Comments on: How many lies can the Tennessean’s editorial board repeat

By: Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:08:24 +0000

“Even worse, some have proposed allowing more guns on campuses, under the Wild West rationale that if every student and teacher is armed, they can defend themselves against a lone, irrational shooter.”

“Ah, the myth of the wild west.”

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0717hill0717.html

The “wild west” was’nt as “wild”as most people these days believe. Even with damn near everyone armed crime was very low, something to take note of antis. That’s also the reason why banks, trains, and stagecoachs were robbed by gangs of outlaws, they needed the numbers to, hopefully, intimidate the locals into not fighting them which didnt always work as the foiled holdups in Northfield Minnesota by the James gang in 1876 and Coffeyville Kansas by the Daltons in 1892 show.

Another thing about the “wild” west is that criminals were delt with quickly and harshly, not coddled and cried over. If you murdered someone you stretched a rope, period. Usually within 30 days of being sentenced. And prisons and jails were hellholes. More reasons why crime was low in those days.

I think a “wild west” rationale is what this country needs.

By: Justin Buist

Justin Buist — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:15:56 +0000

Justin, your site is still down.

I haven’t noticed, and I’m still getting visitors, so that’s really odd.

About 14 months ago I moved servers which left me with a little less control over my hosting. If you go to justinbuist.org you get a temporary page with a link to the actual blog. Going to http://www.justinbuist.org/blog/ will get you there directly.

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:12:27 +0000

Justin, your site is still down. I miss it. I have half a mind to PM you, over at The High Road.

By: Alcibiades McZombie

Alcibiades McZombie — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:10:35 +0000

Brady seems to support the 15 magazine limit in NJ…

By: Sigivald

Sigivald — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:00:14 +0000

Also, re. the AWB, it banned only new manufacture on those cosmetic grounds.

It did not affect ownership or use in any way at all.

(My working assumption is that the author is so ignorant he’s confusing “assault weapons” for purposes of the AWB with “machine guns”, and is thus also ignorant of the NFA’s continuing force as law uninterrupted since 1934.)

By: Ron W

Ron W — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:21:41 +0000

“Response to Virginia Tech has not gone far enough” Yep, officialdom is still keeping unarmed victims and forcing then to stay that way for the next deranged criminal who decides to commit mayhem. That’s being accomplices for would-be criminals and mass-murderers.

By: Weer'd Beard

Weer'd Beard — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:05:22 +0000

You’re going to have to check on this, as I’ve never worked with ebay, but Cho bought his Glock mags on ebay and if my sources are correct before ebay banned all gun-related items, all magazines had to be 10-rounds or less. This means Cho went into that classroom with two factory 15 round glock 19 magazines and the rest were 10-rounders. So this meant that most of the shooting was 100% brady compliant.

I have no idea with NIU asshole had besides a low-capacity pump shotgun, as the new reports of his arms changes from article to article.

So all the PSH on the AWB and “Assault Weapons” is just that….

By: Boyd

Boyd — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:56:01 +0000

Minor nit-pick-y point: Virginia did, in fact, have a mechanism for reporting mental defectives to NICS when the Virginia Tech murderer bought his guns. In fact, Virginia was and is one of the best states at reporting mental defectives to NICS.

It’s just that the Virginia rules in place at the time the VT murderer was adjudicated to be a nut didn’t quite match up with Federal law on who is a prohibited person. He should have been reported, and the mechanism was in place for reporting him, it’s just that the criteria for reporting him was incorrect at the time, so he didn’t get into the system.

At least that’s how I understand it.

By: Rustmeister

Rustmeister — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:43:21 +0000

The Tennesseean needs to be taken to the woodshed by as many people as possible.

By: ben

ben — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:39:48 +0000

Argh, stupid blockquotes. Well my comment was that:

Not only that, but Kazmierczak having a CCW permit would have changed things how?

By: ben

ben — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:39:11 +0000

Bills such as one before the Alabama legislature would allow guns on state college campuses if the students are properly licensed � as was Kazmierczak.Flat out lie. No such license to carry exists in Illinois, it is one of two states without a handgun carry law. The idiots may have confused Illinois FOID cards with handgun carry permits.

Not only that, but Kazmierczak having a CCW permit would have changed things how?

By: Justin Buist

Justin Buist — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:30:40 +0000

Despite the outcry last April after the worst mass killing in U.S. history,

Rudy Giuliani could probably set them straight on the “worst mass killing in U.S. history.”

As bad as VT was it still wasn’t the most deadly school killing spree either. That title is held by Bath Michigan.