Comments on: A Book To Break The Gun Control Stalemate http://kosu.org/2012/11/a-book-to-break-the-gun-control-stalemate/ The State's Public Radio Fri, 24 May 2013 17:14:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Ben http://kosu.org/2012/11/a-book-to-break-the-gun-control-stalemate/comment-page-1/#comment-123059 Ben Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:00:15 +0000 http://kosu.org/?p=116088#comment-123059 Bloomberg tries to stop gun ownership nationwide, all the while enjoying a security detail of armed men. The Left's approach to gun control is incremental. Label it as anti-crime/pro-police safety, take whatever restrictive law you can get passed, then describe it as "not enough" to prevent some recent tragedy, and then seek the next step. Meanwhile, the US currently has the highest gun ownership in history, and record low rates in violent crime. And Whitney is proposing what..?."Reasonable" or "common sense" incremental gun controls that do what, exactly? What is new here? Tragedies occur periodically, world wide. Some of the greatest tragedies are genocidal, against unarmed civilians. Bloomberg tries to stop gun ownership nationwide, all the while enjoying a security detail of armed men. The Left's approach to gun control is incremental. Label it as anti-crime/pro-police safety, take whatever restrictive law you can get passed, then describe it as "not enough" to prevent some recent tragedy, and then seek the next step. Meanwhile, the US currently has the highest gun ownership in history, and record low rates in violent crime.

And Whitney is proposing what..?."Reasonable" or "common sense" incremental gun controls that do what, exactly? What is new here?

Tragedies occur periodically, world wide. Some of the greatest tragedies are genocidal, against unarmed civilians.

]]> By: Gene Ralno http://kosu.org/2012/11/a-book-to-break-the-gun-control-stalemate/comment-page-1/#comment-123058 Gene Ralno Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:02:41 +0000 http://kosu.org/?p=116088#comment-123058 Like our founders, gun owners no longer trust the government, including police and military heads. Gun owners have been screwed too many times by the socialist movement in this nation. They know from experience that "reasonable" control is just another term for government control. And they know if they give a little, the government will return for a lot. So rejection of any infringement will continue even if it kindles the second revolution. Like our founders, gun owners no longer trust the government, including police and military heads. Gun owners have been screwed too many times by the socialist movement in this nation. They know from experience that "reasonable" control is just another term for government control. And they know if they give a little, the government will return for a lot. So rejection of any infringement will continue even if it kindles the second revolution.

]]> By: Jim Gallagher http://kosu.org/2012/11/a-book-to-break-the-gun-control-stalemate/comment-page-1/#comment-123057 Jim Gallagher Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:58:34 +0000 http://kosu.org/?p=116088#comment-123057 Who can argue with “a reasonable discussion” but the devil is in the details. Your “reasonable” is not necessarily my “reasonable”. Case in point, you can look at those bastions of gun control, New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, and all of California, and see that the word “reasonable” is used to keep adding laws on the books irrespective of the fact that none of these laws seem to have any effect on the violence in these regions. Also, before us “gun nut” types (a term often used by liberals to paint all gun owners with the same negative brush – talk about stereotyping, bias, profiling and bigotry) would consider such a conversation the pro control folks would have to stop demonizing every firearm under the sun, a good case in point would be the AR-15 (it’s n9xot an assault rifle, the AR stands for ArmaLite, the company that came up with design)that seem to send these folks over the edge. Until they change their focus from the firearm to the criminal/mentally ill there really can be no “reasonable discussion”. Who can argue with “a reasonable discussion” but the devil is in the details. Your “reasonable” is not necessarily my “reasonable”. Case in point, you can look at those bastions of gun control, New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, and all of California, and see that the word “reasonable” is used to keep adding laws on the books irrespective of the fact that none of these laws seem to have any effect on the violence in these regions. Also, before us “gun nut” types (a term often used by liberals to paint all gun owners with the same negative brush – talk about stereotyping, bias, profiling and bigotry) would consider such a conversation the pro control folks would have to stop demonizing every firearm under the sun, a good case in point would be the AR-15 (it’s n9xot an assault rifle, the AR stands for ArmaLite, the company that came up with design)that seem to send these folks over the edge. Until they change their focus from the firearm to the criminal/mentally ill there really can be no “reasonable discussion”.

]]> By: James http://kosu.org/2012/11/a-book-to-break-the-gun-control-stalemate/comment-page-1/#comment-123056 James Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:20:36 +0000 http://kosu.org/?p=116088#comment-123056 It would be better to read the US constition than read some liberal book. It would be better to read the US constition than read some liberal book.

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