From Christopher Boardman, candidate for Harford County Sheriff:
Sheriff Jeff Gahler offers false arguments, but then he does not really have a record to point to. He is “disappointed” that I don’t “support” the 2nd Amendment. Really? Is he afraid I am going to single-handedly repeal it? That I will get majorities in both houses of Congress, the President’s signature, then majorities in three-fourths of the legislatures in the U.S. If this really scares you, Jeff, I think you are overestimating me more than a little, but I thank you for having such a high opinion of my abilities.
This is actually a common tactic by those such as Mr. Gahler who don’t want any limitations on guns at all. I’m against assault weapons; according to our chief law enforcement officer I am “against” the 2nd Amendment. To him it’s more important that people get these weapons; what they do with them isn’t his problem, apparently, but it really is his proble/ We have a serious gun safety issue in our society, and Sheriff Gahler is out there leading raffles for assault rifles. Is that public safety?
Just last week a man shot himself to death with a handgun, apparently stuck it in his pants pocket and it went off and he likely bled to death because he may have hit his femoral artery. I haven’t seen the autopsy report but that is my guess what happened. In a previous letter from months ago I wrote about child safety, how children and their companions and parents are shot because guns in the house are left unsecured. Again Mr. Gahler is not interested. When I am elected sheriff we will have a public campaign for gun safety to try to prevent these kinds of accidents and we will attempt to get back as many guns as we can get back fro people who no longer want them.
For that proposal the sheriff had sarcasmas he is not interested in gun safety. That is why we are having this argument and why he has an election opponent.
I would like to know how much the gun industry is giving him. This will be very instructive.
Christopher “Krist” Boardman
The why don’t you check the public campaign finance database and find out? After all, it tells me you have a problem being able to submit your reports on time and have paid more in fines than you have raised. Yeah, that is the kind of person I want overseeing a multi-million dollar budget. Stick to your hate speech. You will have more luck.
LOL! I just looked. It says one of his cases was referred to the state prosecutor for failing to pay late fees. OMG how incompetent can one man be?
Does anyone else think this guy has a mental disorder of some sort?
Cameron Kasky speakjng at March For the March of Life rally has the right idea: Vote The Gun-Nuts Out!
All those issues have been addressed in Maryland Tom. The Federal Government is NOT supposed to infringe on the 2nd Amendment. A State can ban any gun it wants to, but not the Federal Government. Sorry, but if these kids think that getting rid of guns will be the start of the end of tyranny and corruption then they have been brainwashed by the Democratic Party. End common core and take the educational system back from the Democratic Party. Demand laws that prevent political parties from influencing kids in school and if a teacher is found to be spreading their personal politics in a school have them removed. You can NOT expect a positive change from taking away unalienable rights. These rights are god given and those who wish for a right to be taken from them, knowingly and willingly, well, let’s just say I question what they are being taught.
“A State can ban any gun it wants to, but not the Federal Government.”
You might want to revisit “incorporation doctrine” and McDonald v Chicago.
I just did and stand by my comment. A State has the right to ban any gun it wants within its borders, but may not ban all guns or all guns of a certain type as this would negate the 2nd Amendment. Chicago wanted to ban all handguns, that doesn’t fly. The incorporation doctrine does not include the 2nd Amendment, but it was applied to the Chicago issue in a limited fashion. This was the ruling of the majority, yet Justice Stevens wrote his dissent based upon the treasonous views of the Democratic Party. In all reality, you are right, but thru case law you are wrong. This is because the Courts are knowingly committing treason against the American people on a regular basis. There is a war going on and this war is about controlling the behaviors of WE THE PEOPLE because some don’t like the behavior. The government has no Constitutional Authority to do this, but will murder you if you don’t obey.
LOL! I just looked. It says one of his cases was referred to the state prosecutor for failing to pay late fees. OMG how incompetent can one man be?
I don’t know the answer to your question but you are going to look really stupid if the answer is none. I would hope that a person who wants to be sheriff would know that answer before asking the question. After all that’s what any good cop would do.
Do you really think he needs help looking stupid? Can’t be bothered with apologizing for his hate speech either I see.
Runs at least 7 times, does not know how to access online public records for information
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2014 Harford County Council President
2010 Congress – Congress – 2nd District
2008 Harford County Council District A
2006 Congress – Congress – 2nd District
1998 Harford County Council District A
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1986 Harford County Council District A
Boardman – Synonymous with loser.
