So...the best way to prevent my culture from being destroyed is by suborning certain aspects of that culture to the irrational desires and phobias of those who wish to destroy it? Shall I ask Mrs. Parks to dye her skin white next? Or Mr. Cooper to marry a woman and father children on her? After all; racists and homophobes might be made uncomfortable by Mrs. Parks' blackness or Mr. Cooper's gayitude.
To paraphrase Mr. Churchill: he who appeases a Tiger does so in the vain hope that the Tiger will eat him -last-.
I am a frequent practitioner of open carry. Which Amendment would you like to quiz me on? Where did I leave my beer-gut, 'cause it a'int on mah belleh...oh yeah, I don't have a beer-gut, I hold two University degrees, am drunkenly multilingual and have lived for extended periods in places where nobody speaks English.
This "article" is nothing but a call to surrender, penned by a hopeless Fudd who appears to have had his brain replaced by a Brady Bunch "keeper." If we lose our gun rights, or any other Civil Right, in this country it will be because of gutless, compromise-happy pissants like Mr. Heartbreaker here who sold them all off a piece at a time in the name of not making anti-Rights jerkoffs like Mark Potok "uncomfortable."
Oh, and Strange:
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This right results in a number of deaths each year that would not occur if the right does not exist.
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Horseshit. If this was the case, Mexico, Russia, Brazil and South Africa would be a great deal safer than they are. Likewise Chicago, Washington DC, and London. Back in the Real World, the UK is the most violent country in the developed world (per the UN) with the fastest-rising rate of violent crime in the developed world (per the UN) and a person in Scotland is 4x more likely than an American to be robbed by violence, assaulted, or raped (per the UN). South Africa and Mexico, with some of the strictest victim-disarmament laws in existence, are two of the most violent countries on Earth. And as for Russia...whoo boy.
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As a democracy, America must decide
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America is -not- a Democracy. America is a Constitutional Republic, and is defined as such in our Constitution which is the supreme Law Of The Land. Learn the difference.
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finds it acceptable that it is a usual situation for a parking ticket to be issued at gun point.
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Do a little reading and research sometime, when you can spare a minute, and you'll find that the "freedom uber alles" crowd (myself among them) are the ones decrying and condemning such behavior. Your fellow leftists (with a healthy splattering of Arpaio-ite right-collectivists thrown in) are the ones defending such strongarm Police tactics. Your fellow leftists are also the ones consistently lobbying for early releases, shortened sentences for violent crimes, and the disarmament of the people these criminals prey on: so if cops are scared of traffic stops guess what? It's because y'all lobbied to let Biilly The Crip out of jail early so he could get back to his usual occupations of theft, rape, and murder while simultaneously lessening the likelihood that Billy's next victim would be able to solve the problem permanently. So don't blame the gun-rights crowd for that, Strange: your fellow Lefties are the one who ensured this dismal outcome.