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PBS' To the Contrary: Gun control and the 2008 elections; Educational baby toys; Don Imus' return

with Michelle D. Bernard
October 15, 2007

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Mark Siewert | October 16, 2007, 6:23pm | #

Tyrants take away guns. The Democrats support gun control. The Democrats support tyrants.

The NRA is a great organization the protects our Second Amendment right.

To end gun vilence in school bring back God. Also teach NRA gun safety course in school.

Buck Norris | October 17, 2007, 1:16pm | #

Pro-abortion and ban-the-gun is the modern zeitgeist of the same people who were suffragettes and alcohol prohibitionists. It's 1918 all over again and the two main issues are still present: the extent of womens franchise and the social control of individuals.

Bob H. | October 19, 2007, 3:48pm | #

As a retired law enforcement officer and father of a current police officer I can speak for both of us when I say that these gun-control fanatics are so out of touch with mainstream America when spouting their socialist, communist tripe. There are over 20,000 gun control laws on the books right now. Criminals do not obey gun control laws, only honest people do. It is simplistically moronic to believe that more gun control laws will reduce gun violence because it is currently being shown that gun control laws DO NOT WORK. Australia is finding out the painful results of nationwide gun confiscation. Their murder, assault, and robbery crimes are up exponentially since private citizen's guns were confiscated. If you don't want to own a gun then don't, but don't impose your socialist anti-gun views on honest Americans who have a constitutional right to own a firearm. By the way, the comment on your show that some rabid gun freaks helped win the election for president is absurd. I am an average, middle income, American who owns several guns. I donated very little to the NRA other than my magazine subscription. To characterize NRA members as gun nuts is just socialist propaganda. George Bush was elected by mainstream Americans who care about this country, its historical roots, and believe in the US Constitution and the rights it bestows on all Americans. Got it? We are just ordinary Americans, not a bunch of "gun fanatics" as we are so often called by the extreme left wing and some of the ultraliberal, narrow-minded, uninformed guests on your show.

Mike Smith | October 21, 2007, 7:08pm | #

I'm a gun owner but I don't support the NRA. The NRA supported the legal sale of teflon coated "cop killer" bullets and supports open ownership of assault weapons. I don't fear registering my gun nor do I care about a waiting period - tho' it is a nuisance because I want to bring the gun home the day I buy it - not wait 10 days. As for the previous guys remarks about if you don't want to own a gun then don't. The same is true of abortion - it's a constitutional right.
Anyway... we in the USA see the result of unlimited gun ownership - slaughter in the streets every day. How do we stop the killing- both deliberate and accidental, without taking guns away and that will never happen. I would like to see limits on gun ownership to law abiding, church going, veterans like me - nobody else.. I just want to have a few drinks and go shooting my guns without anybody teling me what to do.

don h | October 21, 2007, 7:47pm | #

I belive americans have a right to bear arms however criminals do not. i think gun shows shuld have same laws as gunsmiths . i do not have a problem with buying one or two guns per year or a waiting period over 60 days .

Jim O | October 22, 2007, 10:30am | #

"i do not have a problem with buying one or two guns per year or a waiting period over 60 days."
What a sad statement.
I am a believer in the slippery slope idea. You give gun control advocates an inch and they will take two miles. We have enough gun laws now. It is time to enforce current laws to the max. If more prisons are needed, build them. Do not plea bargain gun violations. Let them sit in jail for years. I am tired of people trying to get me to pay the price for criminals by limiting my RIGHTS.

Paul | October 23, 2007, 11:08am | #

The idea that some of my fellow citizens might be armed does not frighten me as much as the idea of a government that won't allow it.

WB | October 23, 2007, 7:58pm | #

Wait a minute, I know the 2nd amendment covers the right to keep and bear arms, but what amendment covers abortions? The above writer is seriously off base. Every law abiding US citizen of legal age is covered by the 2nd amendment...not just people like him. What if I didn't go to church, what difference would that make? None! The writer has obviously fallen for the "assault weapon" gambit. Poor government educated fellow.

Andy | October 24, 2007, 9:49pm | #

Why are We the people still listening to this rupugnent gun-control rhetoric? Have WE not paid the price for "gun-free" school zones? Oh please let me remind ALL of YOU that ALL school shootings from Columbine to Virginia Tech happened in these "gun-free" zones (which disarm EVERYONE except for the pyschopath criminal.)Americans need to know this: the most effective tool at preventing robbery and murder is a gun and not a squad car parked outside the local Krispy Kreme shop. Say NO to gun-control! Start advocating arming the good people like teachers or school staff. We need to be armed and ready to defend ourselves. Look I love to shoot at the range, I love to collect "real steel", but contrary to many gun-control advocates I am not "trigger happy", I am a big advocate of open carry (I live in Illinois) since statistics show it reduces crime; Unless I am being attacked I would not "unholster" my .45LC just to plink some shots off. I think it's high-time we OUTLAW the 20,000 gun-control laws on the books as all they will ever bring us is more deaths and criminals!

Enoch Wisner | October 27, 2007, 7:10am | #

I'm a country boy, and my friends are country boys. We all have firearms, and every one of us is vocal about defending our homes, farms and property against predators, 4 footed and 2 footed, with the most lethal force we can bring to bear. I don't think any of my circle has had so much as a parking ticket in the last 25 years or so, and I'd guess that's pretty much true of my neighbors, too: our township hasn't even felt the need to hire a police force - we call the State police, if we call the police at all. When we do call the police, it's usually during hunting season, when the city folk come out and treat private property like public parks in their concrete forests. They cut and trample fence, shoot at God knows what much too close to houses, barns and livestock, and act as if they're the offended party when an owner tries to get them off his land. If ever anyone gets hurt by a firearm in my neck of the woods, I'll lay you 10 to 1 that it will be some urban trespasser who gets shot for raising his firearm toward an owner trying to get the dumb @*&%@ off his land.

Short of that, though, I feel safer around my armed friends in the woods, without a cop of our own to call if we needed one, than in the "unarmed" cities, with their armies of cops to protect us, whether we want protecting or not.

Mako | October 27, 2007, 9:12pm | #

It appears that Mike Smith if thats his real name is a phony. He bashes Christians the NRA and our Veterans. May be he should join the NRA so he can practice gun safety. Then he can have a few drinks the next time he goes to a Hillary Clinton or Brady fun in.

Kasey Cunningham | October 29, 2007, 12:06pm | #

so, liberal democrats know best and americans just simply dont know the laws

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