Context, context, dear keith. Your post:
"Originally Posted By: ed good
as for the gun control issue...we are the only country in the world that seems to tolerate mass murder, in the name of an individual right...its about time that we as a society realize that we are over gunned with too many super dangerous weapons in the hands of too many super dangerous people... it is long past time to do as the rest of the civilized world has done and simply, disarm..."
The rest of the world has disarmed from a Wild West characterized by United States gun violence. "Disarm" doesn't mean total ban on firearms, mostly a balance for reasonable public safety decided democratically by electorates which Ed correctly referred to. It's near top of media platforms in Canada and the US this weekend, trending seemingly toward gun reform.
King, it is well known by now that you have little or no respect for our 2nd Amendment, or the truth. It took a very tortured interpretation of Ed's words to come up with your usual bullshit. Unfortunately, this comment by Ed wasn't made in a vacuum. This comment is but one in Ed's long history of anti-gun rhetoric.
I provided more of it expressly for you, and even posted a link to many more of Ed's past statements. I reminded you of Ed's desire for flat out bans on entire classes of legal firearms owned by law abiding citizens. And your response here is precisely why I saved it... and why I also saved dozens of similar statements made by you... and why I think your words should be posted as a permanent Memorial Tribute to you and your legacy here.
You have lied here for years about the so-called "Wild West" level of gun violence, always blaming the inanimate object and always making excuses for those who commit the most violent crimes. You also stated that there is no civilized nation where it is more prevalent. I responded with the example of Russia, a Socialist experiment gone horribly wrong. You read this numerous times, and ignored the truth:
The U.S. has over 300 million guns and a 2012 murder rate of 4.7 per 100,000. Russia has only 13 million guns, and a 2012 murder rate of 9.2 per 100,000. So we have 23 times as many guns... and a murder rate about half as high as Russia. It would seem that the problem is cultural rather than due to the availability of guns.
Imagine how much lower our murder rate would be if we cracked down on certain extremely violent and criminal subsets of our society, instead of making excuses for them as King Brown does by referring to Gang Bangers as children.
Anti-Gun Trolls like King and Ed Good would much rather see restrictions on the rights of law abiding gun owners.
Liberal Left people like you and rocky mtn bill aren't interested in what is decided by "electorates". The electorate here decided to make the pro-2nd Amendment Donald Trump our leader, along with a Republican controlled Senate. And it is driving you all nuts because he is not sharing your vision for gun restrictions and flat out bans on the types of firearms you all don't like. He is nominating Supreme Court Justices that interpret the Constitution based upon the Original Intent of the Framers... not on your fictional views and anti-gun desires.
9 days ago, May 4th, 1970 was the anniversary of a school shooting. It kind of also shoots holes in the idea that we would all be safer if only the police and military had so-called assault style firearms. It was that little insignificant incident where a bunch of kids were shot for exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech, assembly, and protest.
But being the "Father of Fake News" reporter who can carefully pick out certain words and actions, and re-define them to suit his Liberal Left agenda, we all know what happened at Kent State University means nothing, and is but an annoying blip that gets in the way of your own anti-gun beliefs. If that had been the National Guard shooting a bunch of black civil rights protesters, we'd never hear the end of it from you.
But you have told us that your anti-gun rhetoric, and anti-2nd Amendment and anti-NRA views are something you are proud of. That is why I feel it must be your lasting legacy here... long after you are gone. People need to know that embracing anti-gunners like you, who support those who infringe upon our Constitutional Rights, are stabbing gun owners in the back. Why do you think the repeating truth about you, along with your own words, drives certain people like Gladys Kravitz nuts?
