Oh Look! Another Know-Nothing Sports Figure Demonstrates That He Does, Indeed, Know Nothing [CBD]

I am an absolutist when it comes to the 2nd Amendment. I am even uncomfortable with felons who have served their time being denied the ability to defend themselves. And yes, that is a contentious topic that can be discussed rationally. Just like other parts of gun control can be discussed with well-meaning opponents of the 2nd Amendment. I know, I know, they don't exist....but they really do. I have had discussions with knowledgeable people who are willing to consider my viewpoint, but simply disagree.

And that is fine.

But people like Steve Kerr, who are profoundly ignorant of even the most basic facts about guns are incapable of having rational and reasoned discussions, and he clearly demonstrates his abject, blinding stupidity here. Warriors coach Steve Kerr on gun control: 'Our government is insane'

When 90 percent of our country wants background checks on gun purchases and we've got our senate and our house not only voting it down but using the Bill of Rights as a reason for people to have rights to carry these automatic weapons, and we're getting people murdered every day at an alarming rate.

I'm shocked...SHOCKED...that our congress is referring to the founding documents when they protect our rights. I honestly have no idea why they didn't just pick up the phone and call Steve Kerr...he clearly has a handle on the issue, and we should all be grateful that he not only is a great coach, but he knows the Constitution too! My God...the man coached the Warriors to a record-breaking regular season and then took that incredible momentum into the play-offs....and got his ass kicked by an inferior team.

Yeah....Steve Kerr got out-coached. So his intellect is clearly not top-notch, especially when all he had to do was run an offense a little bit more sophisticated than playground basketball. But he couldn't even do that, and we are supposed to take him seriously as a critic of our basic rights?

I kind of think that our forefathers would not have ok'd automatic weapons to be sold to everybody if they existed back then. Let's have some checks. It’s easier to get a gun than it is to get a driver's license. It's insane. And as somebody who's had a family member shot and killed, it devastates me every time I read about this stuff -- like what happened in Orlando -- and then it's even more devastating to see the government just cowing to the NRA and going to this totally outdated Bill Of Rights, right to bear arms. If you want to own a musket, fine, you know, but come on. The rest of the world thinks we're insane. We are insane.

So, in Steve -- The Super Genius -- Kerr's world, there are no background checks, we can purchase automatic weapons, the government is subservient to the NRA, and the rest of the world thinks we are nuts.

Sounds great. Where do I sign up for that America?

But I do love the "totally outdated Bill of Rights" comment. I wonder if he even knows what's in them?

However, all of this is okay, because he has an excuse. His father, Malcolm Kerr, was the president of the American University of Beirut, until he was murdered in 1984, possibly by terrorists from Islamic jihad.

Why this absolves him of the responsibility to think before he speaks is unclear to me, especially because it is a terrorist shooting (Orlando) that was the catalyst for his outburst. Perhaps if Kerr would consider his anti-gun stance in a more calm and dispassionate light he would realize that there are powerful arguments to be made for citizens being armed with exactly the weapons that terrorists seem to favor. Emotional outbursts are fine when fighting with your girlfriend before the prom, but grown men with bully-pulpits should show a little more rationality and a little less tearful theatrics.

This kind of ignorant opinion doesn't surprise me, but what does irritate me is the slack-jawed acceptance of everything that Kerr said by the writers of this and other articles about this hysterical SJW. Maybe a little fact-checking would be in order, but they are too busy checking for Trump's parking tickets from 1973.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 01:19 PM

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1 Like celebrities, sports people dabbling in politics is usually a bad thing.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 01:16 PM (NOIQH)

2 I glad I don't play those FIRST games.

Posted by: ArthurK at June 28, 2016 01:16 PM (h53OH)

3 "When 90 percent of our country wants"

Stopped right there. Funny how people are populist when it supports their position, but tend to revert to some other principles when it doesn't.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 28, 2016 01:17 PM (KUaJL)

4 He's a tool

Posted by: Navycopjoe at June 28, 2016 01:17 PM (u65Ml)

5 >>Maybe a little fact-checking would be in order, but they are too busy checking for Trump's parking tickets from 1973

I'm sure they'd fact check to the nth degree if he said something in support of the 2nd Amendment. Kinda like how movie critics suddenly become theological experts when reviewing a movie like "Passion of Christ."

Posted by: Lizzy at June 28, 2016 01:18 PM (NOIQH)

6 And Curt Schilling is blacklisted for being "too political."

Posted by: josephistan at June 28, 2016 01:18 PM (7HtZB)

7 Ummm....CBD, I'm a fan. I like your posts.

Why are we talking about what a basketball coach thinks about things that aren't basketball?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 01:19 PM (1xUj/)

8 Who?

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 28, 2016 01:19 PM (rwI+c)

9 Also, I don't particularly feel the need to listen to what a basketball coach has to say on any subject other than basketball.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 28, 2016 01:19 PM (KUaJL)

10 But I do love the "totally outdated Bill of Rights" comment. I wonder if he even knows what's in them?

Basketball damn sure isn't.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 01:19 PM (kWQPe)

11 yeah I saw that...now I am glad Golden State Lost...to bad it was Cleveland and LaBron that won. Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 01:19 PM (zp+j1)

12 Losing that game 7 must have stung a little.

Glad I was pulling for CLE.

Posted by: eleven at June 28, 2016 01:20 PM (qUNWi)

13 Okay, let's compromise with the hippies
The constitution is old blah blah but hey, let's start with the 1st amendment since you know its first and all

Posted by: Navycopjoe at June 28, 2016 01:20 PM (3f8gu)

14 First, he's a basketball coach. He teaches people of low IQ to throw a ball through a ring. How that qualifies him as an authority on anything else is a mystery.

Second, half of the NBA belongs in prison. The other half has either been there or will be there, and they largely belong to the demographic that generates a wildly disproportionate amount of gun violence.

Just some thoughts for Kerr to ponder before he pontificates.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:20 PM (oKE6c)

15 >>My God...the man coached the Warriors to a record-breaking regular season and then took that incredible momentum into the play-offs....and got his ass kicked by an inferior team.

Coached by Tyron Lue and LeBron James - an NBA Player with a HS Degree!

Posted by: garrett at June 28, 2016 01:20 PM (9JISm)

16
I can understand having a point of view about the having a family member murdered by a gun.

But a Muzzy terrorist in Beirut???!! The blood was shooting out my eyes.

Total asshole. As long as we're in the mood to ban the Bill of Rights, Steve old pal, how about we ban your first amendment rights? You down with that struggle?

Jesus H. Kee-rist.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:20 PM (p4UlV)

17 Why are we talking about what a basketball coach thinks about things that aren't basketball?

Posted by: Bandersnatch

Politics is downstream from culture - Breitbart.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2016 01:21 PM (p2X2f)

18 Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 01:19 PM (1xUj/)

I wrote the entire post just to use the word "slackjawed."

And I am really hurt that you didn't notice.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 28, 2016 01:22 PM (Zu3d9)

19 Why are we talking about what a basketball coach thinks about things that aren't basketball?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 01:19 PM (1xUj/)

Because his astonishing ignorance will be lapped up as gospel truth by the LIVs who make up a majority of population. Culture matters. Andrew Breitbart understood that.

Posted by: josephistan at June 28, 2016 01:22 PM (7HtZB)

20 7 Ummm....CBD, I'm a fan. I like your posts.

Why are we talking about what a basketball coach thinks about things that aren't basketball?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 01:19 PM (1xUj/)

Because schmucks like Kerr and every other brain-dead celebrity and/or sports figure is listened to by a lot of people.

Are you not aware of this?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:22 PM (p4UlV)

21 He said this on radio - which isn't covered under the First Amendment, right? Same as the television broadcast job he held?

Someone tweet him that zinger someone sent to that Brit on CNN.

Posted by: sithkhan at June 28, 2016 01:22 PM (EXCVJ)

22
"When 90 percent of our country wants">>>

lets think of other things 90% of our country wants:
lower Taxes
a mansion
a pony....

Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 28, 2016 01:22 PM (tf9Ne)

23 who? this fucking empty tool shed matters because? never heard of this crapweasel and really don't give a fuck about his feelings. coaching tall tree hockey is no great accomplishment. i could probably coach five or ten wins per season. fuck these jock sniffing assclowns.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 28, 2016 01:23 PM (ucDmr)

24 Pffft. That's not even the dumbest thing in sports in the last day.

Eric Lindros got into the HOF.

Posted by: LJim at June 28, 2016 01:23 PM (CMbMd)

25 Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 01:19 PM (1xUj/)

I wrote the entire post just to use the word "slackjawed."

And I am really hurt that you didn't notice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I am slack-jawed that he didn't notice. Truly dumbfounded.
Indubitably so.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 01:23 PM (kWQPe)

26 I'd like to know his opinion on cigars. And the fact that he didn't get to smoke one this year.

Posted by: Red Auerbach at June 28, 2016 01:24 PM (VxHD9)

27

I find that the First Amendment, in the wrong hands, can be just as, if not more lethal by orders of magnitude, than the Second.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:24 PM (p4UlV)

28 Very, very few actors/singers/athletes/entertainers know much more than the average American about reality. Many know quite a bit less. There is no reason to give the opinion of said actors/singers/athletes/entertainers any more credence than that of an annoying loquacious wino.

