Yeah, I’m going to watch NBC sports so I can see Costas.

Any ideas who the messenger should be? It’s a daunting prospect when the liberals own the media.

Cindy Munford on December 4, 2012 at 7:03 PM

Search me, Cindy. I can’t think of anyone in particular. I like quite a few politicians out there but doubt any have much of a chance when running against a dictator offering free stuff. And that’s what Democrats will be doing from now on, I have a feeling, since it worked so well this last election.

Honestly, I think if Reagan were running these days, he’d lose in a landslide. What does that tell you about our culture and world?

Count me as one of those who believe we’re headed over the cliff and there’s nothing much we can do about it except find our favorite political cartoonist so that we can smile a little on the way down. I know that’s pathetic, but it’s the best I can come up with.

hawkdriver on December 4, 2012 at 5:38 PM

And you have to pay for the background check too? That’s nuts.
No cost in Colorado – unless it’s just figured into the gun dealer’s overhead cost so we don’t see it. But then again, Colorado (all or most, not sure) is a “must issue” state for concealed carry permits as well – as long as you take a safety course and pass the basic background check.

dentarthurdent on December 4, 2012 at 6:12 PM

NC is actually, (except for the wait for handguns), very weapons friendly. The State Attorney Generals office helped me make sure I’d done everything propery to secure a weapon I’d bought for a husband of one of our more distingusihed Hot Air commenters. They’re out of staters so it was just a bit confusing whether a rifle could be sold from NC to another state resident. And I really just had to confirm the weapon was legal in their state.

No big deal.

Burke on December 4, 2012 at 6:32 PM

Any ideas who the messenger should be? It’s a daunting prospect when the liberals own the media.

So because they [liberals] believe it [their religion] to be true it is?

Cindy Munford on December 4, 2012 at 11:14 AM

I wouldn’t say so. But it will help Republicans come to a realistic understanding of our cultural and political problems if we begin by recognizing that liberals sincerely believe what they say. We should understand their vision first before attempting to answer it. That’s part of what made Reagan great, I think; he really “got” liberals and what they were trying to do. The same is true for Thomas Sowell who started at Harvard as a Marxist.

So what’s the answer? Out give the Democrats?

A beginning to the answer comes from acknowledging that there may actually be no solution and that we are in a desperately sad and tragic crisis. At least that’s realism. As Rush said directly after the election (and he was correct about this as he is about so many other things): “They outnumber us now.” A dictator or dictatorial party that has no qualms about offering goodies to the majority of non-producing citizens will never lose another election. As Benjamin Franklin said, “When the country learns it can vote itself other people’s money, the nation will end.”

Helping to cloak the greed of the many is the myth–namely, the new liberal-fascist myth of a Borg-collective utopian ideal– which gives this majority the cover they require to pretend that they are acting from noble motives. At the very least, I think conservatives should attempt to understand this myth and deconstruct it so that some at least will see it for what it is, a combination of naivete on the one hand and camouflage for corrupt acquisitiveness on the other.

Cumberland won’t let you have it much sooner than that. Three days seems to be their rule. Hoke is more rural and more like a sherrif’d department. So, they just take longer. At five dollars a piece, I just get several at a time.

hawkdriver on December 4, 2012 at 5:38 PM

And you have to pay for the background check too? That’s nuts.
No cost in Colorado – unless it’s just figured into the gun dealer’s overhead cost so we don’t see it. But then again, Colorado (all or most, not sure) is a “must issue” state for concealed carry permits as well – as long as you take a safety course and pass the basic background check.

Which is funny, because Lincoln was a Republican. And the GOP has fought against racism for its entire existence. But we never seem to tell that story. Somehow we abandoned the fight for free black people to succeed, in favor of defending the right of rich people to have low taxes.

hawksruleva on December 4, 2012 at 11:10 AM

I have to agree with you there, hawksruleva, on all your points. And, yes, it is ironic.

Of course, the truth is that Republicans are not really “defending the right of rich people to have low taxes.” What they’re really defending is a structure of economic incentives which promotes fairness (in the old sense of the word, meaning equality of opportunity) and which has been a fantastic engine of wealth not just for our country but the entire world. Democrats are dismantling that system with a pattern of crude bribes and crony favoritism, and that’s what Republicans really dislike. But there’s a lot of stupid in this country these days, and it’s easier just to buy into the way Democrats have tarred the Republicans than do critical thinking and arrive at the truth.

