We need guns to defend ourselves. Chaos in New Mexico proves that.

[lennypartiv]

Of course we should have the right to defend ourselves. Fortunately we don't have the gun restrictions that other countries have. God bless America!

---...he broke free and jumped back over the wall. That’s when he pulled a gun from his waistband and fired a single shot before running off.---

A man is shot as tempers flare in New Mexico over the statue of a Spanish conquistador

It was chaos as a gunshot was fired during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.

www.latimes.com

 

[frigidweirdo]

Of course we should have the right to defend ourselves. Fortunately we don't have the gun restrictions that other countries have. God bless America!

---...he broke free and jumped back over the wall. That’s when he pulled a gun from his waistband and fired a single shot before running off.---

A man is shot as tempers flare in New Mexico over the statue of a Spanish conquistador

It was chaos as a gunshot was fired during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.

www.latimes.com

Maybe it'd be better if the US were a society where you didn't need guns, problem is, everyone doesn't want to put the effort into making a better society.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Maybe it'd be better if the US were a society where you didn't need guns, problem is, everyone doesn't want to put the effort into making a better society.

Love how this fucking idiot puts everyone into a generic category, when we all know it is the Marxists/Demofascists who do all the killings. When that problem is solved then maybe we can put away our weapons for "Defense".

 

[JGalt]

God bless those old Spaniards. If they hadn't brought gunpowder to the new world, we'd still be committing human sacrifice to the sun gods.

 

[hjmick]

God bless those old Spaniards. If they hadn't brought gunpowder to the new world, we'd still be committing human sacrifice to the sun gods.

What a great song...

 

[ActionJackson]

Of course we should have the right to defend ourselves. Fortunately we don't have the gun restrictions that other countries have. God bless America!

---...he broke free and jumped back over the wall. That’s when he pulled a gun from his waistband and fired a single shot before running off.---

A man is shot as tempers flare in New Mexico over the statue of a Spanish conquistador

It was chaos as a gunshot was fired during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.

www.latimes.com

If you only have 10 guns ... buy an eleventh. And always treat yourself to more ammo.

 

[Blues Man]

The Supreme Court proved that you need a gun for protection when it was ruled the police have absolutely no legal obligation to come to the aid of the public.

Knowing this anyone who does not have a firearm for self protection is showing themselves to be an idiot.

 

[hjmick]

The Supreme Court proved that you need a gun for protection when it was ruled the police have absolutely no legal obligation to come to the aid of the public.

Knowing this anyone who does not have a firearm for self protection is showing themselves to be an idiot.

The police are not a force to prevent crime, at best their visual presence deters crime. Given the number of crimes committed in any given day, it is rare that their response to a crime scene results in the prevention of said crime. Their primary function is to investigate the crime after its commission, solve the crime if they can, and make an arrest. There are a lot of people who do not understand this.

 

[Blues Man]

The police are not a force to prevent crime, at best their visual presence deters crime. Given the number of crimes committed in any given day, it is rare that their response to a crime scene results in the prevention of said crime. Their primary function is to investigate the crime after its commission, solve the crime if they can, and make an arrest. There are a lot of people who do not understand this.

Coming to the aid of a person is NOT preventing crime because usually when someone calls the crime is happening or already has happened. And even if a person calls while the crime is happening the police have absolutely no obligation to come to your aid.

I have always said the cops don't prevent crime all they do is respond to crimes that have already happened.

 

[1srelluc]

Non paywall link:

MSN

www.msn.com

To Native Americans, Oñate is known for having ordered the right feet cut off of 24 captive tribal warriors after his soldiers stormed the Acoma Pueblo’s mesa-top “sky city.”

Sounds like a great guy.....Who wouldn't want a statue to him?

 

[Crepitus]

Of course we should have the right to defend ourselves. Fortunately we don't have the gun restrictions that other countries have. God bless America!