Posted by: joncelli, Bridge Troll and Crossbow Afficianado at June 28, 2016 01:24 PM (nIGPZ)

29
Gotta jump onto a conference call. Later.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:24 PM (p4UlV)

30 As a sports pontificator, I've tried to subtly insert conservative messages into my broadcasts, nobody notices, which is exactly what I want.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:25 PM (2cS/G)

31 Well, one thing he is an authority on, is my daily fart rape from his saggy gas-filled buttocks.

Posted by: Steve Kerr's Chair at June 28, 2016 01:25 PM (jDvlh)

32 Steve "Fredo" Kerr.

True nickname.

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 28, 2016 01:25 PM (TMgNe)

33 The list is long and growing all too fast but it is a duty that cannot be shirked:

Steve Kerr is now added to the official FUCK YOU! list of imbeciles who hate their country and endanger its existence through their ignorance and arrogance.

Posted by: malignantly aggrieved and economically useless at June 28, 2016 01:25 PM (iHtNO)

34 My wish is Steve Kerr is going to a restaurant after a game in Houston and accosted by a guy with a knife and a CHL holder shoots the perp. That's my good guy wish. I have a bad guy wish I'll keep to myself.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 28, 2016 01:25 PM (nFitA)

35 I think we can all agree in the ranking of athletes there is no dumber group than basketball players.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 28, 2016 01:25 PM (/tuJf)

36 I wrote the entire post just to use the word "slackjawed."

And I am really hurt that you didn't notice.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Oh, fine.

And I'm sorry.

I thought you really wrote it to get us speculating about where Trump's car was parked in 1973 when it was getting the tickets.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 01:26 PM (1xUj/)

37 Having his dad shot by lunatics in the Middle East gives him the knowledge and moral authority to take away one of our essential liberties. I, for one, welcome our tow-headed, one dimensional jump-shooting overlords.

Posted by: spongeworthy at June 28, 2016 01:26 PM (mrfTe)

38 So what article are the quotes from?
ESPN?

Posted by: Jen the original at June 28, 2016 01:26 PM (PiuBB)

39 Every time you watch an NBA game, you implicitly support this shit. Stop giving them your money. Same goes for the NFL.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 28, 2016 01:26 PM (0LHZx)

40 O/T: During the Farrage screed at the EU shadow gubmint: He laid into the other members by stating "You've never held a proper job in your life." Creepy guy behind mic tells him he can't say members have never had a "decent job." Farrage should have said all MEP's have decent jobs, EXCELLENT jobs in fact. Unlimited exp. accounts, no real work, just sit around making up expensive, redundant rules all day long. By proper he meant in the private sector w/the outside chance of termination.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 28, 2016 01:27 PM (SeD0w)

41 >>Eric Lindros got into the HOF.

Why not give him Nobel Peace prize, too?

Posted by: garrett at June 28, 2016 01:27 PM (9JISm)

42 I'd like to note, in case it's not totally clear, that Malcolm Kerr was murdered in Beirut. So Steve Kerr bringing up a tragic murder in a war torn shithole in an attempt to influence the rights of law-abiding citizens in this country is fundamentally dishonest.

Posted by: Randy Weaver's Revenge at June 28, 2016 01:27 PM (koG1G)

43 And his team blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA finals (a feat never before
accomplished), having two games remaining at home to clinch things.

You had one job, Kerr, and you couldn't even do that, so please kindly shut the fuck up about things you know nothing about.

Posted by: wondering how many of his pampered players are carrying at June 28, 2016 01:27 PM (H9MG5)

44 28 Very, very few actors/singers/athletes/entertainers know much more than the average American about reality. Many know quite a bit less. There is no reason to give the opinion of said actors/singers/athletes/entertainers any more credence than that of an annoying loquacious wino.
Posted by: joncelli, Bridge Troll and Crossbow Afficianado at June 28, 2016 01:24 PM (nIGPZ)

A whacking great fraction of actors/actresses are high school dropouts. Why anyone listens to the analyses of people who couldn't hack high school is a problem for the ages.

Many athletes nominally have high school or college degrees, but when they speak it's obvious they got them through social promotion. "Communications" majors, indeed.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:27 PM (oKE6c)

45 Kerr says it's outdated until the 3rd is suspended and TSA blueberries want to live in his home to monitor his speech.

Here..I can play kerr's game, the 16th and 17th are outdated and should be repealed immediately! ..for the children

Posted by: willy at June 28, 2016 01:27 PM (Ffw22)

46 "When 90 percent of our country wants"

Nine out of ten experts agree: 95.97% of statistics are made up, on the spot.

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 28, 2016 01:27 PM (TMgNe)

47 39 Every time you watch an NBA game, you implicitly support this shit. Stop giving them your money. Same goes for the NFL.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 28, 2016 01:26 PM (0LHZx)

This.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:28 PM (oKE6c)

48 Yeah, Moo Moo, and every time you post on the Internet you are implicitly supporting the Leftwing SJW Internet mega-corporations, not to mention the Utility Worker's Unions. Stop giving them your money.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:28 PM (2cS/G)

49 >>Every time you watch an NBA game, you implicitly support, this shit.

No. You don't.

If you target your purchases to support their advertisers, or you buy NBA Licensed Products - then you do.

Otherwise, you are just using them like the whores they are.

Posted by: garrett at June 28, 2016 01:28 PM (9JISm)

50 Basketball can't even give a full hour of effort like every other sport. 48 minutes my ass.

Posted by: josephistan at June 28, 2016 01:28 PM (7HtZB)

51 I keep asking people like this where I can buy my automatic weapons. They never seem to be able to tell me.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at June 28, 2016 01:28 PM (ze1KG)

52 And his team blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA finals (a feat never before accomplished), having two games remaining at home to clinch things.

Oh snap! That's Jerry Jones level there!

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 01:29 PM (kWQPe)

53 The old "if semi automatics existed in 1776, 2A wouldn't have been created" idiocy. No you fucktard. 2A isn't about hunting, or even about home protection. It's about not having the govt fuck with its people. And since the govt has evil scary looking guns, the people need to have the same evil scary looking guns.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 28, 2016 01:29 PM (0LHZx)

54
The Framers, PBUH, warned us about what happens when 90% of the populace want something.

Stever Kerr. Soopa Gee-nee-us.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:29 PM (p4UlV)

55 Dumber than a box of stupid.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at June 28, 2016 01:29 PM (jsWA8)

56 >>>But I do love the "totally outdated Bill of Rights" comment. I wonder if he even knows what's in them?<<<

Well, he's totally got a point on that stoopid Constitution thingy.

Posted by: Judge "Dick" Posner (7th Circuit) at June 28, 2016 01:30 PM (H9MG5)

57 Kerr forgot to mention the thing that goes up.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 28, 2016 01:30 PM (nFitA)

58 Again :

The Founders would be aghast at our lack of Artillery Pieces.

Posted by: garrett at June 28, 2016 01:30 PM (9JISm)

59 49 >>Every time you watch an NBA game, you implicitly support, this shit.

No. You don't.

If you target your purchases to support their advertisers, or you buy NBA Licensed Products - then you do.

Otherwise, you are just using them like the whores they are.
Posted by: garrett at June 28, 2016 01:28 PM (9JISm)

____

That's not how it works. They sell ad space based on how many people watch. Even if you never buy a product that is advertised, the NBA \ ABC makes money by you watching.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 28, 2016 01:30 PM (0LHZx)

60 39: moo moo have not watched the nba for over thirty years. college shit either. nfl is on it's way out. i refuse to support felons. jerry jones not withstanding. professional sports is as fucked as our government. they are birds of a feather.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 28, 2016 01:31 PM (ucDmr)

61 Article today about Kerr says that he is still suffering from excruciating pain and dizziness from some back surgery he had.

How much of his drunken rant is due to Oxycontin?

Posted by: Jen the original at June 28, 2016 01:31 PM (PiuBB)

62 But him put ball in hoop!

Posted by: OK, Thanks, Bye at June 28, 2016 01:31 PM (ucB75)

63 Hey Stevie:

What say we suspend your Fourth Amendment rights regarding searches and seizures? The cops can come barging into your house or break into your car anytime they want to. Who needs an old outdated thing like the Bill of Rights?

Tool.

Posted by: Furious George at June 28, 2016 01:31 PM (57K5j)

64 As sharp as a bowling ball

Posted by: josephistan at June 28, 2016 01:31 PM (7HtZB)

65 If 90% of the public wanted to fire Kerr as head coach, should he be fired?

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 28, 2016 01:31 PM (0LHZx)

66 >>That's not how it works. They sell ad space based on how many people watch. Even if you never buy a product that is advertised, the NBA \ ABC makes money by you watching.

They only know you are watching if you volunteer that information.

Posted by: garrett at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (9JISm)

67 53 The old "if semi automatics existed in 1776, 2A wouldn't have been created" idiocy. No you fucktard. 2A isn't about hunting, or even about home protection. It's about not having the govt fuck with its people. And since the govt has evil scary looking guns, the people need to have the same evil scary looking guns.
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 28, 2016 01:29 PM (0LHZx)

Assholes like Kerr and that Judge Posner - who should be dragged out and de-frocked - don't understand that although times and morays may change, human nature remains the same. That is what the Constitution is about.

