Why do you disagree that I should not have access to certain tools in the interest of keeping me and mine alive? What tools? Why?
Obama's policies would deny me the capability of carrying a firearm anywhere outside of my home (http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/10/31/obama-on-concealed-carry-2/). This is something I do on a daily basis. Yet, if I or other individuals could not, incidents like this: http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/NEWS/80828002 could have ended very differently. For further examples, I need only point you here: http://www.claytoncramer.com/gundefenseblog/blogger.html . Obama is against me using a firearm even *in my own home* for self defense - what if someone larger than me were to break into my house? I certainly cannot overpower him... The possibilities are, quite literally, endless.
Unfortunately, Dan Cooper spoke the words he did as the President of Cooper Firearms. He did not speak them as a generic, general, every-day citizen, and if he had, my reaction may have been markedly different. Instead, he spoke as the leader of a company, a company that manufactures just the thing Obama is interested in eliminating. There is simply no way the company could have adequately distanced themselves from him and his words short of doing what they did. He was the President of that company - he *was*, for all intents and purposes, that company. He spoke on behalf of that company, from the only position from which you can actually do that. And, at that point, his words became inextricably tied with the company... unless he was no longer part of it. And so it happened.
As for counts, you obviously travel in different circles on the internet than I do, but using Google's Blogsearch, I would disagree with you, slightly.
Dan Cooper had and still has the right to say whatever his little heart desires. If he feels less free to express those comments, that would be his choice, not mine, and not Cooper Firearm's. In fact, that he appears to continue to support Obama seems to indicate that he not only recognizes that he still (and always did) has that right, but also that he is comfortable with still exercising it.
No worries for the responses. Thank you for being a lot more reasonable about the topics of firearms and rights than some people would and have in the past. And if you ever need any advice concerning your possible future purchase, feel free to drop me or any of my fellow gunbloggers a line.
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Date: 31 October 2008 23:37 (UTC)Obama's policies would deny me the capability of carrying a firearm anywhere outside of my home (http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/10/31/obama-on-concealed-carry-2/). This is something I do on a daily basis. Yet, if I or other individuals could not, incidents like this: http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/NEWS/80828002 could have ended very differently. For further examples, I need only point you here: http://www.claytoncramer.com/gundefenseblog/blogger.html . Obama is against me using a firearm even *in my own home* for self defense - what if someone larger than me were to break into my house? I certainly cannot overpower him... The possibilities are, quite literally, endless.
Unfortunately, Dan Cooper spoke the words he did as the President of Cooper Firearms. He did not speak them as a generic, general, every-day citizen, and if he had, my reaction may have been markedly different. Instead, he spoke as the leader of a company, a company that manufactures just the thing Obama is interested in eliminating. There is simply no way the company could have adequately distanced themselves from him and his words short of doing what they did. He was the President of that company - he *was*, for all intents and purposes, that company. He spoke on behalf of that company, from the only position from which you can actually do that. And, at that point, his words became inextricably tied with the company... unless he was no longer part of it. And so it happened.
As for counts, you obviously travel in different circles on the internet than I do, but using Google's Blogsearch, I would disagree with you, slightly.
Dan Cooper had and still has the right to say whatever his little heart desires. If he feels less free to express those comments, that would be his choice, not mine, and not Cooper Firearm's. In fact, that he appears to continue to support Obama seems to indicate that he not only recognizes that he still (and always did) has that right, but also that he is comfortable with still exercising it.
No worries for the responses. Thank you for being a lot more reasonable about the topics of firearms and rights than some people would and have in the past. And if you ever need any advice concerning your possible future purchase, feel free to drop me or any of my fellow gunbloggers a line.