From a Letter in the San Jose Mercury News

[jag312]

Last week the San Jose Mercury News newspaper published a letter from one of the readers concerning gun control. Without copying the entire letter, the letter made four important points that are of interest.

1. "It is impossible to stop or control intentional gun violence." I think we can all agree to this.

2. "Attempting to keep guns unavailable to those who are emotionally distraught or unstable is where success lies." I think things are a little more complex than this because it ignores the criminal element that intentionally uses firearms to advance their criminal behavior.

3. "Anyone who wants to personally own a rapid-fire, high-capacity magazine weapon is by definition too emotionally unstable to qualify for such ownership." WHAT!! By whose definition? What are the qualifications of whoever made this definition? Welcome to the mind of a California anti-gun loony.

4. "...I have never owned a gun or fired a rapid-fire gun." So here is a man who wishes to categorize anyone who choses to own a gun that he doesn't like as being "emotionally unstable". If he doesn't want to own a gun; fine. If he never wants to shoot a gun; fine. However, making derogatory comments or labeling gun owners as emotionally unstable is an indication that this man has some issues that should be explored by a competent mental health professional.

 

[RobertJ.]

So many replies come to mind, I can't pick just one!

You mean there are people that think like this in California? (sorry, sarcasm is my favorite form of humor!)

Point #3 reminds me of the movie, "Catch-22"!

Unfortunately, Portland and the Willamette Valley clear down to Eugene have an increasing number of people who think this way. "Educated" people, mostly.

 

[Robotech]

Unfortunately, Portland and the Willamette Valley clear down to Eugene have an increasing number of people who think this way. "Educated" people, mostly.

Mostly immigrants from California I bet. Like the ones who invaded Colorado.


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[Beemerguy53]

This is the sort of thinking Maryland gun owners have encountered for years...

The thing that gets me about anti-gun zealots is this: In no other scenario do they blame an inanimate object for the actions of a human being. If a drunk driver kills somebody, they don't argue that certain cars or certain alcoholic beverages must be banned. If somebody commits Internet fraud, they don't want to ban computers.

They're illogical and irrational beyond reason....but WE'RE the ones who are emotionally unstable?

Amazing...

 

[model70hunter]

Mostly immigrants from California I bet. Like the ones who invaded Colorado.


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Come on, you knew the ultra left in CA was coming to CO.

Geez, they already sent hopped up legislators to CO to outlaw gun items and legalize pot.

Was this not a red flag that the wacky weed army of the high left was on the way? By the way, high left is a play on words.

 

[timn8er]

Mostly immigrants from California I bet. Like the ones who invaded Colorado.


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"Like the ones who INFESTED Colorado".

Fixed it for you!

 

[poordevil]

Since those types can not be reasoned with, the response to them is, that they are Bigots and racists and anti humanity and pro child victims and elder abuse and rape. Let them defend their position. We have nothing to say to them that they will listen too. Their idea to rid America of guns will foster the above outcomes. It is high time we set the talking points, and don't sway fro them.

 

[TheYoungblood]

The text reminds me of relative that says there is tooo much testosterone floating about when firearms are being mentioned....

 

[Straightshooter2]

Point #3 reminds me of the movie, "Catch-22"!

You beat me to it. If you want to own an AR-15 you are too emotionally unstable to own one but if you don't want to own an AR-15 you are stable enough to buy one but if you go to buy one, you are too emotionally unstable to own one.

 

[jaykellogg]

Using this logic we can eliminate drunk driving by taking away the driver's licenses of people who drink and drive.

 

[pharmer]

4. "...I have never owned a gun or fired a rapid-fire gun." So here is a man who wishes to categorize anyone who choses to own a gun that he doesn't like as being "emotionally unstable".

I hate to say it out loud, but those critters exist in every one of the 50 states. Heck, here in Florida they are the only ones breeding and forming new infestations. Joe

 

[rwsmith]

That's fine for them

Just don't tell me what I can and can't do, especially if you have no idea of what you are talking about.

 

[SASABERANGER]

All you have to do is look at the folks with Liberal Arts Degrees who got them in the late 60s through the latter part of the 20th century at most of the State Universities.
Don't know how we spent so many tax dollars "Educating" these folks about everything except what it means to be an American. They tend to be anti gun, anti American family values.
Our Wyoming enclaves of the anti gunners and anti gun show and anti everything else seem to be where there is and institute of higher learning. Luckily we don't have too many universities and colleges here or very many people either.
Thom Braxton
SWCA #1474

 

[rojodiablo]

Mostly immigrants from California I bet. Like the ones who invaded Colorado.


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Esplainz NY, Maryland/ Washington DC, CT, Ill, Mi.??????

No one who ever lived and set up shop in Ca. moves to those states. And those states have had massive restrictive gun laws for DECADES as well. It's really a city thing. Go to Washington. Seattle is very different from Port Ludlow.
Go to Co. Denver is very different from....... everywhere else in Co. Go to NY; the Catskills are NOT Manhattan. etc.

All in all, Ca. had more gun sales in it than any other state in 2012. So.........is it REALLY like this nut job? No. And when the reset button gets pushed someday; this guy will not be welcome in a great many places. It's going to be cold out there alone in the wilderness, per se.

But I'll agree. He might just be a good candidate for a frontal lobotomy.

 

[rojodiablo]

I hate to say it out loud, but those critters exist in every one of the 50 states. Heck, here in Florida they are the only ones breeding and forming new infestations. Joe

The ones to worry about most are creeping down from NY and CT to retire. They are post menopausal, so they are not breeding anymore...... but you need a moat at the state line and you need to restrict all incoming flights at Miami Dade.

 

[Beemerguy53]

Esplainz NY, Maryland/ Washington DC, CT, Ill, Mi.??????.....

I have lived here all my life, and Maryland has always been left-of-center politically and socially. (Our silly, useless, waiting-period-and-background check for handgun purchases dates back to the 1960s.) Much of this has to do with the fact that a huge number of federal government employees who work in Washington live in the Maryland counties that border D.C., and those folks are not very receptive to the conservative message of smaller-government and lower taxes.

A lot of conservative folks have bailed out of our state in recent years, and headed over the border; southern Pennsylvania is jokingly referred to as 'Baltimore North', and we have a lot of workers here who also commute from their homes in Delaware, West Virginia, and Virginia.

Just as New York City is the 800-pound gorilla of politics in New York State, in Maryland the City of Baltimore, and Montgomery and Prince George's counties call the shots politically. The other 22 counties here are valued only for the taxes their citizens pay to fund the massive state bureaucracy and the one-party rule it supports.

I would move in a heartbeat if I could afford to...