This idiot has run this many times and doesn’t know he can check the finance reports? Is this really the competence of the Democratic party. Very sad.
Im going to assume your suspicion is based on the noion that guns are bad and not people. Im going to retort by saying 99.5% of responsible gun owners/voters in the county will disagree with you.
Nuts will find away to kill if that’s their intent and all the gun laws in the world won’t change that along with metal detectors, better mental health, stricter enforcement of existing laws, etc. It really doesn’t matter how many guns Jeff and Aaron give a way or how many Boardman would grab. Just face the fact we all die. Some will go in more violent and unpleasant ways. Boardman won’t win since Harford’s majority folks that vote will be the conservative brand that enjoys the job the sheriff is doing. Nobody is taking him -Boardman -seriously. So about all good Boardman is doing – which is relevant is raise the opposite side of a hot topic issue. Which is probably a good thing. Group think and walking in lock step have a way sometimes of leading to group atrocities and walking in goose step.
You are running for a government position and you are not willing to up hold the Constitution???? Why not shred the 1st so people like you who freely use it cannot use it as they please? The fact is guns do not make the top 10 list of ways people kill. Are you willing to do away with privileges that people use to kill?? There is no law you can write there is no Right you can take away or shred that would prevent the killing we see. Until people like you understand that it is a people problem and not a object problem nothing is going to change. The problems are not guns or any other means of killing it is a society that refused to put the blame on where it belongs. And this goes for just about anything going on in this country. Until we hold people accountable for their actions why would they not do as they please? This country has taken the easy way out. The fact is we come up with reasons why people do harm to others instead of looking them in the eye and say you are the problem.
I want assault syle weapons banned.
I want all assault style liberals banned
idiot
Please educate me, what makes a gun an “assault style weapon”?
Mr. Boardman,
What do you plan to do? If elected, (god forbid) you will need to act. It appears to me; the average voter that all that you have been capable of to this point, is complaining about how everyone else does things, and their beliefs. You seem to know more about Sherriff Gahler than yourself. How has that helped you in previous elections? Explain to us, how you are the better choice? My gut tells me that you can’t. That is the take away my friends.
Finger-pointing, Hate Speech, and Mud-Slinging. That’s all you have. We deserve a lot more.
Again….I cannot get past the spelling and grammatical errors. If you were a writer…a published one by all of your own accounts…how is it you cannot write a simple letter without an error in every other sentence- many of which are run-ons. If you are that horrid at something you spent your life doing WHY in God’s name do we think you might be good at something you have no experience in.
Forget about how much money is coming in from which donor. I have been looking at this all wrong. Maybe Boardman and Gahler and we all can join in on this way cool idea. Guns don’t kill people – the misuse of guns by people kill people. So forget about the ban on AR-15 – and lets get together and make pot legal in Harford and Maryland. Pot never killed anybody. And while we’re at it – bring back cocaine! Before the 30’s it was legal – cocaine has never jumped off the table and forced itself down somebody’s nose, it never killed anybody. It was the person misusing it. Wow – the possibilities are now endless to have a way cool society, mellowing out together. Way cool.
Krist, the terms Constitutional Officer and Abrogation of Rights don’t go well together. Neither does Constitutional Officer and Limitations of Rights. The issue you are running on has already been decided by this State’s legislature. Maryland has already got some of the toughest gun legislation in the country. If you think the General Assembly and the Senate did NOT consider the AR-15 in their recent legislation regarding the issue you’re running with, then you are mistaken. In light of the recent legislation already passed, I believe you campaign argument is moot so to speak. You are running for the Office of Sheriff and are echoing a national Democratic talking point that has already been determined in a State whose legislature is dominated by Democrats. The AR-15 is legal Krist. There has to be a better campaign issue for you to run on than this.
Boardman watches cops on tv and now believes he should be elected one.
I suppose that he will watch law and order and expect to pass the bar.
He reminds me of the commercial “I am not really a doctor but I play one on tv”
I just wish he would shut his face hole already.
I call B.S. on Freaking Clownshoes. You can have your own freaking opinion but you cant make up your own freaking facts. Mr. Boardman investigated and wrote up true crime stories. Cant you access the internet before you make b.s. up?
http://www.citypaper.com/news/cityfolk/bcp-cms-1-1640828-migrated-story-cp-20140226-cityf-20140226-story.html
Exactly what law enforcement training has boardman had?
Now STFU.
Me thinks boardman has been playing to much Roshambo.
