Category Archives: Quote of the Day

Quote of the day–Gun Guy

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Guns don’t stop criminals any more than they stop crime.  All gun owners have a fantasy in their head that whenever they’re threatened with their firearm, they’ll heroically pull it out, shoot at exactly the right time, and save the day.  But reality just doesn’t follow that idea– firearms are much more of a threat to everyone around them then [sic] some kind of mythical protection against evil.

Gun Guy
Guns Don’t Stop Crime– They Attract It
Email March 5, 2007
[If “Gun Guy” was really correct then police departments and the military would have no use for firearms. I can only think of three reasonable explanations for what this guy says: 1) Mental problems; 2) He’s actually on our side and is mocking the anti-gun bigots; 3) He can’t get a real job and has to make up this kind of crap to make a living.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Lord Acton

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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Lord Acton

Quote of the day–Brigitte Gabriel

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Muslims in the Arab world have a saying, “First comes Saturday then come Sunday.” Every Muslim in the Middle East knows exactly what this means. This is their way of saying that first they’ll get the Jews who observe the Sabbath on Saturday and then they’ll get the Christians who’s Sabbath is Sunday.

Brigitte Gabriel
Chapter Eight
Because They Hate
[The first half of the book is about her experience as a teenager in Southern Lebanon during the civil war. Lots of emotional stuff. I enjoyed it but would have been reluctant to recommend it because it didn’t have much in the way of facts except for the details of her very limited view of the events around her. The next quarter of the book is very factual. Good stuff. It changed my mind about recommending it for people that are pro-Muslim and need their eyes opened. That last quarter of the book gets a bit “shrill”. She says that most Democrats should be tried for treason, we shouldn’t mind having our conversations listened to or being searched without a warrant, and is rather sarcastic about the ACLU. Yeah, most Democrat politicians (and a fair number of Republicans) should be in prison for treason but the political reality is they are above the law. And I disagree with her about giving up freedoms in the name of security. But if you are going to read just one book on our war against Muslim extremists this is the one I recommend. I think I’ve read seven different books that devote at least 25% of the content to this topic. This is the easiest to read and because of her very personal experience she makes the threat from the Muslims as undeniable and as frightening as the Holocaust.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Patrick Henry

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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Patrick Henry
Speech of June 5 1788

Quote of the day–Gary Palmer

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For years liberals have misrepresented the danger of legal gun ownership and suppressed or ignored data proving legal gun ownership does not pose a danger to the public. Much to the disappointment of liberals, study after study has found that more guns do not mean more crime nor does more gun control mean less crime.

Gary Palmer
Gun rights issue about to be resurrected in Congress
Alabama Policy Institute
[Yup. Liberals are disappointed by the lack of blood in the streets but that doesn’t stop them. They do love those dances. Facts are irrelevant to their reality.

The editorial has further interesting stuff in it. I’d heard rumors in other places but Palmer elaborates on how pro-gun members of congress are attempting to flush out the pretend supporters of our RKBA. Once they are flushed it’s our job to shoot them down in the next election.–Joe]

Quote of the day–David Gerard

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A hammer, a simple tool, is not impersonal. And the more complicated tools and machines get, like guns, the more personal they get. Guns don’t like living beings. Their goal is to eliminate living beings.

David Gerard
Sketches: Set up the guns and the oatmeal
[When my gun safe starts bulging from the guns procreating I’ll believe they have become personal and have goals. Until then I’ll be more inclined to believe that David Gerard has mental problems.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Mackenzie Astin

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Guns ARE evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

Mackenzie Astin
[He’s an actor. That means he knows how to read his line but it doesn’t mean he knows anything about guns, bullets, or politics. But unfortunately because of an actors visibility they become authority figures.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Judy Bassingthwaighte

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Guns destroy and kill and they are a threat to our democracy.

Judy Bassingthwaighte
Director of Gun Free South Africa
January 24, 2006
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=129&fArticleId=3079045
[I always find projection interesting. Guns are what protect the people from a government turning tyrannical and she gets it precisely backward. I remember having a conversation with one woman who totally agreed the press was extremely biased. But she believed it was biased against liberals. Projection is just one of many tools utilized by anti-gun bigots with mental problems.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Tamara K.

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Poor Lefties; they’ve been playing on astroturf so long that they don’t know grassroots even when fed a mouthful of divot.

Tamara K.
February 27, 2007
Boomsticks: I hadn’t seen this yet…
[Yup. Just like it is a “special interest group” when the NRA, with four million members, gets it’s way on some legislative issue. But it’s “the people” that are represented by the Brady Bunch, with only a couple hundred thousand member, gets their way.–Joe]

Quote of day-R.L.

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Gravatar Kevin Baker…….Is the name of your blog “How to win friends(Converts) and influence people.com?” Nice attitude Dude! I got your ignorance hanging right here.

R.L.
February 26, 2007 2:32 pm
A comment in response to this comment by Kevin:

Well, it’s nice to finally find out where all of you “moderate” gun owners congregate. Those of you who seem to believe that there are “good” guns and “bad” guns, and that somehow you can compromise with the side that thinks that the U.S. needs to be like Japan.

I invite each and every one of you to come to my blog. I’d love to discuss the topic with you, since you don’t apparently grasp the intent of the Constitution in general, and the Bill of Rights in specific.

Let me see if I can make you understand with the short version: The other side wants them all, and will do it in a death-by-a-thousand-cuts process if that’s what it takes. The Second Amendment isn’t about hunting or “sporting use” and it never was. And if the gun ban groups are successful here, America will make Britain’s experience look like a day in Disney World.