'kin 'ell, but I just want to punch something.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (p4UlV)

68
A loser says what?

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (TMgNe)

69 @51, also, if you find out, can you tell me where I can get silencers, weapons grade plutonium, trilithium, laundry detergent with lots of phosphates, high-flow toilets, light bulbs, and tea kettles?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (VxHD9)

70
Many athletes nominally have high school or college degrees, but when they speak it's obvious they got them through social promotion. "Communications" majors, indeed.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:27 PM (oKE6c)

I was a tutor for the football team when I was in college. I agree with you completely.

Posted by: Moki at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (ezHMO)

71 And every time you donate to Ace, you are lining the pockets of PayPal, proud SJW stormtroopers. Must we refrain from that activity, too, or just sports viewing?

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (2cS/G)

72 Politics is downstream from culture - Breitbart.

And culture is downstream from sovereign authority.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (6FqZa)

73 The Founders would be aghast at our lack of Artillery Pieces.>>>

And automatic Grape Shot.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (tf9Ne)

74 I'm exhausted with these asshole celebrities who think that, because of nothing more than a world-wide popularity contest, they have not only some special insight into politics and governance and economics, but that they think they have a right to be louder in expressing those retarded opinions.

Mr. Kerr, Mr. McCartney, Ms. Goldberg, Cher, Ms. O'Donnel, et al, I don't give two fucks about what you think or where you'll live. You are dancing monkeys. I put a nickel in the box, the gate opens and you come out and dance for my entertainment. When I tire of you, I'll stop putting nickels in the box. You go back in your cage and STFU. Your dancing skills do not translate into great philosophical insight. FO.

Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (G2Sc9)

75 The old "if semi automatics existed in 1776, 2A wouldn't have been created" idiocy.

If the internet, phones, radio, tv existed in 1776, 1st Amendment.

Tends to shut them up fast.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (kWQPe)

76 53 The old "if semi automatics existed in 1776, 2A wouldn't have been created" idiocy. No you fucktard. 2A isn't about hunting, or even about home protection. It's about not having the govt fuck with its people. And since the govt has evil scary looking guns, the people need to have the same evil scary looking guns.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 28, 2016 01:29 PM (0LHZx)

Its funny how people either don't know, or forget, that the US Revolutions first shots were fired when the British tried to enforce their stringent gun control regulations.

Posted by: Don Q. at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (qf6WZ)

77 60 39: moo moo have not watched the nba for over thirty years. college shit either. nfl is on it's way out. i refuse to support felons. jerry jones not withstanding. professional sports is as fucked as our government. they are birds of a feather.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 28, 2016 01:31 PM (ucDmr)

___

I stopped giving a fuck which millionaire players won the championship and which millionaire players lost when I was in high school. It had nothing to do with politics, I just woke up one day and thought, why do I give a fuck which team wins and loses? It has zero effect on my life. It was quite an epiphany at a young age.

Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at June 28, 2016 01:33 PM (0LHZx)

78 60 professional sports is as fucked as our government. they are birds of a feather.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 28, 2016 01:31 PM (ucDmr)

"Rollerball." The 1973 original. Rent it. Be there. Aloha.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:33 PM (p4UlV)

79 Oh come on.

Does no one want to talk about where Trump's car was parked when it got tickets in 1973?

I think not CBGBs, maybe Barbizon hotel.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 01:34 PM (1xUj/)

80 San Cordoba?

C'mon, Rush -

What of Peruvia!?

Posted by: garrett at June 28, 2016 01:34 PM (9JISm)

81 Steve Kerr doesn't have a monopoly on having family members shot and killed. My F-I-L was murdered by a neighbor; yet I take the exact opposite point of view. I absolutely firmly hold to the notion that I have the right to arm myself to the same extent as the dirtball neighbors so that in the event of...

...a threat to me or my family...

...I at least have a fighting chance.

This right is not granted by the government.

And restricting the right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms is not the solution.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, breaking radio silence at June 28, 2016 01:34 PM (lHb9q)

82 If you asked Steve Kerr if he were to go into a gun store and buy a gun, would he get a background check , he would tell you no. Even when you are buying automatic weapons, you just pick it up off the shelf and head to the register. Young gal with ring in her nose at the register and three inch green nails will check you out and you can put it in your backseat.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 28, 2016 01:34 PM (PiuBB)

83 j.j. kinda remember that. unreal how they knew the future.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 28, 2016 01:34 PM (ucDmr)

84 Morays may change, but 'eel not notice when they do.

Posted by: Furious George at June 28, 2016 01:34 PM (57K5j)

85 Its funny how people either don't know, or forget,
that the US Revolutions first shots were fired when the British tried to
enforce their stringent gun control regulations.

Posted by: Don Q.

Or that most Americans had weapons superior to what the Brit troops carried.

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 28, 2016 01:35 PM (TMgNe)

86 I dunno, Hillary!'s considered educated, yet she doesn't have an off switch.

While Shaq not only won multiple championships, but also managed to earn a PhD. And he stops back pain.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 28, 2016 01:35 PM (VxHD9)

87 May I have your attention, wingnutz, so I can sing a song extolling the virtues of Hillary Clinton?

Posted by: Alexander Hamilton, Noted Liberal at June 28, 2016 01:35 PM (dSuDi)

88 Devil's Advocate Report from the Inner City

Listen, people.

Liberals cluster almost exclusively in urban areas.

Urban areas are plagued with gangs, criminals, amoral scuzzballs and psychopaths.

Liberals are people too: their primal urge is to stay alive.

The bald truth is that the gangs, criminals, amoral scuzzballs and psychopaths all seem to be extremely heavily armed these days with guns of ever increasing power and rate-of-fire.

Liberals see this and want to avoid being killed, to go back to the old days when criminals would maybe just mug you using a switchblade or a kosh as a weapon, and not a Glock.

Also, being pansies, liberals have no interest getting in a shooting war with the bad guys. Since the liberals control the culture and the government, they feel that it would be much simpler, as a life-savoing measure, to simply outlaw guns.

Sure, they know that the bad guys would still be occasionally be able to get some guns, but it would be much more difficult to do so, and thus there would be fewer violent crimes resulting in death.

Important: The average liberal has no interest to disarm conservatives so that the government can impose totalitarianism unopposed. Truly, that is not their goal. They just want to feel safer in their urban environment.

But they're a bit embarrassed about this selfish motive, so they only ever make bleating noises about gun control when a large number of minorities or innocent victims get killed, which they can point to as a faux-altruistic motivation for outlawing guns.

The two sides are talking past each other. Conservatives talk about the Constitution and an armed populace preventing government repression; liberals want personal safety for the white college-educated middle-class.

Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (jBuUi)

89 87 May I have your attention, wingnutz, so I can sing a song extolling the virtues of Hillary Clinton?
Posted by: Alexander Hamilton, Noted Liberal at June 28, 2016 01:35 PM (dSuDi)

Hilary Clit-ton does not interest me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (p4UlV)

90 although times and morays may change, human nature remains the same. That is what the Constitution is about.

posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:32 PM (p4UlV)

==============

Exactly, the founders were students of history and understood the hearts and minds of men who would bring tyranny.

Libtards think history began in the 1700"s.

Posted by: willy at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (Ffw22)

91 I wish it was as easy to buy a book as it is to buy a gun.

Posted by: Barack Obama's Turgid Strawman at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (9JISm)

92 Interesting-Kerr's dad was killed by the PLO/jihadists, but I don't hear him saying anything about limiting access to the United State for these types. Only that American citizens should have their 2A rights taken away.

What the hell am I missing here????

Posted by: Moki at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (ezHMO)

93 Yet another reason why I stopped watching or caring about professional sports years ago. I hope all his endorsement deals and public speaking gigs crater due to this crap. Doubtful being located in the SF bay area though.

Posted by: Octiparan at June 28, 2016 01:37 PM (D1TF/)

94 I have absolutely no problem with anti-gun people trying to get the Constitution amended, if that's what they want. Sure, go after free speech too. Searches and seizures and due process? Why not, knock yourself out fascists.

But this bullshit "gun control" through legislation crap has got to stop.

Posted by: MTF at June 28, 2016 01:37 PM (/m8T6)

95 the idiot went to U of A, so it's no surprise he has no idea what he's talking about.

douche nozzle

Posted by: brass pair - Proud Sun Devil at June 28, 2016 01:37 PM (4WhSY)

96 92 What the hell am I missing here????
Posted by: Moki at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (ezHMO)

Memes and emanations.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:38 PM (p4UlV)

97 I think JJ made a typo at #67. But I will not speak eel of him.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:38 PM (2cS/G)

98 The 2a only covers muskets? I guess the 1a only cover the quill pen and manual printing press then. Oh, and at the time of writing, the musket was a military style weapon.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 28, 2016 01:38 PM (kTF2Z)

99 I can't make a pun with either conger or elver but I want credit for trying.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 01:39 PM (1xUj/)

100 I don't begrudge athletes from making big bucks except for the fact that their big bucks cost me personally whether I watch them work or not. Right now we have a hotel tax and a rental car tax to pay for their play pens. Also the owners can all suck my .. for making me pay for their hobby when they have billions.

And the BS about it being an economic positive for the city. I could spend half the money they get and have business locate here to build factories that would be economically better for the community.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 28, 2016 01:39 PM (nFitA)

101 77: moo moo i live in wi. packers super bowl wins have not changed my life one way or the other. matters not to me which millionaire collection of shitheels win whatever the fuck. it's all drugs for the masses. we need to bring back gladiators or some shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 28, 2016 01:40 PM (ucDmr)

102 You're giving Kerr, and the Warriors, far more credit than is due. Neglect of basics for the flashy and new, and then the shine wears off and he's left looking like a douche. His basketball and his politics trend nicely, and he should quit while he's still only kind of behind.

