"Regulate" does NOT mean "take them away"

[friendly_iconoclast]

92. I'm saying your attitude strikes me as *very* much like Ward Churchill's:

Quoth you:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2042170

They MUST deal with the responsibility to promote security that goes with it. THE REST OF US WILL ALLOW NO OTHER OPTION!

The reason for this is because whatever they've been doing, it's been woefully ineffective AND THEY HAVE FAILED MISERABLY! If a gun owner has opposed every kind of gun control, belittles people who are rightly concerned about gun violence, shouts down any discussion on restricting certain guns, or runs down gun control advocacy groups & campaigns against candidates who support gun control, then the blood of the victims of Sandy Hook - and all the other mass murders that have happened - is on their hands.

Ward Churchill, from On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

..."As for those in the World Trade Center... Well, really, let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire - the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved - and they did so both willingly and knowingly. Recourse to "ignorance" - a derivative, after all, of the word "ignore" - counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in - and in many cases excelling at - it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it."

"Other"ize them, then blame them...