FREEDOM FIGHTER

Howard is being reasonable again. Let us not all lose our heads now. Let us tone it down. Oh some nutjob out of the blue shoots some peeps and everyone starts blaming the right wing and such.

Let us all calm down.

The left wing talkers are as bad as the right wing talkers.

Let's be honest: Journalists often use military terminology in describing campaigns. We talk about the air war, the bombshells, targeting politicians, knocking them off, candidates returning fire or being out of ammunition. So we shouldn't act shocked when politicians do the same thing. Obviously, Palin should have used dots or asterisks on her map. But does anyone seriously believe she was trying to incite violence? http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-08/gabrielle-giffords-shooting-dont-blame-sarah-palin/?cid=columnists

Old Howard just being so, so goddamnably reasonable again. Why it is not right wing pundits and such prodding, goading, urging these wackos on.

I mean the wackos will always be with us.

FUCK YOU HOWARD!!!!

Angle: I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This not for law enforcement. This is for us. And in fact when you read that Constitution and the founding fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny. This is for us when our government becomes tyrannical... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/16/sharron-angle-floated-2nd_n_614003.html

The Second Amendment never had anything to do with sportsmen and all that, our Founding Fathers were ensuring the rights of individuals to protect themselves from their own government.

There will come a time when they won’t let you buy a gun

Get out there and buy a gun right now before it is too late.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UpxC2jthbo

Law enforcement officials have confirmed the gun that was used in the attack at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ public event in Tucson, Arizona, Friday was bought legally. The shooter, allegedly 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner,  reportedly fired on Giffords from about four feet away, sending her to the hospital with critical wounds, injuring 18 people in total and killing six, including a child and a federal judge. The gun was purchased on November 30 at Sportman’s Warehouse, in Tucson, and was bought along with at least one additional handgun.  http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/newsmaker/politics/?cid=topic:cheatsheet4#cheatrow_23027

Read it at The Washington Post

Rush Limbaugh:

“You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.”   http://howcanpeoplebesostupid.com/?p=1135

This is about chaos. This is why it's called Operation Chaos! It's not called Operation Save Hillary. It's not called Operation Nominate Obama. It's called Operation Chaos! The dream end... I mean, if people say what's your exit strategery, the dream end of this is that this keeps up to the convention and that we have a replay of Chicago 1968, with burning cars, protests, fires, literal riots, and all of that. That's the objective here.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/did-limbaugh-incite-viole_b_100586.html

5/12/08

GLENN: Chris Cox from the National Rifle Association is here.  Hello, Chris…

GLENN:  He actually, in a recent court deposition Bloomberg said he believed, "The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights gives you the right to keep and bear arms but in a recent brief to the Supreme Court Mr. Bloomberg’s attorneys argued that the amendment was not intended to vest arm power in the citizens acting outside of any governmental military effort, either federal or state."  Jeez, Chris, I mean, how do these people believe that the founding fathers that were afraid of out-of-control governments didn’t want people to have guns outside of the government?

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/9902/

I was in a gun shop not too long ago looking to arm myself in preparation for the coming zombie apocalypse (better known as Easter). They didn't have what I was looking for, so I left empty-handed. Before doing so, however, I was treated to an earful by the guy helping me. When I commented that they didn't seem to have much of a selection, he quickly told me that their guns had been flying off the shelves since it first began to look like Obama might win the election. Not realizing what I was walking into, I stupidly asked him why he thought that was happening. He went on a rant that would have made Glenn Beck proud about how Obama was going to abolish the Second Amendment and make gun ownership a crime. He breathlessly told me that Mississippians were buying guns in record numbers while they still could. I left the store wondering whether racism had as much to do with this as fears about gun control. http://www.atheistrev.com/2009/04/glenn-becks-idiocy-has-real.html

5/19/08

"But the clear meaning of the Second Amendment has not stopped those who want to punish firearms owners – and those who make and sell firearms – for the actions of criminals. It seems like every time there is a particularly violent crime, the anti-gun activists demand yet another restriction on the Second Amendment. I opposed the ban on so-called ‘assault weapons,’ which was first proposed after a California schoolyard shooting. It makes no sense to ban a class of firearms based on cosmetic features. I have opposed waiting periods for gun purchases."

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/10161/

Dozens of Second Amendment rights activists holstered their handguns and slung unloaded rifles over their shoulders Monday at a gun rights rally in northern Virginia, while hundreds of like-minded but unarmed counterparts converged in the nation's capital.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/19/gun-rally-second-amendmen_n_542872.html#s82466&title=%27State%20Of%20War%20With%20The%20People%27

Aaaaaaaaaaaah shucks, them radio boys are just funnin', right Howard?

