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This is a comment to the ignorance that I was sent. I have found that those
folks against the National Rifle Association are majorly stupid people in
general. Both figuratively and literally. I have also found that these
folks know nothing about the NRA, other than the crap coming out of the rest
of the "vast left-wing conspiracy", which is now headed by the lyingest,
liberalest president (deliberate on the non-caps for president. He deserves
nothing better) this country has ever had the misfortune to vote into office.
I have found that the ignorance of kneejerk liberals is far beyond ignorance
as defined in Webster's. I hope you both drop dead as soon as possible. The world is better off without you. I do not hate you, although you clearly hate gun-owners, and the National Rifle Association. I don't feel sorry for You. I will not mourn your death. But I will not grieve either. (R.C.E.) Hey, I just thought I'd stick up for you guys for a minute. What's with people? Why are they reading this stuff when they should really know that it's just an attempt to make people laugh, and it has no serious intentions? I just say lighten up and if you don't like what we print, don't read it!!!! (Jessica Hemmen) That was a hilarious topic, and I admire your guts to show it at a time like this. Forget about your critics; don't do something just because the media is in a tizzy. (Josh Martinez) Read the Constitution of the United States of America and the Federalist Papers to understand the intent of the right to keep and bear arms. It has NOTHING to do with hunting or any other shooting sport. It has to do with an armed populace being able to defend itself against its own government. (Brian Welch) If the NRA is responsible for crimes with guns, The inventor of the internet, Al Gore Is responsible for bomb makers and child porno (Brian Murphy) Guess I should have known you'd be innundated with criticism from the people who feel that *any* control on guns is just the first step down a very slippery slope. ANYWAY.... I thought the May 5th list was *very* funny... one of the funniest I've seen in a while. Keep up the GREAT work.... nothing is sacred. (Susan Lewis) After reading your opening remarks today I wanted to thank you for putting together the humor list and to let you know that the list is also being read by those of us who choose to use more than just the base of our brain stem. Anyone who took issue with yesterdays list has lost sight of the purpose of a humor list and the fact that it is compiled from the entries of many people. So again, thanks for your work. (Matthew Shaw) Keep at it, not ALL your subscribers are rednecks! (Chris Ihm) I read your comment about folks giving you pro and con about the NRA Seminar List. Well, it's just too bad no one can take a joke anymore. If they don't like it....don't read it. I personally thought it was very amusing. Roll on.... the more politically INcorrect the better. (Rich Petrina) Congrats on being named the Spawn of Satan. I'm sure your pappy is proud. :) (Darien Allen) I was amused at your references to the mail about yesterday's list. Sometimes I am extremely amused by what I read on the list, and occasionally, if rarely, I am offended. More often than I would care to admit, I am totally at a loss as to the meaning of one or more of the selections. But I figure that is my problem and It would not have occured to me to write you and complain. I find the top 5 list fairly consistently entertaining and appreciate the work that you do to get it out to us. Thank you (Rev. Jim West) Is the list requested in Switzerland? Maybe you'd better let 'em know that you don't approve of their policy of a machinegun in every household... ("Bogey") The Top 5 on guns was a stroke of genius. I laughed out loud all the way through, and I sent the list to colleagues in my office. You probably got hate mail because you hit gun nuts where it hurts. Three cheers for you! (Peter Grad, Op-Ed Page Editor The Record, Hackensack, NJ) To set against the hundreds of complaints, please set this grateful 'attaboy' and kudos. Making fun of a pack of squealing girly-men's pwecious wittle guns is sure to attract dozens upon dozens of quasi-coherent Randyan rants and buffoonish threats to water the apparently parched 'Tree of Liberty' with gallon's of one's blood. Ignore them. Come the post-millenium, these nadlacking oafs are going to be sitting on vast hoards of freeze-dried beef jerky and bottled water, desperately disappointed that no rampaging hordes of crazed cityzens offered themselves to be blasted into kibble by gun-toting heroes. It just may be that the disappointment of it all will kill