Progressives and gun control
Progressives tend to see the world as they think it ought to be rather than as it is. That leads them to think they can find a magic solution to any problem and legislate it.
They themselves are hypocritical about it. For example, Warren Buffet wants higher tax rates he says, because he pays less then his secretary. If that were really the problem all he has to do is fire the CPAs he has hired to minimize his taxes, and send a bigger check. Nothing stops him from paying more tax.
The issue of gun control* is a great example of the hypocrisy of the progressive elite. Michael Bloomberg tries his best to keep ordinary citizens from having firearms while surrounding himself with armed body guards. Does he think he needs protecting but you and I do not?
We have to work with what we have. People are an enormously diverse lot. Most are what we consider “good”, but many are not. That is reality. Why there are bad people is not the question. What to do about them is. Paraphrasing something attributed to Jesus: The bad will always be with us. Laws should be based on the reality of mankind rather then anybody's idea of how we should be.**
As long as some people feel the need to be able to defend themselves, there will be firearms. Why not make it easy for law-abiding people to defend themselves while making it harder for criminals?
* “Gun control defined: The theory that criminals who are willing to ignore laws against rape, torture, kidnapping, theft, and murder will obey a law which prohibits them from owning a firearm.” http://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/super-mo...
** I realize I am wishing something that will never be because people who make laws keep trying to mold the world rather then regulate what is.
They themselves are hypocritical about it. For example, Warren Buffet wants higher tax rates he says, because he pays less then his secretary. If that were really the problem all he has to do is fire the CPAs he has hired to minimize his taxes, and send a bigger check. Nothing stops him from paying more tax.
The issue of gun control* is a great example of the hypocrisy of the progressive elite. Michael Bloomberg tries his best to keep ordinary citizens from having firearms while surrounding himself with armed body guards. Does he think he needs protecting but you and I do not?
We have to work with what we have. People are an enormously diverse lot. Most are what we consider “good”, but many are not. That is reality. Why there are bad people is not the question. What to do about them is. Paraphrasing something attributed to Jesus: The bad will always be with us. Laws should be based on the reality of mankind rather then anybody's idea of how we should be.**
As long as some people feel the need to be able to defend themselves, there will be firearms. Why not make it easy for law-abiding people to defend themselves while making it harder for criminals?
* “Gun control defined: The theory that criminals who are willing to ignore laws against rape, torture, kidnapping, theft, and murder will obey a law which prohibits them from owning a firearm.” http://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/super-mo...
** I realize I am wishing something that will never be because people who make laws keep trying to mold the world rather then regulate what is.
But I still think that anything and everything Buffet does is driven by his own love of money and that's his primary driver... not what he says in his many self-deprecating or 'aw shucks' articles and quotations.
:)
While Buffet may have said 'I pay less taxes than my secretary,' that's very unlikely unless virtually all of his 'income' is shielded from "INCOME tax bites" in the first place (thank the same government for ENACTING those loopholes, btw...) or he might have really meant that his income Tax RATE is lower than that of his secretary and none of the mainscream media morons can think far enough to imagine that the number of DOLLARS he pays in taxes is probably a lot higher than the number of DOLLARS his secretary is on the hook for.
In either case, yep, if he thinks he's 'undertaxed,' he can damned well pay more freely, but hasn't given us any proof he's doing that, or he could lobby for flat-rate income taxes based on ALL sources of Income (salary, stock option exercises, and all other kinds of compensation), so there would be NO WAY he could pay 'less taxes than his secretary"!
Now, I don't hear of him doing either such thing, so I have concluded that the Red H of Hypocrisy should hang around HIS neck.
... clearly enough?
:D
"Gun control means using both hands."
reconcile the situation when the enemy is a
domestic terrorist....... -- j
Chris Kyle ....... with one shot?! -- j
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.
--- H.L. Mencken."
Going on my home page tonight...
Just another Obama/Krugman Memorial Quotation...
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962). So help me God may be omitted.
Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, a member of the military is to obey all LAWFUL orders. A member of the military may not be punished for disobeying an unlawful order (for instance, to shoot at civilians, foreign or domestic).
I write this because I think the vast majority of military members are completely loyal the the US and take the oath of office seriously. The oath for both officers and enlisted includes the phrase “to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Generals comprise a very small part of the military – in the US Air Force in 1988 out of about 400,000 only 400 were generals.
The military force we all need to be concerned with is the one Obama is creating as a domestic army – sort of like Hitler's brown shirts. Watch out for the losers wearing a TSA uniforms.
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