Posted by: 0302 at June 28, 2016 01:40 PM (wx6iv)

103 The Constitution also said that a basketball team would only count as 3 people.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 28, 2016 01:40 PM (VxHD9)

104 >>the idiot went to U of A, so it's no surprise he has no idea what he's talking about.

Wildcats are up 1-0 in the CWS!

Posted by: garrett at June 28, 2016 01:40 PM (9JISm)

105 Go Chanticleers!

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:41 PM (2cS/G)

106
Wait, I thought moray means a social norm?
I see I am wrong? Whoa.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:41 PM (p4UlV)

107 I trust Steve Kerr on politics like I trust Kareem Abdul Jabar to fly a plane. Surely he can't be serious.

Posted by: wooga, hustling back on defense at June 28, 2016 01:41 PM (P4idG)

108 Governments can't grant rights. They can only molest them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2016 01:41 PM (p2X2f)

109 107 I trust Steve Kerr on politics like I trust Kareem Abdul Jabar to fly a plane. Surely he can't be serious.
Posted by: wooga, hustling back on defense at June 28, 2016 01:41 PM (P4idG)

He can fly the plane. He just doesn't want to learn how to take off and land, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:42 PM (p4UlV)

110 Somebody should remind Steve Kerr that the 2nd Amendment is rigged like the NBA.

Posted by: Fritz at June 28, 2016 01:42 PM (2Mnv1)

111 Spelled "more", pronounced "moray".

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:42 PM (2cS/G)

112 The list of Steve Kerr's achievements consist of telling other people how to play a game.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 28, 2016 01:42 PM (OkKDg)

113 well, I have a funny feeling that the founding fathers wouldn't have had much of a problem with adult citizens owning light automatic weapons in time of major civil disorder or breakdown of law and order.

Posted by: mallfly SuPreme at June 28, 2016 01:42 PM (qSIlh)

114 Quasi-celebrity du jour spewing untrue, illogical lefty agitprop for the unthinking masses who take bait on ignorant/false garbage.

Fuck 'em with pineapples. Sideways. Repeatedly.

Oh, that goes as well for the pressholes only too happy to solicit and broadcast this crap.

Posted by: oddnot frets not but sighs at June 28, 2016 01:43 PM (g1MTt)

115 92 Interesting-Kerr's dad was killed by the PLO/jihadists, but I don't hear him saying anything about limiting access to the United State for these types. Only that American citizens should have their 2A rights taken away.

What the hell am I missing here????
Posted by: Moki at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (ezHMO)

He identifies with the leftist tribe. Rational thoughts are not in play, only the tribal dogma. The dogma subordinates family and friends to the tribe.

Posted by: 0302 at June 28, 2016 01:43 PM (wx6iv)

116 Professional basketball. Science can't measure my lack of interest in anything related to the sport.

I pay just slightly more concern--but not much more--to the fates of American citizens who go to Islamic dumps when they don't have to.

Posted by: General Zod at June 28, 2016 01:43 PM (Bdeb0)

117 111 Spelled "more", pronounced "moray".
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:42 PM (2cS/G)

Fuckin' common core dikshinerry.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:43 PM (p4UlV)

118 >>>Governments can't grant rights. They can only molest them.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 28, 2016 01:41 PM (p2X2f)<<<

Some of us excel at molesting.

Posted by: Dingy Harry at June 28, 2016 01:43 PM (H9MG5)

119 Wait, I thought moray means a social norm?

*****

No, that's a more.

Ask Dean Martin.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, breaking radio silence at June 28, 2016 01:43 PM (lHb9q)

120 Proof you can't fix stupid. That includes those people who will vote for Crooked Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Winnie in Arizona at June 28, 2016 01:43 PM (mMcbo)

121 112 The list of Steve Kerr's achievements consist of telling other people how to play a game.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 28, 2016 01:42 PM (OkKDg)

He's Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhhh-ah?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:43 PM (p4UlV)

122 Important: The average liberal has no interest to disarm
conservatives so that the government can impose totalitarianism
unopposed. Truly, that is not their goal. They just want to feel safer
in their urban environment.

This is certainly true, but there are two groups at work here: the hard left, and the useful idiots. Your comment pertains to the latter, and is true. But the former cynically manipulate the latter to be in a better position ultimately to impose their will on the rest of us.

That's why gun control focuses on those who own guns legally, because that's where resistance to the Reds would come from. The Reds know perfectly well that no gun control whatever is going to put a dent into gun ownership or murders in the ghetto, but they don't give a shit about that, because that violence is and will remain apolitical.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:43 PM (oKE6c)

123 I thought moray was a french actress.

Posted by: mallfly SuPreme at June 28, 2016 01:43 PM (qSIlh)

124 Important: The average liberal has no interest to disarm conservatives so that the government can impose totalitarianism unopposed. Truly, that is not their goal. They just want to feel safer in their urban environment.

Fuck their feelings in their self created shitholes. Not my problem.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 01:44 PM (kWQPe)

125 I'm sorry, son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot.

Posted by: Roger Murdock at June 28, 2016 01:44 PM (CMbMd)

126
Jim Moret (son of James Darren).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:44 PM (p4UlV)

127 The important thing is...what does *Lebron* think about the 2d Amendment?

Posted by: furious_a at June 28, 2016 01:45 PM (s26zM)

128 I thought moray was a french actress.

Risky Bidness.
Rebecca D Moray

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 01:45 PM (kWQPe)

129 This just in: the NRA has called for background checks on NBA players.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:45 PM (oKE6c)

130 Kerr is like Cher, a know-nothing.

But it is the Left who likes to bring up false idols.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2016 01:46 PM (C6duO)

131 111 Spelled "more", pronounced "moray".

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:42 PM (2cS/G)

I believe it's only used in the plural, "mores," as in "O tempora! O mores!"

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:46 PM (oKE6c)

132 I watched the Warriors win last year's championship and this year's finals. I'll switched to watching NHL, you dope Kerr.

Posted by: MARIO V ALBANO at June 28, 2016 01:46 PM (cQXuf)

133 129 This just in: the NRA has called for background checks on NBA players.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:45 PM (oKE6c)

Actually, that is very interesting-how many NBA players have committed crimes, involving guns or not. I recall quite a few rape allegations against players that suddenly went away.

Posted by: Moki at June 28, 2016 01:47 PM (ezHMO)

134 >>>>I am an absolutist when it comes to the 2nd Amendment.
.
.
.
.For me the entire Bill of Rights is off limits to any shenanigans. The First through #10.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 28, 2016 01:47 PM (iONHu)

135 The left is willfully ignorant on guns because they believe guns are yucky and ignorance equals innocence. Karma points maxed out, bro.

Posted by: Dang at June 28, 2016 01:47 PM (k0G44)

136 Yeah, that sounds right.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:47 PM (2cS/G)

137 Important: The average liberal has no interest to disarm conservatives so that the government can impose totalitarianism unopposed. Truly, that is not their goal. They just want to feel safer in their urban environment.

But they're a bit embarrassed about this selfish motive, so they only ever make bleating noises about gun control when a large number of minorities or innocent victims get killed, which they can point to as a faux-altruistic motivation for outlawing guns.

The two sides are talking past each other. Conservatives talk about the Constitution and an armed populace preventing government repression; liberals want personal safety for the white college-educated middle-class.
Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (jBuUi)

Zombie, I appreciate your analysis but disagree with it. Get out and talk to some real live liberals. Not just about politics, but spend time around them and see how they actually live their life and how they think about everything from mundane day to day items to whether they choose to be honest,etc.

I think you'll find that most of their operating program is based on immediate emotional response, lying, justification in what is best for them, paranoia, and projection of their own bias, racism, hatred etc on everyone else, while trying to convince themselves that they really aren't that way themselves.

And wanting to dictate to everyone else how to live. If you can't fix your own life, maybe making someone else's life into the image in your brain of the ideal person will make up for it. It's why they want the all the power. It's why they want to dictate to everyone the smallest details of how to live, what to eat, what to wear, what to drive, what to think, etc.

Why do you think the marxists in Brussels hand down edicts saying that bottled water "doesn't alleviate dehydration". Or why you can't use pound measurements in a country to weigh out ground pork. Or electric teakettles use too much electric. Or any of the hundreds of thousands of regulations that are being developed daily by our government here in the USA that dictate things like farm kids are not to be permitted to feed livestock or drive a tractor. Why pharmacists in Washington MUST dispense birth control and abortifaecents or lose their jobs.

On and on and on....

Posted by: Jen the original at June 28, 2016 01:47 PM (PiuBB)

138
S'morays. Chocolate marshmallow eel on a graham cracker.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:47 PM (p4UlV)

139 107 I trust Steve Kerr on politics like I trust Kareem Abdul Jabar to fly a plane.

Posted by: wooga, hustling back on defense at June 28, 2016 01:41 PM (P4idG)

I'd trust him to fly Air Force One. Somewhere not overhead of me, of course.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:48 PM (oKE6c)

140 The guy could shoot the threeball back in the day.That didn't require much brainpower.

Posted by: steevy at June 28, 2016 01:48 PM (B48dK)

141 138
S'morays. Chocolate marshmallow eel on a graham cracker.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:47 PM (p4UlV)

gross- I was just about to have lunch.

