Knoxville News Sentinel: Early Settlers Knew Gun Control Needed

[Guest SUNTZU]

Link to trolling article that the Knoxville News Sentinel was glad to publish

The Constitution of the United States does approve gun carrying by an approved militia. Tradition also allows hunters and gatherers to own rifles for putting food on the table.

Hand guns can be approved by local authorities via the permit system, particularly by those living under threat of death or injury by others.

The era we live in does not pose a casual threat of bodily harm to citizens, in spite of what we hear. There are enthusiasts who enjoy target practice and permits for describing hand or long guns should be allowed. I submit there is a vicarious thrill of bullying ownership for many others.

Like the person who owns and encourages vicious dogs to intimidate neighbors, gun owners who like to brag they are carrying, also enjoy the threat they impose on the non-carrying majority.

Gun sales via gathering of unregulated sellers of firearms encourage the attitude.

There is no place for rapid fire, automatic or semi-automatic weapons in civilian hands. Such weapons can dangerously out-gun the police, and belong in the hands of a well-regulated militia.

Guns have proliferated and the more that have been manufactured and sold, the more unattended guns lie in closets and drawers across the country. Children, house breakers and visitors can come across them for unsafe, unauthorized use.

The early citizens of this country began to pass laws limiting gun ownership and required visitors to town check them with the police. It was recognized even then the presence of guns were dangerous whenever a disagreement might break out.

Countries with equivalent populations have much less death and injury due to misuse of guns. Why are we different?

Harry Hogan

Knoxville

[Guest redbarron06]

What other country fo 300 million has a Constitution and a bill of rights?

[dats82]

I would be curious to know what kind of car Harry drives. You will not find a car on the market today that will not exceed the speed limit on the interstate. Cars continue to kill more people then guns do, yet you will not hear anyone calling for there regulation. I just do not understand it all.

[Guest mikedwood]

Harry if you find this thread you can PM me and I will take you to ORSA ( a legal and safe shooting range ) and Harry I will teach you to shoot an AK and a semi auto pistol and you will love it.

I

[Mark@Sea]

I submit that 'Harry Hogan' is confusing beliefs with facts, projecting his own fears on others, is a bit vague on history (hint: Bellesiles work was so thoroughly discredited that even gun banning organizations don't bother quoting it), seems to have missed the outcome of the Heller case in the Supreme Court, apparently can't understand statistics, and finally, has jumbled together every discredited argument that gun ban groups have used in the last forty years. Apparently he feels that taken together, they are more convincing than when disproven seperately.

Crap written with conviction is still crap. Sorry, Harry.

Edited March 29, 2010 by Mark@Sea

[daddyo]

"Harry", if that is indeed his real name, has had his head up his ass for so long and so far that he better have shades on if he ever decides to pull it out.

[Mike.357]

I would guess Harry is his real name. I think KNS confirms letters to the editor before printing them.

he is a typical anti, and no amount of factual argument will ever change the mind of people such as him.

His letter is fairly comical.

[leroy]

Harry is a chump, a fool, a collectivist, or a history revisionist. The fact is that the earliest settlers in what is now east Tennessee were well armed, indeed; and were not subject to "reasonable controls on firearms". They kept them handy and knew how to use them.

Harry may not have learned this in school, but a bunch of early east Tennessee settlers marched across the mountain with a fellow by the name of John Sevier and met a bunch of British loyalist thugs who had been terrorizing their neighbors at a place called King's Mountain. A battle ensued there in which these loyalist thugs were dispatched like the vermin they were; along with a career British officer named Patrick Ferguson. Ferguson, a Scotsman, had sent word across the mountain that he and his loyalist buddies were going to march across the mountain, ravish the women, burn the crops, and finish the lives of the mountain settlers there because they had the backbone to want to be free. In the ensuing battle, Ferguson was riddled with shot and killed. After the battle, these "overmountain" men gathered, peed on Ferguson's corpse, buried him, and returned home. What was left of the loyalists ran away.

A few weeks later, the British met these same "overmountain" men and a piece of the colonial army at a place named Cow Pens and that finished the American Revolutionary War in the south.

If we followed Harry's lead, we would be speaking German now. The British would have won the Revolutionary War, we would have been serfs to the British Empire, the Kiser would have won WWI and his son, Hitler, would have initiated the "Thousand Year Reich". I say Harry and people like him are foolish if they think gun control has done anything for this country other than to hurt it. As the old Scotsman so famously said:"...the heeel with Harry and people like him!!....".

Thus endeth the lesson!!

Leroy

[StPatrick]

There is no place for rapid fire, automatic or semi-automatic weapons in civilian hands. Such weapons can dangerously out-gun the police, and belong in the hands of a well-regulated militia.

1. Rapid fire is based on the skill of the shooter; it's not a type of weapon, unless 'ole Harry prefers going back to the days of powder, ball, and a bigass knife just in case.

2. True autos are so expensive and hard to acquire that no Class III owner would consider double-parking, much less use the weapon in commission of a crime. Steal $400 and risk a $12,000 gun? Not likely.

3. The police used to be outgunned, but a couple of moron peckerwoods who wanted to be Bonny and Clyde, but with two dudes, fixed that for the cops when they attacked the LA police with AKs while wearing Kevlar. That TV footage sold police departments a lot of really nice guns. On the plus side for the worthless morons, much like Bonny and Clyde, they were shot and killed.

[Guest Gene83]

There are a lot of people in this country like Harry. One of my primary arguments for concealed carry is this statement.

"Like the person who owns and encourages vicious dogs to intimidate neighbors, gun owners who like to brag they are carrying, also enjoy the threat they impose on the non-carrying majority."

I would rather not do anything to set folks like Harry off on one of their little tirades. You and I both know that he's wrong, but you'll never convince him of that.

[Guest rockbottom12]

Harry if you find this thread you can PM me and I will take you to ORSA ( a legal and safe shooting range ) and Harry I will teach you to shoot an AK and a semi auto pistol and you will love it.

I

facebook him:cool:

[ftncityfatboy]

FWIW, I believe Harry is an attorney here in Knoxville. I closed my house 18 yrs ago and the attorney's name was Harry Hogan. There is a Hogan & Hogan law firm located at the end of Gay Street bridge on the north side. Don't quote me on this, but how many Harry Hogan's can there be?????

[Guest manofsteel]

If Harry likes a country without guns he should move his arse to one and leave MY country the hell alone!!!!!!!

[Guest Bluemax]

I read this in the News Sentinal. Harry Hogan, if thats his real name is entitled to his opinion. I am entitled to my opinion as well and that opinion is that Harry Hogun is an idiot. My name is Bluemax and I fully support this message

[bubbiesdad]

I read this in the News Sentinal. Harry Hogan, if thats his real name is entitled to his opinion. I am entitled to my opinion as well and that opinion is that Harry Hogun is an idiot. My name is Bluemax and I fully support this message

Like most left wing loons, Harry is always certain, never right.

[Zulu Cowboy]

Why can't people just leave me, and my guns alone?

Zulu Cowboy

[DavidM]

I read this in the News Sentinal. Harry Hogan, if thats his real name is entitled to his opinion. I am entitled to my opinion as well and that opinion is that Harry Hogun is an idiot. My name is Bluemax and I fully support this message

Well, this Harry Hogan must be named an honorary mythbuster. I have always heard that opinions are just like _________. In Harry's case, they are one and the same. In the words of Dirty Harry, maybe he just wants us to yell "trick or treat" at them!