If you don’t believe this, if you aren’t informed as to what’s going on, if you think you can “compromise” and that it’s OK to throw one group of legal gun owners under the bus so that you can keep your “bambi-zapper,” or “daffy-blaster” you’re wrong.

The sheer ignorance exhibited by most of you in this comment thread is staggering.

[Kevin is probably the least ignorant blogger I know. The irony that R.L. can claim to deduce Kevin is ignorant without having ever visited Kevin’s blog leaves me once again unable to explain it any other way that blatant bigotry. And of course this crowd of bigots don’t realize they are being bigots even as they say gun owners “are all empty scrotum shriveled dick creeps who need guns to bolster some sad sense of masculinity“.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Suzanne Hupp

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The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting.

And I know I’m not going to make very many friend saying this. But it’s about all rights. All of our rights to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys up there.

Suzanne Hupp
Testifying before congress regarding the assault weapons ban.

[No wonder Schumer, briefly seen in the video, pushed for the ban. Ms. Hupp confirmed his worst fears.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Tony Pacheco

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Two years ago I didn’t even know what a charging handle was. Today I am a NRA and JPFO member and train on a regular basis. I got the message loud and clear that I am responsible for my own safety. The Katrina webcams and blogs that skipped CNN beat me over the head with it.

Thus, my AWB glass right now is half-full. Let’s just do a Zumbo Roasting on Congress and call it a day.

Tony Pacheco
Friday, February 23, 2007 12:48 PM
In email sent to insightstraining AT yahoogroups.com
[We, as gun owners, can help with these conversions. Enable others to talk about guns by you talking about guns or displaying a target from your latest trip to the range. Enable others to make the change of state by offering to take them to the range and let them use your firearms.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Michael Badnarik

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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a ‘hot button’ issue, this is definitely it. Don’t even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.

Michael Badnarik
Michael Badnarik on Gun Control
[If current trends continue in the race for nomination for 2008 presidential candidates I probably will vote Libertarian.–Joe]

Quote of the day–H. L. Mencken

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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken
[I’ve been reading about the proposed law regarding an “assault weapon” ban. I note with a certain amount of amusement Congress-critter McCarthy specifically calls out the Olympic Arms PCR as an “assault weapon” in the proposed legislation. I wonder if she knows “PCR” stands for Politically Correct Rifle.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Larry Flynt

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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

Larry Flynt
[In some ways I’m envious.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton

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Nothing is as debilitating and disorienting as blowing chunks of heart, spine, and brain out of your opponent. Any goal other than a pure physical stop is crap IMO. I don’t rely on my opponent being a pussy.

Greg Hamilton
Chief self defense instructor at Insights Training Center
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:22 PM
From the email list “insightstraining” @ yahoogroups.com
[Regarding points of aim in a gun fight.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Judy Bassingthwaighte

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If we can’t control guns we should ban it.

Judy Bassingthwaighte
Director of Gun Free South Africa
February 19, 2007
If we can’t control guns we should ban it

[English is her second language so give her a break on the grammer. But still the concept is totally wacked. If you can’t “control” them then you sure aren’t going to be able to successfully ban them. She gets raked over the coals pretty good in the comments to her blog posting. It probably won’t do any good in educating her, but at least it can enlighten others.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Lee Roop

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Last week, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld Alabama’s 1998 sex law. The court said states have a “legitimate rational basis” for making rules to preserve public morality.

That law bans nude dancing, limits where strip clubs and X-rated theaters can go, and bans the sale of any device whose main purpose is to stimulate human genitals.

Hmmm. Does that make Viagra a sex toy?

Lee Roop
February 18, 2007
I call a cease-fire in the war on sex toys
Huntsville Times
[I’m reminded of a conversation I had with Barb and Xenia yesterday. Xenia told us of one of the Moscow Idaho high school teachers commented to her about her older brother James and discussions in government class. Paraphrasing, “Sometimes he was ultra conservative. Sometimes he would take a completely liberal position. You just never knew.” As I told Barb and Xenia, “Some people are very confused by freedom.” And I could have added that most people don’t want freedom. I wonder how well the folks in Alabama would get along with Xenia when she posts about celebrating Vagina Day. It’s probably a good thing I didn’t take her to Space Camp in Huntsville during the middle of February.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Sam Paredes

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We are adamantly opposed to that because there would be a break in the chain of evidence so it could not be used in court. If I were a gangbanger, I would go to a shooting range and pick up a bunch of casings and leave them at the scenes of crimes.

Sam Paredes
Executive director of Gun Owners of California, a Sacramento-based lobbying group.
February 16, 2007
Bills target criminals’ use of guns
[I find it interesting that of the five articles I found (Officials support tougher gun law, California gun control bills win endorsement, Bills target criminals’ use of guns, Officials Endorse Gun Control Bills To Help Deter Gang Violence, Top cops, mayor want new gun laws) on this topic only one included a quote anywhere this negative about the proposals. Some didn’t include anything from the pro-freedom side at all. And of course none of the article titles are the least bit negative.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Ken Blackwell

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Gun control measures, from the slave gun bans of the 1700s South to the Brady Bill regulations of the 1990s have unfairly targeted black Americans and have worked to curtail a disproportionate number of their constitutional rights. Access to firearms was understood by our founders and many early American jurists as an essential aspect of full US citizenship, and it was for this reason that the Black Codes established after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment — which constitutionally abolished slavery — prevented black freemen from owning guns.

Ken Blackwell
Second Amendment Freedoms Aided the Civil Rights Movement