Thanks for keeping on my diet.

Posted by: Moki at June 28, 2016 01:49 PM (ezHMO)

142 Moray, not to be confused with the Morass of Stupidity that emanates like a vampiric cloud decimating IQ with a Scythe of Imbecility from politicians such as Joey Bidet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2016 01:49 PM (C6duO)

143 141 Posted by: Moki at June 28, 2016 01:49 PM (ezHMO)

Whaddya think Moki means in Japanese?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:49 PM (p4UlV)

144 Important: The average liberal has no interest to disarm
conservatives so that the government can impose totalitarianism
unopposed.

---------

No, but the exceptional ones do.

Posted by: josephistan at June 28, 2016 01:50 PM (7HtZB)

145 Oh, and the left is lying (keep saying automatic weapons when that's not the case) so there are lots of juicy soundbites for their fellow idiots to consume.

Posted by: Dang at June 28, 2016 01:50 PM (k0G44)

146 It's easier to get a gun than it is to get a driver's license. It's insane.

Cool. Let's have firing ranges at every DMV office to test license applicant proficiency and have government-sponsored firearms proficiency training in every public high school.

Posted by: Socratease at June 28, 2016 01:50 PM (FqHs5)

147 131 111 Spelled "more", pronounced "moray".

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:42 PM (2cS/G)

I believe it's only used in the plural, "mores," as in "O tempora! O mores!"
Posted by: Jay Guevara

Latin Grammar Nazi Warning

The singular of "mores" is actually "mos."

Third declension. Unfamiliar to most English speakers.

That's why no one ever uses the singular of "mores" -- too weird.

Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:50 PM (jBuUi)

148 .For me the entire Bill of Rights is off limits to any shenanigans. The First through #10.

What about the meaningless ink blot?

Posted by: Robert Bork at June 28, 2016 01:50 PM (1xUj/)

149
Okay. Back to work.

Back later with more typos cum post fodder.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:50 PM (p4UlV)

150 Actually, that is very interesting-how many NBA
players have committed crimes, involving guns or not. I recall quite a
few rape allegations against players that suddenly went away.

Posted by: Moki at June 28, 2016 01:47 PM (ezHMO)
Yep. That's where I was going in #14. Prison League basketball must be awesome.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:50 PM (oKE6c)

151 Can I go OT now. or will I be put in the AofSHQ dungeon? ;^)

I just wanted to thank Grammie for her kind and thoughtful reply to my question from the early morning thread. That was a very concise and powerful explanation of the Christian faith. That part of my reply wasn't worrying me. I'm quite clear about who i believe in and why. :^) What I was trying to get at specifically was replying using the same language that Niemoller uses, "First they came for the trade unionists, but I wasn't a trade unionist....etc' but recasting it in terms of conservatives who she seems to have a problem with. For example, "First they came for the clergy that wouldn't perform gay marriages, but since I support church marriages for gay people, i said nothing. Then they came for the legal gun owners, but since I don't own a gun, I said nothing" etc.

I hope Grammie has an opportunity to speak with SJW and present her powerful witness. Part of the problem with communication in the US, IMO is that we (collective 'we") tend to be in a bubble and just speak with people who think and believe as we do, and so while the SJ view is the predominant one in the media and academia and in many churches the other views are not heard unless you seek out people who have a different view than you do.

My concern is- in part- can I speak to this woman in person or send her an e-mail without her telling people in the church who have far more influence than I do that my views are unacceptable. perhaps, however I an not giving her enough credit for her willingness to hear other views from a colleague.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2016 01:51 PM (frf5f)

152 Mul DOON! How the fuck are ya? Missed you lately.

Posted by: Gouvereneur Morris at June 28, 2016 01:51 PM (dQJCS)

153 Sefton is Magma cum Typos?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2016 01:51 PM (C6duO)

154 153 Sefton is Magma cum Typos?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2016 01:51 PM (C6duO)

Smegma cum cum.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:52 PM (p4UlV)

155 Whaddya think Moki means in Japanese?

Imitation or simulation.

Posted by: Socratease at June 28, 2016 01:53 PM (FqHs5)

156 This just in: the NRA has called for background checks on NBA players.

Posted by: Jay Guevara

BREAKING NEWS: The NBA has just cancelled next years season due to no players available after background checks. Film at 11

Posted by: Winnie in Arizona at June 28, 2016 01:53 PM (mMcbo)

157 >The two sides are talking past each other. Conservatives talk about the Constitution and an armed populace preventing government repression; liberals want personal safety for the white college-educated middle-class.
Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (jBuUi)

Maybe. But there is also a cultural aspect to it. I grew up with guns in the house, I've never been scared of them simply EXISTING in the same space. Some people are.

Posted by: Lea at June 28, 2016 01:53 PM (lIU4e)

158 I majored in Strictly Dickly and Graduated Sumo Cum Loudly.

Posted by: Meghan McCain at June 28, 2016 01:53 PM (9JISm)

159 O tempura. O smores.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 28, 2016 01:54 PM (IqV8l)

160 I believe it's only used in the plural, "mores," as in "O tempora! O mores!"

Posted by: Jay Guevara

Latin Grammar Nazi Warning

The singular of "mores" is actually "mos."

Third declension. Unfamiliar to most English speakers.

That's why no one ever uses the singular of "mores" -- too weird.

Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:50 PM (jBuUi)
Interesting. Well done! I was actually referring to English usage, not Latin, but I hadn't known that, even back when I studied Latin. Thanks!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:54 PM (oKE6c)

161 Jeremy Lin is one of the exceptions to the rule in the NBA. He's also a good follow on social media if you are so inclined.

Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:54 PM (2cS/G)

162 Trump is reading a prepared speech at Alumisource in Monessen, PA right now....

Posted by: Jen the original at June 28, 2016 01:54 PM (PiuBB)

163 Whaddya think Moki means in Japanese?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 28, 2016 01:49 PM (p4UlV)

I have no idea. I took it from one of my kids' pokemon or some such characters. I couldn't use my call sign, so that's what I came up with in a hurry.

Is it too late to change now? I've been using that nic for close to seven years.

Posted by: Moki at June 28, 2016 01:55 PM (ezHMO)

164 Zombie, I appreciate your analysis but disagree with it. Get out and talk to some real live liberals. Not just about politics, but spend time around them and see how they actually live their life and how they think about everything from mundane day to day items to whether they choose to be honest,etc.

I think you'll find that...
Posted by: Jen the original

????????????????????

I live in the most left-wing enclave in the nation. Not only do I speak to "real live liberals" every day, but I have never met a conservative in my entire life. Seriously. All --100% -- of my family members, friends, neighbors and acquaintances are left-wingers of various stripes. I know EXACTLY how they feel and how they live their lives.

Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:55 PM (jBuUi)

165 Plenty of window-lickers in agreement on the USA Today site.

No clue on their part of the ridiculous misconceptions of Coach Cleats.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 28, 2016 01:55 PM (OkKDg)

166 If Steve Kerr had been effective in urging Draymond Green not to pick up another flagrant foul he'd likely have a second championship ring as head coach.

Posted by: stick to basketball steve at June 28, 2016 01:55 PM (m/Gc2)

167 I refuse to be lectured by the left on gun control - especially since the only gun most of them have held is their boyfriend's penis.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 28, 2016 01:55 PM (jxbfJ)

168
Livestream for Trump's speech starting in 30 minute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFhwWFtM5EQ

It's supposed to be a talk on trade, but maybe he'll have a few barbs re Benghazi.

Posted by: iforgot at June 28, 2016 01:55 PM (pC96u)

169 I went to google translate for this, so it's not as if I know anything.

Moki doesn't mean anything in Japanese, but it means "solvent" in Lithuanian.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 01:56 PM (1xUj/)

170 Of course the Left wants to disarm the Right for overlapping reasons. One being to shut down any discussion of the right to confront the government if necessary.

They already try to dismiss everything the founder's have said about the subject as misinformation spread by gun nuts.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 28, 2016 01:57 PM (nFitA)

171 he should stick to sucking at tree hockey, and FO with talking about stuff he knows nothing about.

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 28, 2016 01:57 PM (7XWyA)

172 Zombie, link Jen to the Folsom Street photos.

*rolls out a 55gal drum of brain bleach and a one mile roll of mental floss*

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (C6duO)

173 This really needs to be said over and over and over: a repeating rifle was presented to the Continental Congress by its proud inventor in 1777. Congress initially planned to buy 100 of them, but then balked at the price he wanted.

This was nearly 20 years before the passage of the 2nd Amendment.

Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (G/6mC)

174 Kerr is a pretty incredible story. How many sons of Berkeley academics/Arabists become pro basketball players?

Posted by: bjk at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (x2rNW)

175 Maybe. But there is also a cultural aspect to it. I grew up with guns in the house, I've never been scared of them simply EXISTING in the same space. Some people are.
Posted by: Lea

I certainly am. I would never ever live in a house that had a gun in it.

That's my personal preference.

But the difference between me and a leftist is that I don't want to impose my personal preference on other people.

Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (jBuUi)

176 I bet most of his players have "automatic" weapons as he would view them. And probably some of them didn't go through a background check to get them.

