Talk about your slippery slopes.............Ideological test for gun ownership???

**rantingredneck** · 08-08-2012, 02:12 PM

http://townhall.com/columnists/jacob...uying_firearms

And this from Townhall.com. A conservative-oriented aggregator of opinion articles.

Ever made a post on this or another forum that could put you in a questionable ideological category???

**trcubed** · 08-08-2012, 02:21 PM

I read that this morning and started to post about it. Decided it pissed me off so much I couldn't do so intelligently.

**B00GER** · 08-08-2012, 02:24 PM

I'm cool...I mainly watch Dora the Explorer (multiculturalism), Elmo (acceptance of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds "monster"), and listen to VeggieTales music. The music is my biggest concern as Veggie Tales is a notorious Christian based cartoon which could label me as non-accepting of others religious, or lack thereof, belief systems.

**rantingredneck** · 08-08-2012, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by trcubed

I read that this morning and started to post about it. Decided it pissed me off so much I couldn't do so intelligently.

Yeah I read it yesterday and again today. I'm withholding the rant.......barely......

**Jebsghost1862** · 08-08-2012, 02:38 PM

Guess I would fail the test. I have the Gadsden Flag ,or to the uneducated on the true history of the flag.... Tea Party "Don't Tread On Me". I have the First National Flying as well. So I guess I would fail miserably. Since I'm a firm believer in my heritage and history of this Nation...... Ohwell!
It really erks me that the news reported this guy had the Confederate Flag in his Apartment.. The idiot media cant take a moment to read book and understand it's true meaning Battle Flag.. So now they are going to profile people whether you can buy a firearm.

**rantingredneck** · 08-08-2012, 02:45 PM

A couple of quotes:

even though someone like Page, "who fed and was fueled by hate" (as the Times put it), is far more dangerous than the average pot smoker or mental patient.

No argument there that the average pot smoker or person with mental illness is very likely to be less dangerous than Page........

Once the database is created, it can be regularly updated with the names of people who express views like Page's -- who talk about tyranny, hypocrisy, or a "sick society," for instance, or who quote inflammatory proclamations like this one, frequently seen on the T-shirts and signs of right-wing lunatics: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." I don't mean to imply that violent extremism is limited to the right; when you consider the ideas expressed by Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, it is clear that left-wing critiques of capitalism also lead to murderous violence.

But then there's this jewel...........

Nice.........So talking about the tyranny of our current FedGov and the hypocrisy of our politicians puts you in the same category as a white supremacist mass murderer apparently...........

**trcubed** · 08-08-2012, 02:54 PM

Thomas Jefferson said "The tree of Liberty..."

I really admired Jefferson. Read a lot about him. Glad we finally found out he was a right-wing lunatic before this Liberty thing got out of hand.

**ForumSurfer** · 08-08-2012, 02:56 PM

Once the database is created, it can be regularly updated with the names of people who express views like Page's -- who talk about tyranny, hypocrisy, or a "sick society," for instance, or who quote inflammatory proclamations like this one, frequently seen on the T-shirts and signs of right-wing lunatics: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.

Oh, look....75% of this board just got disqualified. Myself included for quoting the phrases. D'oh.

**RFMan** · 08-08-2012, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by ForumSurfer

Oh, look....75% of this board just got disqualified. Myself included for quoting the phrases. D'oh.

We've got to work on getting that number up...

**rantingredneck** · 08-08-2012, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by trcubed

Thomas Jefferson said "The tree of Liberty..."

I really admired Jefferson. Read a lot about him. Glad we finally found out he was a right-wing lunatic before this Liberty thing got out of hand.

Yep. Quoting Jefferson is now verboten.

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**random** · 08-08-2012, 06:20 PM

Google "A Modest Proposal". The Jefferson quote being called "dangerous" should have been a giveaway.

**Cape Fear** · 08-08-2012, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by random

Google "A Modest Proposal". The Jefferson quote being called "dangerous" should have been a giveaway.

I read this piece as complete satire, as well. The Jefferson quote convinced me. No way was the author serious.

**Crazy Carl** · 08-08-2012, 07:13 PM

Here come the thought police...

**rantingredneck** · 08-08-2012, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by Cape Fear

I read this piece as complete satire, as well. The Jefferson quote convinced me. No way was the author serious.

Let's hope...

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**wsfiredude** · 08-08-2012, 10:12 PM

"The Brady Campaign correctly says "it is time we acknowledged" that the Second Amendment "guarantees the right to keep and bear arms." But the Supreme Court has said that right is subject to reasonable regulations aimed at protecting public safety."

Not the first time the SCOTUS has erred in their interpretation of law. Amendment II is pretty unambiguous and it is my opinion that for some folks, it's not so much an inability to comprehend the right, rather, a flat refusal to accept it.

I believe the right enumerated in Amendment II should be subject to one and only one regulation; all others fly in the face of liberty.

**chiefjason** · 08-08-2012, 10:45 PM

Well, I've thought for years that liberals should not own guns.

**SPM** · 08-08-2012, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Cape Fear

I read this piece as complete satire, as well. The Jefferson quote convinced me. No way was the author serious.

Originally Posted by rantingredneck

Let's hope...

Hope, indeed. I'm not convinced the author isn't being sincere. By leaving the Jefferson quote unattributed, it suggests he may be trying to satire the whole "dangerous ideas" argument being made on the left. I'm not so sure though...there are a lot of "Pro-2A" types out there that are only "Pro" when it's popular.

**Cape Fear** · 08-09-2012, 06:04 AM

Re-read these first three paragraphs:

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says Sunday's deadly attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, a Milwaukee suburb, shows "our elected officials" need to "do something." Slightly more specifically, the group says we should "Demand Congress Stop Arming Dangerous People."

I did not realize there was a federal program that supplies mass murderers with weapons. Obviously, this is a poor use of our tax dollars. Congress should not only eliminate this program but it should also prevent dangerous people from buying guns on their own.

But how do we know who is dangerous? The Brady Campaign mentions "convicted felons," "convicted domestic abusers," "terrorists" and "people found to be dangerously mentally ill." It omits a crucial category: people with dangerous ideas.

Sounds like something straight from The Onion.