them...but now I'm indulging in my own brand of fantasy. Anyway, keep up the good work. Oh yeah, and keep sending out that list thingie, too. (Craig Lambert) Eh, you can be illegitimate and be the spawn of satin as long as you don't like guns and make fun of Pamela's implants. Keep it up dude! Scary how they let morons like that have fire arms. (Micha Geiger) Top 2 Reasons Why A Bastard Spawn of Satan Supports Gun Control 2> Who needs a gun when Lucifier is your Daddy? You're packing heat even at the South Pole. 1> All those gun-toting crazies are making things too crowded in Hell. Need to slow down the new arrival rate until the remodeling is complete. (M.P.) It's true I didn't laugh as much at your Gun Control jokes as I did at your Married to a Liberal jokes. But that's why I like your stuff - there's something for everyone. (Steve Alexander) You know, I was one of the people who didn't much care for the anti-NRA list you did, but you know what? The list is yours & you can put what you want on it. I just deleted it after reading the first few & went on with my day. (DeAnne French) I am a software developer that used to enjoy your top five list. Unfortunately, like most immature and opinionated programmers, it became far to difficult to keep your noses out of the gun control issues. Apparently, logic is becoming more of a scarce trait each year that goes by. You brought up the point that SO many deaths occur each year as a result of what?...... someone owned a gun? No, it took a human to shoot a human. Just like it takes over 100,00 people every year to kill each other with automobiles. Look up accurate statistics someday. you will find that more kids die in a bucket of water each year than from gun shots. You have chosen the side of this debate that will only prove your inability to teach your children the fundamental logical thought process it takes to survive as another animal on this planet. Best of luck with your struggle to survive this "gun toting" world. (Shane Greif) At least your responses to our flare-ups are rational, reasoned and properly cutting, instead of childish and "I'll take my ball and go home" like some other humor list moderators (who shall remain nameless, unless they get another whole week to themselves again)... Thank you for your adult behavior and sense of humour! (Gregory Junker) Don't know what the problem was with your May 4th "List". It was timely (since the NRA conference was being held at that time), and hit on all the points a satire on the NRA should. Why the NRA didn't cancel their conference after Littleton is beyond me, so as far as I'm concerned, they're fair game. Perhaps if people took a moment to really read the list, they wouldn't be so offended. Well... maybe they still would be. Anyway, keep up the good work. (Scott D. Szymanski) I for one am completely in support of 1st ammendment "notions" as well as 2nd ammendment "notions." Keep the great humor rolling-in and don't worry about any liberal pansy-ass or conservative tight-ass that takes offense. (Rich Fix) First off, thank you. You took the time and effort to send me a reasoned discussion of your point of view, and I appreciate it. I may not necessarily agree with it, of course, but I'd far prefer to have a conversation with someone rational and logical that I disagree with that someone who can't grasp the concept of thinking things through for themselves that I _do_ agree with. I know you're probably fairly busy, but I did address a few of your comments below; if you do have the time to respond I'd be happy to continue discussing them with you. If you don't, I understand. But thanks for assuming I was a rational person. (Martin Tays) Hmmm...perhaps you should do a "Top Five indicators that your moderator is parroting a Politically Correct viewpoint" list... (Martin Tays) I'm an NRA Life member and I laughed my ass off. (Wendell M. Joost III) [...] since you seem to think that people who belong to the NRA are a bunch of idiots who just want to shoot up the place, I have no need to read you website any longer. I also have no need to continue providing a link to your site from my homepage. Have a nice day. (Charles R. Kaiser) You could change a very few words here and there and such tripe reads virtually identically to the openly racist hate speak that was common in the press a hundred years ago. (Steve Jones) Bad taste...that was funny in the way that Mentos commercials or low-budget sci-fi is...I'm a usually happy subscriber and would like to see consistent high quality, not creative repetition of liberal cliches. That's even boring when my own party (libertarian) does it...please keep this list entertaining. (B. Kalafut) If we are to solve our culture's