Boardman is an idiot. What must also be said is how Sheriff Jeff Gahler is destroying the Sheriff’s Office. Morale is at an all time low and Jeff spends 90% of his time in Annapolis. He does spend some time at HCSO that’s why his name is on the new cars when they are issued. He did made a campaign promise to reduce specialized units to put officers back on the road and he did. He reduced specialized units and added high payed civilian personnel like Erik Robey. If you don’t know Robey is a legislative liaison( whatever that is). He is also the guy that is most likely tasked with creating releases gain at Boardman and tasked with making dagger press posts supporting Gayler.
Omg. Did you take a writing lesson from Boardman? English 101 might help.
If that’s what you think. But I seem to have struck a nerve and dispatched the grammar police. Now Gayler dispatches Chief Robey to attack me. Funny stuff
What I find comical is the whole story, yet pretty much nothing. I work at HCSO and we are treated as nothing. I talk to my friends at HPD, BAPD, and APD and they are in a much better place. My buddy who went through the academy in 06 at BPD makes a ton more. So yeah who’s the low paid moron me.
then you are highly advised to resign and go to one of those other agencies ASAP. my buddy did and he is very happy with his MSP pay and working conditions. so do you want to bitch or do something about it? I can truly praise the sheriff for the way he and his department handled two unthinkable tragedies: the deaths of two fine officers and the mass shooting at the granite place. there is also a cracker jack narcotics squad that is leading to arrests in surrounding jurisdictions. first class outfit. as for the whine about low pay: if the dollar sign is your only objective, then why does anyone become a police officer, or school teacher for that matter, in Harford County? since when did Harford County ever pay more than the MSP, BPD, Montgomery County? geez you took the shop and then you squawk about the pay?
Mr. Boardman, what the sheriff’s saying is if you never been on the front line, you don’t understand the nature of defending your family, God knows 911 needs dispatch for service, even the sheriff knows anarchy is a society without order, especially theses time, I like Galher and he is a true man of integrity, So….I guest you need a real fight or two, whip his ass Galher, you’ll be fine!
Sheriff Jeff Gahler is a Republican political hack
. A bi-partisan majority supports increased gun safety control but far right Republican Gahler wants to loosen gun safety regulation so his friends at the NRA can sell more guns
. The Sheriff should be interested in reducing gun violence not sponsoring gun violence with his slogan “More Guns , Not Less”
Its time for a change
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Its time to retire gun-nut far right Republican Jeff Gahler!
What specifically is “gun safety control” and tell me without buzzwords or political related insults.
Buzzwords include, “universal background check” – “ban the (insert what you don’t like)” _ mental health screenings.
We already have “universal background checks.” Federal NCIC system that all states use.
Mental health screening – with the way health insurance and the business world is becoming, It’s going to be very difficult to find a lot of private practice physician’s to “sign off” on someone wanting to buy a firearm.
Hundreds of millions of firearms in America. It’s time to look past developing another law that actually won’t do anything.
Please replace your moniker with something more appropriate, I don’t think Thomas Paine was interested in giving up his guns to the King… He made that pretty clear in Common Sense. What is gun safety control, is that banning guns? When you start asking specific questions those poll numbers fall apart. People will always say yes to the question do you think we should do something about the school shooting, they say no when you ask about banning semi automatic weapons.
I’m still trying to figure out what they want banned. Maryland practically banned everything already. Maryland limited the number of rounds allowable in gun magazines. – http://mdsp.maryland.gov/Organization/Pages/CriminalInvestigationBureau/LicensingDivision/Firearms/FirearmSearch.aspx
Sarcasmas will be celebrated on December 29th to bridge the awkward period between Hanukkah/Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
I will not be voting for Boardman!
The more letters he sends to The Dagger the more stupid he sounds.
Unbelievable. A candidate for public office offers his opinion of an incident (man dying after shooting self w/ handgun in pants) and assumes what happened rather than researching public information to determine actual facts. This is the kind of person people should elect as Sheriff? Don’t think so.
And “assault weapons”? Do we REALLY have to get into the semantics of weapons? Again? Assault weapons are used by the military and fire automatically. AR-15s and AK-47s and the such sold domestically don’t fire automatically, they fire semi-automatically just as most gas-operated pistols, hunting rifles, and shotguns do. If Krist wants to classify those firearms as ‘black scary guns’, then have the fortitude and conviction to do so. Otherwise, don’t cater to BS liberal agendas and focus on real problems.
