tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post298780894670935643..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: The 'logic' of gun controlRobert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-59743204949926341782009-04-08T14:51:00.000-04:002009-04-08T14:51:00.000-04:00As a "liberal" please allow me to moderate the sen...As a "liberal" please allow me to moderate the sense that there is some monolithic anti-gun movement decrying "our gun culture." I live in a big city, don't hunt, and have never owned a gun. Still, that's not the same thing as believing we even have a "gun culture," and it's not the same thing as wanting to confiscate guns. I like the idea of improving background checks to make sure proven lunatics like that guy at Virginia Tech can't buy guns -- but that's about it, and I'm not unusual. But I also am startled by what strikes me as the serious paranoia of much of the commentary of the Right, vis-a-vis Michelle Bachmann's fantasy that Obama aims to do away with the dollar, or Noel Sheppard's charge that media reports which note Polawski was a Glenn Beck fan somehow constitute a conspiracy to remove Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity from the airwaves. To see such a conspiracy or goal in the noting of such a fact is, at best, misplaced creativity. There is, worse, a sort of sputtering anger and fear in it that I don't really understand. And I think that anger and fear is what a lot of moderates increasingly associate with the Right. To sum up: My side doesn't want your guns, and your side is not well served by many of its spokespeople.hotspurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-88188212680238160302009-04-07T09:26:00.000-04:002009-04-07T09:26:00.000-04:00If you're interested taking your populace further ...If you're interested taking your populace further down <I>The Road to Serfdom</I> the Cenk's junk makes perfect sense.<BR/>It only becomes nonsense when you care about individuality.smitty1ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559464300318848169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-25744918445877639572009-04-06T23:22:00.000-04:002009-04-06T23:22:00.000-04:00AMEN, Brother! I wrote the same thing on my blog. ...AMEN, Brother! I wrote the same thing on my blog. http://rightviewfromtheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2009/04/three-pittsburgh-officers-killed-and.html. Of course the left wants to blame a "gun" culture. No, there are just some people that will kill no matter what. With a gun. A knife. Hell, a baseball bat.Righty64https://www.blogger.com/profile/09732939643534694274noreply@blogger.com