violence problem it is going to take communication and collaboration from both the "gun culture" and the "gun controllers". That means that we need to stop acting like petulant children, taking cheap shots and jamming our fingers in our ears and refusing to listen to the other side. And we have to start teaching each other to resolve conflict by acting like responsible adults. Because more than guns, more than "the media", it is the role models that our children are exposed to that define their character. Our children, and their children, deserve better. You are either part of the problem, or part of the solution. You abused your position as moderator of a basically apolitical humor list to take cheap shots and then, like a childish bully, run away from the fight. I am professional instructor who deals with use of force, security and self-defense issues on a daily basis, and I teach all levels of self-defense: from unarmed and verbal skills to deadly force. We teach our students a high level of ethics, and none of our 1000 students has ever committed a violent crime, or misused any level of force. But you would disarm those good people and leave them to the wolves in our society. Just tonight I received a phone call that the brother and wife of a good friend were beaten to death with a sledgehammer, in their home, by two burglars who overpowered and killed them. All the gun control laws in the world would not have saved their lives: but a few days training and a firearm might have saved their lives. One of our instructors lawfully used deadly force to save his own life 15 years ago in a similar situation. It's not something he's proud of, or that he feels good about. But if he had not been armed, he'd be dead. And that feels a lot worse. The right to life and self-defense is the most fundamental. You do not respect my right to own the equipment necessary to lawfully defend myself, my family, and my friends. I see no reason to respect your reckless abuse of your freedom of speech. I have unsubscribed from the Top 5 List. (Karl Rehn member, American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers) I'm leaving your Top 5 list because I think you're a pinko bastard. Live long and prosper. (Karen Kirschner) Please do your homework before you flap your mouth, Chris. (Matt Loiselle) This wasn't really a funny list. Most of your stuff is pretty funny but this was really just a way for you to recycle a bunch of old jokes. Put more effort into your work. (Mike Anderson) I was an NRA member once upon a time. I believe that in a perfect world, their "zero tolerance" of gun legislation wouldn't be necessary. Then again, in a perfect world, we would have people in Washington that had a clue. (I think I heard that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet?!?) Right now, I view the NRA kind of like the CIA. I don't necessarily approve of all of their actions, but I'm glad I do have someone to do the "dirty work" to protect my rights and I wouldn't want to get rid of them until a very good replacement was in place. (Walt Neubauer) They're funnier when not politically one-sided. (Bryan Webb) I don't care to debate the gun-control issue either (and boy, what a debate it would be), so I won't....but.... As an NRA member, and *responsible* gun owner, I'm offended by this list. The implications that the NRA, or even gun owners in general, supports or advocates these items is stereotypical and does nothing more to continue these absurd beliefs. The NRA promotes responsible gun ownership, not the illegal possession and use of firearms. I understand that you have your opinion regarding gun-control, and as an American I'd fight to protect the right for people to have and voice their beliefs. I'm a member of the NRA and JPFO (http://www.jpfo.org) so that I have the ability to do so. If I had a forum such as yours to express personal views, I may be more careful in which topics I choose. And by the way...I'm especially offended by the penis comment. ;-) (Darryl Levi) What does #4 have to do with guns or the NRA? Whoever made this list should do some research first. (Joe Kmiech) Most of the time--I enjoy your humor, but this time it in not funny---the second amendment is the only thing we have to insure that there is a first amendment! (Ronnie) I guess your right--the constitution isn't worth debating--let's just throw it out. Oh my--that would take out the first amendment too. Oh-and just for argument-if you wanted to protect all those people out there-stop drunk drivers, ban young black men as they are the leading cause of death for young black men, just kill anyone found with drugs as addicts are the leading perpetrators of crime in the United States (gun