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obsessed · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1200

This writer is really good, she's often on the other side of the debate from Jason Whitlock on various topics and I find myself agreeing with her on a lot of what she writes. She seems to be very bright and writes with integrity rather than guys like Whitlock and Skip Bayless who just try to create headlines.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/k...-rights-120512

This is not simply about guns. This is about rights. It is a slippery slope from doing something in the interest of public safety to giving up what we hold dear. The slope is greased with fear, with a self-righteous belief that we know better than the framers of the Constitution. And it is all based on informal fallacy.

The idea that if we just ban all guns Kasandra Perkins does not die and a 3-month-old baby is not orphaned is the very essence of a stated premise that fails to support its proposed conclusion. Yes, guns are dangerous and people such as Belcher sometimes use them to do awful things. What I believe in my heart is Jovan Belcher was going to find a way to wreak havoc that day whether he had a gun or a knife or only his fists. And even the potential to stop him is not justification for willingly handing over rights guaranteed to us.

If this makes me a gun nut or a wing nut or a preachy PITA, I am OK with those labels. Although, I prefer Constitutionalist.

There are not a lot of us left
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jebsays · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 3:38 pm Post subject:

I couldn't get your link to work but think this is the story?

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/kansas-city-chiefs-jovan-belcher-suicide-murder-no-reason-to-take-away-rights-120512

obsessed · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1200

that's the one...not sure what happened with the link.
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ltorna1 · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 3240

I wrestled with Jovan Belcher in highschool. Him and I were much different weight classes but we practiced together for the county championships two years in a row. The guy was a better wrestler than he was a football player. Incredible athlete, and even more incredible a person. He was always friendly, helpful, selfless and funny as all get out back in highschool. Will never know what made him snap.
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