tc399's Comments (390)

“OK, let's look at it rationally. The suspect had an AK-47 clone. Only ONE person suffered any injuries: Him.

Remember the infamous LAPD shootout? Two people were killed. The two bad guys.”

“Why are you still there?”

“Aloha Lola.

I am not a conspiracy theorist. Complex conspiracies typically require a number of people, working in concert, usually for their own reasons, to accomplish. Stories like the 600 Fully staffed FEMA concentration camps dotting the US, or alien technology at Area 51, or the replacement of all the gold stored at Fort Knox having been replaced with tungsten, or that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and flew to Hawaii are not credible.

But the JFK assassination in a different story. His motorcade route was published. I was a little younger then, but I was very competent with firearms as was EVERY SINGLE member of my peer group.

I was shocked and appalled the next day, but when the film was run on the news there was absolutely no question among anyone who saw it, then or now. The bullet that killed JFK came from the front. A huge conspiracy was simply not required. I am sure Oswald got a round or two off, but he was firing downhill at a receding target. One of the most difficult shots in the world.

The Warren Commission demonstrated that the government was no longer trustworthy. So polls are now couched in terms of 'approval ratings' which merely indicate, usually incorrectly, how badly a given segment of the population believes the subject of the poll is screwing up the public trust on any given day.”

“I am from Texas, but sometimes those people just cannot help but doing something stupid as hell. The ridiculous part is that the intent of the law is unconstitutional on it's face.

If you can't count on Texas to get it right what chance do the 49 lesser states have? :-O

BTW, the Bush family isn't from Texas. Don't blame them on us.”

“I am. I think everyone should serve in the military and take their firearm home with them upon an honorable discharge. Like Switzerland. Crime in Switzerland? Almost none.”

“TERRORISTS don't use F-18s. TERRORISTS use what they can get. Josh was blaming a firearm for the action of a terrorist and he made a big deal about it being a MILITARY firearm...which it was not..

I am trying to explain that logic goes nowhere. If he hadn't had a firearm, he could have used a bus or a can of gasoline or a civilian aircraft. The fact that the military flies Boeing aircraft has nothing to do with anything.

In point of fact, an F-18 has a limited ordinance load and would have caused NOTHING like the damage caused by the fuel in those commercial aircraft.

I won't be insulting, but there is some logic involved here that some of you are missing.”

“Josh, try this one on for size. BOEING aircraft, designed EXCLUSIVELY for the civilian market, were used in the terror attacks of 9/11.

I don't really mean to say that you are a propagandist, but see if you can explain that one in terms of military firearms or ANY firearms.

Propaganda is great as long as no one bothers to think about your statements. If they do, you fail on the merits of your case.

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The thing is that F”

“My Garand isn't an 'assault' weapon. It isn't automatic. It doesn't hold thirty rounds. It doesn't have a scope. Come into my home and try to take it from me. I am getting good and tired of gun grabbers.”

“An SKS ? I dunno. I only keep automatic weapons because the government says I can't. They are completely impractical.”

“Ya know, I have access to the restricted versions.....but I don't shoot down unarmed people...or anyone else for that matter. What's the point, Josh? That nutloafs do nutty things?”

“Well, yes. But Scotty is dead and his remains crashed in the jungle. He never got on-orbit. If only he had a 5.7!”

“I carry a Benchmade switcher in my flight suit. If I dump in the water and need to cut parachute lines I want to be able to deploy the knife with one hand.

I can't recall the last time I was involved in a choreographed musical gangfight with a swithblade...oh, wait! Yes I can: NEVER. That is, coincidentally, the very same number of times I have been involved in an illegal shooting incident.”

“I have been carrying a concealed firearm legally for over forty years and I have drawn it a couple of times to stop violent crimes. There are probably between 2.1 and 2.5 MILLION Defensive gun uses in the US annually.*

Every time some loony takes advantage of some 'No-gun-zone' to kill a bunch of people who aren't allowed to have guns the anti-gunners cite it as an example of the danger of firearms. They don't have much to say when someone pulls out a firearm and puts a stop to it and they NEVER blame the criminal. Somehow the firearm is always responsible. It occurs to me that no ancient wars could possibly have happened because there were no firearms.

Switzerland must have the highest drime rate in the world because when the Swiss get out of the military they take their automatic weapons home with them for life. Our Constitution SPECIFICALLY allows every person to keep and bear arms. Period. The Constitution doesn't change from administration to administration. EVERY elected official takes only one oath. To protect and defend the Constitution, to the best of his or her ability, from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

You lawmakers protect the Constitution. We The People will take care of the rest.

