Comments on: Castle doctrine come home to roost

By: Gideon

Gideon — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:15:16 +0000

OH SNAP!

By: Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:14:10 +0000

Q: What do you call people who count on the government to keep them safe?

A: “Victims”.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:49:38 +0000

It’s not about the $5, its about the affront to your personal liberty and dignity that a violent criminal presents.

I would encourage you to read the essay “A Nation of Cowards” from which the following is proffered:

“It is impossible to address the problem of rampant crime without talking about the moral responsibility of the intended victim. Crime is rampant because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it, submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back, immediately, then and there, where it happens. Crime is not rampant because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors are too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd technicalities. The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers.”

By: home defense shotgun

home defense shotgun — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:53:41 +0000

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By: SPO

SPO — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:48:23 +0000

You know, it’s easy to laugh at that, but there are a lot of kids that were raised on that philosophy who have kept us free. I have a lot more respect for people like that than twerpy ivy leaguers who bash America. I read something in college that I have never forgotten. A Harvard guy was subject to the draft, so he had starved himself to come in below weight. And he talked about his twinge of shame as his inferiors (i.e., Irish kids from Southie) were led off to the Army. That a worm like that could talk about “inferiors” disgusted me. I have two sons, I would be bitterly disappointed if one of my boys ever did something like that.

This is the greatest nation that has ever been–by far. We are lucky that the “Guns, Guts and God” crowd is, fundamentally, on our side.

By: Gideon

Gideon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:31:18 +0000

Well, hello, imapd. You’re new to this blog.

But, anyway, funny story

By: imapd

imapd — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:46:10 +0000

i was deep in VA this weekend, drove by a little church on a small back road. sign outside read:

WHAT MAKES AMERICA GREAT
GUNS. GOD. GUTS.

*eh-hem*

yeah!

By: SPO

SPO — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:40:08 +0000

I am not mentally ill, and you never can say until you’re in a situation, but I think I’d probably feel like I did the world a favor.

By: Mark Bennett

Mark Bennett — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:49:31 +0000

I’m just saying that if you have never killed anyone you have no idea how you would react, so your big tough talk about “sleeping well” shows either ignorance or mental illness.

It’s not that you should feel guilty, but that, if you’re a mentally-healthy human being, all of the evidence suggests that you would.

If you were the kind of person who would kill someone over $5 and sleep soundly afterwards, you’d probably belong (and eventually wind up in) either in prison or under heavy psychotropic meds.

Otherwise, I’m with you: Stop those who would use the threat of violence to take our hard-earned money. All of them. Including the government.

By: SPO

SPO — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:26:00 +0000

So why should I feel guilty? Don’t I have the right to fight to keep my money? And if you are going to fight a criminal, you have to assume he is going to try to kill you before he loses. Accepting that reality does not make me a sociopath, it makes me a realist. No one has a right to threaten me with violence or attack me in order to get what I have worked hard for. And I am not going to lose sleep over fighting to defend myself–even if the guy winds up dead.

People who use violence to take other people’s money are absolutely disgusting human beings. And, to be honest, I don’t really care what happens to them when they work their evil trade. As a society, we need to make sure that these predators are stopped.