DanG

I completely agree with you. I just don't for one minute think that the 2nd Amendment is the only thing keeping this country together. I can't stand the faux-intellectual one liners people use in the place of rational arguments like yours. - Dan G

What does that even mean? - Dan G

Of course YOUR KIND would think so. - Dan G

Really? So every time someone has an encounter with the government that works out relatively okay, they must have had a gun in their hand? Ridiculous. The rule of law only works if most everyone agrees to it. If the only thing keeping the government in check is the .45 in your nightstand, then we don't have a state of law, we have a state of nature. Also known as anarchy. - Dan G

It's why they wrote the whole fucking thing. - Dan G

Actually it's why they wrote the 4th Amendment. There are other parts to the Constitution than the one sentance about guns, you know. - Dan G

Fixed it for you. - Dan G

I can't find Islam on the map. Can you help me? If he was a soldier of the KKK should he still be considered an enemy combatant? What about a soldier of the IRA? What about someone who bombs abortion clinics, or a PETA radical who bombs an animal testing facility? That would make everything so much simpler, since we are at war with "terror". So if anyone incites terror, we can treat them like an enemy combatant and deny them the rights that all people have under the Constitution. Be careful what you wish for, because before you know it people will be called terrorists for all sorts of things just so the government doesn't have to deal with those pesky courts. Apparently it does, since the only thing that makes him different from McVeigh is that he is a "soldier of Islam". - Dan G

Do you know something the rest of us don't? Do you have evidence that the brothers were acting on behalf of a foreign government/entity? Do you realize that the brother in custody is a US citizen, just like McVeigh? Or do you think he should lose his rights because he's not a Christian? - Dan G

Well, apparently those nasty Democrats you named are ensuring his rights. Does that make you mad? Do you want the Tea Party to somehow get credit? I don't know why you had to bring up the Tea Party if you weren't trying to make it partisan. All of the people calling for torture, redition, and loss of the suspect's rights that I've heard have been Republicans. Just saying. - Dan G

Quite a leap, Col. von Assumptions. I was just pointing out that the it's the Republican that are, largely, on the wrong side of this one. The Democrats have their own hypocrisies. They're especially lax on unicorm regulation and rainbow registration. - Dan G

It's not coming from the Tea Party because there is no such party. It is, however, coming from the Republican Party. - Dan G

It's like a Rorschach test. I see titty. Besides, Virginia don't abide no homos. - Dan G

Are guns arms? - Dan G

Hells yeah. Out flag has titties on it, too. - Dan G

Picking nits, "Sic semper tyranus" means "Thus always to tyrants", not death to tyrants. - Dan G

You too. My point was that requiring a background check for a pressure cooker because it could be modified to be one part of a weapon is not the same as requiring a background check for ... a weapon. - Dan G

Come on. You say you're a former LRS soldier, so I'd bet that in firing most of those rounds you were practicing killing people. Guns are weapons. If you take the position that guns are not weapons, then you can't complain when they ban guns, since the 2nd amendment is about protecting the right to own weapons. You can't have it both ways. I'm against banning or heavily restricting guns, but I see no problem with background checks. If Walmart sold ready-made bombs (instead of pressure cookers that need major modifications to be used in bombs), I doubt most people would have a problem with requiring background checks to buy one. - Dan G

Your poll that says 4% of people say that gun control is a very important issue says that people have other things on their mind. It doesn't say anything about how they feel about the issue, only that it is not their top priority. And, BTW, I'm being generous and assuming that the poll was legitimate and your reporting of the results was accurate. For all I know the poll question could have been, "When fleeing for your life from a burning building, do you stop to think about gun control?" Your poll that 51% (or whatever it was) of people disapprove of how Obama is handling gun control could mean any number of thing. You took it to mean that 51% of people don't want gun control, but some of those people (no one knows how many) could actually be disappointed that Obama isn't pushing for even more strict controls. It could also mean that some people disagree with everything Obama does, because that's just what they do. I even heard a right-wing talk show host criticize Obama for going to Boston today because it would pull hard working cops off of the investigation. Some people will come up with an angle to shit on Obama no matter what he does. You're joking, right? - Dan G

Last time I checked you couldn't buy a bomb at Walmart. - Dan G

I'd be willing to bet that about 48% of the population disapproves of how Obama ties his shoes. Your polls do not mean what you think they mean. - Dan G

Typically, perhaps, but not always. See Altanta Olympic bombing. - Dan G

Sure I could see how someone could think that...if they were an extremist asshole freak!!! Seriously, I think there are a lot of positions in the middle. I used my own position as the "middle" but there's certainly wiggle room around it. - Dan G

If the cameraman is the best person to help, and no one else around is capable, sure, he should render assistance. But in the case of the explosions in Boston, there were, in fact, hundreds of other people around. All the cameramen did not need to drop their cameras and render aid. Continuing to film was the best thing they could do. Of course, if they got in the way of other people rendering aid, then that's wrong. - Dan G

Read it how ever you want. A mature person would read it as a plea for civility. Someone else might read it is a nanny-nanny-boo-boo. It's up to you. - Dan G