Posted by: buzzion at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (z/Ubi)

177 Still wondering, Steve - how'd my ass taste.

Posted by: Lebron at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (VndSC)

178
My concern is- in part- can I speak to this woman in person or send her an e-mail without her telling people in the church who have far more influence than I do that my views are unacceptable. perhaps, however I an not giving her enough credit for her willingness to hear other views from a colleague.

Anyone willing to elevate the "feelings" of Muslims ahead of the actual, documented persecution of Christians by same has quite obviously demonstrated no willingness to hear other views.

Were I you, FS, I'd prepare for a series of shrieking e-mails from this "colleague," escalating to a demand that you be stripped of any responsibilities in the church as punishment for your hate speech.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 28, 2016 01:59 PM (X6fMO)

179 I guess I can accept going back to using muskets as long as I can the full auto version.

And another thing, all you people are apparently able to go out and by fully automatic weapons all day everyday.

Why wasn't i informed of this? Well! Why?

It's danged inconsiderate! That's what I think.

Danged inconsiderate.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at June 28, 2016 01:59 PM (X+nFp)

180 I took it from one of my kids' pokemon or some such characters.

My takeaway from my kids' watching of Pokemon was the catch line: "Gotta get 'em all."

I think of it every time there's yet another Muslim atrocity.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:59 PM (oKE6c)

181 The fact that 50,000 people whip themselves up in a frenzy to watch a pituitary case throw chalk dust in the air tells you all you need to know about the NBA.

Posted by: josephistan at June 28, 2016 01:59 PM (7HtZB)

182
Zombie, I appreciate your analysis but disagree with it. Get out and talk to some real live liberals. Not just about politics, but spend time around them and see how they actually live their life and how they think about everything from mundane day to day items to whether they choose to be honest,etc.

Doesn't she do that already, like about 24 hours a day?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 28, 2016 01:59 PM (IqV8l)

183
The two sides are talking past each other. Conservatives talk about the Constitution and an armed populace preventing government repression; liberals want personal safety for the white college-educated middle-class.
Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (jBuUi)
--------------------

Exactly what Scott Adams concluded.

Why Gun Control Can't Be Solved in the USA:

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/146307088451/why-gun-control-cant-be-solved-in-the-usa

Posted by: iforgot at June 28, 2016 01:59 PM (pC96u)

184 Jen ... it's all about control.

Most people I've ever met, certainly most I've worked with, have some desire to control others. For most it's a small urge ... so easily squashed that the carrier represses the urge during any face-to-face interaction, but even then the carrier will indulge the urge in subtle attempts such as third party gossip.

Modern Media, and especially our current state of democracy, enables that urge. For example ... Steve Kerr will gladly vote for gun confiscation as well as wax poetic about the same to an agreeable press. Confront him on it, personally and face-to-face ... and he'll supress the control urge really quickly.

I truly believe that's why the most effective tactic in countering Progressives is to make the argument personal and in person. It's also why Progressives work so damn hard to give their troops impersonal outlets such as voting by which to exercise control over others.

Posted by: ScoggDog at June 28, 2016 02:00 PM (cxvn3)

185 Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (jBuUi)
***
Very enlightening take and spot on, at least to many liberals.

Hence, liberals are fine with their armed guards (who don't carry scary 'assault' guns) because that is a personal safety issue. Because they believe and trust in Big Government, tyranny is no conceptual threat to them, they're enjoying favored nation treatment for their permitted freedom. Especially the past 8 years.

Posted by: oddnot frets not but sighs at June 28, 2016 02:00 PM (g1MTt)

186 Even if true 90% cannot nullify an inalienable right.

Posted by: Yuimetal at June 28, 2016 02:00 PM (74myz)

187 Someone needs to inform Kerr that automatic weapons were automatically banned already.

Posted by: Roy at June 28, 2016 02:00 PM (VndSC)

188
Moki doesn't mean anything in Japanese, but it means "solvent" in Lithuanian.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 01:56 PM (1xUj/)

Dear Lord, I wish that were true.

Posted by: Moki at June 28, 2016 02:00 PM (ezHMO)

189 173 This really needs to be said over and over and over: a repeating rifle was presented to the Continental Congress by its proud inventor in 1777. Congress initially planned to buy 100 of them, but then balked at the price he wanted.

This was nearly 20 years before the passage of the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (G/6mC)

I never knew that. What was the rifle?

Posted by: josephistan at June 28, 2016 02:01 PM (7HtZB)

190 Someone needs to inform Kerr that automatic weapons were automatically banned already.
Posted by: Roy at June 28, 2016 02:00 PM (VndSC)

While your at it, you might as well inform 80% of the population who still don't understand that or what a magazine is

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 02:02 PM (zp+j1)

191 My grandparents once had a Siamese cat named Moki. He was a good kitteh.

Posted by: Serenity Now! at June 28, 2016 02:02 PM (BDZWU)

192 I never knew that. What was the rifle?
Posted by: josephistan at June 28, 2016 02:01 PM (7HtZB)

Did it have a thing that goes up?

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at June 28, 2016 02:02 PM (X+nFp)

193 If Benjamin Franklin was around, something went up...

Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2016 02:03 PM (C6duO)

194 Most people I've ever met, certainly most I've worked with, have some desire to control others

My burning desire: to be left alone. I have little interest in others, frankly, and still less in controlling them. They go their way, I go mine, and everything is cool.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 02:03 PM (oKE6c)

195 This really needs to be said over and over and over: a repeating rifle was presented to the Continental Congress by its proud inventor in 1777. Congress initially planned to buy 100 of them, but then balked at the price he wanted.

This was nearly 20 years before the passage of the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (G/6mC)

I never knew that. What was the rifle?

I didn't think there were even cartridges until the 1850s or so. How do you make a repeating rifle out of stuffing things down the bore?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 28, 2016 02:03 PM (1xUj/)

196 >>>>>The two sides are talking past each other. Conservatives talk about the
Constitution and an armed populace preventing government repression;
liberals want personal safety for the white college-educated
middle-class.

Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:36 PM (jBuUi)
.
.
.
.
.I am not too sure about that. Most self professed Liberals that I have encountered actually fear guns. They have an actual real fear that an inanimate object is somehow inherently evil and no matter how good a person it they will be turned to evil if they own or use a gun.

It could be just the people I have interacted with that feel that way, but I doubt it.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 28, 2016 02:03 PM (iONHu)

197
>>>I never knew that. What was the rifle?

Posted by: josephistan at June 28, 2016 02:01 PM (7HtZB)

Did it have a thing that goes up?
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at June 28, 2016 02:02 PM (X+nFp)<<<

We're pretty sure it was a derringer.

Posted by: Rolling Stoned at June 28, 2016 02:04 PM (H9MG5)

198 Most people I've ever met, certainly most I've worked with, have some desire to control others. For most it's a small urge ... so easily squashed that the carrier represses the urge during any face-to-face interaction, but even then the carrier will indulge the urge in subtle attempts such as third party gossip.

They were the hall/room monitors in grade school.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 02:04 PM (kWQPe)

199 @189 josephistan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belton_flintlock

No surviving copies of this flintlock exist, but here's the Wiki article on it.

Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 02:04 PM (G/6mC)

200 While your at it, you might as well inform 80% of the population who still don't understand that or what a magazine is

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 28, 2016 02:02 PM (zp+j1)
You mean like Newsweek?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 28, 2016 02:04 PM (oKE6c)

201 "Important: The average liberal has no interest to disarm conservatives so that the government can impose totalitarianism unopposed. Truly, that is not their goal. They just want to feel safer in their urban environment.

But they're a bit embarrassed about this selfish motive, so they only ever make bleating noises about gun control when a large number of minorities or innocent victims get killed, which they can point to as a faux-altruistic motivation for outlawing guns. "

I live in the most left-wing enclave in the nation. Not only do I speak to "real live liberals" every day, but I have never met a conservative in my entire life. Seriously. All --100% -- of my family members, friends, neighbors and acquaintances are left-wingers of various stripes. I know EXACTLY how they feel and how they live their lives.
Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:55 PM (jBuUi)

Zombie, you are emphasizing my point.

Liberals lie...They lie all the time.
So whatever you have been told by them while living with them, you need to really evaluate as to whether it is the truth.

It's not unlike what others on here have mentioned about the old Soviet Union or other totalitarian regimes. Everything is a lie.

All the blubber blather you are hearing from liberals to justify their spoken reasons for gun control is...guess what, a lie.
Certainly, there are many of the liberals you talk to who have worked to convince themselves that banning guns will make everyone safer. But most liberals are not complete idiots. They know that is not true.
But they will tell you and all their friends and the comments section in the paper and online that same lie.
Because it's for a cause. So it's righteous.
Just like all the other lies they tell you.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 28, 2016 02:04 PM (PiuBB)

202
We're pretty sure it was a derringer.
Posted by: Rolling Stoned at June 28, 2016 02:04 PM (H9MG5)

I heard they were pretty bad.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at June 28, 2016 02:05 PM (X+nFp)

203 The two sides are talking past each other. Conservatives talk about the Constitution and an armed populace preventing government repression; liberals want personal safety for the white college-educated middle-class.

That's too bad.

I'm not willing to give up my rights, so they can feel safe.
Further, I'd prefer they NOT be safe. I'd prefer that reality keep smacking the stupid sonsofbitches upside the head.