---...he broke free and jumped back over the wall. That’s when he pulled a gun from his waistband and fired a single shot before running off.---

A man is shot as tempers flare in New Mexico over the statue of a Spanish conquistador

It was chaos as a gunshot was fired during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.

www.latimes.com

Ayup The Republican party fucked the whole country raw with a couple of supreme court rulings back in the 80s. Now everyone needs a gun.

 

[JGalt]

Non paywall link:

MSN

www.msn.com

To Native Americans, Oñate is known for having ordered the right feet cut off of 24 captive tribal warriors after his soldiers stormed the Acoma Pueblo’s mesa-top “sky city.”

Sounds like a great guy.....Who wouldn't want a statue to him?

The foot-chopping is an urban myth, and it was the Indians who started the whole thing.

"In October 1598, a skirmish erupted when a squad of Oñate's men stopped to trade for food supplies from the Acoma Pueblo. The Ácoma themselves needed their stored food to survive the coming winter. The Ácoma resisted and 11 Spaniards were ambushed and killed, including Oñate's nephew, Juan de Zaldívar.[15] In January 1599, Oñate condemned the conflict as an insurrection and ordered the pueblo destroyed, a mandate carried out by Juan de Zaldívar's brother, Vicente de Zaldívar, in an offensive known as the Ácoma Massacre. An estimated 800–1,000 Ácoma died in the siege of the pueblo. Much later, when King Philip III of Spain heard the news of the massacre, and the punishments, Oñate was banished from New Mexico for his cruelty to the natives, and exiled from Mexico for five years, convicted by the Spanish government of using "excessive force" against the Acoma people.[2] Oñate later returned to Spain to live out the remainder of his life.[16][17]

Of the 500 or so survivors,[18] at a trial at Ohkay Owingeh, Oñate sentenced all men and women older than 12 to twenty years of forced "personal servitude". In addition, men older than 25 (24 individuals) were to have a foot amputated.[3] According to recent research, there is no evidence of this happening and that, at most, the prisoners lost some toes. This latter theory makes sense, for losing toes rather than a whole foot left the prisoners useful as servants.[19] In Onate's personal journal, he specifically refers to the punishment of the Acoma warriors as cutting off "las puntas del pie" (the points of the foot, the toes).[20]"

Juan de Oñate - Wikipedia

 

[1srelluc]

Ayup The Republican party fucked the whole country raw with a couple of supreme court rulings back in the 80s. Now everyone needs a gun.

Care to flesh that out?

 

[cnm]

Love how this fucking idiot puts everyone into a generic category, when we all know it is the Marxists/Demofascists who do all the killings. When that problem is solved then maybe we can put away our weapons for "Defense".

Coming to this message bored is like visiting a zoo...

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Maybe it'd be better if the US were a society where you didn't need guns, problem is, everyone doesn't want to put the effort into making a better society.

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I'm going to bet that when you say "everyone", you mean "you guys".

Anybody want to take my bet?




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[Moonglow]

So they put up a statue of a European discovering a place where humans already existed and claimed it was found? What a load.

 

[Blues Man]

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I'm going to bet that when you say "everyone", you mean "you guys".

Anybody want to take my bet?




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Don't you love how these idealist idiots never suggest how to do what they say we should do?

 

[Manonthestreet]

Maybe it'd be better if the US were a society where you didn't need guns, problem is, everyone doesn't want to put the effort into making a better society.

What I would do is not prosecute crime.

 

[1srelluc]

Maybe it'd be better if the US were a society where you didn't need guns, problem is, everyone doesn't want to put the effort into making a better society.

Odd, the USA has always had plenty of gun-owners throughout it's history.....You might want to ask yourself what has changed as to the reason you need one for self-defense now more than ever.

 

[miketx]

Maybe it'd be better if the US were a society where you didn't need guns, problem is, everyone doesn't want to put the effort into making a better society.

That fantasy nonsense will never happen.