Barack Obama, "Greatest Gun Salesman in America"

[Atypical Liberal]

121. Oh, well as long as it's for the cause of peace.

Damn right I'm prejudiced. If I am prejudiced, it is for the cause of peace.

So it's OK to think that everyone who engages in a sport using a weapon is secretly bent on bloodlust as long as it's for the cause of peace. Got it.

Why do you vote against your own interests? Seems, oh kinda hypocritical to put a shallow view of gun rights ahead of the likelihood of the fair administration of justice. Why would you trust a Republican in this day and age to faithfully carry out his office?

Believe me, I am not happy about the situation. I used to be a single-issue voter. I used the second amendment as a litmus test for a politician. I figured if they supported the right of the people to keep and bear arms that they must understand personal liberty and the principles of our founding fathers.

Unfortunately it has become clear to me that the Republicans pander to the gun owners the same way they pander to religious people. They give people the illusion of piety and freedom while when they think no one is looking engaging in whatever debauchery suits them and passing laws that devastate our freedom and civil liberties.

So where I can, I will try to remove anti-second amendment politicians from office. But I will have to weigh the consequences. In the case of President Obama, I thought it was more important to push the country as a whole away from the conservative side of things, though truth be told many of the things I was unhappy with Bush doing Obama has continued to do.

Also, I'm just going to respond to your other post here and be done with it - to your claim that the practice of the means of war does not inculcate militarism and that I ought to go buy a set of darts, I simply must refer you to the library and to a certain book by one Erich Maria Remarque entitled All Quiet on the Western Front and simply ask what form you think humankind ought to take.

Rather than sending me off on a research project, why don't you simply tell me what form you think humankind ought to take and what this has to do with the completely non-violent sport of throwing darts?

It seems to me that you simply see violence everywhere and in everything.