I will never understand what goes on in the mind of a gun control freak.
Example: A criminal fires a gun outside the Texas capitol, so therefore the first thing we should do is ban law-abiding people with concealed handgun licenses from carrying inside the capitol building and put up metal detectors.
WTF?
WTF? That was from Austin, Trey. Do I need to draw you a picture? In perhaps enviromentally-friendly crayon? DPS…do your job. Stop hiring civilians. Be cops. And, when some emo dude pulls a gun, shoot first, ask questions later.
Amanda, I agree. But, what’s an “emo dude” (I love learning new terminology)?
Thanks, Pei
(a concealed carry licensee)
Pei, and emo dude would be a “‘sensitive new age male” who freaks out on the state capitol for no good reason. They ususally can’t cope with male pattern baldness, and shave their remaining hairs only to grow creative and bizzare combinations of facial hair (i.e. goatee/mutton chops, soul patch/mutton chops, chin beard/weird sideburns or just mutton chops). They frequently do this after divorce #2 at age 25. Pissed off by the world, they buy their clothes on clearance at Marshall’s (not that there’s anything wrong with that). They vacillate wildly between the late night coffee house crowd, and wanting to kill Bambis mother. They do yoga yet watch PPV extreme fighting. The dichotomy of their very being leaves them no choice but to empty a magazine on the capitol. I hope I’ve cleared that up.
Since no one was hurt, I can see some dark humor in this. But, I digress. Yes. I have demonstrated a life-long habit of safety and common sense, but punish me because I might do something. Even though the chances of me doing that thing are statistically nil due to the previously mention life-long habits.
Action – A psycho attempts to blow up a plane during flight.
Airline Response – Compliance with the government.
Airline Customer Response – Compliance with the government.
Government Response – All of the airlines customers must be bodily scanned and no one gets to take a whiz during the last hour of the flight.
I will never understand what goes on in the mind of an anti-gun-control freak.
It’s easy Anonymous, guns are the problem. People are. A number of years ago a day trader in Atlanta went postal. He killed or injured half a dozen people. His weapon of choice . . . . . a baseball bat.
“It’s easy Anonymous, guns are the problem.”
From the mouths of babes…
Once again Anonymous has no response to the arguement so he changes the subject to a typo.
The “libertarians” are the one with no response to the argument. More accurately, the libertarian ‘response’ is just a lamer variant on the old cliche ‘guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” The Libertarian position is essentially law of the jungle, a wild-west every-man-for-himself anarchy which didn’t work so well when the population was a few hundred thousand and it sure as hell won’t work with a population of 300+ million.
Modern libertarians are self-absorbed children.
The Libertarian argument is the argument of personal liberty based on personal responsibility, a concept totally foreign to most modern lefties. It is also rooted deeply in the fact that the right of self-defense is *the* fundamental human right, without which no other right can exist. Modern lefties are self-absorbed elitists who want nothing more than to dictate to everyone how they should live.
and there goes anonymous again. Spewing opinion and hyperbole with no factual back up. It’s like he/she/it is incapable of producing or referencing a single fact.
Here’s a fact. There was a downturn in violent crime not an upturn like lefties predicted when conceal carry was passed.
“Modern libertarians are self-absorbed children.”
Ah, yes, when faulty reason fails, resort to name calling. Very effective.
“The Libertarian argument is the argument of personal liberty based on personal responsibility,”
IOW, The Law of the Jungle.
No, the Law as intended by the founders. The Law of the Jungle would be “dog eat dog”.
Perhaps you should stop posting. You seem very foolish, or a deliberate troll.
Trolls don’t bother with classy web sites like this.
“No, the Law as intended by the founders.”
Yeah, I’m sure the “founders” imagined hot-head booze-hounds like Trey Garrison toting his six-shooter on airplanes and in public places.
I think it is a testament to the libertarian point of view that Trey affords Anonymous the opportunity to make his snappy, yet meaningless posts on this site. How tolerant to allow commentary that does so little to advance the conversation.
“I think it is a testament to the libertarian point of view that Trey affords Anonymous the opportunity…”
Horseshit. You can read this kind of snark on blogs that run the gamut from hard left to hard right and everything in between. “I’ll never understand gun control freaks” is the stuff of adolescent tantrums. If the goal of the Libertarians is to carry their guns on airplanes and in the highest offices of the land, then you shouldn’t wonder why no one outside a handful of tea party cranks give you a second listen at all.
@ anonymous
How’s that universal, single payer health care coverage working out for you, huh? You know, that popular, lefty reform that has been embraced by the everyone in this great land of ours?
Mark, you do know that gun-totin’ ‘libertarians’ are not the only demographic opposing universal health care, don’t you? There are literally millions of other Americans from all over the political spectrum who share your benighted opinion of universal health care.
Attaboy Anonymous, what you can’t win with an argument, win with aggression.
Universal healthcare is working quite well in Massachusetts. That state currently enjoys the highest insurance premiums in the country. In addition hospitals are closing because they can’t make it financially. Shortage of doctors too. On the plus side 95% of the people are covered. If the trend continues, one might ask “covered for what?”