Guns in the hands of people w/ no regard for others’ lives or in the hands of folks w/ mental health problems? Yes, that’s the real problem. Not the gun itself. People die every day from cardiovascular disease and auto wrecks, but we don’t blame food, lack of personal exercise, or the car. Rather we’re smart enough to blame personal choices and drivers’ habits or conditions for the outcomes.
Assuming facts and expressing opinions based on personal biases is a massive indicator of the unfitness of this man to serve as sheriff of anywhere. Don’t vote for him.
I’m not going to condemn Boardman for bringing up the case you are talking about. It is a recent case and is a case of public record. As you have stated, he is speculating on certain aspects of how the man died, but a gun shot to the leg isn’t normally a mortal wound. I just wish he would focus on other issues and not the 2nd Amendment or the type of guns that the Democratic legislature has already classified. Krist has got to realize that local issues are more important than national Democratic talking points and if he wants to be the Sheriff he needs to seek out the local issues he could run on. He’d have a better chance pointing out that Gahler may be in violation of §2–304 in the State’s Personnel and Pensions Article or maybe even that his relationship with Penman’s campaign isn’t up to snuff. If he runs on the issue he keeps bringing up, I don’t think he has a chance…..
Do you really think the gun industry or the NRA really cares what sheriff Ghaler says or does? The raffle was not for a assault rifle, they are virtually impossible for the general population to own.The idiot who stuck a loaded gun down his pants and shot himself might not be a bad thing. It’s called cleaning the gene pool.When you are elected sheriff i’m moving to Balto. City where it will probably be safer then with you in charge of Harford Co.
I call B.S. on Mr. Hydesman
: Hydesman says “The raffle was not an assault rifle,,,”
The raffle was for an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. That is an assault rifle!
You can have your own freakin opinion, but you cant have your own freakin FACTs!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/18/gop-candidate-in-maryland-raffles-off-ar-15-in-fundraiser.html
Tom Paine, A assault rifle is a full automatic weapon ( hold the trigger and it will fire until you are out of ammo or the weapon fails) and like you stated the AR-15 is semi automatic. If the AR-15 is a assault weapon so is my 22 cal plinker which I got when I was a kid ( semi auto).
I call B,S. on Mr. Hydesmann again:
Mr. Hydesmann has drunk the NRA propaganda.. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 banned “semi-automatic assault rifles” . Look it up!
The “assault weapon” designation was originally adopted by the manufacturers and gun dealers!
In the late l990s the gun industry and NRA changed their minds when Calif banned AR-15 style semi-automatic rifles!
The Gun industry began to call the semi-automatic “modern sporting rifles” Its B.S.! Its a euphemism. Wake up !You ate the B.S. but its still B.S.!
Oh my god. Would you two shut up. Neither one of you knows what an assault rifle is. I’m not allowed to own a gun and I know more about them than the both of you combined. An Assault Rifle is a weapon that is has selective modes of operation. One mode is semi-automatic, the other is fully automatic. These guns replaced rifles and sub machine guns for the militaries around the world so they could arm their troops with a standard weapon and not have two carry around multiple weapons to do the task that the one does. Talk about ignorance.
http://www.thefirearms.guide/blog/educational/assault-rifle
Oh and I forgot to mention they may have a burst mode which shoots out 3 or 4 bullets per trigger pull, but that is irrelevant because a person can only own a semi-automatic rifle under current law without having to pay an arm and a leg for the permits and screening by both the Feds and the State. YOU CAN NOT GO TO A GUN SHOP AND BUY AN ASSAULT RIFLE AS THEY HAVE A MODE THAT IS FULLY AUTOMATIC. Now, stop it. I’m tired of hearing about it and I really wish these media organizations would stop spreading lies about everything they cover on TV. Including Assault Riffles……
Thank you Soul Crusher for saving me the time to educate those folks. Not that they will actually learn anything. After all, if the gun LOOKS scary, then it must be a terrible thing to own.
Well, your welcome, but it doesn’t change the fact that the entire exchange is an indictment against the American educational system. I thought I was missing something when Boardman keeps insisting on banning assault weapons, but I now know he just didn’t know what an Assault Rifle is, just like these guys.
Didnt maryland add some provisions with regards to what is considered an assult rifle? This is why you can still buy an ar15 in maryland, even today. The ar15 is still called an “assult rifle” but it is sold as a md compliant firearm. It still fires 223 rounds, it is still a semi automatic, it still looks like an assult rifle and it still has a detachable magazine. It just doesnt have a folding stock or have a muzzle flash.
