey

Dan Casey — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:11:59 +0000

“yes, Kristen, my older sister’s 2 younger brothers still take it easy on her during family gatherings. we set things up so she “thinks” she wins the discussions…and being a lib, she happily and cluelessly goes right along thinking we admire her, ah, “smartness”. haha!”
–Comment by Frank

Translation: “Her command of the facts is better than ours, so we can’t argue with her on that basis. So we just roll our eyes, give each other the secret Rush-and-Glenn wink, and quit arguing because we’re losing so badly.”

By: John Wilburn

John Wilburn — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:18:59 +0000

Sandi, please tell why the last machine gun made at quittin’ time on May 18th 1986 is perfectly legal to own, but the next identical one on the assembly line made first thing in the morning on May 19th 1986 is not.

It’s stupid and arbitrary.

Sandi Saunders:

“When highly trained, even former military trained police officers stop getting killed while carrying, I will consider your opinion on citizen carry John Wilburn and Dave Hicks.”

When people stop getting killed in “gun free zones”, I will consider your opinion that supports their existence.

By: Jason Perdue

Jason Perdue — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:38:56 +0000

JW is right. You came to exactly the conclusion they programed you come to.

Comment by Dave Hicks — January 6, 2013 @ 9:59 pm

Interesting choice of terms, Dave Hicks, stating that I was programed. Was there no room here for my own rational interpretation of what I saw? What I saw, DH, matched my experience. Experience I gained over 26 years or so. Your conclusions about what you observed are yours, and I won’t demean your observations by trying to tell you what “really” happened in the scenario.

Look, Dave, I am by no means an expert in this realm, and you and JW have invested way more study into firearms than I ever will. But, I do have a measure of experience, over a fair bit of time, that informs the opinions I have. To suggest that I was programed by this one video reveals a condescension common among the gun rights advocates on this blog. So be it. I have a position on the issue, and I have so stated. Consider its merits and learn from it or dismiss it as poor programing.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:38:06 +0000

John Wilburn, please tell me you did not just complain about restrictions on “machine guns” in a discussion about banning military styled semi-automatic weapons?