Comments on: Gun Laws

By: Jenn Phillips

Jenn Phillips — Wed, 10 May 2006 01:01:10 +0000

Hey, I like making fun of famous quail hunters. How about puppies?

By: amanda

amanda — Wed, 10 May 2006 00:47:24 +0000

you crazy zealot you.

By: Allison Kaftan

Allison Kaftan — Tue, 09 May 2006 23:52:47 +0000

Oy. Tell me about it. But not a gun post.

I think someone needs to post some pictures of kittens and flowers, or, at the very least, a quiet beach? Pretty please?

By: Adam Stone

Adam Stone — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:58:10 +0000

indeed

By: Earnest

Earnest — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:56:59 +0000

I think everyone appreciates a non-Glasses post now and then.

By: Adam Stone

Adam Stone — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:48:38 +0000

Or that, too.

By the way, the power to kill does not lie exclusively with guns. There is a delightful cornucopia of alternative murderous weapons out there.

By: JM

JM — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:21:10 +0000

Then why call it a Happy Hour?

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:02:06 +0000

So you cede the power to kill to the government? I think the path to a more sane gun policy is not to repeal the Second Amendment but simply to ban the sale and posession of handguns and go after them with the same zealotry that the government goes after tokin’ potheads.

By: Adam Stone

Adam Stone — Tue, 09 May 2006 18:50:27 +0000

I actually am one of these crazy zealots that believe that the Second Amendment needs to be repealed.

It was written in the late eighteenth century immediately after a war of independence. The vast majority of people continued to hunt for food. They also had to fend for themselves against attacks by Indians, rebelling slaves, and the occassional revolt.

The Second Amendment protects our right to arms with the intention of using them should we ever need to overthrow the government (or if we are cruelly oppressed by them). That’s valid…back in 1780.

I seriously doubt our present ability to defeat our evil, nuclear-weapon-wielding government with handguns. I believe that there is no comprehensible reason to put guns in the arms of ordinary citizens. Many other industrialized countries do fine without letting their citizens have guns.

Guns in a household are three times more likely to kill a member of that household and five times more likely to be used to commit suicide. Guns are so, so much more likely to be used for violence than self-defense. Given these and additional statistics here, the Second Amendment is unacceptable by today’s standards and needs to be repealed, repealed, repealed.

BAN GUNS. BAN THEM.

By: Noelle

Noelle — Tue, 09 May 2006 18:26:51 +0000

We really need to get tougher on gun laws, and on who can and cannot own one. I respect the 2nd amendment, but guns should be kept out of the hands of criminals, or people who have a history of violence. And the gun shows loophole should be closed.