I'm a gun owner. I have handguns, rifles and shotguns. I hunt, and my son hunts. I believe in the Second Amendment. However, I don't believe in this insane law, and it should obviously be repealed in the very next session.You're also a well-to-do democrat contributor/John Edwards supporter.
Does that make you Fuddingly idiotic?
If he's gun owner, why refer to guns as "killing machines", and why say that dropping the tax for once will enable his fellow citizens to go out and buy guns to kill, rob and destroy SC? He believes in the 2A about as much as I think Longshanks will be a good President. He's upset because the "peasants" might catch a break.
ReplyDeleteHave you noticed that the latest anti-gun mantra has become "I support the second amendment, BUT..."
ReplyDeleteNot really the latest--I wrote an article @ 15 years ago titled "Dianne Feinstein has a Big BUT"
ReplyDeletewhat's wrong with a killing machine? does the work for ya.
ReplyDeleteprevious to the projectile and its mechanized platform, you'd have to fight for perhaps several minutes, exhausting yourself, to survive an attack. it would be difficult for that defensive engagement to remain lawful, by today's standards, which means they've also allowed the law to progress, to better trip-up the unlawful.
heck, even a sword counts as a machine. it's a lever.
As a resident of SC, I wish that I would have had enough cash on hand to take advantage of the tax free holiday, but I have to agree with Mr. Barrow on one point: this is a stupid thing to spend the legislature's time on during an economic recession and in the midst of various other problems that SC has. However, he is way off in his assessment of the effect of the tax holiday as being an opportunity for "certain segments" (I suppose this is his term for the little people that don't shoot clay pigeons with multi-thousand dollar Beretta shotguns like Biden and himself) to go out and "kill people, and rob stores, banks and individuals." I guess if that is the only use for these "killing machines" then we should go ahead and haul him and his son off to jail for confessing to the aforementioned crimes that are the only possible outcomes of owning such items. Mr. Barrow, you use reason and numbers to argue against the license plates and school bus GPS. Why not the tax holiday for guns? If you really are a proponent of the Second Amendment as you claim then do not reinforce the anti-gun establishment's tactic of using emotion rather than logic to push through legislation.
ReplyDeleteNow David, you don't want to use the word "Fudd," it might offend some of your readers... yeah, right.
ReplyDeleteI'm beginning to think the Fudds and prags are a bigger threat to our rights than the Only Ones.
Joel about covered what I was going to say.
ReplyDeleteI bet this alleged Fudd hasn't purchased a hunting license for decades - if ever.
That's just the typical qualifying phraseology of the neo-gun haters.
Kind of like saying "I have (insert race) friends, but we've just got to do something about these (blanks) causing all this crime.
Why David, you sneak.
ReplyDeleteDoing background research on Barrow like 'Joe the Plumber' in Ohio.
Hah, keep up the good work.
I thought I had witnessed the dumbest arguments possible against the right of self defense: we have the goofy conspiracy theory, that an amendment which outwardly prohibits government intrusion actually contains a secret message that empowers it to disarm us; the dopey logic that a militia is better when its members are disarmed and untrained; and the laughable hypothesis that defenseless people are safer when they encounter armed, violent criminals.
ReplyDeleteThanks to Joe Huffman, I have found the Grail of Disarmer Stupidity. Have you ever teased your dog by saying "good dog" in your most threatening command voice, just to see his reaction? This new disarmer tactic is an attempt to do that... to people. It's funny when read on paper, but it's downright hilarious to see it practiced in public. This is a special occasion that deserves a dedication. In honor our of executive branch, which issued conflicting briefs in the DC vs Heller case, and therefore also employs the same tactics outlined in Huffman's links; I dub this practice Contradictoring. (See? It's a Bushism.)
Contradiction and an allegedly "obvious", yet unsupported conclusion? Good grief, if this is what it takes to "own the Second Amendment", I'll join in!
We have a crisis of gunviolence in our streets. Guns are instruments of destruction, designed only for the purpose of killing. However, I think that our citizens have a birthright to buy, trade, borrow and carry any firearm they choose, without a hint of interference by the state.
Also:
Adam,
The amount of liberty we enjoy is correlated to the amount of time legislatures waste arguing over bills that ultimately won't pass. That is why it is incumbent upon every American to request law with titles such as the National Universal Kids' Dental Care and Endangered Whale Nuclear Assault Act.
Claiming to some form of six degree connection to firearms ownership before making the usual victim-disarmament screed is standard gun-grabber internet tactics.
ReplyDeleteAccuse them of outright lying when you see it, and if they claim truth, ask them to post a photo of their rifle next to today's local paper.
Possession of a firearm is about as reliable an indicator of liberty advocacy as it is a predictor of criminal intent.
ReplyDeleteTJP,
ReplyDeleteI've never thought of that way, but now that you mention it the more time they spend arguing and monologuing the better. Think I can get my senator to sponsor that bill, the NUKDCEWNAA 2008?