To check the compliance of a firearm you can look at the MSP website here – http://mdsp.maryland.gov/Organization/Pages/CriminalInvestigationBureau/LicensingDivision/Firearms/FirearmSearch.aspx – As far as I know, the magazines being 10 rounds or less is the other requirement. I think the issue is weapons that have a selector on them that is easily converted to fire fully automatic. There are even a lot of pistols that can be converted to fire fully automatic, but that is another issue. Unless a weapon is capable of firing fully automatic it can’t be considered an Assault Rifle or a Machine Gun. Any weapon that is fully automatic is considered a Machine Gun and that is taboo. There may be other regulations, but I don’t own a gun and don’t keep up with it.
I also think you touched on something with the muzzle flash issue. That may be part of the regulations as well. The only Colt AR-15 that is compliant is the AR-15 Sporter H-BAR Rifle and I do believe that was the give away at the Penman fundraiser. I believe that Armalite was the original creator of the AR type weapons and the AR-15’s AR is actually an acronym for Armalite, not Assault Rifle like everyone seems to believe…..
The magazine requirement is a joke. If you own a high capacity magazine, there are no penalties. You cannot buy or sell a high capacity magazine in the state of maryland larger than 10 rounds. Since this is a state law, nothing can stop you from driving to a state without this law and legally purchase a high capacity magazine and bring it into the state of maryland. It is not unlawful to possess, you just cannot buy them here. Moreover, the ar15 has no restriction on the magazine type it uses so the same type is uses in the 10, 20, 30 and 40 round capacities.
I would respectfully disagree with the easily converted from a semi-auto (one pull, one round) to a full auto (one pull, multiple rounds).
Firstly, a full auto is strictly regulated by the ATF. You cannot legally or easily convert ar’s to full auto. No gunsmith would ever do this for you and there are severe penalties for doing it. You could add a “bump stock” or a “trigger crank” to achieve this but it is still pulling the trigger each time a round is fired.. these devices increase the number of pulls on the trigger beyond what a person could achieve. Since this is still a semi auto firearm, even with these options it is not regulated as as class 3 weapon.
Imo these devices should be but that is another issue.
I am not a gun nut nor do i want to ban firearms but i would like nothing more than keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, kids and people with mental issues.
You bring up good points and as I said earlier, I don’t keep up with it. At this point I will stop any conversation referring to any conversions as I don’t want any more restrictions placed on firearms than there already is. You think what you want. I want to also state that I do not own a firearm and I don’t keep up with all the laws because of this. Any information I’ve given on this topic is for reference and educational purposes and you should do your own research.
Hey Doug, I just can’t resist. I know I shouldn’t, but I’m a trouble maker. Why don’t you Google “AR-15 Lightning Link”? Have a nice day……
Sheriff Gahler wasn’t elected to be the spokesperson for the NRA. He had this school safety meeting and has done nothing to put new SRO’s in schools. It was all about politics but he will change nothing. He will just keep talking about gun rights.
Where do you think the funding for the SRO’s needs to come from. Why don’t you blame the Board of Education? Oh wait………both the HCSO and the Board of Ed receive their funding from the same place.
Oh no! Gahler has another accomplishment under his belt! Glassman, Canavan, and Gahler, all stated this is a result of the John Carroll event and listening to the parents. Haters gonna hate, but Gahler is a get r done Sheriff! http://www.harfordcountymd.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/1412
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Emma Gonzalez said it best about the NRA and Gun Nuts:
What is your problem? Tom, Mike or whatever name you want to go by. You are posting videos of young people upset by a tragedy. However, their blame is on the inanimate object that was used to carry out the tragedy and not the psycho that delivered it. She said it right, it was the effort of the SCHOOL BOARD, THE FACULTY MEMBERS, the parents and the students. This is because she is being taught by a group of treasonous Democratic Educators that it is the fault of the tool and not the PERSON. The answer is never the “Person”, is it? I accuse the Democratic Party of Treason against the United States in teaching our youth the politics of their party in the schools of this nation, to abrogate the Constitution of the United States. End common core and remove politics from the educational system.
Ever wonder how come no one uses a fully automatic weapon to carry out these massacres?
They are illegal! Fully automatic assault rifles are against the law. All semi-automatic assault rifles should also illegal. They are weapons of war. They were designed to kill humans in warfare!
Ever wonder why they dont use rocket launchers ?
