tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post5903117947299243395..comments2024-03-19T08:42:45.690-04:00Comments on The Delaware Libertarian: Guns and meSteven H. Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-2982361752938292712013-01-11T19:30:24.755-05:002013-01-11T19:30:24.755-05:00It is the Cassandras who are deadly murderous in t...It is the Cassandras who are deadly murderous in their craven fear of physical objects. Every time I see a subway or school shooting, etc. I think "not one person in that whole crowd had a gun or other weapon to stop the violence."<br /><br />Those who want weapons better persuade all the Cassandras they know to go to a local shooting range and tou.ch..ch..chh the terrifying things and actually fire them, and learn the basics of gun safety. They will become able to think on the subject.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-50473945165620148602012-12-31T10:14:05.722-05:002012-12-31T10:14:05.722-05:00In my early years, I was raised backstage by actor...In my early years, I was raised backstage by actors and theater types in the '60s. We danced for joy, sprung for blue crabs and had a celebratory feast when D.C. passed their handgun ban. <br /><br /> In 1992 I wasn't celebrating D.C.'s gun laws. The Chickens had come home to roost, and your's truly was walking the projects with a .38, a badge, and a stout applewood baton. <br /><br /> We were warned by Thomas Paine many, many years ago that horrid mischief would ensue if half the world were deprived of arms. <br /><br /> Other than the Tucson tragedy, mass killings with firearms in the last fifty years overwhelmingly occur in places where the law abiding cannot carry guns. <br /><br /> Some anti-gunners are sincere and their values are formed by life experiences. For too many that means believing whatever their favorite media source tells them. <br /><br /> Others that carry themselves and want to do deny citizens the same right like two revered 'liberal' Senators I can think of are simply evil. <br /><br /> Bumper sticker wisdon: "It's about control, not guns"Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13333758975216138768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-40391727838153092062012-12-20T10:18:53.006-05:002012-12-20T10:18:53.006-05:00I started to comment and it turned into a post. I...I started to comment and it turned into a post. I hate when that happens.<br /><br />Anyway... <a href="http://www.delawareliberal.net/2012/12/20/guns-me-and-steve-newton-or-city-mouse-meet-country-mouse/" rel="nofollow">Here it is</a>pandorahttp://delawareliberal.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-63206652158728597452012-12-20T06:27:27.858-05:002012-12-20T06:27:27.858-05:00Wow: We have a laisse-faire economy(for you AMERIC...Wow: We have a laisse-faire economy(for you AMERICAN that means "Leave Well enough alone). Our economy, laws, and policies to assist people are purely based largely in protecting the capitalist.<br /><br />This is purely, largely poppycock. The point about our limited access to mental health treatment has some merit though. And soon the Government will know if you seek treatment. I wonder if free care where the authorities are told about it will increase or decrease the amount of care provides to those in need.NCSDadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-46022877670147339152012-12-19T17:46:29.558-05:002012-12-19T17:46:29.558-05:00You have been "regulated" in the past be...You have been "regulated" in the past because you write voluminous amounts of material that is never on topic and contains identifying information on individuals that I am not comfortable with publishing. If necessary, you will be moderated again. This is the second time I have warned you about that.<br /><br />The current comment at least has the virtue of being on topic.<br /><br />If my blog strikes you as rant rather than information, then by all means feel free not to read it.<br /><br />I will take your criticisms of my writing for what they are worth.Steven H. Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-88958813367620046392012-12-19T16:56:44.543-05:002012-12-19T16:56:44.543-05:00Dear Steve,
