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2018-05-01 Home Front: Culture Wars
No one needs a gun that just begs the owner to start shooting people.- Ben Stein
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Posted by Mercutio 2018-05-01 08:59|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 No one "needs" Ben Stein. This is example 3.97x10^16 why the Beltway "conservative" punditry is no friend at all of any free American.
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-05-01 10:32||   2018-05-01 10:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Do guns talk to Ben?
Posted by gorb 2018-05-01 10:37||   2018-05-01 10:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Do guns talk to Ben?

Possible, but I bet he's never been anywhere near an AR. I'd imagine he moves in circles where guys with ear monitors carry concealed. I will guarantee you that people who are no way conservative talk to him at cocktail parties and in green rooms and editorial suites pretty much all the time...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-05-01 10:44||   2018-05-01 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Also, I am henceforth calling the spectator the Spic-fellator...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-05-01 10:49||   2018-05-01 10:49|| Front Page Top

#5 His protection team need to show the way!
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-05-01 10:49||   2018-05-01 10:49|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm a second amendment guy!

No you are not Ben. You are a worthless piece of shit. Lower than whale shit even.

My AR doesn't beg me to start shooting people.

But I will say your mouth is begging me to feed it your teeth.
Posted by DarthVader 2018-05-01 10:49||   2018-05-01 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Gosh, Ben. Then why do the police have ARs?
Posted by Iblis 2018-05-01 10:54||   2018-05-01 10:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Gosh, Ben. Then why do the police have ARs?

Oof! The crux of the BLM cult's dogma revealed...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-05-01 11:00||   2018-05-01 11:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Statistically comparing the number of guns vs gun deaths clearly shows Ben is an idiot desperate to be invited to liberal parties.
Posted by Rjschwarz 2018-05-01 11:32||   2018-05-01 11:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Ben Stein is a funny fellow who's usually right. He is here, too -- about Waffle House, not about the AR.

The AR doesn't tell you to shoot people. It's a decent, lightweight rifle, reasonably accurate and fun to fire. If I could still see well enough to shoot, I'd prefer a slightly heavier bolt action, but that's just me.

He nailed the problem in the very first sentence and then rollicked off on the wrong track:
A few days ago, a man with a long history of mental illness and violence shot and killed four innocent people at a Waffle House in Tennessee.
The shooter had a long history of mental illness. All of these shootings feature the same common element, don't they? Only a complete lunatic (PC hissy fit from somebody to follow) to shoot up a restaurant, school, mall, church, kindergarten, baseball practice, or what have you for no reason.

We used to have cackle factories, nut houses, or assylums, call them what you will, for people who were nuts. Now they're not nuts, they "disturbed" or they're "troubled" and they're walking the streets and they're buying guns, regardless of what laws have been passed.

Looney bins were done away with as a result of a long series of horror stories based on a short string of actual facts. Just like nursing homes today, they required a significant chunk of money to maintain, and the costs kept getting heftier, so patients were "main streamed" and told to be good and take their meds, instead of remaining committed and being given their meds by the men in white coats.

Everybody felt ever so much more virtuous, superior in every way to our ignernt ancestors. Politicians were able to divert the funds released to contracts for their relatives and the guys who thought they were Napoleon Bonapart went shopping for artillery.
Posted by Fred 2018-05-01 12:19||   2018-05-01 12:19|| Front Page Top

#11 I have to disagree with you on one point, Fred.

Looney bins were done away with as a result of a long series of horror stories based on a short string of actual facts

Went thru the turn away from Mental Health facilities when I worked in CA hospitals. The reason was, first and always foremost, money. They are damned expensive and end up being longterm warehouses since "cures" are few and far between. The "horror stories" were just the pols' excuse for moving the money to other "needs".
Posted by Mercutio 2018-05-01 12:31||   2018-05-01 12:31|| Front Page Top

#12 So is that "Ben Stein, AR Whisperer" or
"AR - Ben Stein Whisperer"?
Posted by ar anonymous 2018-05-01 12:33||   2018-05-01 12:33|| Front Page Top

#13 ARs kill people, his security wear the cute MP5.
Posted by 49 Pan 2018-05-01 13:14||   2018-05-01 13:14|| Front Page Top

#14 I don't know... Having lived and worked in the shadow of one of those "Gulags for Lunatics" back when they had 20' chainlink fences topped by three strands of razor wire... I just don't know...
Posted by magpie 2018-05-01 14:12||   2018-05-01 14:12|| Front Page Top

#15 well, what side of the fence do you want the guys who hear guns speak to them to be?
Posted by ar anonymous 2018-05-01 15:40||   2018-05-01 15:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Not sure, but, could Ben be laying a little facetiousness on us?

The paen to WH seems oddly out of tune with any real anti-AR diatribe, no?
Posted by AlanC 2018-05-01 15:40||   2018-05-01 15:40|| Front Page Top

#17 The "horror stories" were just the pols' excuse for moving the money to other "needs".

Like the Hyperloop, free legal services or inflated pensions, for example.
Posted by gorb 2018-05-01 16:44||   2018-05-01 16:44|| Front Page Top

#18 I suspect a lot of those lunatics found their way into the overcrowded prison system. The other half are crapping in the streets of California.

No matter how you shuffle priorities someones gotta pay.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-05-01 17:52||   2018-05-01 17:52|| Front Page Top

#19 He lost me at "No one needs..."

Just who are you to determine anyone's needs other than your own?
Posted by badanov 2018-05-01 20:14|| http://www.chriscovert.net  2018-05-01 20:14|| Front Page Top

#20 Never heard a gun beg, but I have heard them talk.
Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-05-01 23:03||   2018-05-01 23:03|| Front Page Top

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