Posted by: GMan at June 28, 2016 02:05 PM (sxq57)

204 Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:55 PM (jBuUi)

If I recall you are very anti-gun while being very supportive of the 2nd amendment. There is a large contingent of the Left that dismisses the argument that the sole purpose of the 2nd amendment was to protect against an abusive government. By dismissing that position , they are attempting to remove my ability to confront an abusive government.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 28, 2016 02:05 PM (nFitA)

205 Steve Kerr looks like Doogie Houser

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 28, 2016 02:05 PM (c1cRg)

206 Enh, he's just advancing a classic Leftist tactic: statistics trump rights.

Posted by: FaCubeItches at June 28, 2016 02:05 PM (rznWS)

207
While your at it, you might as well inform 80% of the population who still don't understand that or what a magazine is
Posted by: Nevergiveup

I know what one is!

http://tinyurl.com/jveqrr3

Posted by: The 80% solution at June 28, 2016 02:05 PM (IqV8l)

208 >>I certainly am. I would never ever live in a house that had a gun in it.

You can take the boy/girl out of San Francisco...

Posted by: garrett at June 28, 2016 02:05 PM (9JISm)

209 >>>>73 This really needs to be said over and over and over: a repeating
rifle was presented to the Continental Congress by its proud inventor in
1777. Congress initially planned to buy 100 of them, but then balked at
the price he wanted.

This was nearly 20 years before the passage of the 2nd Amendment.

Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (G/6mC)

I never knew that. What was the rifle?
.
.
.
.It was a Benton Flintlock.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at June 28, 2016 02:05 PM (iONHu)

210 >>I certainly am. I would never ever live in a house that had a gun in it.

That is what I mean. There is no argument to be had against what is in essence a phobia.

Posted by: Lea at June 28, 2016 02:06 PM (lIU4e)

211 Doolittle Raider dead at 94. One left. God Bless America!

Posted by: torabora at June 28, 2016 02:07 PM (+GhuF)

212 That's my personal preference.

But the difference between me and a leftist is that I don't want to impose my personal preference on other people.
Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (jBuUi)
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That's cool. I see your pov as a more classical liberal position.

The problem, though, to me, is the leftists(and rinos) in power do want to enforce their personal preferences through the police power of government.

Posted by: willy at June 28, 2016 02:07 PM (Ffw22)

213 "Benton Flintlock" sounds like one of Fred Flintstone's wacky neighbors.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 28, 2016 02:07 PM (X6fMO)

214 We're pretty sure it was a derringer.>>>

So not a repeat more of a stutter.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 28, 2016 02:08 PM (tf9Ne)

215 It's easier to get a gun than it is to get a driver's license.

Well...it used to be. In California though, they fixed that muy bueno.

Posted by: Jose Jimenez Flores, undocumented worker at June 28, 2016 02:08 PM (eytER)

216 This really needs to be said over and over and over: a repeating rifle was presented to the Continental Congress by its proud inventor in 1777. Congress initially planned to buy 100 of them, but then balked at the price he wanted.

This was nearly 20 years before the passage of the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (G/6mC)

I never knew that. What was the rifle?

Puckle gun, IIRC.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 02:08 PM (kWQPe)

217 I think the problem with liberals is their squishiness or moral equivalence. No one is good, no one is bad, we're all meat sacks full of neurons and impulses and chemical reactions. Consequently, someone shooting up a place is not the person, or their ideology, or their upbringing, or values - it's inanimate objects: guns.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at June 28, 2016 02:09 PM (dSuDi)

218
"Benton Flintlock" sounds like one of Fred Flintstone's wacky neighbors.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

He had the hots for Ann Margrock. But who didn't?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 28, 2016 02:09 PM (IqV8l)

219 I hate basketball. Everything about it. The noises (the flap flap flap squeak of tennis shoes, the boop, boop, boop of the ball), the repetitious chase from on end of the court to the other and back, the smell of dirty socks,sweat and ass, the enclosed spaces of the court, the lanky unproportionate goons that play it with their misshapen rubber faces, the evolution of the rules to accommodate showboating

Being unintelligible, irrational and illiterate goes with the package.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 28, 2016 02:09 PM (A3b6q)

220 Hi, MPPP

Thanks for your concern. i don't expect any shrieking. There are quite a few conservatives pastors in NJ- believe it or not who may have written to her first, but at this point I may not chose to out myself in the line of fire. I have to pray about it more,. This is part of the letter

Friends......given the horrifying events in Orlando, it is now a time to speak. It is time for those who follow Jesus to drown out hate-filled, fear-mongering rhetoric with the gospel of love. It is time to shout in the streets and from our pulpits that all people are of sacred worth, and any belief to the contrary is irreconcilable with Christian teachings. It is time to emphatically declare that we will stand in solidarity with those targeted by hate for the color of their skin, their ethnic origins, gender or sexual orientation.

Then she quotes part of Martin Niemoller

The problem is she doesn't call out radical Islam, but sort of suggests that it's hate filled rhetoric by there that is responsible. is anyone else reading it that way or am I too sensitive? I am just wearied of being called a bigot by my liberal colleagues

They cannot remove me for my political views. So far it's not what we call a "chargeable offense" such as the disgrace and shame of using church funds improperly, having an affair with congregation members or sexually abusing children-none of which I have ever done. and through God's grace will never do, and anyway, I am not primarily serving churches right now. I have an special drama ministry. If they take away official approval for that I will do it on amy own as God calls me to do

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2016 02:09 PM (frf5f)

221 216 This really needs to be said over and over and over: a repeating rifle was presented to the Continental Congress by its proud inventor in 1777. Congress initially planned to buy 100 of them, but then balked at the price he wanted.

This was nearly 20 years before the passage of the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (G/6mC)

I never knew that. What was the rifle?

Puckle gun, IIRC.

***

Puckle gun preceded it by about 50 years.

Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 02:10 PM (G/6mC)

222 San Cordoba?
No, Macho Grande.

Posted by: Roland [OMITTED] at June 28, 2016 02:10 PM (QM5S2)

223 meant "Hate filled rhetoric by conservatives" that sets a bad climate

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2016 02:10 PM (frf5f)

224 >>I certainly am. I would never ever live in a house that had a gun in it.

Maybe not knowingly but....

Hotel/motel? Guns.
Public transportation? Guns
Shopping mall? Guns
Grocery store? Guns
Hospital? Guns

The list is endless.

Millions of people are armed everyday and they/we are everywhere you are.

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at June 28, 2016 02:11 PM (X+nFp)

225 A pickle gun?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 28, 2016 02:11 PM (IqV8l)

226 >>My burning desire: to be left alone.Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 02:03 PM (oKE6c)

Thoughtcrime. Guevara unperson.

Posted by: General Zod at June 28, 2016 02:11 PM (Bdeb0)

227 This really needs to be said over and over and over: a repeating rifle was presented to the Continental Congress by its proud inventor in 1777. Congress initially planned to buy 100 of them, but then balked at the price he wanted.

This was nearly 20 years before the passage of the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 01:58 PM (G/6mC)

I never knew that. What was the rifle?

Puckle gun patented 1718 by inventor James Puckle. Crew served flintlock revolver.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 02:12 PM (kWQPe)

228 Some people call it basketball, but I'm gonna call it hoops. I don't need you imposing your NBA buzzwords on me.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, breaking radio silence at June 28, 2016 02:12 PM (lHb9q)

229 @227

Different gun. I'm talking about the Belton flintlock.

Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 02:13 PM (G/6mC)

230 Your mission, if you chose to accept it, is to prevent the military takeover of San Cordoba by this man...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 28, 2016 02:13 PM (IqV8l)

231 Friends......given the horrifying events in Orlando, it is now a time to speak. It is time for those who follow Jesus to drown out hate-filled, fear-mongering rhetoric with the gospel of love. It is time to shout in the streets and from our pulpits that all people are of sacred worth, and any belief to the contrary is irreconcilable with Christian teachings. It is time to emphatically declare that we will stand in solidarity with those targeted by hate for the color of their skin, their ethnic origins, gender or sexual orientation.

Then she quotes part of Martin Niemoller

Tell her to reconcile that with the koran.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 02:14 PM (kWQPe)

232 But anyone could buy a cannon back then. Murderers who were released from jail could go into any gun store and buy a gun and didn't even have to give their names much less go through a background check.

Posted by: retired military at June 28, 2016 02:14 PM (Qwvek)

233 David Thatcher, top turret gunner on Ted Lawson's B-25B 'Ruptured Duck,' was laid to rest Monday. Through Thatcher's tireless efforts after his B-25 crashed, Chinese help arrived for his wounded crew mates. Ted Lawson would loose a leg because of this crash.

So only Richard Cole, Doolittle's co-pilot in plane #1, is left of all the Raiders.

http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-final-toast.html

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 28, 2016 02:14 PM (C6duO)

234 199 Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 02:04 PM (G/6mC)

Thanks. Too bad no images exist of it. But there are links to other cool early firearms on the page.