That sucks. How is NC doing their background checks?
When I bought my new S&W M&P9 a few weeks ago, the check took 2 hours – and that was only because there were so many people buying guns (right after the election) that the Colorado system was overloaded and backed up. If not for so many buyers at one time, its typically just a few minutes.

dentarthurdent on December 4, 2012 at 11:25 AM

Cumberland won’t let you have it much sooner than that. Three days seems to be their rule. Hoke is more rural and more like a sherrif’d department. So, they just take longer. At five dollars a piece, I just get several at a time.

novaculus on December 4, 2012 at 2:41 PM

He or she is just a kid trying to find their way…you can tell by their naive way at looking at things, they are maybe 24 yrs old, max, more like 19 to 20…not too bright, and certainly not very experienced in life, probably looking for their first time real job, besides working at McD’s…

Also legalizing drugs and ending the black market for drugs makes inner city violence go down the tubes as nearly all of it is about protecting gang territory.

libfreeordie on December 4, 2012 at 8:19 AM

Just to make it clear…living in the “hood” is not that same as you living with your aunt.

You obviously know nothing about gangs…take drugs out, and guess what you would have…yeah, that’s right, gangs. Drugs are a by-product, robbery, killings, counterfeiting, auto-theft, insurance claims, strong-arm, protection, gambling, numbers game, black market, and many other “social inter-action” takes place.

Cowards.

Here’s what folks don’t seem to understand. Despite the fact that Belcher could have killed his girlfriend and himself without a gun, it made it so much easier for him to do so. As evidenced by the the decision to use a gun. Using an instrument, from a geographic distance does so much to make the violence less intimate and therefore, easier to perform. This is why movies are filled with rapid fire machine fun murder sprees by the “heros” but rarely do we see a brutal knifing by the hero because it is intimate and significantly more intense. It is much more likely that the audience will become conflicted when its that up close and personal. Its just so obvious that if people had to kill each other with their bare hands that there would be less murder, it would be much harder for people to go through with it. No one is arguing that there would be NO murder, but there would be less.

Also legalizing drugs and ending the black market for drugs makes inner city violence go down the tubes as nearly all of it is about protecting gang territory.

libfreeordie on December 4, 2012 at 8:19 AM

Idiocy, and I mean idiocy, from one end to the other. Does this fool really think it is easier for a thug to go to gun dealer and do all the paperwork and the background check than it is to go down to the corner in the hood and buy a gun on the street? If he does, he knows nothing about real life in the hood.

As for gangs and ghettos, they go together like love and marriage. There have always been gangs in ghettos, with or without drug trafficking. It is the human condition.

It’s makes the point that we should hold the Left to the same standards that they hold of the right.

Eye for and eye, etc.

Those in the Leftist media shouldn’t be immune from criticism.

Galt2009 on December 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM

I agree 100%

If we don’t the left will win. We did not win the Revolution by asking King George to please be nice….we fired him!

We need a public boycott NBC and the NFL on NBC, or some kind of boycott on the advertisers. We demand an apology or Costas gone. Same with Whitlock who works for Foxsports.com (Thanks Fox for giving this doofus a job).

We are fighting for an individual liberty no different than freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

kim roy on December 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM

Your point fits quite well with makattak’s point.
The blame for the criminal act needs to be put on the criminal – not whatever tool he happens to use to commit the crime.
And if the victim has a better tool, and kills the criminal in self-defense, the point should be clearly made that what happened was the criminal’s fault, and he got what he deserved.

makattak on December 4, 2012 at 12:20 PM

I’ll take that argument in a little bit of a different direction and say that perhaps it’s up to the individual to exercise some self-restraint. Yes, it’s easier than beating someone to death, but if you still have the trigger to hurt someone isn’t that the individual’s issue?

Why are we advocating restrictions because people are weak and out of control? Why is the onus not put on the individual to deal with their issues rather than making it a societal issue?

This is the liberal mantra in a nutshell – no personal responsibility, no restrictions that aren’t imposed on everyone because we certainly can’t ask the individual to police themselves and *not kill someone*.

makattak on December 4, 2012 at 12:20 PM

+1000