Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Congress woman Gabby Giifords has been shot.

Sounded a little like Hawkeye or similar

I read what you write.

What makes it right for a judge or a congressman to get shot but not your wife? Somebody loves them as much or more than you do your wife.

If you wish to address me in a respectful manner I will return the favor, otherwise I shall ignore your insolence.

My wife does not hunger after coercive power over others. She does not claim a monopoly over the initiation of force. She does not commit acts that would be instantly identified as crimes if they came from any source other than government. She does useful things for which she is voluntarily compensated by people who freely choose to hire her.

In short, she is not a politician.

She is morally superior to a politician.

(A tapeworm is morally superior to a politician: it does survive parasitically on its host's essence, the same way a politician does, but at least it's not corrupt.)

I'm not going to say it was right for this particular congresswoman and judge to be shot; but however right or wrong it was, it was more wrong for the other people and the little girl to be shot.

I'm not going to say it was right for this particular congresswoman and judge to be shot; but however right or wrong it was, it was more wrong for the other people and the little girl to be shot.

(A tapeworm is morally superior to a politician: it does survive parasitically on its host's essence, the same way a politician does, but at least it's not corrupt.)

I'm not going to say it was right for this particular congresswoman and judge to be shot; but however right or wrong it was, it was more wrong for the other people and the little girl to be shot.

On the other hand, the disease of political ambition has been demonstrated to be at least partly genetic. If their kids are going to grow up to be politicians too, it's tough for me to feel too bad for them.

That has to be the most vile thing I've ever read here.

Might be time to just walk away from the computer and call it a night.

Brian.

However, it's just as true that because you do what you do and know what you know, you could never do what I do.

And incidentally, I have no idea whether you're a hardass thug. Some COs are; some are pretty much regular folks; and a very few have such a gift for the job that everybody loves them, from the prisoners to the volunteers to the other COs clear on up to the warden. I've met two such in my twenty-some years of volunteering. As far as I know now, you could be in any of those categories.

As another member pointed out to me in a PM, there's an interesting dynamic going on here.

Lots of folks here believe that the State will eventually push decent folks far enough that violence will become the only viable option, and it's one of the reasons many of us have as many guns as we do.

However, that being said, there does seem to be a surprisingly strong knee-jerk reflex around here to squirt instant sympathy for any State figure or entity that can be successfully portrayed by the State's intellectuals as a victim.

I wonder how those two attitudes will play out when the time comes.

We will all have to wait and see what his background was. I'm sure the MSM will give us an objective look in the coming days. From the limited stuff I've seen posted so far, he looks a lot closer to a left-wing nutcase than any right-winger. Right wingers don't have the Communist Manifesto as one of their favorite books. Mein Kampf either.

I predict they won't mention his political motivations and will focus on the gun.

"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," he said. "And unfortunately, Arizona, I think, has become the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."

A gunman targeted Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as she met with constituents outside a busy supermarket Saturday, wounding the Democrat and killing Arizona's chief federal judge and five others in an attack that left Americans questioning whether divisive politics had pushed the suspect over the edge.

The hate and vitriol spewed by the anti-1070 crowd is probably what this dude was fueled by.

My wife does not hunger after coercive power over others. She does not claim a monopoly over the initiation of force. She does not commit acts that would be instantly identified as crimes if they came from any source other than government. She does useful things for which she is voluntarily compensated by people who freely choose to hire her.

In short, she is not a politician.

She is morally superior to a politician.

(A tapeworm is morally superior to a politician: it does survive parasitically on its host's essence, the same way a politician does, but at least it's not corrupt.)

I'm not going to say it was right for this particular congresswoman and judge to be shot; but however right or wrong it was, it was more wrong for the other people and the little girl to be shot.