That’s what all this prefab outrage about OFF is supposed to be, but when America takes a step — any step — toward reasonable safeguards on the right to bear arms, all the crocodile tears dry up and we see them for what they are: brutish chest beaters who swell up in rage not to limit, but to defend, even demand gun violence.

Meanwhile gun manufacturers leech off the fear subsidy, sucking the marrow of America. They exist to profiteer off human tragedy.

It’s that kind of sentiment that makes people think taking your guns away might be a good idea. How can we trust you not to decide one day to start shooting us “animals”?

“We will continue to have group hunts with our children.”

Because as Newtown showed, children are easy prey.

Federal government “infringing” on your constitutional right to bear arms IS tyrranny.

“The radical racist right” is a term many conservatives deem politically ignorant and part of the lexicon of the radical left whom the right also deem as intolerant to any view but their own. No diversity here.

Calling gun owners names is ignorant. I’m reading your arguments and you seem to take great pride in your intellect but many of you still revert to bashing and smearing. I grew up in farm country/mountainside. I grew up around guns and people who respected them.

It’s easy to make fun of those with high blood pressure and low tolerance to your intolerance. The people I grew up around would fix your tire on a rainy night just because. They would buy you a beer even though you were a complete stranger. They would welcome you at the firing range or at the make shift one in the woods. They would even let you shoot their weapon, with a cautious eye. Nice, wholesome, salt of the earth people. Not the monsters you folks describe.

I’m beginning to realize that I’ve got a good thing and my old stomping grounds are a good thing. Sooo. You animals keep screaming at each other. We will continue to have group hunts with our children. We will practice and teach gun safety, sharpshooting skills. We will not pretend that the second ammendment is for hunting rights. We will practice and teach how to appreciate the land and not abuse it. And we’ll just keep it a secret because obviously you folks can’t handle it.

Take care.

As I wrote yesterday to someone else, nice try, skippy.

The president is immature and naive to think that these measures will have an impact on the type of violence we’ve been seeing at our schools. The majority of people agree with the measures the president took on gun control, but a relative amount of people agree that these measures will not affect these types of attacks.

Although I am a strict proponent of second amendment rights, I am among those who support universal background checks and bans on certain assault weapons and large capacity clips.

We need to look at the real problem, the people behind these attacks. What can be done? I’m no psychologist but I do know that we need to re focus our attention. The president’s kids have armed protection, as they should. But what about our kids, are they less important? We post sign at schools saying “Gun Free Zone”, an open invitation for these types of psychos. Would you post a sign in front of your house saying “No guns here”?

I realize there are no perfect answers, but exploiting our kids and issuing executive orders for political gain is definitely not the answer.

With that said, for this president to say anything about curbing gun running is the height of hypocrisy, or have we forgotten the fast and furious gun deal he and Eric Holder perpetrated on the American citizens. So just stop with that already!

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I left PoliticusUSA because of the hate-filled language and insults directed at gun owners, and I may end up no longer supporting or being involved in this blog too, if the SPLC throws away its support of freedoms and joins the “disarm them!” chorus.

The arguments against more laws are many and well supported by evidence. The language used (“Assault weapon, Weapons of War, etc.) demonstrates that most of the move to limit the freedom of other citizens is motivated by emotion and not reality or common sense (or logical thinking).

Ask yourself this – would you want to be left defenseless when surrounded by people like Terry Jones and who have made comments since President Obama was re-elected about “Second Amendment treatment for liberals”? That’s what the laws being pushed would do to people like me. (Don’t make me laugh by suggesting that the pigs will protect us… they’re far more likely to be the problem than part of the solution!)

Oh… and there are precedents that show what gun control is really about – America used to have laws against selling firearms to my ancestors, and you know the real reason why – so that they couldn’t defend themselves when their homes were destroyed and all of their possessions confiscated (and many cases, put in wagons or railroad cars and carted off to Oklahoma). When you hear things like “The only good Indian is a dead Indian”, well, you know how the people really feel.

In a sense, because I am a gun owner, I feel that way right now.

Together with today’s NRA ad targeting the President’s daughter, I suggest SPLC has grounds to designate the NRA a hate organization.

I’m actually not against guns, my relatives have been soldiers and cops. I just don’t like assault rifles being in the hands of people who will use them on their neighbors with impunity and try to justify it under the Constitution, as long as its convenient for them. They are not protectors, they are not responsible, and their hate-group status should disqualify them from owning a firearm, let alone a freaking assault rifle. I’m tired of watching young people die because some entitled bigot “feels threatened”.

If I have to go to a specific place, to get a specific ID, during certain hours and fill certain forms in order to mark a name on a ballot, they should be able to handle some extra effort to get a freaking weapon. Its not that hard to be responsible and follow the damn law.

He also wrote, “The first duty of every citizen is to obey the law.”

Once again, as I said in an earlier post, and I’ll repeat it, “The right wing never wants to be satisfied; they’re professional whiners. They are never happy.”

They’d rather have a dozen Newtowns than submit to a background check. Probably because many of them would fail.

I do think some assault-style automatic weapons should be illegal to posses, and should be confiscated from those who own them. Universal background checks (ending gun-show loophole), and the accountability the last posted mention are also needed.

And NO, we don’t want to take away anyone’s toys. What we DO want – what I want – are two things:

1. Universal background checks and;

2. Accountability; A system to prevent lawfully purchased weapons from ending up in the hands of prohibited purchasers.