Comments on: Guns For Freedom http://www.lehighpatriot.com/mcaffrey/guns-for-freedom/ Lehigh News and Commentary Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:54:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: ES http://www.lehighpatriot.com/mcaffrey/guns-for-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-973 ES Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:35:17 +0000 http://www.lehighpatriot.com/?p=357#comment-973 Your entire paragraph about location-based prohibition argues that public shooting tragedies could be prevented by allowing “classmates and teachers … the ability to shoot back.” If you truly believe that these incidents could have been avoided if students had access to firearms, wouldn’t it be very irresponsible as a parent not to give your kid a gun? And hey, apparently it’s his FREEDOM to bring in whichever type of gun he wants, be it a glock or a M240 machine gun. In your essay, you’re explicitly arguing for the ability for people of any age to carry any type of firearm in any area, not simply the private ownership of weapons. There is a slight difference. “However, firearms are necessary in reclaiming them.” “… the usurpation of a dictatorship to renew a democracy will require both the will of the people and the firearms in peoples’ possession.” “… they must also to have the tools at hand to become a new wave of minutemen” “… fully automatic weaponry will allow Americans to truly secure the blessings of liberty for themselves and their posterity.” I wasn’t aware that “reform and diplomacy” required its participants to wield such heavy weaponry at the bargaining table. Fighting isn’t required, but you did manage to reference revolution against your own, democratically elected government numerous times in the article. So when your fantasy revolution against a hypothetical dictator undoubtedly happens, do think your ability to own firearms of any type will have any effect against tanks, heavy artillery, and nuclear-armed submarines? To truly guarantee our freedom against oppressors, shouldn’t we be able to own those as well? Your entire paragraph about location-based prohibition argues that public shooting tragedies could be prevented by allowing “classmates and teachers … the ability to shoot back.” If you truly believe that these incidents could have been avoided if students had access to firearms, wouldn’t it be very irresponsible as a parent not to give your kid a gun? And hey, apparently it’s his FREEDOM to bring in whichever type of gun he wants, be it a glock or a M240 machine gun.

In your essay, you’re explicitly arguing for the ability for people of any age to carry any type of firearm in any area, not simply the private ownership of weapons. There is a slight difference.

“However, firearms are necessary in reclaiming them.”
“… the usurpation of a dictatorship to renew a democracy will require both the will of the people and the firearms in peoples’ possession.”
“… they must also to have the tools at hand to become a new wave of minutemen”
“… fully automatic weaponry will allow Americans to truly secure the blessings of liberty for themselves and their posterity.”

I wasn’t aware that “reform and diplomacy” required its participants to wield such heavy weaponry at the bargaining table. Fighting isn’t required, but you did manage to reference revolution against your own, democratically elected government numerous times in the article. So when your fantasy revolution against a hypothetical dictator undoubtedly happens, do think your ability to own firearms of any type will have any effect against tanks, heavy artillery, and nuclear-armed submarines? To truly guarantee our freedom against oppressors, shouldn’t we be able to own those as well?

]]> By: Michael Caffrey http://www.lehighpatriot.com/mcaffrey/guns-for-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-971 Michael Caffrey Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:55:40 +0000 http://www.lehighpatriot.com/?p=357#comment-971 ES: Why have guns become such a demon? Honestly, the belief that parents would send their kids to school with machine guns is absurd. However, government restrictions against private ownership of weapons do, in my opinion violate my constitutional rights and go beyond the proper role of government. While I appreciate your vivid imagination, fighting is never a wanted or desirable outcome; rather reform and diplomacy are proper means of discourse in a Democracy. DK: In 1881, was bringing guns to school a problem? ES: Why have guns become such a demon? Honestly, the belief that parents would send their kids to school with machine guns is absurd.

However, government restrictions against private ownership of weapons do, in my opinion violate my constitutional rights and go beyond the proper role of government.

While I appreciate your vivid imagination, fighting is never a wanted or desirable outcome; rather reform and diplomacy are proper means of discourse in a Democracy.

DK: In 1881, was bringing guns to school a problem?

]]> By: ES http://www.lehighpatriot.com/mcaffrey/guns-for-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-968 ES Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:47:05 +0000 http://www.lehighpatriot.com/?p=357#comment-968 At first I thought this article was a fairly witty satire, but then I remembered I was reading the Lehigh Patriot. Do you honestly believe that fourteen year olds should have access to machine guns in their middle school or is it simply an excuse to justify your childish revolutionary fantasies against “big government?” As I read the article, I envision you daydreaming about fighting off the socialist hordes perched on your suburban home’s balcony in your gated community. Grow up. At first I thought this article was a fairly witty satire, but then I remembered I was reading the Lehigh Patriot. Do you honestly believe that fourteen year olds should have access to machine guns in their middle school or is it simply an excuse to justify your childish revolutionary fantasies against “big government?” As I read the article, I envision you daydreaming about fighting off the socialist hordes perched on your suburban home’s balcony in your gated community. Grow up.

]]> By: DK http://www.lehighpatriot.com/mcaffrey/guns-for-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-966 DK Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:11:53 +0000 http://www.lehighpatriot.com/?p=357#comment-966 Yeah, let's turn our schools into the OK Corral! Yeah, let’s turn our schools into the OK Corral!

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