tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post7979508202826136925..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: Quite Possibly Obama's Stupidest StatementSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-40675148000805534602016-01-16T13:20:37.343-05:002016-01-16T13:20:37.343-05:00You will note this is a comment to a 10 month old ...You will note this is a comment to a 10 month old post, which is why it didn't appear instantly. Blogger only offers one option in this regard, which is that all posts older than 14 days are flagged for moderation, or else I'd never see them. <br /><br />Needless to say, I disagree with you. There is no data that shows mass shootings are getting more common. The guys who research this for a living say that. Furthermore, there's no scenario that makes sense to me where punishing the law abiding gun owners does anything. Are you going to punish someone for having their home broken into and their property stolen? There's no such thing as a safe that can't be broken into. Read the specs on safes sold to the DOD - they're rated in minutes it takes them to be broken into. <br /><br />I hate being lied to, which is what Obama was doing, and I hate illogical, straw man arguments; again what Obama was doing. <br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-27943046415999980552016-01-16T10:42:28.673-05:002016-01-16T10:42:28.673-05:00It's obvious you aren't missing the point ...It's obvious you aren't missing the point on part of the conversation Graybeard. But when you exaggerate the intention in the gun control debate, then you're doing the same thing you say offends you about Obama's comments. There is a national discussion on what we can do as a society with massive amounts of weapons available to the public, to eliminate or at least limit further this trend of mass shootings that are becoming too much like normal. Suggesting that those who don't share your views are idiot voters tends to distract from your credibility. People are just trying to find a sensible way to respond and doing nothing doesn't strike many people as sensible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-85963224805787761612016-01-16T10:26:29.953-05:002016-01-16T10:26:29.953-05:00Really didn't hear him imply legal purchases. ...Really didn't hear him imply legal purchases. Just using rudimentary logic, one should realize he's talking about the open availability and subsequent abundance of guns which ends up making them available in some neighborhoods on the streets to anyone interested in pursuing an illegal purchase.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-89073268037850573942015-03-11T18:47:06.903-04:002015-03-11T18:47:06.903-04:00He was definitely off prompter. He was asking the...He was definitely off prompter. He was asking the crowd if they had ever played "scissors, paper, stone". <br /><br />I wonder where they say that? <br /><br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-30089947174345168442015-03-11T12:50:18.303-04:002015-03-11T12:50:18.303-04:00I wonder if he was talking "freehand", o...I wonder if he was talking "freehand", or if his speech writer really is that stupid? We know he is.<br /><br />Too bad someone in the crowd didn't remind him it's easier to buy a gun from the BATFE than to buy a vegetable (unless you're speaking of the Vegetable-in-Chief - bought and sold many times over the years.).Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-55686997499044153722015-03-10T21:14:09.168-04:002015-03-10T21:14:09.168-04:00To those who think I missed the point that in Da H...To those who think I missed the point that in Da Hood it's easier to get a gun than a book or veggie miss <i>my</i> point. <br /><br />I don't dispute that, but what he's after is demonizing legal gun owners and shutting down legal gun stores by conflating those illegal guns legal guns in the idiot voters' minds. Punish the innocent, law abiding businesses and gun owners for the crimes being committed by other people. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-38914916482476343732015-03-10T10:51:55.647-04:002015-03-10T10:51:55.647-04:00It may be true that there are few stores in "...It may be true that there are few stores in "da hood". But ask yourself if you were a store owner in Ferguson and they burned your store down after looting it would you rebuild? Ask why on this 50th anniversary of Selma why none of those people and MSM who showed up would dare spend a Friday or Saturday evening walking around alone in Selma. There is this popular fiction that Blacks are forced into ghettos. Nothing could be further from the truth. All of these "ghettos" were once very nice nieghborhoods before they were "da hood". Everyone knows why they changed for the worse but as Holder said we can't have a truthful discussion about race in America. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-47182091800575762062015-03-10T09:09:48.120-04:002015-03-10T09:09:48.120-04:00I bet he's never been to any of those places h...I bet he's never been to any of those places himself, so its all hearsay.<br /><br />Of course there are places this is true. Ever see a "midnight fruit stand" in a bad neighborhood where there's no street lights due to copper theft?<br /><br />Machine guns in bars? Well, there's probably neighborhoods in Chicago where that would improve the atmosphere.<br /><br />Oh...wait...he's implying there are places its legally easier to buy guns than vegetables. Not in the US, except maybe at a flea market.<br /><br />As Bugs Bunny says, "Whadda Maroon."Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-82835503615024690852015-03-10T09:05:14.031-04:002015-03-10T09:05:14.031-04:00I had a kid I was training up in San Jose tell me ...I had a kid I was training up in San Jose tell me there were neighborhoods where you could buy an AK for $100 cash. I pulled into the nearest ATM, made a withdrawal and said lets go.<br /><br />End of debate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-19771686334225891062015-03-10T07:18:34.629-04:002015-03-10T07:18:34.629-04:00Well the man had a point, and it's one that yo...Well the man had a point, and it's one that you missed. If you go into the "West End"(Da' Hood) of Louisville Ky. tonight it is a fact that you will have an easer time buying a weapon and ammo on the "black market" than you will buying ANY kind of food. That's because in Louisville at least, the only stores IN the "West End" sell liquor, beer, smokes and cheep wine. You'd have to drive at minimum 15 to 20 miles AWAY from the "West End" to buy food. When Obama said that it is easier for a black kid in the hood to buy a gun than it is for him to buy an apple he told the truth. (for once) It is also easier for that same 13 year old black kid in the hood, to find Pot, Crack, Blow, Ammo, or a pack of Kools than it is to find a carrot. That's the truth. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-65361100432624403462015-03-10T03:51:10.967-04:002015-03-10T03:51:10.967-04:00Well, he is talking to low information voters who ...Well, he is talking to low information voters who believe all this claptrap, doncha know.<br />The rest of us don't listen to him at all.Tewshoozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564577459982968771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-69191567758529622642015-03-10T03:37:55.198-04:002015-03-10T03:37:55.198-04:00His words have no reflection on reality, and attem...His words have no reflection on reality, and attempting to analyze them as such is pointless. Everything this administration does is a calculated, manipulative, agitprop misinformation campaign intended to do one, or several of the following:<br /><br />1. Demonize Whites as irredeemable racists<br />2. Disarm the citizenry<br />3. Consolidate/transfer all power (personal, local, and state) to DC, esp. to bureaucrats who can't be unelected.<br />4. Eliminate national sovereignty<br />5. Eliminiate Whites as a racial majority<br />6. Enflame racial tensions between Whites and Blacks/Hispanics<br /><br />Soviet Union 2.0 is my shorthand for what they want. Of course, all of this is impossible without our craven, traitorous media. They are happy to do president boyfriend's bidding, bury his scandals, and enthusiastically push their own Marxist narratives. <br /><br />Obama's political career was launched in the living room of two unrepentant domestic terrorists who proudly proclaimed their desire to incite a "violent communist revolution". When plan A didn't work, they took over the DNC instead.Petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-28296927965774027402015-03-09T21:19:06.347-04:002015-03-09T21:19:06.347-04:00Most of the murders in cities like Chicago that ar...Most of the murders in cities like Chicago that are related to gangs or drugs are committed with a gun that was stolen not bought. These murders are NOT because a gun was easy to buy. The thug who stole the gun intended to use it if not immediately he knew he would sooner or later settle a score with the stolen gun. The correct way to make these cities safer is to adopt Rudy Giuliani's methods in New York City. Go after every crime, go after every criminal, go into every nieghborhood especially the bad nieghborhoods. If "Black lives really mattered" the politicians and black leaders would be all over this. But they are not. The politicians simply want to use it to achieve their long held goals of gun control. The black leaders simply want to get more money either by sueing cities, cops and citizens who may have defended themselves or by extorting money from companies and individuals to absolve them of racist claims. It has never been about saving lives or preventing murders.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com