Bloomberg editorial and comments backlash

[Pacioli]

Bloomberg.com, is a Bloomberg site so liberalism is a given. So I wasn't surprised to see the editors come out with a whiny piece of "sensible" gun control. I read as much as I could take without puking my breakfast and was about to leave when I decided to read the comments. Talk about getting bitch slapped! And I thought I was the only conservative on Bloomberg. Go check it out, some of the comments are priceless. And a couple of libs wandered in and promptly got their ass handed to them. Great stuff!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-17/congress-rural-bias-puts-gun-control-out-of-reach.html

 

[KvichakKing]

I can't seem to get the comments section to come up, must have gotten to hot for the moronic leftys or its that I'm at my office desktop.

 

[oleheat]

Bloomberg is just PO'd that he couldn't buy the Second Amendment.

 

[Emperor]

OMG! There's 9 pages of that silliness!

 

[Cochise]

I can't believe even that idiot would publish something like that.

The comments are great, this one stands out, for me:

On the contrary I see the use of "arms" as a very broad term. Arms today means more than just guns. Today's arms are computers and cyber-warfare. The spirit of the amendment was to give the people the capacity for revolt should the new government turn on its citizens and emulate the old world powers.

The Second Amendment should be interpreted more broadly to protect the capability of the population to oppose the power of the Federal government. Small-arms are certainly a part of that equation but not the whole picture. Just as we interpret free speech to include electronic communication we should interpret right to bear arms as cyber-warfare capabilities.

 

[Leadfoot]

I love when people throw out the old "well they didn't have semi automatic firearms with 30 round magazines when the constitution was written", ******** and someone always says yeah, they didn't didn't have TV or the internet then either, but we obviously extend the 1st amendment to cover them.

 

[Emperor]

I can't believe even that idiot would publish something like that.

The comments are great, this one stands out, for me:

He kinda, sorta makes a good point in a kinda, sorta crazy way?!?

 

[Cochise]

He kinda, sorta makes a good point in a kinda, sorta crazy way?!?

The more you think about it, the harder it is to argue against, right??

 

[JNieman]

The more you think about it, the harder it is to argue against, right??

That was actually very interesting.

Next time someone says "Well do you think everyone should have a F16?" Instead of getting into "Why not?" I'll say "Modernization of grassroots revolution can be applied to modern technology quite easily. If you look at the ability of social media and cyber attacks generated by Egyptians, Iraqis, Venezuelans, Canadians, Chinese and Russians, it's apparent that the modernization of tools to crack a tyrannical hold are important and do require updating" or some other statement off the top of my head like that.

 

[SVT]

would a fighter jet quality as a "bearable arm"? It was my understanding that "Bear Arms", meant arms you could carry on your person...was I wrong in that thinking?

 

[Hitman]

How about this comment. WOW!

David2020 11 minutes ago

The Senate, with its heavy over-representation of superstitious, fearful, conservative, white voters in an increasingly rational, progressive, multi-ethnic, multi-racial society, is a very serious problem.

It was necessary back in the day in order to form the Union. It makes absolutely no sense in the modern world.

 

[Emperor]

How about this comment. WOW!

David2020 11 minutes ago

"The Senate, with its heavy over-representation of superstitious, fearful, conservative, white voters in an increasingly rational, progressive, multi-ethnic, multi-racial society, is a very serious problem.

It was necessary back in the day in order to form the Union. It makes absolutely no sense in the modern world."

No one will ever convince me this^ is not a sickness!

 

[flamatrix99]

I can't get the comments to come up.

 

[cajun_64]

the comment button took me down to bloomberg site map at the bottom of the page. Guess they disabled it.

How is that for freedom of the press/speech?

 

[oleheat]

I have to level with y'all. At least part of my happiness right now is knowing we won't have to see this nutsack on every TV channel in LA for a while, now....

 

[Cochise]

For those that can't see the comments, try this:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-17/congress-rural-bias-puts-gun-control-out-of-reach.html#disqus_thread

 

[Emperor]

I have to level with y'all. At least part of my happiness right now is knowing we won't have to see this nutsack on every TV channel in LA for a while, now....

Isn't this a slug barrel on this shotgun? And that fuzzy image by the barn....is that.....is that;


A yard jockey?