Earl Again!
There have been 325 comment. I believe I have written 12 to 15. I obviously can not answer your questions. I resent the statement that I have been rude to you. Name-calling is not part of my vocabulary. Let's take all of your statements and mine and have them analyzed for rudeness and accuracy. I entered this dialogue in the spirit of good will. Unfortunately, I have been belittled, critized, etc. As I indicate before I will look at your comments this week and disclose my own.
Sir it's not you who I wish to criticize. You are an interesting person on your own merits. However I must harshly criticize many of your ideas. There is a difference. And as you must be free to express them I must be free to express my dissatisfaction.
I wish it were early in the summer, and I would look up everything you say to check its accuracy.
Fair enough, I have a life too, I can't check every last statistic myself.
You still have not answered my question. The best answer I heard was lock the criminal up. Great idea. I'm tired of you liberals critizing me.
Sir many people have answered your question or at least spoken to the root cause of the problems. It doesn't help that, to be fair, you haven't explicitly enumerated the problem. I assume you're referring to violent crimes occurring too often in the US.
And what do you mean by liberals? And to be frank sir, if your ideas did not elicit any criticism, that would mean we didn't think it was worth the time. You should take that as a compliment.
The quote from 1923 about man killers is even more relevant today. I believe you just care about your guns.
Well you are wrong sir. I care about freedom, and the principles behind the right to keep and bear arms. I care about my family and my university and my community. The guns themselves are just some objects I happen to own.
My mother told me that my grandfather slept with a pistol under his pillow. Some people in my area of Pennsylvania do the same. These are sick peope.
Why is that sick? You know, never mind, it doesn't matter if it's "sick" or not.
In a free society, you have the responsibility of coexisting with people who are different colors, different religions, people who are gay, and people who choose to sleep with a pistol under their pillow (which I personally don't recommend, I use a mini vault). Just because it makes you uncomfortable or you don't like it, that gives you no right to try to control people who choose to live differently than you do.
If you don't care about the 30,000 people each year who dies from guns, just say so.
Sir, nobody dies from guns. No gun can animate itself and kill people on its own.
My statisitics can not be refuted when using neutral sources.
That just depends. If the study or whatever in question was bungled, it doesn't matter who conducted it.
We can stop the gun violence. Let's join together to solve the gun problem.
If you don't care about others, just say so, but I still care about your safety.
Sir I'm quite willing to not shoot anybody and I assume you are too. I'm quite willing to punish those who need to be punished, and I assume you are too.
Dr., I do not question that you do care about people. However, what you want to do is try to force people to be "safe" to make yourself feel better. You can't make people safe unless you eliminate free will and in the process humanity. It's impossible. It's an innately dangerous world we live in, watch a nature documentary if you don't believe me.
What I care about is that people are going to be subject to violence no matter what we do. We can take better care of the people around us to help keep that from happpening as often, but we can never eliminate it. The only sensible thing to do is to let people have the freedom to make their own decisions. Maybe you are safer without any guns, that's your life, it's your decision.
But I feel differently, and I have just as much right to go buy six guns at a time and carry them on my person as you do to not buy any guns. Even if you were right, which I don't think you are, quality of life is still a relevant issue. A life without freedom, even if it is "safe", is worse than death.
Patrick Henry said:
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
