tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931942690068259127.post6825805109811364625..comments2024-01-12T07:25:33.861-08:00Comments on Bakersfield Observed: Celebrating the success of local kids and a sound argument for gun rights when predators walk our streetsRichardBeenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12542559942096218256noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931942690068259127.post-53993169840086140842010-05-04T03:53:30.856-07:002010-05-04T03:53:30.856-07:00I applaud your support of the second amendment. I...I applaud your support of the second amendment. I think that Bakersfield is becoming more of a violent city and soon we will be on par with L.A. for crime. People that fear the second amendment are misinformed. Just think of the brutality in African countries that has been carried out with machetes. The criminal element is the criminal element and it does not matter what the tool is. I believe that more people should take firearms training and courses on responsible gun ownership. It is too bad that many in our community think that all gun owners are bad people. It seems that more people are lost via drunk driving accidents in Bakersfield than by non criminal gun owners. One has to remember that the greatest tragedies that have happened were generally organized by governments; i.e. the holocaust, the genocides in Africa, the khamer rouge in Cambodia as well as the ethnic cleansing in the Bosnia area amongst others were all started by political processes. I sometimes wonder, if these victims had been able to get access to firearms, if things would have worked out differently for them. We have to worry about a government that is willing to take away the right to own firearms as it leaves many people vulnerable.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Bill FarrAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931942690068259127.post-31532219797664953922010-05-02T16:23:33.778-07:002010-05-02T16:23:33.778-07:00C'mon, Richard!
How do you segway from a bruta...C'mon, Richard!<br />How do you segway from a brutal killng of an 80-something year-old woman by three teenagers to gunrights? My guess is that most grandmotherly types are not planning for home invasions with (or without) firearms.<br />I say a more appropriate argument would be for more frequent carrying out of death penalties....let's reduce the gene pool of the kind of dirt that commits these heinous crimes. Why keep these worthless scumbags alive as wards of the state? I would gladly flip the switch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com