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Murder in Dorchester
By adamg on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 11:08pm
Man, 21, found shot on Woodledge Street around 3:22 this morning, pronounced dead at Boston Medical Center.
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Gee..
If only New Hampshire would take away the right to self-defense from its residents, this senseless death could have easily been prevented.
- John Rosenthal
Oh, really?!, Or, I bet you're just being snarky.
Whether or not you're just being snarky by posting the above quotation from John Rosenthal, there's absolutely nothing wonderful, courageous, intelligent, or secure about owning a firearm. It's just a round-trip ticket to trouble, as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who's going to be stupid enough to keep something like that around their house should at least have the sense and decency to keep it locked up and away, where kids and unstable family members can't get at it, and so it won't be lost or stolen, and therefore not endanger other people and society at large.
Wow.
"...there's absolutely nothing wonderful, courageous, intelligent, or secure about owning a firearm."
Gracie Watson would likely beg to differ.
Jarred Magers would likely beg to differ.
This 79-year-old homeowner would likely beg to differ.
Chad Ryan would likely beg to differ.
This woman and her 14-year-old son would likely beg to differ.
Gordon Absher would likely beg to differ.
This woman in Tulsa would likely beg to differ.
Christine Bruce would likely beg to differ.
This Pelham, New Hampshire homeowner would likely beg to differ.
THe family of this 12-year-old boy would likely beg to differ.
83-year-old Harry Carpenter would likely beg to differ.
Stephen DeFerrari would likely beg to differ.
Baton Rouge police officer Brian Harrison would likely beg to differ.
Judith Kuntz of Indialantic, Florida would likely beg to differ.
Rodney J. Nowlin would likely beg to differ.
Georgia Belle Sullivan would likely beg to differ.
Donald Narkis would likely beg to differ.
Geoff Hamann would likely beg to differ.
Lawrence Maida would likely beg to differ.
The villagers of Gusa Jamat would likely beg to differ.
Need more? I got more.
Now, if you choose not to own a gun, that's great. I will take up arms if necessary to defend your freedom to make that choice for yourself. But, I want you be aware of how woefully uninformed you sound when you make baseless statements like the one above.
When I hear all the gun control advocates say, "If it saves just ONE life, it will be worth it.", I can't help but translate that to mean, "If it costs us a few thousand lives a year to achieve our totalitarian police state, then so be it. Christ, anything is better than ceding power and responsibility to the proletariat."
Wow
You just got pwned.
Nice post, Bruce.
hmmm
do you think the UK is a totalitarian police state?
Do you think it is NOT
Do you think it is NOT headed in that direction?
"do you think the UK is a
"do you think the UK is a totalitarian police state?"
I'm sorry, could you speak clearly into the camera.
I was watching a story on a non-govt. controlled tv station
and...,oops!, never mind.
I saw a bit where robbers crashed in the door of a London flat while the owners were at home. It went on to say that the chavs were overpowered by the pensioner while waiting for police to eventually show up.
WHAT? No one else remembers that?
I take it you mean the
I take it you mean the BBC?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbc
"The BBC is a quasi-autonomous Public Corporation operating as a public service broadcaster. The Corporation is run by the BBC Trust; however, the BBC is, per its charter, to be "free from both political and commercial influence and answers only to its viewers and listeners""
and there are more than BBC channels in the UK.
an OAP overpowering punk-kids (I'll sub punk for chav if you don't mind) and waiting for the police to arrive? Happens here as well. No one got shot I take it?
To say that gun control = totalitarian police state says to me that if people don't own guns then the government will take forcible control of the lives of its citizens. If that's what you believe, I leave you to it. I don't believe that.
yes, London has CCTV cameras, but when did they start to proliferate? From what I can find, between 2001 and 2004 the number quadrupled. Another casualty of the war on terror it seems.
theage.com.au/news/...1122143780626.html
Paging Tom Jefferson. ..
"To say that gun control = totalitarian police state says to me that if people don't own guns then the government will take forcible control of the lives of its citizens."
That's pretty much EXACTLY what Jefferson and those other folks believed could happen, which is why the Second was/is so important.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Let's see...
A citizen's (and I use that term loosely every move is tracked outside of his or her home by a massive network of closed circuit TV cameras paid for with his tax dollars.
The government has all but monopolized the dispensation of lethal force,leaving the cirizenry defenseless against the criminal underclass (who, apparently, never got the "Turn in your guns" memo).
The government has made it illegal in most cases for citizens to use effective levels of physical force in defense of themselves, and their homes.
Citizens who have tried to defend themselves against violent attacks have been arrested, detained, interrogated, and prosecuted for their actions, and have had their DNA taken to add to the government's database of criminal DNA samples.
SO, to answer your question, hell yes.
Actually...
That last item alone (innocent citizens having their DNA forcibly taken from them by the government for inclusion in a database of criminal offenders' DNA) should be sufficient grounds to classify the UK as a totalitarian police state.
Imagine if the Bush administration announced they were going to begin to do the same to any and all anti-war protesters arrested by the police.
You wouldn't be able to read the papers or watch TV without seeing the words "POLICE STATE" splashed across the headlines.