I don't care if they adore or loath Obama, or any other politician or celebrity.
Separate crazy fuckers from deadly weapons.
That doesn't say I suggest or condone harassing and confiscating weapons from only Obama hating Conservatives.
THAT fallacy is a perfect example of the RW paranoia - self centerred persecution complex.
Such irrational paranoid behavior is childishly self centered, unattractive, repulsive, no matter who does it.
I am saying that WE as responsible citizens, as thinking, alert human beings,
need to pay attention to reducing the worst case scenarios of what happens when deeply unbalanced, angry people have access to deadly weapons.
Not wait for courts and police to intervene.
Take their guns away, and their swords and their nunchukkas and their poison darts and their military knives.
That is not a political statement. It is self preservation.
I'd rather restrict a violent nut's access to weapons than have to keep my hand on the butt of mine, for fear that he or ANYONE will snap at any second and start shooting.
That is not my view of what the 2nd Amendment was written to protect - a society where everyone is packing heat, everyone's itchy and worried and ready to empty a clip in all directions.
Always at the mercy of the worst mood swing of the craziest among us.
I am proactive, not passively reactive, as Gunny seems to be advocating.
"Nothing we can do until he starts shooting".
To hell with that.
I have and will take a crazy fuckers weapons from dangerous people.
Not because that person would be a RWer who I think is hysterically wrong in his unattached to reality opinions,
but because that person is dangerous.
There is a difference.
Here's the problem... You don't get to decide whose crazy... and given that CRAZY is so throughly SUBJECTIVE... and often the final anaysis is founded in the ACTION which SOLIDIFIES THE ANALYSIS... your in essense seeking to use 'science' to determine who gets to hold individual rights...
Which is IRONIC AS HELL given the ceaseless advocacy for the RIGHTS OF THOSE WHO PLOTTED AND EXECUTED THE MASS MURDER OF 3000 PEOPLE...
Which disqualifies you and pretty much across the board...
What's more... I've personally disarmed individuals, friends who I knew were goign through a tough patch. Walked right in their house and stolen their guns... put them in my safe... drove to their location and told them exactly what I did... and guess what; in BOTH circumstances (granted each one was slightly different) NEITHER ONE even hesitated... and BOTH thanked me... albeit down the road.
What's more, I've taken my guns to friends and told them to take them to someone else, unknown to me to hold them, when I was not well suited to the responsibility...
And there have been several times, in my life when I've used my side arm and my shotgun to defend myself and my family...
So shut the fuck up... people tend to do what's best and people tend to BE RESPONSIBLE; but that doesn't guarantee perfection and while human rights are imperfect, THEY'RE MADE LESS PERFECT BY PEOPLE WHO ADVOCATE THEIR USURPATION, ON THE PREMISE THAT IT'S AN IMPERFECT SYSTEM... which is only amplified by the certainty that the loudest advocates of such ARE AMONG THE LEAST PERFECT AND ADVOCATES OF THE MOST DISCREDITED IDEOLOGY IN HUMAN HISTORY!
It is BEYOND ABSURD TO READ SOMEONE WHO ADVACTES FOR THE IDEOLOGY WHICH MURDERED 150 MILLION HUMAN BEINGS, PLEADING THAT THE WORLD SHOULD CONCEDE TO THEIR DESIRES< TO SAVE HUMAN LIFE...
Funny stuff...