Your blog and story above sound more...Dear Steve, <br /><br />Your blog and story above sound more like a personal rant, then any messages being conveyed. I myself had served in the regular U.S. Army and the U.S. Army reserves. I myself am a third generation U.S. Army Vet with three honorable discharges. <br /><br />Although I don't write as well as you of course Steve...<br /><br />You are saying so many things, that you are like the bible. I could pick out any one sentence above or any paragraph and speak volumes about anything from 100 to 200 topics you write about above.<br /><br />Although you know all the names of "WEAPONS" deployed, reployed, and employed, your ENGLISH teacher had failed miserably in helping you with your focus in creative writing and conveying one single thought in writing.<br /><br />You are certainly not a sociologist. You are certainly not a psychologist. <br /><br />The European sociologists & psychologists had focused on many factors of violence and guns over the last 30 to 40 years. Dr. Hienze Layman and others have figured out that many of the spree shooting (individuals going postal for AMERICANS) are due to a breakdown over months and years in the individuals psych. And that 90% of those engaging in violence of any nature can be traced back to being bullied, Work place harassed, or mobbed. <br /><br />We have a laisse-faire economy(for you AMERICAN that means "Leave Well enough alone). Our economy, laws, and policies to assist people are purely based largely in protecting the capitalist. To put it plainly: bullying, mobbing, work place harassment etc. are going unregulated, not the "GUNS". AMERICA is all about profits...<br /><br />That is not an excuse to hurt anybody. And it is certainly not a reason to punish those who enjoy GUNS, hunting, or weapons. <br /><br />I myself do not own any guns, nor have I ever owned any guns. Like you I grew up around guns. I had my first BB gun around the same age as you steve. <br /><br />I think we need better laws preventing work place harassment, Mobbing of individuals, and bullying of vulnerable people. The fanatics targeting vulnerable people need to be regulated. We need better laws put in place to discipline those targeting and engaging in bullying, mobbing & harassing individuals. <br /><br />The European have it figured out. Our mental health clinicians need to better trained to identify vulnerable individuals being targeted. It's not the guns! In AMERICA, it takes a psycholigist, psychiatrist or counselor three years to identify if somebody had been mobbed at work, harassed at work, or bullied at work. That's a do not pass in my book and a absolute failure in my book. They are just not trained properly... <br /><br />Now that's the crime...<br /><br />(And Stop regulating my comments)<br />Thanks for allowing me to express my freedom of speech through the Freedom of the press steve...DANIEL E. SHAFFER JR.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-793037089602490442012-12-18T23:06:51.214-05:002012-12-18T23:06:51.214-05:00delacrat you flunk reading comprehension.
I was s...delacrat you flunk reading comprehension.<br /><br />I was speaking about the perpetrators of 9/11 in the same fashion that people speak about the "gun nuts," not the guns or the box cutters.<br /><br />Geez. Get a grip.Steven H. Newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-344199039140957332012-12-18T22:46:45.713-05:002012-12-18T22:46:45.713-05:00"Do you recall the anti-Muslim backlash (that...<i>"Do you recall the anti-Muslim backlash (that has never gone away) after 9/11? The calls to put people into camps? The willingness to do anything, even to accept the shredding of our basic constitutional rights, in order to feel safe again? Calmer voices said, wait, remember that it is not ALL Muslims,....."</i><br /><br />Your comparison of gun owners and gun violence and Muslims to 9/11 is erroneous.<br /><br />While gun owners have used guns to kill, the 9/11 hijackers did not use Islam to kill; they used box cutter knives. That's why sharp implements are banned on planes, and not Muslims.<br /><br />[Since]<i>"99.999% of the people who own 30-round magazines will never fire a shot in anger at anybody."</i><br /><br />[And]<i>" ...by and large we have accepted the idea that taking rights and privileges away from people who have not abused them is not a good thing."</i> [but a] <i>" prohibitive cost to personal freedom."</i><br /><br />Applying your gun logic to box-cutter knives, since 99.999% of the people who own box-cutters would never hijack a plane, as a general rule every airline passenger who has not abused a box-cutter should be allowed "the right and privilege" of a box-cutter as a carry-on item; to do otherwise would be a "prohibitive cost to freedom."<br /><br />Sounds insane, but that's American gun policy.delacratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-42092905726627625762012-12-18T22:01:39.639-05:002012-12-18T22:01:39.639-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.DANIEL E. SHAFFER JR.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-47746324152112246752012-12-18T14:14:52.059-05:002012-12-18T14:14:52.059-05:00Thought I'd give you some firepower to deal wi...Thought I'd give you some firepower to deal with Cassandra.<br /><br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Homoffendersbyage.svg<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Causes_of_death_by_age_group.png<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firearmsources.svg<br /><br />They are all graphs, btw. Easier on the eyes... <br /><br />kavipshttp://kavips.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com