tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post5162374033427734237..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Come Out With Your Hands Up!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-28815308825710648442012-12-22T17:24:24.213-05:002012-12-22T17:24:24.213-05:00Ed, I agree completely, and I hope it came across ...Ed, I agree completely, and I hope it came across that I was being facetious.<br /><br />If you've not listened to Thomas Bowden on Hugo Chavez (ARC-TV: 8 minutes), you might appreciate it.<br /><br />http://arc-tv.com/hugo-chavez/<br /><br />John Shepardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424458889560274756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-16568413483967403332012-12-22T04:40:14.693-05:002012-12-22T04:40:14.693-05:00John: "Performance" is the operative wor...John: "Performance" is the operative word for Obama. There's a difference (at least for a politician) between delivering a speech and performance. Obama's speech-making from day one has been all performance. Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-9010899803072890352012-12-21T21:41:36.122-05:002012-12-21T21:41:36.122-05:00Regarding the forced empathy, did anyone notice th...Regarding the forced empathy, did anyone notice that when Obama took those inspired moments to dampen the tears from his eyes, he touched the outside of his eyes, not the inside where the tear ducts are? Other than that, it was a rather good performance I think.John Shepardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424458889560274756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-15333047567911776742012-12-19T10:52:53.227-05:002012-12-19T10:52:53.227-05:00The various news media are going whole hog over th...The various news media are going whole hog over this latest isolated incident, attempting once again to convince a skeptical America that "assault" weapons are "unnecessary" and that nonviolent, emotionally healthy, law abiding citizens must be punished for the actions of a few psychopaths.<br /><br />Despite the horror of the actual crime (yes, it was a crime, not a "tragedy"), I almost laughed aloud when I saw the forced empathy oozing from the faces of America's Most Trusted Newsreaders. "We must," they all chimed in unison, as if reading from the same script, "<i>do something</i>." "<i>This</i> time," they're wishing, "perhaps Americans have <i>had enough</i>." Sorry, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and all your lesser clones and sycophants, we're not buying it.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188622297744653212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-33279170479402677532012-12-17T23:07:26.927-05:002012-12-17T23:07:26.927-05:00This is powerful, high-caliber commentary. Your su...This is powerful, high-caliber commentary. Your succinct analysis of the Second Amendment is especially acute.... LeChevalier's essay, being entirely bereft of hyperbole, is chilling. (And Reisman's work on the matter of gun control is also well worth reading. I read it long ago--and it was the second thing I thought of, upon hearing of the Sandy Hook atrocity; the first thing involved an imagined weapon [though not a gun] and killer Lanza in front of me.)jayeldeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08300130228450096823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-61624938119980444592012-12-17T18:39:46.569-05:002012-12-17T18:39:46.569-05:00Those who have succeed as far as they have in disa...Those who have succeed as far as they have in disarming people, leading them as sheep to a slaughter, dare not face the truth. They would have to acknowledge their own culpability in the deaths of those who have been legally disarmed. So they double down hoping to ensure that reality will bend to their wishes.<br /><br />Thank you Ed, for the excellent article, as always!<br /><br />If you've not read George Reisman's "Gun Control: Controlling the Government's Guns," I think that you will appreciate it:<br /><br />http://georgereismansblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/gun-control-controlling-governments-guns.htmlJohn Shepardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424458889560274756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-48303899359649985092012-12-17T15:10:02.463-05:002012-12-17T15:10:02.463-05:00This is why refusing to think is the first and onl...This is why refusing to think is the first and only real deadly sin. If these people truly wanted to prevent such crimes, they would scrupulously examine the facts to determine which policies actually protect the lives of the innocent and the rights of citizens. But they don't. They want what will make them "feel good". Not only do they do not give a rat's rear that our Second Amendment-proteceted right to self-defense is violated, they really don't care that those on the front line of their kids' safety have been disarmed by the anti-gun legislation they have already signed off on. Dawn Hochsprung makes a beautiful martyr for gun control to them. Ask her husband and five daughters who they would rather have seen shot down in that hallway -- her or Adam Lanza? <br /><br />This morning some parents in Boston were interviewed as the sent their children off to school. Every one of these mothers identified the Newtown shooting as an anomaly and approved the arming of school personnel to protect their children's lives. There are people with common sense out there. But they are not likely to be heard in the regime of Barack Hussein Obama.<br />revereridesagainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443013401059011056noreply@blogger.com