Long before I tasted the temptations of sex, I yielded to an irresistible prurience by opening that drawer. Initiation into obscenity. Because primal disobedience is so defining, I found a sense of independent selfhood in relationship to a gun. Only later would I realize how very American that makes me.No James. It makes you a fetishist. It makes you a pervert.
Do us all a favor--keep it to yourself--we really don't want to know.
I thought keeping government out of peoples' sex lives was a priority. Would you please return the courtesy and keep your infantile sexual deviancy out of my government?
And funny how James rationalizes this one:
Americans should have more shame, not less. A gun is no iPod. Shame is the children's last protection.What the hell would a "man" who publicly wrote what you just did know about shame? And stay the hell away from my children.
Good grief, where do the antis come up with these misfit losers?
It is EXACTLY that "Only One" forbidden-fruit philosophy of his father's that gets kids killed in their own homes accidentally and on the street intentionally. When having a gun "makes you a man," instead of a person with a tool, everyone, including you, better look the hell out.
ReplyDeleteMassad Ayoob has had a book out for years (more like a pamphlet) called "Gunproofing Your Children" that works wonders.
ReplyDeleteBy de-mystifiying guns, and teaching children to use them safely, the "primal disobedience" factor is gone.
My daughter at age 10 used to brag to her friends that she owned her own handgun, a S&W .22 Kit gun. I made a few good friends by meeting concerned parents and teaching both parents and kids to shoot.
As comments are not allowed at the article, my thoughts are this:
ReplyDelete"In despair over unchecked gun-carnage in Chicago schools, Mayor Richard Daley asked, "Why is America turning its back on its children when it comes to gun violence?""
Stop right there.
The preceding quote from the article illustrates the mental disconnect of the Hopolophobe.
"..unchecked gun-carnage in Chicago schools.."
Fact handguns are banned in Chicago.
Fact it is illegal for minors to posses hanguns (that are illegal)in Chicago.
Fact it is illegal to posses a handgun on school grounds (including children that are prohibited from possessing handguns, that are illegal in Chicago).
And finally, Fact it is illegal to kill, rob, threaten, or injure someone with a handgun (in Chicago where handguns are banned, in schools where they are banned, by minors that are banned from possessing handguns).
In other words the quote "unchecked gun-carnage in Chicago schools" refers to something illegal already at least four different ways and yet is used to support the notion that there are not enough gun laws.
Continuing to try an approach that has proven to be a failure is the definition of insanity.
"I tasted the temptations of sex..." ???
ReplyDeleteNo, the accurate quote is "Long before I tasted the temptations of sex...".
A little misleading, eh, DC? Come on now, you're better than that. You don't need to pull words out of context and change their meaning to make your points.
Not intentional, tkdk--simply a misreading as opposed to a misleading. The word "I" starts in the left of the column and I took it as the beginning of the sentence in my quick read.
ReplyDeleteI've added the original words back in but don't think it changes the meaning one bit--the guy is equating interest in guns with sexual prurience and obscenity, and bearing of arms with shame.
He's either projecting or lying in order to keep his fellow citizens defenseless--take your pick which one is more perverted.