Apparently liberals think that today is the day that Republicans will realize that it's important for them to disarm. After all, people want to kill them. Doesn't that prove that it's a bad idea for them to allow themselves to have guns?
People might want to thing long and hard about using "pass common sense gun laws or you might get shot" as a rallying cry (which I've already seen this morning). Because it's a pretty short trip from there to "pass laws I want or you might get shot."
The reason governments want you disarmed, is the same reason a thug wants you disarmed- they intend to do something to you which would be dangerous if you were armed.
Yes, and I think we'll find that this guy wasn't insane- at least not in the way Jared Loughner was- and that he planned well. The only thing that didn't work out for him is the presence of the Capitol Police security detail for Scalise. While some congressional members may concealed carry, that was unlikely in their baseball attire, add to that a bunch gathered in one place, separated from other people- it was perfect for his desires- almost. Thank God it wasn't so perfect after all.
No, I don't think he was crazy at all. I'll be surprised if he wasn't sick, though. It's unusual for a 66 year old man to go on a killing spree, no matter his politics. But if he thought the country was really going to hell, and he also had just gotten a bad cancer diagnosis, this might have seemed like a way to combine public service and an easier death.
It sounds like he brought an SKS rifle, which explains why he couldn't hit anything.
I mean, I'm sure our House Majority Whip feels like he shot more than well enough. But 50 shots from a rifle at that range ought to do more damage than he did with it.
Of course, the media keeps speaking of this SKS as a "high-powered rifle," a term that apparently is equivalent to "a rifle."
As Uncle Duke said, "Wouldn't you want to be in a position to return the fire?"
In looking at a number of those Doonesbury strips, my reaction was that they were FUNNY. Perfect for the funny papers. There are some strips about trying to find an "affordable" apartment in NYC, which struck my funny bone. Perhaps Garry Trudeau was always hyper-partisan, and I found such hyper-partisanship funny before my political views changed. Certainly Garry Trudeau was hyper-partisan about Nixon and Watergate, at a time when I found such views not hyper-partisan but just what I agreed with.
Somewhere in the late '80s and '90s, I concluded that Garry Trudeau's comic strips were more hyper-partisan than they were funny. Was this because my politics had changed from Liberal to Post-Liberal, or because Garry Trudeau had amped up his partisanship?
I don't know. I don't read the papers in print anymore.
I always thought the Uncle Duke cartoons were funny. Uncle Duke is portrayed as this hyper-conservative psychopath, but he's based off Hunter S. Thompson, who was a hardcore leftie who hated Nixon and wrote sorrowfully of the decline of San Francisco's Summer of Love. However, he also had some libertarian views on guns and drugs. That's apparently as far right as Trudeau can imagine someone being.
People might want to thing long and hard about using "pass common sense gun laws or you might get shot" as a rallying cry (which I've already seen this morning). Because it's a pretty short trip from there to "pass laws I want or you might get shot."
ReplyDeleteAs Uncle Duke said, "Wouldn't you want to be in a position to return the fire?"
ReplyDeleteThe reason governments want you disarmed, is the same reason a thug wants you disarmed- they intend to do something to you which would be dangerous if you were armed.
ReplyDeleteThis is an outcome of the Left's rhetoric of threat and violence against Americans.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans at the practice were explicitly targeted after careful target identification.
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Yes, and I think we'll find that this guy wasn't insane- at least not in the way Jared Loughner was- and that he planned well. The only thing that didn't work out for him is the presence of the Capitol Police security detail for Scalise. While some congressional members may concealed carry, that was unlikely in their baseball attire, add to that a bunch gathered in one place, separated from other people- it was perfect for his desires- almost. Thank God it wasn't so perfect after all.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't think he was crazy at all. I'll be surprised if he wasn't sick, though. It's unusual for a 66 year old man to go on a killing spree, no matter his politics. But if he thought the country was really going to hell, and he also had just gotten a bad cancer diagnosis, this might have seemed like a way to combine public service and an easier death.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like he brought an SKS rifle, which explains why he couldn't hit anything.
I mean, I'm sure our House Majority Whip feels like he shot more than well enough. But 50 shots from a rifle at that range ought to do more damage than he did with it.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the media keeps speaking of this SKS as a "high-powered rifle," a term that apparently is equivalent to "a rifle."
I am honestly curious as to what would be considered (by the media) as a low powered rifle.
ReplyDelete"I am honestly curious as to what would be considered (by the media) as a low powered rifle."
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As Uncle Duke said, "Wouldn't you want to be in a position to return the fire?"
ReplyDeleteIn looking at a number of those Doonesbury strips, my reaction was that they were FUNNY. Perfect for the funny papers. There are some strips about trying to find an "affordable" apartment in NYC, which struck my funny bone. Perhaps Garry Trudeau was always hyper-partisan, and I found such hyper-partisanship funny before my political views changed. Certainly Garry Trudeau was hyper-partisan about Nixon and Watergate, at a time when I found such views not hyper-partisan but just what I agreed with.
Somewhere in the late '80s and '90s, I concluded that Garry Trudeau's comic strips were more hyper-partisan than they were funny. Was this because my politics had changed from Liberal to Post-Liberal, or because Garry Trudeau had amped up his partisanship?
Is Doonesbury still being published?
I don't know. I don't read the papers in print anymore.
ReplyDeleteI always thought the Uncle Duke cartoons were funny. Uncle Duke is portrayed as this hyper-conservative psychopath, but he's based off Hunter S. Thompson, who was a hardcore leftie who hated Nixon and wrote sorrowfully of the decline of San Francisco's Summer of Love. However, he also had some libertarian views on guns and drugs. That's apparently as far right as Trudeau can imagine someone being.