http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/business/wooed-by-gun-friendly-states-some-manufacturers-pull-up-stakes.html?pagewanted=2&_r=3

 

I am amazed at the lack of firearms knowledge by the anti-gun people. They have no logic.

The comments section is atrocious. I love how they say gun owners "must live in a scary world where they view everything as a threat, otherwise why have guns?" when they are the ones so scared of other people they don't trust the public to have access to firearms.

 

Oh and some guy said "bear arms" and then used hyperbole to say why not "bear battleships" me thinks he doesn't know what the term "arms" means.

Progressivism is a religion of mental illness. Those that pray to the liberal gods and the almighty State don't believe in personal responsibility and they ponder how anyone could be responsible enough to have a self protection tool and keep it safe? They believe that everybody's brains squirm like a toad as they hop around looking for a utopia to provide free and juicy flies for them.

"Merry wonderers..." - Tony Soprano

NYT was once a great distribution channel for news, now it is just a empty liberal shell of its former self and will likely find itself out of business before too long.

NYT was once a great distribution channel for news, now it is just a empty liberal shell of its former self and will likely find itself out of business before to long.

agree, won't even use for piss paper for my dog......

the article is fine, no anti rhetoric. Its  just about the gun manufacturers various plans to move/not move. But if your gonna read the comments section (wouldnt waste my time) in the NYT after any firearms related article dont be suprised at the comments.

I didn't have a problem with the article either.

The comments? Well they keep voting in "Mayor for Life" Bloomberg; what did you expect?

Agree. Not a bad article. Just one more thing to move new manufacturing jobs away from blue states and to red states.

 

As for the comments -- it's New York City. They've had gun control since 1911.

 

My daughter is a Birkenstock-wearing reincarnated hippie artist and living in NYC is too much for her. She commutes in from New Jersey.

 

 

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

And the usual Sandy shooting gets thrown in for good measure.  "We have to do something!!"  Ok, what do you propose that would stop that guy from taking his mother's weapons and going off on a spree?  Giant magnets around public areas that would snag any metal guns?  Chips in guns that disable the firing pin outside a perimeter of your home?

 

What you get in answer from the antis is...   <crickets>  or at best "more background checks!"

 

That's ok, these people can spend their day posting anti comments on a dying newspapers' site.  It doesn't matter to me.  But don't call me if you have a situation...call 911 and hope for the best (ask the people of Detroit how that works for them).

 

What they all assume is that every gun owner walks around shooting like the OK Corral, without even considering that some people actually enjoy the sport.  I told my wife (not an anti, but not a pro either), you enjoy ice skating every Saturday during winter.  I enjoy plugging a paper target at 100 yards (or trying to).  I call it a hobby.  She had no answer to that.

  I told my wife (not an anti, but not a pro either), you enjoy ice skating every Saturday during winter.  I enjoy plugging a paper target at 100 yards (or trying to).  I call it a hobby.  She had no answer to that.

My wife likes ice skating, also owns a G19, Sig 239 and Walther P22 , oh how I love her 

My wife likes ice skating, also owns a G19, Sig 239 and Walther P22 , oh how I love her 

 

That's funny.. with my wife I'm usually the one skating on thin ice..

The comments section is typical of the New York urban Liberal mentality. 

While I am not inclined to wish ill on innocent people, I would not have a problem if something were to befall the Upper West Side of Manhattan where the residents were subjected to life without the guarantee of immediate police presence. Whether it was a contained zombie outbreak, maximum security jailbreak, or simply a prolonged power outage, eyes might be opened to the notion that there are evil people in this world (not just misunderstood or lacking opportunities), and that even though police usually do a great job, they can't be everywhere all the time. And that ultimately, the individual is responsible for his or her own safety and that of their family. I always thought of it as "Why would I rely on others who don't necessarily have a vested interest in me, when I can rely on myself"? 

Even with any of the above happening, I am not sure that there would be many converts. One of the first symptoms of Liberalism seems to be willful blindness to reality.