In the U.S. for 2006, there were 30,896 deaths from firearms, distributed as follows by mode of death: Suicide 16,883; Homicide 12,791; Accident 642; Legal Intervention 360; Undetermined 220. This makes firearms injuries one of the top ten causes of death in the U.S. The number of firearms-related injuries in the U.S., both fatal and non-fatal, increased through 1993, declined to 1999, and has remained relatively constant since. However, firearms injuries remain a leading cause of death in the U.S., particularly among youth (CDC, 2001) (CDC, 2006).

The number of non-fatal injuries is considerable--over 200,000 per year in the U.S. Many of these injuries require hospitalization and trauma care. A 1994 study revealed the cost per injury requiring admission to a trauma center was over $14,000. The cumulative lifetime cost in 1985 for gunshot wounds was estimated to be $911 million, with $13.4 billion in lost productivity. (Mock et al, 1994) The cost of the improper use of firearms in Canada was estimated at $6.6 billion per year. (Chapdelaine and Maurice, 1996)

http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNSTAT.html

So we are just talking about a few nutjobs--or is it a few million nutjobs?

Nov 5, 2009: An Army psychiatrist who opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding 31 others, was shot but captured alive, military officials said late Thursday.

Cone also said that a female officer who was thought to be the first responder shot Hasan and was herself  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33678801/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

June 6, 2009: An 88-year-old gunman with a virulently anti-Semitic past fatally shot a security guard inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31208188/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

April 16, 2007: Virginia Tech is the commonly used name for the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, located in Blacksburg, Va., southwest of Roanoke. Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, it now has more than 25,000 full-time students attending eight colleges and graduate programs on its 2,600-acre campus. On April 16, 2007, a student, Seung-Hui Cho, opened fire in a dormitory and classroom building on the Virginia Tech campus, killing 32 people before committing suicide.

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/v/virginia_polytechnic_institute_and_state_university/index.html

January 1979 — Brenda Spencer, 17, (shoots) …eight children and a police officer were injured, and two men lost their lives..

March 2, 1987 — Nathan Ferris, 12, (pulled out a pistol, shot a classmate and blew his own brains out.

November 15th, 1995 — Jamie Rouse, 17, (shoots two teachers in the head and kills female student)

February 2, 1996 — Barry Loukaitis, 14, dressed up like a gunslinger from the Wild West and went into his algebra class in Moses Lake, Washington. Concealed in his long duster were two pistols, seventy-eight rounds of ammunition, and a high-powered rifle. (Three dead).

February 2, 1996 — David Dubose, Jr., 16, killed a teacher in a school hallway in Atlanta, Georgia.

January 27, 1997 — Tronneal Mangum, 13, shot and killed another student in front of their school.

February 19, 1997 — Evan Ramsey, 16, went to Bethel High School in Alaska with a shotgun. (One dead, two wounded)

At 11:30 a.m. on April 20, 1999, they hid weapons and bombs beneath their trench coats and then ran through the school, yelling and shooting. When they reached the library, they cornered and killed their largest number of victims before turning their guns on themselves. It all happened quickly, but with devastating impact. After police got into the building, they counted 34 casualties. Fifteen students died in the melee, including the shooters.

October 1, 1997 — Luke Woodham, 16, worshipped Adolph Hitler, (2 dead seven wounded)

December 1, 1997 — Michael Carneal, 14,  (shot and killed three girls)… and five other students were wounded.

March 24, 1998 - Andrew Golden, 11, and his gun buddy, Mitchell Johnson, 13, dressed in camouflage fatigues and then gunned down fifteen people at the Westside Middle School playground in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Five died,

April 24, 1998 — Andrew J. Wurst, 14, …took a pistol into the eighth-grade graduation dance in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and killed a popular teacher. Then he opened fire into the crowd, wounding another teacher and two classmates before he ran out.

May 21, 1998 — Kipland Kinkel, 15, (shot nine, killing two with semiautomatic rifle.)

April 20, 1999, (Columbine)…they hid weapons and bombs beneath their trench coats and then ran through the school, yelling and shooting. When they reached the library, they cornered and killed their largest number of victims before turning their guns on themselves. It all happened quickly, but with devastating impact. After police got into the building, they counted 34 casualties. Fifteen students died in the melee, including the shooters

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/kids1/index_1.html

Save the children Now……………http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjdowef1oKE&feature=player_embedded#