In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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Anyone remember Cambodia? 2 million brutally killed under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in 1977/78, and the United States did nothing.
The slaughter in Afghanistan, of mostly women and children, if we pull out too soon, will make Cambodia look like a walk in the park.
Scott Getty looks like he's got a nice young girl there. Wonder how he would feel if the Islamists invade the U.S. and force her to wear a burka from head to toe?
Hey, it's "non-interventionism" don't ya know???
Father of fallen Long Island Marine Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. pleads to end war in Afghanistan
"'Get the rest of those boys out of there,' Buckley Sr. said. 'He had only four months left on his tour. There’s no purpose for us being there.'”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/father-fallen-long-island-marine-lance-cpl-gregory-buckley-jr-pleads-war-afghanistan-article-1.1135077