Our government certainly is not perfect, but we do need someone to make and enforce laws for the good of us all rather than encouraging everyone to act on intuition and fear, such as the NRA does.
Laws to enforce seat belts in autos help, speed limits help, drug laws help, street lights help, smoking and alcohol restrictions help. Unfortunately, laws permitting every man and women to pack a gun to protect themselves after making personal judgements whether they are about to be assaulted and need to fire their guns. None of the laws are perfect, but they all help us to avoid having a chaotic nation where everyone does as he/she wishes in order to protect themselves. The constitution has built in protection for the government as well as for individuals. Everyone gives up individual freedoms for the general good. What the hell is wrong with that?
This mysterious knowledge the NRA claims to have concerning the meaning of the Second Amendment is like one religion claiming to know the true meaning of the scriptures, or claiming to know which is the true God. The NRA is BSing their members for financial gain and their members are gullible, fearful, and usually uneducated citizens. Our founding fathers, if presented with the issues we now face, would think it ridiculous that the public should arm and rebel against its own government. The constitution was adopted to preserve the nation not to destroy it. Because a few nuts think their children may have to rebel against their own government some time in the distant future is not reason to arm every citizen today. It is a ridiculous concept which our founders could not have imagined. Where does the NRA draw the line? Why stop at semiautomatic weapons and large ammo clips? Why not include rocket launchers, grenades, poison gas and chemical and thermonuclear weapons?
Laws to enforce seat belts in autos help, speed limits help, drug laws help, street lights help, smoking and alcohol restrictions help. Unfortunately, laws permitting every man and women to pack a gun to protect themselves after making personal judgements whether they are about to be assaulted and need to fire their guns. None of the laws are perfect, but they all help us to avoid having a chaotic nation where everyone does as he/she wishes in order to protect themselves. The constitution has built in protection for the government as well as for individuals. Everyone gives up individual freedoms for the general good. What the hell is wrong with that?
This mysterious knowledge the NRA claims to have concerning the meaning of the Second Amendment is like one religion claiming to know the true meaning of the scriptures, or claiming to know which is the true God. The NRA is BSing their members for financial gain and their members are gullible, fearful, and usually uneducated citizens. Our founding fathers, if presented with the issues we now face, would think it ridiculous that the public should arm and rebel against its own government. The constitution was adopted to preserve the nation not to destroy it. Because a few nuts think their children may have to rebel against their own government some time in the distant future is not reason to arm every citizen today. It is a ridiculous concept which our founders could not have imagined. Where does the NRA draw the line? Why stop at semiautomatic weapons and large ammo clips? Why not include rocket launchers, grenades, poison gas and chemical and thermonuclear weapons?
Religionists don’t seem to understand that secular humanists (atheists) just want to keep that old battered wall, separating state and church, from being totally demolished. Atheists don’t want to squelch religious holidays or religion. Atheists strongly support the constitutional rights of religious people as much as they support their own rights. I encourage religious people to reject the lies of their sectarian leaders, and make their own decisions based upon reason and fact.
Someone please tell me how Fox has responded to these charges.
I have been conditioned to disbelieve everything he says. If he said something true once in a while, I would have to take him more seriously. Right now, his only purpose is to clarify what is true by taking the untrue position. Thanks Carl.
There are enough armed crazies out there to cause problems so fear of violence is real.
Being Christian does not mean Kilmeade has integrity, it means he is superstitious and believes what he is told by his political and religious leaders.
Angle is on the Fox payroll. What more do we have to know?
As Hannity must know, water boarding by an enemy who doesn’t have to answer if you die is different than being water boarded under safe conditions where there is no real danger of death and a doctor is standing by. Hannity is simply a chicken sh-t liar.
Ms. Ingram, your crazy. Liberals don’t condemn Mormons, right wing evangelicals do. As an atheist liberal, I have no special bone to pick with Mormons, or Jews or Christians. That religion is just as unlikely to be true as any other religion.
Granted, not all Christians or atheists are good people who respect the rights of others. Ms. McCallum, you are one of those Christians, who for the sake of a little notoriety and a Fox pay check, have abandoned your decency, intellect and honesty. Have you ever asked yourself WWJD? How do you, as a Christian, condemn all the good American citizens who are atheists? They could be your children, relatives, friends, heroes, people who have given their lives in war. People used to condemn Gays until they had a child who was gay or they realized a good friend was gay, and then they changed their minds. Apparently, you do not know any gays or atheists.
