The only thing that will stop a bad person with a gun, is a good one, with a gun.
44AMP said:The NRA President said this very thing, after the NewTown killings, and the press went into hyperdrive doing all they possibly could to make him look like a fool, out of touch with reality, and with the personal warmth, charm and compassion of the Bubonic Plague. And, those were the nicest things they said!
44AMP said:Who shows up when you call the cops? A good guy with a gun.
You know, I think that is actually kind of catchy in a comical 'screw the anti-gunners' kind of way. Like Freedom Fries. I could see it catching on.
gyvel said:As a mild analogy:
A few decades back (as you old timers will remember), it was highly fashionable to refer to cops as "pigs." (It still prevails to this day to some.)
Anyway, in my area at least, billboards began to pop up advertising the message that "PIGS" stood for "Pride, Integrity, Guts." This was an attempt at countering the bad connotation of "pigs" as referring to cops.
The campaign was a massive failure and now only remains as a memory in (now) old geezers' minds.
Black rifles matter.
When someone says its a military rifle. I tell them "No,it isn't".
When someone says it looks like a military rifle I tell them "So what?".
Even in western europe, people can be prosecuted for writing and speech alone.
Freedom to express political, religious or personal opinion is well-protected in the countries I am familiar with as well as being part of European Union law.
That is a bit misleading.
I believe you are referring to laws against inciting violence and hate speech, slander, libel etc.
Freedom to express political, religious or personal opinion is well-protected in the countries I am familiar with as well as being part of European Union law.
Austria has imprisoned an author for his writing alone. Expression of some odious ideas are also subject to criminal prosecution in Germany.
You may protest that this is "hate speech". Please note that "hate speech" is "speech". Prosecution for "hate speech" is prosecution for speech.
The dominant american attitude is to allow odious speech into the market place of ideas for appropriate identification and ridicule. It arises from a sense that a free man can express his views simply by virtue of being a free man. Other free men who hear him are also free to respond.
jimbob86 said:ANY country where you can be imprisoned for "Hate Speech", wherein said speech is subjectively defined, is does not have Freedom of Speech.
Of course "pig" wasn't an acronym for a set of virtues, but a pejorative well entrenched in the language.
That is a bit misleading.
I believe you are referring to laws against inciting violence and hate speech, slander, libel etc.
Freedom to express political, religious or personal opinion is well-protected in the countries I am familiar with as well as being part of European Union law.