Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

You will die trying. You should just obey the law as written. The left is too godless to be given that much power, plus you lie too much. Fewer people trust your side each day. You're just one election away from being tossed in the trash bin of history. You've been losing for three years and you're still talking trash. A sure sign of mental illness or total ignorance.

roy

Whose afraid of guns i guess you refer to people on the the left,who probably own as many or more guns than people on the right,why the hell would we be afraid of guns and want them banned? Yes you got some people that wants to put some controls on them which want work,but there is as many on the right that wants controls as there are on the left. But i guess if the right wants to keep up the talking points of the republican party and the nra and that makes you happy then have at it.

Smedley_buzkill

What sort of "controls" are you talking about? How would you go about implementing them, and why would they work?

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

Don't need your permission, gun-free zones allow for murderers to kill with ease. How stupid is that? I'm a very happy person until I talk with an alt-left dipstick trying to take what isn't theirs and who ignore the supreme law of the land.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

I am what the well crafted book calls a man "of steel and velvet," a man with a brain, a heart and a soul. A man or a woman must develop and maintain a balance between the mind and the heart, between the intellect and the emotions.

When the intellect and the emotions are in balance, when neither is the dominant force, the two are compatible, like Faith and Reason they compliment each other, reinforce each other, they work together in harmony to affect our decisions, our reactions, our judgements, and our actions. Facts and feelings determine the existential course of one’s journey through life. And without the silent witness within to nourish and guide the emotions and intellect, if either dominates, things go haywire very quickly.

If I had been unable to keep my emotions and intellect relatively balanced, I would never have been effective in the profession of saving lives and property (firefighting). I have been there, up close and personal, an on the scene witness to human tragedy. The pain and loss were undeniably heart breaking, and many times I allowed my emotions to relieve themselves. I cried when we could not save the lives of a mother and her baby, and I was overjoyed when we saved the lives of two young kids trapped on the second floor of a burning home.

But during the fight to win or lose, we had no time for either emotional responses or intellectual evaluations. We depended solely on judgements and decisions gained through our training and experience. Win or lose, after the fight was over, we could talk about it (intellectualize), we could laugh or cry (emotionalize). But in the heat of battle, we went in concerned only about the people who needed us. No firefighter I ever worked with, except one egotistical captain, were mindless or heartless fools. We had a job to do and we did it to the best of our abilities. Thank God that we won more than we lost.

The senseless killing of those innocent people in Texas weighs heavy on my heart. There is nothing I can do for them now. Maybe had I been at the WalMart with my CCW in my wallet and my 9 mil on my hip, I could have done something to stop him. I surely would have tried.

I could tell you what you can do with your lack of empathy argument, but admin would delete my suggestion.

amadjuster Loc: Texas Panhandle

Typical and predictable.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Really? Are you serious. You are admitting that you and your comrades are incapable of compassion for troubled human beings, that you are unwilling to seek real effective solutions to heal a sick society, that you refuse to actually do something positive for the benefit of all people? So, the "next best thing" is to totally ignore your fellow human beings and do something really stupid that will make the situation even worse.

That's brilliant, Pete, that's really freaking brilliant.

PZG1225 Loc: Florida

As always Blade, an outstanding post.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Not really. You guys just don’t get the psychology of many of these types of murderers. They want to be famous. This constant coverage before they even know The Who or why is just what many of these nut cases seek.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

It’s what they do Blade. Their talking points are more important than solutions.

roy

I dont want gun controls,i said there are people on both sides that do .As i said they want work

kemmer

This morning 9 were shot dead in Dayton.
The NRA came out with its usual robobroadcast: "Thoughts and prayers. It's not out fault. Guns don't kill people, people kill people."

Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX

All true, where's the beef?

Dinty

100 percent with you.

kemmer

Like 9 more were just shot in Dayton?