If a rifle is a semi-automatic, then it is NOT an Assault Rifle. Just because you have an issue with vocabulary and definitions of words, doesn’t mean that everyone else has to listen to the lies that you and the Democratic Party are promoting about rifles. Any weapon that discharges a bullet from the use of gun powder is capable of killing human beings and waging war. Next you will be saying ban all guns. You are betraying the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution. You are betraying your fellow Americans regarding this issue. You are proving you don’t know what an Assault Rifle or Weapon is. You are advocating the disarmament of the American population and you are a traitor to the American people. Plain and simple, you are a traitor.
I just asked what I thought was a simple question but your inability to answer has been noted.
That’s because your question didn’t deserve an answer.
@Tom Paine… hey Tom, where is the outrage over the incompetence in the FBI, Sheriff’s office and the school system? Why do they get a pass for being incompetent, stupid or apathetic? I’d like to ask these kids, currently tools of the left, none of whom were surprised by the identity of the killer, which of you oh so concerned for others and their safety, actually reached out to the troubled kid? Which of you tried to reach him, bring him into the community and which of you helped to ostracize and torment him? Tell me what these kids did to try to help this troubled person and then maybe I’ll listen to the words of the teachers and parents that magically come out of their mouths.
I see that people are starting to get it. It’s a serious problem when the educators of this country are promoting their politics to the kids in the schools. It’s a serious problem when an organization that makes decisions about which schools remain open and what curriculum changes are necessary in said schools being run by far left hierarchy with a dog in the fight. The Gates Foundation is run by Bill Gates, his wife and Warren Buffet. If people can not see the blatant ideology of the Democratic Party in the words these kids are using then they must be blind. Sure, maybe these words weren’t scripted by the Gates Foundation itself, but it seems that the Democratic Party’s way of thinking is being transmitted to the kids and the Democrats seem to be right there at every Protest. If we don’t see the danger in what is going on in our educational system right now, I’m afraid we won’t see that a person pulled the trigger. Oh wait, that’s already happening. Get politics out of the schools and pull the plug on Common Core to eliminate this threat to society. Kids shouldn’t be shot by a nut with a gun, but they shouldn’t be brainwashed either.
What percentage of these kids do you think already have an agent? How many are working on book deals? I can hear the kitchen table talk with the parents plotting to parlay the whole tragedy into fame and fortune for their precious little snookums. They’ll get rich off their dead classmates and it’s disgusting.
Re: SoulCrusher/WhiteZombie
What is your problem, what ever your name is?
The inanimate object used to murder 17 students and injure 17 other students in Florida was an AR-15 SEMI-AUTOMATIC ASSAULT RIFLE!
If it had been a hand gun or a butter knife the harm and danger would have been reduced. significantly!
The AR-15 being a military weapon turned the assault into a massacre harming 34 human beings.
AR-15s should be outlawed if we are a civilized society!
If Republicans want to continue to take the NRA money/propaganda then the Republican Party will be deleted/neutered in the Fall elections.
The Blue Wave is coming!
The Pink wave is coming !
And now the Generation X wave is coming!
The Times they are a changing!
First, I only go by one moniker on this website and that is “SoulCrusher”. Just because you have multiple personality disorder doesn’t mean that everyone else does. Second, if WE THE PEOPLE allow a little powder puff, such as yourself, to disarm the American people then we deserve to be enslaved by the Democratic Party you worship. Third, a 9mm handgun will leave a larger wound than the AR-15 that was used in Parkland and would’ve more than likely killed just as many. Also, I could kill you with a butter knife, but midway thru you would probably ask me to use the AR-15 instead. Fourth, an AR-15 is only a military weapon when it has a selector switch on it that is capable of making it fully automatic. Fifth, I’m beginning to believe the only thing that should be outlawed is the Democratic Party’s education of todays youth . Last, I don’t care what wave you bring because reasonably minded people know that the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to preserve a free society and you are advocating something that is less than a free society. I don’t want that. By the way, you left out the Rainbow wave and I don’t even know if Generation X knows what they are. Why don’t you Democrats go back to convincing little boys that they are really little girls and that kind of crap. Any party that allows a traitor like Manning run for US Senate is a disgrace.
I knew you were in the tank for Trump and the Republicans despite your pretense to claim otherwise. At least this sheep finally got you to finally embrace it! I proudly admit I loathe both political parties although not always with equal enthusiasm.
