Government and Guns: Irrational “Fear”
Saturday, January 16, 2010Here’s another reason to hate mainstream newspaper journalism and stick to alternative sources on the web, including blogs. The Detroit Free Press ran a hideous article stating that “fear” fueled the drive for gun permits in the state. Michigan had a banner year for CCW applications – double the numbers from the previous year. And the numbers are still rising, by the way. The reporters on the story have nothing better than this:
Advocates said interest in gun ownership has been rising with the state’s economic anxiety and fears — mostly unfounded — that government may try to curtail gun ownership.
Mostly unfounded? I must be smoking crack, then, when I follow the news and decipher the (mostly blunt) plans for disarming Americans through the use of various gun control tactics and taxing guns/ammo to the point where they are unaffordable for the general masses. Obama’s posse of gun control cheerleaders make no bones about the plans for gun owners of America. And yet the fluff from ignorant journalists who know absolutely nothing about the deeper history of the issue continues to roll off the presses of the dying dinosaurs in print media.
cousin lucky says:
January 16th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Whereas the United States Constitution Has been Eliminated; Anyone Possessing Any Kind Of A Firearm Is Heretofore Labeled An ” Enemy Combatant ” And Will Be Treated Accordingly By The Government!! You Betcha!!!
Bob says:
January 17th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
We’ve entered the age of the gulag. Enough said.
Old Rebel says:
January 17th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
ANYTHING the people do that doesn’t square with the government supremacists’ agenda is dismissed as irrational. Arming yourself says you 1) Do not trust the government to protect you and 2) You are taking personal responsibility for yourself.
Both are bad, bad behaviors.
Jeannie Queenie says:
January 18th, 2010 at 12:23 am
Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post Staff Writer, 11/3 2009
“Gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition in the past year, industry officials estimate, up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a normal year”.
Which explains why Port George County D.C’s number of slayings last year in the District, was 140, a 25 percent drop from ’08. This county being previously known as the murder capital of the US now registers the county’s lowest in nine years. New York City had an even sharper drop in homicides. From a peak of 2,245 in 1990 to just over 461 for 2009 – a drop of nearly 80%. Hmm, one cannot help but wonder what caused this terrific drop. Surely couldn’t have anything to do with the sharp increase in U.S. gun sales since Obama took office, now could it? One can only conclude that when the Constitution we see eroded, then folks take to being locked and loaded.
M. Terry says:
February 5th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Jeannie wrote:
Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post Staff Writer, 11/3 2009:
“Gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition in the past year, industry officials estimate, up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a normal year”.
Goodness. If guns were being used solely for bad purposes, with that amount of ammo being purchased and used, there wouldn’t be anyone left alive anywhere.
Someone, somewhere, must be finding other things to use guns for other than murder and mayhem…