Texas Insider

10:06 am CST - April 09, 2009

Posted under Opinion

Let’s All Surrender Our Weapons — You First!

By Ann Coulter

The rash of recent shooting incidents has led people who wouldn’t know an AK-47 from a paintball gun to issue demands for more restrictions on guns. To be sure, it’s hard to find any factor in these shootings that could be responsible — other than the gun.

So far, this year’s public multiple shootings were committed by:

– Richard Poplawski, 23, product of a broken family, expelled from high school and dishonorably discharged from the Marines, who killed three policemen in Pittsburgh.

– Former crack addict Jiverly Wong, 41, who told co-workers “America sucks” yet somehow was not offered a job as a speechwriter for Barack Obama, who blockaded his victims in a civic center in Binghamton, N.Y., and shot as many people as he could, before killing himself.

– Robert Stewart, 45, a three-time divorcee and high school dropout with “violent tendencies” — according to one of his ex-wives — who shot up the nursing home in Carthage, N.C., where his newly estranged wife worked.

– Lovelle Mixon, 26, a paroled felon, struggling to get his life back on track by pimping, who shot four cops in Oakland, Calif. — before eventually being shot himself.

– Twenty-eight-year-old Michael McLendon, child of divorce, living with his mother and boycotting family funerals because he hated his relatives, who killed 10 of those relatives and their neighbors in Samson, Ala.

It might make more sense to outlaw men than guns. Or divorce. Or crack. Or to prohibit felons from having guns. Except we already outlaw crack and felons owning guns and yet still, somehow, Wong got crack and Mixon got a gun.

After being pulled over for a routine traffic violation, Lovelle Mixon did exactly what they teach in driver’s ed by immediately shooting four cops. Mixon’s supporters held a posthumous rally in his honor, claiming he shot the cops only in “self-defense,” which I take it includes the cop Mixon shot while the officer was lying on the ground.

I guess Mixon also raped that 12-year-old girl in “self-defense.” Clearly, the pimping industry has lost a good man. I wish I’d known him. I tip my green velvet fedora with the dollar signs all over it to him. Why do the good ones always die young? Pimps, I mean.

Liberals tolerate rallies on behalf of cop-killers, but they prohibit law-abiding citizens working at community centers in Binghamton, N.Y., from being armed to defend themselves from disturbed, crack-addicted America-haters like Jiverly Wong.

It’s something in liberals’ DNA: They think they can pass a law eliminating guns and nuclear weapons, but teenagers having sex is completely beyond our control.

The demand for more gun control in response to any crime involving a gun is exactly like Obama’s response to North Korea’s openly belligerent act of launching a long-range missile this week: Obama leapt to action by calling for worldwide nuclear disarmament.

If the SAT test were used to determine how stupid a liberal is, one question would be: “The best defense against lawless rogues who possess _______ is for law-abiding individuals to surrender their own _______________.”

Correct answer: Guns. We would also have accepted nuclear weapons.

Obama explained that “the United States has a moral responsibility” to lead disarmament efforts because America is “the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon.”

So don’t go feeling all morally superior to a country whose business model consists of exporting heroin, nuclear bombs and counterfeit U.S. dollars, and of importing Swedish prostitutes, you yahoo Americans with your little flag lapel pins.

On the other hand, the Japanese haven’t acted up much in the last, say, 64 years …

Fortunately, our sailors didn’t wait around for Obama to save them when Somali pirates boarded their ship this week. Stop right now or I’ll ask the U.N. to remind the “international community” that “the U.S. is not at war with Somali pirates.”

Gun-toting Americans are clearly more self-sufficient than the sissy Europeans. This is great news for everyone except Barney Frank, who’s always secretly wondered what it would be like to be taken by a Somali pirate.

Police — whom I gather liberals intend to continue having guns — and intrepid U.N. resolution drafters can’t be everywhere, all the time.

If a single civilian in that Binghamton community center had been armed, instead of 14 dead, there might have only been one or two — including the shooter. In the end, the cops didn’t stop Wong. His killing spree ended only when he decided to stop, and he killed himself.

“The shooter will eventually run out of ammo” strategy may not be the best one for stopping deranged multiple murderers.

But it’s highly unlikely that any community center in the entire state would be safe from a disturbed former crack-addict like Wong because New York’s restrictive gun laws require a citizen to prove he has a need for a gun to obtain a concealed carry permit.

Instead of having Planned Parenthood distribute condoms in schools, they ought get the NRA to pass out revolvers. It would save more lives.

Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victim and Their Assault On America.

17 Comments

Barbara J Mackey
1:17 pm CST
April 09, 2009

I agree on every point and am still chuckling about the Barney Frank comment. I love your sarcasm and humor.

CWJensen
1:18 pm CST
April 09, 2009

SINCE OMBAMA IS GUTTING THE MILITARY……………….THE LARGEST MILITA IN THE WORLD (NRA MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS) WILL NEVER SURRENDER THEIR FIREARMS.

Allen S. Greer
1:21 pm CST
April 09, 2009

Ann is right on! Look at England or Australia. These power hungry Liberals must be stopped.