Posted by: josephistan at June 28, 2016 02:14 PM (7HtZB)

235 ophuckstick wants to own an nba team. that should tell anybody with a functioning brain cell all you need to know about that fucked up outfit. please let him get his wish. epic fails rule.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 28, 2016 02:16 PM (ucDmr)

236 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 02:16 PM (kWQPe)

237 I grew up in a house without firearms, until my grandfather gave me a .22 bolt action.
My parents were not pleased, but tolerated it.
Years went by, and I lost interest in firearms. Having a friend commit suicide with a 12 guage and another lost to a tragic hunting accident had no small impact I'm sure.
Fast forward a decade or 3, and the crew I was working with were a bunch of "gun nuts" - 2 were NRA instructors. Needless to say that the "bug" is contagious and I gained interest in them again.
Never during my little hiatus did I begrudge anyone who owned a firearm. But when I did regain interest in them, I got educated - as should EVERYONE. Basic pistol/rifle/shotgun - whatever. Then find a good personal protection of the home class. Am I an expert - absolutely not. But when I hear libtards spew nonsense, I will call them on it.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 28, 2016 02:16 PM (jxbfJ)

238 Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 28, 2016 01:54 PM (oKE6c)

161 Jeremy Lin is one of the exceptions to the rule in the NBA. He's also a good follow on social media if you are so inclined.
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 28, 2016 01:54 PM (2cS/G)

The Spurs are the winningest franchise in a pro sports over the last 20 years, and they deliberately only hire self effacing, team oriented guys with good character.

It's nice to see that nice guys don't have to finish last.

Their owner is Repub decorated combat vet.

Posted by: stace at June 28, 2016 02:16 PM (yuO+z)

239 Posted by: Gouvereneur Morris at June 28, 2016 01:51 PM (dQJCS)

***

Adopting a lower profile recently.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, breaking radio silence at June 28, 2016 02:16 PM (lHb9q)

240 And as somebody who's had a family member shot and killed
----------

Yeah, he was shot.....in fucking Beirut!

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at June 28, 2016 02:17 PM (YqcVw)

241 Is this Steve Kerr the same Steve Kerr that played on the championship Chicago Bulls teams, the Michael Jordan era? I always liked him. Too bad he is willing to give up his right of free speech.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 28, 2016 02:18 PM (dFi94)

242 osted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 28, 2016 02:14 PM (kWQPe)

I expect she may not have read it and if i were to say that she'd probably quote 1 Peter 4:7, about Judgement coming first to the household of God."

I think I need to prat and very carefully consider if I will write and what I will say if i do. I don't want to come off angry and defensive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2016 02:18 PM (frf5f)

243
I hate basketball. Everything about it.

I hate that its such a blatant appropreation of white culture by African Americans and nobody cares

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at June 28, 2016 02:18 PM (lKyWE)

244 So it seems to me that gun control can't be solved because Democrats are using guns to kill each other, and want it to stop, whereas Republicans are using guns to defend against Democrats. Psychologically, those are different risk profiles. And you can't reconcile those interests, except on the margins. For example, both sides might agree that rocket launchers are a step too far. But Democrats are unlikely to talk Republicans out of gun ownership because it comes off as "Put down your gun so I can shoot you."

Posted by: Dilbert at June 28, 2016 02:19 PM (jN+3o)

245 If I recall you are very anti-gun while being very supportive of the 2nd amendment.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck

I am indeed VERY supportive of -- absolutist, actually -- about the Constitution, including the Second Amendment, as well as all the others.

I wouldn't characterize myself as "very anti-gun" -- I just don't want guns inside my home. If you knew my family and living situation, you'd undoubtedly agree and understand why.

But if anyone else wants guns in their homes -- that's your right.

My stance on guns is actually IDENTICAL to my stance on gay rights and anti-sodomy laws: Personal freedom trumps all.

I myself don't want a gun in my house, don't want to copulate with the garbage-disposal or stick a fluorescent lightbulb up my ass. But hey, if you do, then shrug be my guest: go for it. It's not my role nor my right to tell you how to live your life.

This is the true "libertarian urge."

You leave me alone. I leave you alone. Result: Everyone's happy.

Posted by: zombie at June 28, 2016 02:20 PM (jBuUi)

246 I think I need to prat

PRAY! PRAY! Darn it, not prat,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 28, 2016 02:21 PM (frf5f)

247 241 ... grammie,

Yes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 28, 2016 02:22 PM (xx+WQ)

248 221
Puckle gun preceded it by about 50 years.
Posted by: WKL at June 28, 2016 02:10 PM (G/6mC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckle_gun

"Puckle demonstrated two configurations of the basic design: one, intended for use against Christian enemies, fired conventional round bullets, while the second, designed to be used against the Muslim Turks, fired square bullets. The square bullets were considered to be more damaging. They would, according to the patent, 'convince the Turks of the benefits of Christian civilization'."

Heh.

Posted by: rickl at June 28, 2016 02:22 PM (zoehZ)

249
241 ... grammie,

Yes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 28, 2016 02:22 PM (xx+WQ)
============================================

Darn.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 28, 2016 02:24 PM (dFi94)

250 241 Is this Steve Kerr the same Steve Kerr that played on the championship Chicago Bulls teams, the Michael Jordan era? I always liked him. Too bad he is willing to give up his right of free speech.
....
Yes, grammie. He's played for a lot of teams. He lived in my neighborhood when he was with the Spurs, and he's a real nice guy, which makes this juvenile rant all the more shocking.

Posted by: stace at June 28, 2016 02:25 PM (yuO+z)

251 At least a dozen times since the Orlando terrorist attack, I've had to explain that AR-15 doesn't mean Automatic Rifle (not that it was used in the attack anyway!), that EVERYONE has to undergo a background check when purchasing a gun of any sort, that machine guns have been banned since 1934, and that semi-automatics are the only way to defend yourself if the shooter has one too.

This is getting tiresome, but I'll keep doing it because that's the only way to educate these ignoramusses!

Posted by: CarolLK at June 28, 2016 02:27 PM (iLb58)

252 Posted by: CarolLK at June 28, 2016 02:27 PM (iLb5

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AR=Armalite Rifle.

The media/antis have marketed it as "assault rifle".

cuz it sounds more scary.

Posted by: willy at June 28, 2016 02:30 PM (Ffw22)

253 Article 1of the Constitution lists issuing letters of marque and reprisal in Section 8 as one of the enumerated powers of Congress.

"To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water"

Privateers were armed with the most destructive weaponry known to man at the time, and they were privately owned vessels. And, get this, the framers knew it.

I'll give up my gunners pick when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

Posted by: Jean Lafitte at June 28, 2016 02:47 PM (MNXL5)

254 FWIW - The 90% stat goes way down when the people being asked are told that it includes running a check on your own kid before giving him a rifle for his 18th birthday, or loaning a rifle to your best friend for a hunting trip.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at June 28, 2016 02:50 PM (VSenK)

255 "I am an absolutist when it comes to the 2nd Amendment."

No you aren't. You, like everyone else, have your own subjective understanding of the essential liberty it protects. When it comes to substantive due process, the term "absolutist" is nonsensical.

Posted by: McCann at June 28, 2016 02:50 PM (hhgeQ)

256 219 I hate basketball. Everything about it. The noises (the flap flap flap squeak of tennis shoes, the boop, boop, boop of the ball), the repetitious chase from on end of the court to the other and back, the smell of dirty socks,sweat and ass, the enclosed spaces of the court, the lanky unproportionate goons that play it with their misshapen rubber faces, the evolution of the rules to accommodate showboating

Being unintelligible, irrational and illiterate goes with the package.
Posted by: Minuteman at June 28, 2016 02:09 PM (A3b6q)

100% agree. Loathe basketball, especially the squeak of the shoes and the sweat. Sweat so plentiful they have to wipe it off the floor. Ugh.

Posted by: Gem at June 28, 2016 03:20 PM (uaHyk)

257 This guy apparently doesn't know we already have background checks in place.

What the bill proposed would've done would be to deny people their rights without any way of contesting that denial nor allow them to contest them being on a list made by bureaucrats input by minimum wage drones.

But then when emotions are all you have then reason and logic are without value to those sorts.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at June 28, 2016 03:48 PM (ECJ+C)

258 "Is this Steve Kerr the same Steve Kerr that played on the championship Chicago Bulls teams, the Michael Jordan era? I always liked him. Too bad he is willing to give up his right of free speech.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 28, 2016 02:18 PM (dFi94) "

Yes, it's many-time NBA champ/3 pt specialist Steve Kerr. Great shooter, apparently not much of a thinker.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at June 28, 2016 04:02 PM (kumBu)

259 Surprisingly former Minnesota Vikings RB is one of the smarter ones. He realized that the problem isn't the law abiding gun owners but the inner-city violence issues. Predictably he gets the standard left wing reaction to a black man stepping off the thought plantation.

Posted by: Mr. Saturn at June 28, 2016 06:25 PM (i87z/)

260 In Texas, felons who have completed their terms can legally own and maintain firearms inside their residence for self protection.

Posted by: T&A4ME at June 28, 2016 07:55 PM (FLzK7)

261 Im no fan of professional sports in general, particularly the nba with all its thugs (dogwhistle racist) but I have a new favorite team, Who ever is playing this douchnozzle's team.

Posted by: Elliemaeclampitt at June 28, 2016 09:07 PM (0zHVK)

262 Why, yes Steve, the Bill of Rights does need an update, so lets get rid of that clearly obsolete and irrelevant, not to mention weaponized, 16th Amendment. #repeal16thamendmentnow!

Posted by: Devan at June 28, 2016 09:30 PM (cJvXX)

263 " ... but using the Bill of Rights as a reason for people to have rights ... "
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I know, crazy, right?

Posted by: FireHorse at June 28, 2016 10:50 PM (zYEmP)

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