No, you got it wrong. What the Democratic Party is doing right now is wrong. Using the educational system to further a political ploy in creating young voters is despicable. I still say Trump is out there, but this movement of children and teens seeking to give up their rights, while demanding the same of everyone else is utterly insane. Plus, they want the Federal Government to make legislation that they are forbidden to make. It has been the dream of the Democratic Party to legislate each and every right out of existence and control the actions and behaviors of WE THE PEOPLE since the early 20th century. Now, they have figured it out. If we politicalize the educational system we can control what the young think and train them to be perfect little citizens. Another country did the same thing in the 1930’s and 1940’s and it ended up creating a generation that caused the worst war this world can remember. As far as the Manning thing, yeah I think “it” is a traitor and I’m embarrassed “it’s” running for office in our State. I hold no allegiance to either party, but right now I’m seeing red as in red, white and blue. Not the red your thinking….
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/977196794525503489
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/05/03/guest-post-22-lr-vs-223-rem/ – Personally, I think the 9mm is worse than the .223, but you use whatever info you like. That’s from a handgun by the way. The .223 is from a rifle…..
How quickly people forget recent history. The Virginia Tech massacre of 2007 was done using 2 handguns. Almost 2x the number of victims at Parkland.
You can not ban all guns in this country no matter how much you want to. There are tens of millions of legally owned firearms and it will be impossible to remove them all.
The same great wave that has to be told not to eat Tide Pods.
Amen
Tom Paine, maybe you should try to put things in context before you start running your mouth. The AR15 is a rifle that fires off one round-at-a-time, no different from a bolt action rifle, a shotgun or any other single shot firearm. The term “assault” implies what exactly, that it looks scary or that it looks like a military weapon? Try looking at any a “Mossberg Tactical Flat Top Carbine, 22LR” this is a 22 caliper version of the same looking style rifle.
Shootings are not a gun problem, as we have something like 300 million of them in the United States. Shootings are a combination of many factors and a common thread of many of these shooters is a serious mental disorder with intent to do harm. Did you know the columbine shooters brought propane tanks into the cafeteria and tried without
success in detonating them? There plan was to kill hundreds of students with propane bombs and when this failed, they went on to shoot as many people as they could.
You should also know that just like columbine the shooters were known to law enforcement and even when the rampage was taking place them police DID NOT STORM either school and allowed many more deaths. I suppose your next march will be to ban propane tanks or fertilizer. The fact is that you people are pathetic, you ignore cities like Chicago when 650 people were killed and 2785 people were shot JUST IN 2017. As long as it is black kids or drug violence.. you could care less. When a few white kids are killed, you scream “confiscation” and “we need to do more”.
You will not address the real problem of criminals, mentally disturbed of the students making threats against the schools or other students. The fact is that liberals do not want criminals in jail or they cry racism, they want people with mental disabilities lumping in with all the non-mentally ill kids because that would be unfair to the mentally ill people and you people do not want kids expelled from schools because “that wouldn’t be fair to them”. You have taken parenting out of the hands of parents by calling them criminals for disciplining their own kids. You have taken god and religion out of the schools and replaced it with gender-neutral bathrooms. You have taken authority away from principals, teachers, police officers and allowed these kids to be taught not to respect anything or anyone and with absolutely no consequences for their actions….
You can take away any weapon you want, people hell-bent on carnage will just find another means to their end.
You got trolled.
Huh? Anti Gun people always talk about the NRA. These people want you to have an intelligent conversation about guns when they can’t even look up local/other national gun rights groups that may or may not have been more active at a specific local issue, such as litigation in a state court over gun rights.
Parkland student activist Cameron Kasky explains exactly why the NRA is wrong !
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/the-parkland-students-went-on-fox-news-and-perfectly-explained-why-the-nra-is-wrong/
Parkland student activists rip Republican Congress on gun violence:
If no one pulls a trigger a gun kills no one.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/25/19/4A8C851000000578-5541865-A_fake_image_of_Gonzalez_ripping_up_the_Constitution_circulated_-m-77_1522002596634.jpg
Far right Republicans tried to political smear one of the Parkland student leaders. Typical way alt-right debates with lies and BS!
