Just seems like the appropriate theme song...

And I wonder if the OP realizes that he's sending traffic to the site.

when I turn adblockplus off. Where have *you* been browsing? You do know which google ads appear for you is based off your own browser history, right?

I like my adblockers kept *on*!

it is amazing every gun owner doesn't know this.

I don't think these are the 700 most dangerous day for gun owners. I would point to the scare from Sandy Hook as the worst threat to the 2A progress we've seen in a long time.

Hopefully those days are behind us and we can look forward to a bright future for the Second.

I hadn't actually said "think of the children" either, so your reply is a bit of a strawman My post was about glib sociopaths and magazine sizes.

Go post your opinions in that General Discussion thread, I dare you. I bet they fly like a lead balloon.

No points for your desperate attempts to conflate average gun owners with murderous psychopaths or for your delusion that banning particular pieces of hardware will somehow prevent the latter from achieving their gruesome goals.

You never met a gun control proposition that you didn't like, and you believe that anyone who doesn't swallow your belief system whole is guilty of indifference to the slaughter of the innocents. It's a lame canard and always has been. And yes, it's a Lovejoy.

"You never met a gun control proposition that you didn't like"

I think confiscating all guns from everyone would be stupid and impossible to enforce too, so there I'm actually kind of a moderate compared to some gun control advocates. On a side note, I think I could still remember how to field strip, clean, and re-assemble an M16 in under five minutes, though I haven't done so in quite some time.

You clearly don't know me at all, but keep on posting, I enjoy it when you guys make yourselves look foolish

"never met a gun control prop he didn't like" type.

Join a 'well regulated militia' if you want to fully exercise your 2nd amendment rights. You can even get paid for it.

Care to find a POTUS comment or two on large cap magazines and universal background checks?

... the question about gun control legislation you don't support? Such a shame.

That's not suprising- I've noticed most gun prohibtionists are rather shy about coming out of the closet
and prefer to hide their views when expressing themselves in public

with prior military service also belong to the unorganized militia.

It's federal law.

Except today we have a very powerful standing army and no well regulated militias like those of the Founding era, the exact opposite of what most of the Founders wanted. As Thomas Jefferson told George Washington, the Second Amendment was supposed to mean "freedom from standing armies."

"In your worldview your popguns are more important than innocent kids lives, I get it already."

You're projecting.

Its you lot who refuse to separate suicides from homicides, preferring to treat them as if they're the same, so that you can point the finger at the evil gun.

Show us how consistent you are in your love for the children.

besides it's good for the earth...carbon footprint reduction and all that jazz.


but firearms...now those are the real killers. If only we could convince all those guns to stop killing people.

Perhaps we can discuss why cheap appeals to emotion don't seem to be working towards:

The hate and distrust in their writings is palatable.

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You should get out of the 'gun control bubble' more...

It's supposed to make all the gun owners feel bad. "See, everybody in GD thinks you're sickos too."

Doesn't work too well though.

Now, with many of the GD gun posts being locked, not as much fun for the control fans. But I guess it's better than the same 3 people that post in Echo Chamber Bansalot.

Too bad none of all those "avid gun control supporters" in GD won't even bother to go to his safe forum and opine, ain't it? Maybe they are "avid" as long as it's convenient and they don't have to click to a new forum?

The irony is all the whining about the NRA is increasing the number of NRA ads that show up on DU.

That's why I despise both groups. They have become what they hate...

A rather good song about that mindset:

...than the astroturf creation of a billionaire otherwise known for decidedly unprogressive political positions

All of the cod-religious verbiage in the world can't change that...

"...ownership of weapons intended only to kill en masse..."


There ARE limits and controls on "manufacture and sale and ownership of weapons intended only to kill en masse".

Examples of weapons intended to kill en masse :

Bombs

Grenades

Nukes


Of course, you lot would like to convince everyone who will listen, that semi-automatic weapons which fire a single shot per pull of the trigger just like granddads shotgun or deer rifle, fit that definition.

Its dishonest, its disingenuous, and its contrary to reality.

In other words, good luck with that.

...just to be sure. Rephrased in my own words to be more concise: 'You guys are screwed, huh?'

The author, not you of course.

"...weapons intended only to kill en masse"

As the best selling rifles in America for over a decade so many are obviously faulty.

But it's easy for the 1%ers to keep the ignorant out there upset with the support of a handful of "useful idiots". Too bad they don't bother to vote about it too, huh?

"the gun crazy think about guns all the time, and vote on the issue with fanatic intensity."

Kind of the same way "92% agree with more gun control" ... they just can't be bothered to vote or post about it.

Oh, I'm sorry I forgot, some of them will even go as far as clicking a "Rec" button to show their deep meaningful support.

but that is hard

I noticed something about that.

EGS has about 550K "supporters" by that metric, and that
"support" costs them nothing aside from having a Facebook account, which is free.

They claim to be grassroots. I rather doubt the veracity of that claim, but for the sake
of argument let us say that the claim is true.

Would not the NRA be even *more* grassroots, so to speak, as they have circa
7-8X EGS's membership? Not to mention that one must pay at least $20/year for
NRA membership, while EGS can be 'joined' for essentially nothing.

Yet the prohibitionists would have us believe the NRA is entirely the creation
of firearms manufacturers...

Facebook likes..... 4,206,089

Democrats nationwide are hoping that, with the last midterm elections behind Obama, him unable to run for re-election, and him unlikely to run for elected office for the rest of this life, that he will therefore use this last two years to be the real liberal lion we've all wished he was.

But it's entirely crazy and paranoid to think that he might do something on guns.

And you go so far as to mock the very IDEA that he might.









I mean, your side calls private gun ownerships a blight, a cancer, a plague on America. You're willing give Republicans elections in order to remove ergonomic grips from rifles and shotguns. But it's absolutely insane and paranoid to even hint that Obama, in the final 23 months of his presidency, might make moves on guns that YOUR SIDE has been begging and petitioning and advocating him to do.


Wow, talk about a disconnect.

Your side openly wants to take guns away from people, yet mocks those that point this out as being paranoid loons.

We need to save this for use on a regular basis, every time one of them calls us paranoid in the same thread where another demands a gun ban of one flavor or another.

My personal favorite is the; "nobody wants to ban/take away your guns - we just want to get rid of the ones that are only good for killing masses of people."

I bet they'll be hard pressed to find just the right cartoons to defend against the reality and logic in your post.

...you set up the talking-point that your opponent is a paranoid loon if they accuse you of doing "A", then once there's a media precedent established you in fact do "A" and let the established media response give you cover.

Thomas Jefferson played a strong part in the generation of the Bill of Rights. He called the Second Amendment "Freedom from standing armies," not "Freedom from gun control."

One would think the "First Freedom" wouldn't be the SECOND amendment!

any of the other Amendments.

For example, I'm one of the hosts of the Civil Liberties Group:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1168

And the crazy guy I know who ran for governor as a Libertarian.

Like Christians, only the nutjob 2A advocates ever get media coverage.