* (Kleck/Gertz -Armed resistance to crime: The prevalence and nature of self-defense with a gun. 1995 Journal of Criminal law and Criminology)”

“Between 600 and 900 people A DAY die in hospitals from simple, preventable medical mistakes or infections they acquired in the hospital. Too many good people have died for us to allow this to continue. Highway deaths? ~58,00 a year.

The PRIMARY weapon used in ALL homicides now and throughout history are edged weapons...typically kitchen knives in the US.

But firearms are the root of all evil? I recall right after the musical "West side Story" came out in the 50s there was a hue and cry that switchblade knives, the worst POSSIBLE object to use as a weapon because the blade is supported on a weak pivot pin were going to cause the ruination of our youth and gang wars in the streets. It caused the US Congress to outlaw them but except for the movie, they were never any threat.

I slammed my fingers in a car door once. It was a Japanese car. I can make a good case for outlawing them.”

“Paranoia reigns. The 5.7 round is a .22 on steroids. The shooter could have done EXACTLY the same thing with a .22. The reason NO police department adopted the arm and that almost NO civilians have bothered buying it and that the military doesn't use it is that it is almost the worst choice possible for anything except shooting at unarmed, defenseless people.....in which case ANY firearm is equally effective.

That's why there were 30 wounded and 12 dead instead of the reverse. If he had chosen a .45 automatic or 9mm, the most common handgun calibers in the US and probably the world, they were also designed to be military cartridges.

It's very difficult to rationalize how an inanimate object could be responsible for the actions of a madman. He could as easily have stolen a bus and driven it into a school cafeteria, even though the bus....and the cafeteria were originally designed for the military.”

“Paranoia reigns. The 5.7 round is a .22 on steroids. The shooter could have done EXACTLY the same thing with a .22. The reason NO police department adopted the arm and that almost NO civilians have bothered buying it and that the military doesn't use it is that it is almost the worst choice possible for anything except shooting at unarmed, defenseless people.....in which case ANY firearm is equally effective.

That's why there were 30 wounded and 12 dead instead of the reverse. If he had chosen a .45 automatic or 9mm, the most common handgun calibers in the US and probably the world, they were also designed to be military cartridges.

It's very difficult to rationalize how an inanimate object could be responsible for the actions of a madman. He could as easily have stolen a bus and driven it into a school cafeteria, even though the bus....and the cafeteria were originally designed for the military. Then what would your argument have been?”

“Aloha Steve.

Well and good, but dropping the action before there is any case law on the books, Constitution notwithstanding, means the TSA can simply reverse course next week and continue to act like Nazis.

We are losing our rights and the Obama administration does not seem overly inclined to fight for them. Thank you for your efforts...I hope everyone is willing to miss a flight to keep what few we have left.”

“Oops. The Mayans.”

“Let's see......we have all of this amazing alien technology but our space shuttles keep blowing up.

Aliens built the pyramids and thousands of Egyptians were there, living on-site and didn't think to mention it. Maybe their memories were all erased....but they kept diaries and documents and there don't seem to be any major gaps in the construction history of the pyramids. We know they built them and we know how. No supernatural forces need to be invoked.

Distant objects seem to dance and move. I have seen them. Everyone probably has. They are external to the atmosphere. "Atmospherics" make them jump and move, but they never fly away. Professional telescopes correct for that anomaly.
The UFOs at groom Lake. Do they exist? Certainly. The Blackbird (The most beautiful spacecraft ever) was designed almost 60 years ago. It was retired because it was replaced. Probably by several things by now, each more advanced than the last. That is exactly what one would expect.

The world will not end in 2012 because the Incas stopped their calendar. Rabbits do not chew a cud, God told Adam that the day he ate from the tree of knowledge he would die. The serpent told Eve it wouldn't happen. It didn't happen. Martyrs won't get 72 virgins in Heaven. They are told that nonsense to get them to BE martyrs. President Obama isn't a Muslim. The recession is not over.

Did I miss anything?”

“I changed my mind. I'd kiss this fellow. http://galleries.smcrevenue.com/kimber/1/?nats=MzUzOjQ6MTQ,0,0,0,862”

“If that's your picture I'd kiss you and let the money go.”

“This guy can't POSSIBLY be racist. He treats blacks just like everyone else. !!!!

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."”

“"Some" scientists have hope. I do not. We do not have the global will to fix the problem; if we did it is ten years too late. An extinction even will fix it and we cannot stave one off much longer.”

“I'd say that the President can outlaw the private possession of gold AGAIN with a pen stroke and that the law of the land says that US gold currency is 'worth' it's face value in trade. If, however you assume a black market, then gold will probably be worth it's weight in food.”

“Amy is right. Think of how many moon-whales might be killed by this impact. Let us forget for a moment that the entire surface of the moon is covered by impact craters.”