This man is a gun expert and threatened to kill people. Isn’t that enough for you? Or does he need to do more to convince you?

This is the problem with America. People think that carrying a gun makes them “safer”. So lets all carry guns and we’ll all be safe. Think about that for a minute. Yep, insane right?

But this Alex Jones guy and his followers are just plain nuts! They are completely out of touch with reality. They really believe that Obama is planning to come into their house and take their guns within a matter of days.

It is really dangerous when people like Alex Jones gets the nutjobs all worked up. He is continually painting this picture of a totalitarian America and basically saying that every Tom, Dick and Jane needs to be prepared to take matters into their own hands.

Any rational person could see Alex Jones’ act for what it is. But there are a lot of irrational folks out there with firearms right now. 

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2084921,00.html

It is very easy these days to get angry at people you believe are attempting to take away your rights; there’s a lot of material to work with. However, both making death threats or cheering at the comeuppance of this man are cheep substitutes for engaging in quality debate with those you disagree with.

just because some is being calm about something, doesn’t make what they say “reasoned”.

sometimes i get the feeling that people are easily swayed by tone and intent, rather than content and context.

No kidding, I can’t believe the fascist pigs took away my right to urinate in public.

So, the fascists are taking the piss?

Sarcasm aside, in a civilized society we all have to agree on what is an acceptable amount of freedom.  Not one of us is truly 100% free (unless maybe you live alone on a desert island and can walk around naked, burn your trash sans environmental laws, or play music at top volume in the middle of the night.)   All of this debate isn’t about absolute freedom (nobody has that), but where we draw the line on what’s an acceptable amount of freedom.  It’s my opinion that an angry man with guns threatening to shoot people simply because he disagrees with them is at least worthy of a slap on the wrist, which is really all he got.  Nobody took his guns, he didn’t get sent to jail or some imagined liberal re-education camp, as far as I can tell he didn’t even get a fine.  “Material likelihood of risk of harm to the public” is what the authorities cited, and that seems about right.

At any rate he doesn’t speak for the millions of sane gun owners.

Is it to create the possibility of an added misdemeanor to his charges when he shoots someone, if he does it without that special little card in his wallet?

So…. this issue isn’t about a rant that somehow found it’s way to mass media (didn’t he use upload it himself?) asking others to also prepare for civil war and advocating “packing some food, cleaning (the) weapon and taking lives (see video for his exact words)”, the issue (instead) is that “now is not the time”. 

So… can we assume this might be the time for something else, like broader background checks & mental evals before you’re allowed a permit?

“No Guns For Assholes”

Remember – it is actually quite legal to own a rocket launcher; the cost of the ammo is what makes it prohibitive.

And purely statistically speaking guns don’t make you more safe.  I’ll challenge you with my usual money-where-your-mouth-is argument: if guns make one safer why do gun owners pay higher insurance premiums?

Looks like irrational emotional outbursts are something you and Yeager have in common, is this a thing with members of the gun subculture?