Well, she is literally trashing the Constitution with her speech. She claimed that it is easier to purchase automatic and semi-automatic weapons than it is to plan what her and her friends are going to do during the weekend. She says this and wants to call BS on others. Her statement was FALSE. You can’t buy automatic weapons. She complains that no permit is needed for a gun because she doesn’t realize that you only need a permit to carry concealed, not own a gun. She says you don’t need a permit to carry a concealed rifle or shotgun. How do you carry a rifle or shotgun concealed? These statements all occurred in the first minute of her speech you previously posted on 3/25/18 at 1:23 a.m. This is why anyone with common sense knows she doesn’t have a clue about what she is saying. All while her teacher on the right is listening very close to make sure she is getting the speech written for her right. Watch that woman. You can see her practically wanting to say the words herself. I call BS on Emma Gonzalez and her speech was an indictment against the Floridian education system because she clearly doesn’t know what she is talking about. I understand she is upset about the deaths of her school mates but her uninformed and untrue speech is why she shouldn’t have been allowed to speak in the first place. Sorry, Tom Paine, but your just not getting it right…..
RE: SoulCrusher
I calls BS again.
You have no idea what your talkin about.!
The second amendment specificly says “WELL REGULATED MILITIA”!
Even free speech is “regulated”!
“Trashing the Constitution” is a sloppy slogan for anything gun-nuts dont like.
Regulating guns for society safety is allowed by the American Constitution,
AR-15s are semi-automatic assault rifles.
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They are weapons of war or police actions.
Civilians should not be allowed to buy semi-automatic assault rifles in a civilized liberal democratic society.
If the Repubs don’t wake up to reality—the Independents and Dems will throw them out democraticly from office and change the national regulations for democratic social safety !
Majority rules,Minority rights —that’s the definition of democracy.!
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/39-days-a-cbs-news-documentary/
Tom… in a democracy the wolves vote to eat the lamb… in a republic the lamb’s right to live is protected. We’re a republic. That’s why we can have a Brown vs. Board of Education decision go against the majority view. Understand now?
The Heller decision has firmly established gun ownership as an individual right. Period.
“Civilians should not be allowed…” is an opinion, not fact as you would have us believe.
There are many things that can be done for the sake of safety that infringe on no one’s rights. If you are foolish and naive enough to believe a ‘ban’ will stop the violence… I guess you are one of those that believe Prohibition worked… or meth is sold on the shelves in stores… or heroin for that matter… do you?
You seem pretty intent on ensuring Trump is the only one armed these days… that frankly scares me a bit… knowing an entire generation (according to what the media is telling us to believe anyway) feels the same as you is terrifying.
Answer me this: How is gun control working in Honduras?
Tom Paine, you’re quick to call BS and tell others they don’t know what they’re talking about. Well I’m calling it on you. An AR-15 is NOT an assault rifle. Don’t believe me? Ask any military man if he wants to deploy to Afghanistan with an AR-15 or his M-16. AR stands for ArmaLite rifle… that would be the company that developed it in the ‘50’s – NOT Assault Rifle. The weapon you find so scary to look at is the same as many semi-automatic hunting style rifles that have pretty polished wooden stocks. It’s just dressed up to look like its assault weapon counterpart. You really ought to attempt to educate yourself because if you’re going to keep pushing this disinformation you’re not going to accomplish much. What’s amazing is that you actually refer to “semi automatic assault rifle”. There is no such thing. It’s like referring to an ocean liner space ship. I’m ok with age restrictions and banning bump stocks but what we need far more than gun control is “nut job” control.
@ Tom Paine – You can’t call BS because you don’t have a clue. No matter how many exclamation points or Democratic talking points you use, it will never mean you have any idea what you’re talking about. Emma Gonzalez is a naïve and ignorant little girl. I can excuse and forgive her for misunderstanding and being mislead by people like you. However, you have no excuse for your ignorance and you are compounding it every time you type crap like this. Please, buy a dictionary and a history book.
Ban them guns! All of them! LOL
Right, and this is coming from the generation that has to have public safety announcement’s not to eat tide pod’s.
Right, and also the generation that needs law enforcement to release educational/instructional videos on how to behave/act during a “traffic stop.”
Mmmhmm. Right.
Mr Boardman,
” In a previous letter from months ago I wrote about child safety, how children and their companions and parents are shot because guns in the house are left unsecured.”
If you have proof of this occurring, you are required to report this to the police, as Maryland law mandates you secure firearms to prevent access by a child under 16.
Tom, you reference the “well regulated militia” and banning AR-15 variant rifles. Here’s the issue…. in 2008, the Supreme Court heard the Heller case, which established that the 2a gives an INDIVIDUAL right to keep and bear arms. The “militia” is any citizen of military age. If the AR-15 is a weapon of war,name for me one military who uses one. Heller also found that firearms “in common use at the time” were covered under the 2a. That includes the AR whether you like that or not.