{"id":2944,"date":"2002-10-14T10:17:41","date_gmt":"2002-10-14T10:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2002-10-14T10:17:41","modified_gmt":"2002-10-14T10:17:41","slug":"i-see-stupid-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"I SEE STUPID PEOPLE…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So open the mailbox this morning, and have a pair of emails from Ralph Albertson<\/a>. I haven\u0092t got any really stupid or abusive email so far. I\u0092m genuinely impressed at the level of comments and email I\u0092ve received to date, so I\u0092m going to quote these screeds in full and comment:<\/p>\n

Your pro-gun arguments are specious to the point of being farcical. Perhaps you are merely unaware of the large number of children that are injured, maimed, or slain by “accidents” involving guns in their homes or perhaps you actually love your guns more than your children. In any even, if you will list your home address, I will be more than happy to report to the your nearest child protection agency for child endangerment.
\nNow there is another NRA nutcase sniper shooting people at random. That is another excellent example of your argument in action. In Stockton, one of your people uses a similar weapon to shoot up a schoolyard and murder children. Rather than act to protect the lives of children as the English did in a similar case by banning weapons, NRA people like you fought regulation, which proves again that you love your guns more than your children. The blood of thousands of innocent American who are murdered by guns in this country every year is on your hands. You must be proud to be gun scum.
\nhttp:\/\/www.childhealthmonitor.org\/DirectorySearch.php?topic=84
\nhttp:\/\/www.neahin.org\/programs\/schoolsafety\/gunsafety\/statistics.htm <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

Professor InstaCracker Seeks To Deflect Attention Away From NRA
\nProfessor InstaCracker, gunloon and NRA water-carrier, is beating the drums complaining nobody is looking into the Maryland (Montgomery County) Shootings as a potential Al Qaeda terrorism attack. Professor InstaCracker vaguely cites Al Qaeda training manuals as ‘evidence’ this could be a terrorist attack.
\nWhile terrorism as a motive for these crimes cannot be discounted, it should be noted the Al Qaeda manuals advised would-be terrorists to take advantage of lax US gun laws (the very same laws Professor InstaCracker would do away with) to obtain firepower.
\nHowever, this shooting spree doesn’t really fit the mold of a terrorist attack; one would think a terrorist would select crowds and would attack in a more dispersed area in order to maximize terror. I suspect InstaCracker knows this as well but is engaging in a bit of misdirection to deflect attention from the far greater possibility these senseless murders are the result of yet another of the NRA’s apocryphal “law-abiding citizens” exercising the NRA’s interpretation of the Second Amendment.
\nAnother NRA killer on the loose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ralph, you\u0092re a moron.<\/b>
\nYou\u0092re not a moron for opposing guns; that\u0092s a legitimate position to take, albeit one that I think is wrong (albeit is a long word that means \u0091although\u0092). You\u0092re a moron for believing that overheated rhetoric and namecalling will do anything except vent whatever personal frustrations you may have with your life, and make you look foolish in public, which in the long run will add to the personal frustrations you have with your life. It\u0092s a sad negative feedback loop.
\nYou want to challenge my beliefs or Glenn Reynolds\u0092 beliefs, step up and challenge them<\/u>. That\u0092s what this is about. But you\u0092ll have to actually do some thinking and work to do so.
\nI\u0092d suggest that you start with the CDC databases, where you\u0092ll learn that swimming pools are far more dangerous to American children than guns are, something sadly borne out in my personal experience (I have two friends who have lost children in swimming pool drownings). So your concern isn\u0092t with the safety of children, but with banning guns, and you’re shilling behind dead children to make your argument. OK, that’s sleazy, but you need to make a case. And unless you\u0092re prepared to actually attempt to construct an argument, do it someplace else.
\nYou see, this is arguments<\/i>\u0085abuse and stupidity<\/i> are down the hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So open the mailbox this morning, and have a pair of emails from Ralph Albertson. I haven\u0092t got any really stupid or abusive email so far. I\u0092m genuinely impressed at the level of comments and email I\u0092ve received to date, so I\u0092m going to quote these screeds in full and comment: Your pro-gun arguments are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}