Don Hay
2:43 pm CST
April 09, 2009

In the U.S., automobiles kill thousands more innocent people every year than are killed by firearms. The drivers (when at fault) are prosecuted. Never are the automobiles/trucks banned. It amazes me that liberals think there is a difference here.

Prosecute the killer, period. Leave the weapons alone.

Winston
2:51 pm CST
April 09, 2009

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes … Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” – Thomas Jefferson

I agree with Ann, but the politicians want to only ban guns to citizens. Look at anti-second amendment Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She’s always been for gun control, but the hypocrite carries a gun herself.

Edie
4:42 pm CST
April 09, 2009

Thank God for Ann Coulter. The gals got more b–ls than many Washington p-s-yticians.

I laughed so hard, I still have tears running down my face from the visual I got of Barney Frank and a Somalian pirate.

John McGee
5:10 pm CST
April 09, 2009

Most who live in these population centers are of the Liberal persuasion and when where the words Liberal and think are used in the same sentence you automaticly know that no truth is involved.
If the Liberals think for one minute that passing a law will remove guns they should look around and see hom many addicts, and drunks violate the “law” on a daily basis.
On the other hand mostly Liberals are adversely affected so in reality; WHO CARES.

Anna Sentari
5:55 pm CST
April 09, 2009

As areas become more populated (big cities), they are starting to turn more Democratic. How can that trend be reversed?

I think we should frighten those people into supporting guns because someone could break into their apartments if they don’t have one. We need to send representatives out to offer info about gun sales and then we’ll have an ‘in’ with them for voting later.

Terry
6:18 pm CST
April 09, 2009

The YOU FIRST!!! is great!!!!

I know of NO ONE who is planning on registering anything.
Registration leads to Confiscation…….history repeats.

Hello?………STUPID lives somewhere else.
Not in Texas!.

Go here, and see what the stats were for MORE GUN CONTROL thru 2008…………………..

http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=12334

Mao was a Murderer, but he was smart……….he also knew one Universal Truth…………………

“ALL POLITICAL POWER COMES FROM THE END OF A GUN”.

Detente, was not his strong suit………………………..

Molon Lave

CWJensen
8:44 pm CST
April 09, 2009

Anna go back and have anthor Acorn………………….the nuts have destoryed the critical thinking areas of your brain.

Doc Greene
9:39 am CST
April 09, 2009

As Usual Ann Coulter has zeroed in on the problem like a LASER beam. If you took every democrat and most Republicans in government and summed their IQs it would be about 10% of hers. Still we are here today because the church in America went weak kneed back in 1950 and failed to preach the truth. They failed to stand on Biblical Principles.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie

That is why men today believe the lies of Obama and his cronies even though any rudimentary analysis says that it can’t possibly be correct.

We need more Guns in the hands of Law Abiding Well Trained citizens. We need more people to get into churches where the bible is preached. Most of those are apostolic doctrine but there are some others. But if you read the bible daily and go to church weekly you will not be deceived by these unclothed rulers who portend to posses knowledge they do not have.

Roger
10:54 am CST
April 09, 2009

The surrendering of firearms will be only the first loss of Constitutional rights ….. which loss of right will be next? The only thing I can see is for all owners of firearms who truly believe in this Constitutional right is to simply refuse – in unison! – to surrender anything! Same for income taxes….everyone simply refuse to file.

Anna Sentari
12:23 pm CST
April 09, 2009

CW, don’t be mean to other people who have ideas. You can’t even spell.

MarkE
3:25 pm CST
April 09, 2009

The liberal Obama news media spends hours everyday reporting on shootings in the U.S. resulting in a few deaths a week. Not one second of their coverage is spent on the 300 traffic accident deaths each day in the U.S.

In Texas if you break into my home, threaten me or my family with bodily harm, your as* is history thanks to my “Second
Amendment rights.
Thanks Ann for telling it like it is !

Brenda
5:27 pm CST
April 09, 2009

Wonder if we could get Ann Coulter, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Phyllis Schaffly, or David Limbaugh to run for office? People in Texas get it. They know how important guns are to keep us free from tyranny.
Anna, even if you don’t shoot, you must realize how important guns are to insure that Americans stay free.
As for the fact that urban areas are becoming more Democrat and liberal—- It is because of all those 62% of Yankees coming across our borders with U-Hauls. They want our good jobs and economy, but they also want to bring with them the very ideas that bankrupted their State.

SJK
5:32 pm CST
April 09, 2009

If you take guns away from the citizens—only the criminals will have guns! Only fools don’t know this and those morons will learn this if they disarm us from defending ourselves! As John McGee said, it is the same with drugs and alcohol. There is a reason the “anointed one” doesn’t want us to have guns! ?!? Scary food for thought!

Byron
10:37 pm CST
April 09, 2009

Why would a government of the people by the people for the people not want the people to be able to defend themselves?

Beware any government who thinks you shouldn’t be able to protect yourself. There is a reason they don’t want you to be able to protect yourself, just ask anyone who survived the SS/Gestapo taking care of them…