"[T]hese are just guys who sit in front of their computers at 3 a.m. in their underwear"...So you can call us names but we can't reciprocate?
Meanwhile, do you really want these people on these websites (and 40 million other people in the country) to have guns?...
I can cite statistics, and I can tell you why the right to carry a 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun with a 10-shot clip is not guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment. But the paranoia and bone-chilling hatred that spew from such sites as packing.org and freerepublic.com make for an equally — and unusually — effective argument for a ban on handguns.
Here's the difference, Jenny Price. These people will leave you alone if you do the same to them. But you insist on using the force of the state to bend them to your will--and having them destroyed if they don't comply.
Why not go poke a hornet's nest with a stick, and then whine in shocked indignation at the reaction--as if you provoked and deserved nothing in return?
"I can cite statistics, and I can tell you why the right to carry a [9mm semiauto] handgun with a 10-shot clip is not guaranteed by the [2A]."
ReplyDeleteUh huh. And as Mark Twain said, "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics".
She said "I'd spent a week in the company of people with closed minds ...".
ReplyDeleteNope. Most of her life has been spent in that company.
Noticed that the anti's are rampimg up on their ill-conceived rhetoric. They reek of fear and paranoia. As well as sounding more than just a little anxious. This is a good thing. As it shows that they are seeing the writing on the wall and are getting desperate. Desperation will cause them to look even more infantile than they appear.
ReplyDeleteNow is the time to start hammering them with the truth. They are meaningless, in and of themselves. It's their audience we must convince. We need to discover a means of getting the truth out in a more widespread fashion. And convincing more people of the actual dangers involved with gun control.
But like David's killer, thousands of law-abiding citizens annually become criminals when they pick up a firearm and shoot other people.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty bold statement. I'd like to the see the "statistics" behind that one. But since her bro's future mother-in-law was a first-time "murderer", there must be thousands like her.
Actually, I do sometimes sit at the computer at 3AM, but I wear a robe. I'm up doing that at 3AM because I was vomiting blood or magma, courtesy of dioxin, courtesy of Dow Chemical Co., courtesy of Admiral Zumwalt, courtesy of the U.S. Navy. Jenny, dear skirt, I was out protecting your worthless usefull idiot hide, instead of making a pile of dough. Sugarbritches, you wouldn't know an amendment to the Constitution if it bit you. Sorry your family members got shot. So did some of mine. At Little Round Top, Phillipines, Belleau Wood, Chateau Thierry, New Guinea, Bastogne, Korea, Viet-Nam etc. You know, that line of duty thing. Oh, and me to. Ain't so bad, if you take things in your stride. Why don't you go bake some cookies, or catch up on that sewing? Leave the gun play to the men and women who know the score, kapich?
ReplyDeleteJenny is one of the stupidist people I have ever come across. I am so tired of her and people like her demonizing me for absolutely nothing, other than wanting to protect myself and my family. Now she is getting a taste of her own medicine and is so upset she is whining like the immature fool she is. She is so wrong on everything she says it is hard to list it all in a short comment. I am also disgusted that people like her do not publish their e-mail addresses. It tells you alot about an author if their e-mail is listed at the bottom of their article.
ReplyDeleteHere you go Bill -
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Make sure to place RE: Jenny Price in the subject line.
Already invited her to submit her 'proof', then I'll respond with reality....
Interesting that she mentioned packing.org by name. I stopped going there because it became to supportive of authoritarian gun laws and yes I realize its focus was licensed concealed carry, but I agree with David's position on this as well.
ReplyDelete"Internet doesn't create community. People create community — and how the Internet is used depends on the people who use it."
ReplyDelete...however somehow violence is caused by the mere existince guns, not by the violent nature in the hearts of bad people... I hope the irony of this isn't lost on Jenny
"I'd spent a week in the company of people with closed minds and cold hearts. And what saddens me most is that vengeful intolerance is all too common and leads people every day to reach for a handgun to kill people. When the National Rifle Assn. commits itself to spreading peacefulness and tolerance among its members, I'd be all for it."
I wonder if Jenny actually spent time with gun owners, went to a range, or took a lesson. I am guessing she did not. If she did she would have found that gun people are amoung the nicest, most polite and helpful groups out there. But, with any group there are exceptions. One could easily visit a few websites and focus on the negative and come to the same conclusion for any group.
Jenny if you read this I encourage you to take a lesson from a certified instructor in your area, meet some gun owners instead of sitting at your computer in your underwear at 3AM, and writing a hateful article based off of internet "research".