crime included). Get the picture! (Richard D. Hiltz Formally of the US Dept. of Justice US Border Patrol) Yes, please, confiscate all guns, please! Then send them here, to Kosovar vhere,ve have nun. Then maybe ve can fight back like some Americans outside New York. (C. A. Coleman) [First message] I just unsubscribed. Though I am an NRA member, I thought the NRA stuff was pretty funny. What pissed me off is that you had to use the list as a platform to toss in your own anti-gun views, and then are too chickenshit to debate the issue. Obviously it's your list and you can do with it what you like - I just prefer people who are willing to be a little more accountable for their views than you appear to be. [Second message] Touche'. While entertaining, extended debate is non-productive, particularly when the burden of providing an indispensable community service such as Top 5 rests upon your shoulders. ;-) By the way, sorry I called you chickenshit. To make up for it, I'll buy you a beer and let you shoot my AK-47 next time I'm in NY. (Brandon Daily) I think that your attitude is pathetic. If people want to stop the "gun related deaths," then they should consider educating themselves. Simply telling a child that guns are bad doesn't do it. Show them what to do if they find a gun--don't touch it call an adult. Its the same way children are taught to react to strangers, Ignoring the problem, or punishing the rest of us who own guns, is wrong. Just as many deatbs occur from cars and baseball bats but they are not banned or taxed or restricted. Its time that people stop blaming others, and make themselves responsible fjor their actions. As far as children and guns, the parents need to get involved and teach their kids right from wrong instead of leaving it to some one else. (Kakorca) I'm unsubscribing from your list due to you snide comments about guns. The topic and the jokes were funny, but I'm not going to support someone who makes such one-sided public comments. {Like, say, Charleton Heston? -- Chris} (Eric Lundquist) Outstanding !!! I predict no fewer than 5,000 hate mails by 12pm today. Keep nailing the lunatic fringe. (Repholz) Get off your high horse, bud. If you owned a gun, would that make you a crazed serial killer?? No? Why not?? Think about it!! Remember, "Jack the Ripper" used a knife!!! Care to check out your kitchen drawers?? (Les Gyenge) Awesome list!!! (Andrew Boisvert) You've got to be joking. If not, you're obviously the product of a brainwashed, liberal, come-and-get-me, anti-Constitution, anti-founding fathers, "government is my big brother" mentality. Your opinion was held by the majority of those who perished in World War II concentration camps. I wish you luck. (Debbie Smallwood) I also appreciate being able to answer my door at 10pm in my bad neighborhood with a little less fear knowing that I can defend myself if necessary. (Walt Neubauer) Ref your comment on the right to bear arms (if you're going to make the statement, be prepared to get a reply): Have you spent any time in the service helping to protect your right to this free speech, and rights guaranteed by the Constitution? I have. Spent much time in Eastern Europe? Latin America? or the really "interesting parts" of Asia??? I have. Ever go hunting with your father or uncles, the way most of rural America does? Ever been threatened by one or more people on drugs intent on doing you or your childern harm? I have. This country's not perfect, but it's the best I've seen, and I've seen a lot. You're clearly a reasonably intelligent person. Please apply some of that toward considering the rights that we have worked and sacrificed to maintain. No need to reply to this message, either. (Jim Deigan) IF THIS IS THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION (YOU HAVE ALREADY VIOLATED MY FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT BY TELLING ME NOT TO WRITE AND NOW YOU WANT TO TAKE AWAY MY 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS AS WELL, THEN YOU CAN HAVE YOUR LIST!!!!! CONSIDER ME UNSUBSCRIBED!!!!!!!!! "I MAY NOT AGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAY BUT I WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT!!"--Voltaire (David Jones) I'm sure you're probably tired of hearing this, but the NRA bit was pretty tasteless, especially given what's been in the news. (Andy Dorsai) Nope, this isn't about the NRA. I'm in full support of the 2nd Amendment and the NRA. But I do think, considering the killings in Colorado, that the subject was totally inappropriate and tasteless. I don't mind tasteless jokes but these were kids that got killed for showing up at school. (Shelby Rotolo) |
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