So Maynard, the producer from Ed Norris's show wrote me back. Below are his comments and my responses. Think they'd actually have the balls to have me on their show? I rather doubt it given Maynard's predictable and tired "you're a pussy with a small weiner" juvenile responses. Maynard is in italics. You can write him at
[email protected].
> You know what stikes me as odd, is that every one of the responses wwe
> have gotten to this has been RIDDLED with personal attacks. Like yours.
> Should hot headed jerks really be allowed to even have a butter knife?
Uhm...what personal attacks are you talking about? I simply pointed out
that you're misinformed. That's not a personal attack, it's the truth.
You said things that were indicative of a person that doesn't have a very
good grasp of the subject. If it offends you or you feel attacked, that's
on YOU, not me.
As for hot headed jerks,...sorry, but people like you are trying to deny
me a basic personal freedom. Yeah, I get hot headed when people violate
my personal liberty, whether it's the 1st or the 2nd or the 4th or the 5th
Amendment.
>
> Want me to get personal? How's this-
> I personally think guns are for pussies.
So all those cops in Baltimore are pussies? All the troops carrying our
flag in Iraq are pussies?
Bull****. Guns are tools like anything else. Their moral value is
imparted by the user.
>I would never own one.
Fair enough. Don't own one then. Don't like abortion? Don't have one.
Don't like pot? Don't smoke it.
Freedom is letting other people make choices for themselves that you
wouldn't make for you.
>You need one, cause you're a pussy and can't fight on your own, I get >that.
Eh, you don't know much about me, so I really don't know how you can make
such a judgment. Actually I've got seven years Okinawan karate and a
couple years of Thai boxing training under my belt, and am pretty versed
in the use of a couple other hand to hand combat fighting weapons. A real
martial artist learns about all sorts of hand to hand and weaponry and
keeps an open mind about effective new tools. You know who happens to be
a firearms expert in addition to a fantastic martial artist? Steven
Seagal. Go tell him he's a pussy because he owns and uses guns. Let me
know which hospital you end up in, I'll send lillies.
But that's not really the point. The point here is that guns are simply
tools that allow you to project force from a greater distance than
contact/edged weapons. That's why they were developed, and that's why
military/LEO use them. If a knife wielding maniac is going after you,
your odds are much better confronting him with force when he's 30 feet
away than 3. Well, we private citizens use them for the same reason LEOs
do--its better for us to be able to confront evil from a distance than
close up.
>Or you
> have a small member and you need it to prove to yourself that you're a
> man. Hey, everyone gets a bad break sometimes in life.
Eh, you didn't read much of my email, did you?
As I wrote earlier, seems pretty common that when gun fearing folks run
out of logical, rational ideas, they resort to slinging immature potty
humor and insults about the genitals of people they've never met.
If gun enthusiasm is about your penis, how do you explain the 5 foot 2
Jewish female president of the NRA? Hmmmmm?
> I am for a ban of machine gus and assault weapons.
Rather than getting all emotional, you should have read my actual email.
You'd see that machine guns are already essentially banned to everyone but
law enforcement since 1934. Duh. We don't need another law to do that.
>AND high powered military styled rifles.
The AR15 fires a wimpy .223 cartridge. My .270 hunting rifle fires a
cartridge that's three times as powerful and travels twice as far
accurately...but isn't banned. Logical, eh?
>If you use the semi-auto equivalent of an M-16, a
> high powered semi auto, and you fire that at a burgular at 2am and miss,
> which you will cause you'll be scared,
I won't miss. I'm well trained. Besides, would I be less likely to miss
wth a bolt action? Of course not.
>it will go through your wall and
> probably hit your neighbors house- or dog or KID.
My bedroom is on the second floor. I'll be shooting towards the earth as
my backstop. I'm fine with that. The word or term you're looking for is
"tactical awareness."
> If this bill goes
> beyond that and bans ALL semi autos, then I am opposed.
It does. I assume then you'll publish a retraction on air today? You'll
encourage your listeners to oppose the bill because it essentially bans
every semiauto pistol (just like the ones Ed supports the carrying of?)?
I certainly hope you will.
>
> How about you MAN up and learn to fight instead of hiding behind your
> trigger- which BTW from close range, is MUCH less effective than my katana
> blade, and at 2am, even if I am really scraed, I won't miss.
>
How about instead of casting aspersions at my manhood, why don't you
consider that not everyone is a man. When my wife is at home and a 230lb
rapist kicks in the back door, why should she have to fist fight him?
> Also, if you talk BS about teh 2nd amendment protecting us from our own
> gov't- trust me pal, if the gov't decideds to come for you, your guns
> won't help you.
They will help. Why? Because the govt knows there are 80million+ gun
owners in the US and we are a formidable force.
Don't think a ragtag militia armed with small arms can resist our govt?
Heh. Check out this little country called IRAQ. Or Vietnam for that
matter. Armed private citizens can hold off the world's supreme military
powers via guerrilla tactics, history has shown that time and again.
Rather than have an overly emotional internet pissing match with firearms
enthusiasts like the people writing you today, wouldn't it be better to
have an enthusiast/expert on the air to discuss the subject from a
knowledgable point of view? Ed himself has met with Wayne LaPierre
before. Why not have him on the air? Why not have an NRA trained
instructor on the air?
Regards,
SS
. . . hmm, it seemed like it was written better, and less vitriolic at 2am when I wrote it