So Frank, your point is what, opposing UHC makes one a de facto “libertarian?” By that logic, half the country is “libertarian.”
How’s that profit-driven, byzantine multi-payer casino health care coverage working out for you? OK? You’re lucky. Millions of Americans can’t even afford to play that game.
Since there is no right to anything someone else must provide…your need for healthcare doesn’t create a right among the mob to steal from me to prop up the tin cup constiuencies who readily sell their opportunity for a few handouts.
“How’s that profit-driven, byzantine multi-payer casino health care coverage working out for you? OK? You’re lucky. Millions of Americans can’t even afford to play that game.”
It works out awesome. And it’s not luck. It’s hard work and frugality.
People should spend less on cell phones and more on their own health care.
That’s it – cure 15% unemployment by foregoing cell phones – instant frugality. IE, I’ve got mine, you get yours. No job? Tough shit. The bad economy’s not my problem, I voted Libertarian.
Oh, so not only should healthcare be a Right, but so should a job?
Tell me, do you take personal responsibility for anything in your life?
“Tell me, do you take personal responsibility for anything in your life?”
Why yes, I do. I take responsibility for everything except my genetic inheritance. Responsibility and frugality do not always insure success in life, especially when the culture becomes large and complex. I try to help others who are less fortunate. It would appear that “libertarians” are self-centered children who only care about themselves.
TSA Worker Tried To Make 12yo A Sex Slave
A TSA worker who’s MySpace page identifies him as a “swinger” was arrested in Orlando, after telling police he tried to make a 12-year-old girl his “sex slave”.
The now-15-year-old girl told investigators 57 year old Charles Bennett groped her a few years ago. When he was arrested on Friday, Bennett gave them a written statement saying he asked the girl to be his sex slave.
His MySpace page identifies him as looking for “submissive females” and says he’s a master of BDSM.
It’s still unclear exactly where the abuse supposedly took place, and how Bennett met the the girl.
In the police report, Bennett acknowledges that he “groped” the girl, although the girl’s version of the abuse is reportedly more graphic.
However, much of the police report detailing the abuse is heavily redacted.
Bennett was being held without bond. There has been no announcement from the Transportation Security Administration on the status of his job.
That announcement is expected Monday at the earliest.
http://wokv.com/localnews/2010/02/cops-tsa-worker-tried-to-make.html
I try to help others who are less fortunate.
By using the power of government to take others peoples money and give it to those who you think deserve it more, what a caring person you are…..
I’ve got an idea, why don’t we take all of anonymous’ belongings and give it to people we think deserve it more, then we can be good people just like him.
“Responsibility and frugality do not always insure success in life, especially when the culture becomes large and complex.”
The size and complexity simply offers a lot more opportunities, but I doubt you see any of them. Poverty is almost always the result of one’s own actions or inaction. Blaming society because somebody decided to drop out of school, rob a 7-11, get three girls pregnant, and start smoking crack is the ultimate strawman. Society’s responsibility is only to tell them what actions are acceptable and which one’s aren’t. The individual decides on the outcome.
Yes, there are exceptions, mental illness & physical disabilities to name a few, but those are truly the exception, and are usually thrown out as an emotional argument and not a rational one.
“I try to help others who are less fortunate. It would appear that “libertarians†are self-centered children who only care about themselves.”
Helping people with someone else’s money is not compassion, and advocating it is the opposite of compassionate. I give both money and time to charity, but it’s the charity of my choice, not yours.
“Blaming society because somebody decided to drop out of school, rob a 7-11, get three girls pregnant, and start smoking crack is the ultimate strawman”
Yes, that is a strawman – and it’s YOUR strawman. America’s real unemployment rate is around 17%. Those people are not irresponsible crackheads and they shouldn’t be denied health care because the economy has crashed around them.
But thank you for making yet another outrageous, cynical gaffe. At least you’re revealing the cynical, self-centered core of contemporary “libertarianism”
“Those people are not irresponsible crackheads and they shouldn’t be denied health care because the economy has crashed around them.”
Nor should I have to pay for their healthcare.
“But thank you for making yet another outrageous, cynical gaffe.
No gaffe. Go back and read what my response was again, and this time try to actually understand it.
“At least you’re revealing the cynical, self-centered core of contemporary “libertarianism‒
And thanks for making an assumption that isn’t true. I’m no Libertarian. Oh but thanks for proving my assumption that you are completely opposed to personal responsibility correct. Let me guess, you’d be wealthy and successful by now if only it weren’t for those damn Conservatives, right?
I’m wealthy and successful BECAUSE I’m conservative, responsible and frugal. And because I’m wealthy and successful, and I pay taxes, I like to express my opinion about how my taxes get spent. I’d rather have UHC than a 2 billion dollar per day military guarding the Persian Gulf and bailing out the unregulated casino on Wall Street.
Garrison and most of his tiny audience of sycophants here share the narcissistic “libertarian” tendency to adolescent self-absorption and wild-west gun freak fantasies. From your posts, it’s hard to distinguish you from the rest of the petulant children.
“unregulated casino on Wall Street”
Stands as its own indictment.
“Stands as its own indictment.”
so we agree?
No.
Pretend you’re a journalist again. Explain your terse, cryptic remarks.