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NY Times: “Modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will….Modern man cries. He cries often.”

Oct 1, 2015 2:03 pm By Robert Spencer

“The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will….The modern man cries. He cries often.” What will the modern man do when the Islamic State threat that he has ignored, denied, and dismissed as “Islamophobia” for so many years becomes undeniable reality staring him in the face? He will cry. He will cry often.

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“27 Ways to Be a Modern Man,” by Brian Lombardi, New York Times, September 29, 2015 (thanks to Mary):

Being a modern man today is no different than it was a century ago. It’s all about adhering to principle. Sure, fashion, technology and architecture change over time, as do standards of etiquette, not to mention ways of carrying oneself in the public sphere. But the modern man will take the bits from the past that strike him as relevant and blend them with the stuff of today….

25. The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will.

26. The modern man cries. He cries often.

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  1. miriamrove says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:10 pm

    What a bunch of BS. NY Times all the BS that fits to print. m

    • jihad3tracker says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 4:38 pm

      I read the individual numbered “observations” — my word — in Lombardi’s NYT article. This guy deserves a MetroSexual of the Year bestowed by Fashionista-In-Chief Hussein Obloooma at a White House dinner.

      By comparison with this guy, Reza Poofy-poof Aslan is a heavyweight prizefighter.

      • jihad3tracker says

        Oct 1, 2015 at 4:54 pm

        For those of us here who realize that Mr. Lombardi wrote this article because he had not been slapped firmly (by a testicle-equipped human) in the last week or so, here is a website where you can (virtually) do so. But not too hard, OK?

        http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-modern-man-is-man-who-has-been.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmericanPower+(American+Power)

    • Peter Charles says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 4:38 pm

      Very true!

    • WCM says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 7:20 pm

      The “Paper of Record’s” real motto: “All the news that fits, we print.”

    • Westman says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 8:04 pm

      “But the modern man will take the bits from the past that strike him as relevant and blend them with the stuff of today….”

      Isn’t this exactly what Daesh(ISIS) is doing? Blending bits of the past from the Quran and Sunnah with modern instruments of war?

      When will they start crying?

  2. Katnis says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:12 pm

    Who the hell is Brian Lombardi and why did the NYT waste valuable space on such an embarrassing article? Brian – This article belongs on the wall of shame.

    I think the modern mad is Robert Spencer, who isn’t afraid to tell the truth. I think the modern man is the American Sniper, who risked his life over and over for our freedom. I think the modern man is Netanyahu, who will not waiver on his commitment to protect his people. And Brian Lombardi thinks that a modern man is wrapped up in Irish Springs and hand-written grocery lists????

    On the flip side, I bet every jihadi is doubled over with laughter, knowing that is 72 raisins are within reach. He only has to contend with the modern man – The one who listens to Wu-Tang a least once a week while tip-toeing across his hardwood floors in his Kenneth Cole Oxfords.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 2:15 pm

      … why did the NYT waste valuable space on such an embarrassing article?

      Uhhh… because *all* articles in the NYT are embarrassing?

      • Katnis says

        Oct 1, 2015 at 2:23 pm

        The NYT is not on my reading list. If this is an example of what to expect, I will continue to pass. I’m disgusted.

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Oct 1, 2015 at 2:47 pm

          The NYT was the first to establish open bias by “narrative” in place of objective journalism by fact-based reporting. If you see a copy on a newstand, cover your nose and mouth with a hankerchief and take three steps back. They’re the ones who missed tens of millions of forced deaths on Uncle Joe’s watch in the USSR and never owned up to it (re: Walter Duranty).

        • Asian Crusader says

          Oct 1, 2015 at 3:58 pm

          The NYT sat on clear evidence of National Socialist death camps for many months because they did not want to risk getting a reputation as a “Jewish” newspaper. The story was first officially broken in the Telegraph in London.

          Incidentally, stopping the Holocaust was NEVER a war aim in World War II, and even relatively minor effort to stop or slow the annihilation of Jews – by then well known to Allied commanders – was nixed by the U.S. and its allies.

          Look up “Bermuda Conference” for a glimpse into the extent of Allied depravity in this matter.

    • Karen says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 4:10 pm

      Katnis, excellent post! I think you much be a genuinely modern person! 🙂

      • Karen says

        Oct 1, 2015 at 4:14 pm

        Katnis, excellent post! I think you *must* be a genuinely modern person! 🙂

      • Katnis says

        Oct 2, 2015 at 2:33 am

        I am! I am! Nice to meet you on JW, Karen. 🙂

        • Karen says

          Oct 2, 2015 at 6:04 pm

          And you as well, Katnis!! 🙂 🙂

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:13 pm

    A lotta smart ass comments have been made in here about President Barack Hussein and how dangerous he is to the nation. Well, look at the photo of him above. Now, I had been skeptical of you naysayers, but seeing this picture of him on the bicycle wearing the geeky lil helmet scares the living sheet outta me. Youg guys are right, we are doomed.

    Feminized or infantalized?

    • Alex says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 3:19 pm

      Lots of spare time? How about posting a bit less…

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Oct 1, 2015 at 4:00 pm

        Screw off. I’ll do as I please. Use the scroll bar in lieu of telling other people what to do, how about that.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 2, 2015 at 1:30 am

        Alex, APF is a staunch Anti-Jihadist with a wicked sense of humor.

    • Karen says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 4:16 pm

      Its true! He does wear mom-jeans.

      • jayell says

        Oct 2, 2015 at 2:26 am

        What are ‘mom-jeans’?

        • Karen says

          Oct 2, 2015 at 6:16 pm

          High waist, usually light wash, and enough bad design to make even our admirably svelte president look bulkier than he is. There’s been a bit of a running joke about his jeans, and he’s claimed that Michelle has gotten rid of them. If you want a good laugh, search ‘SNL Mom Jeans’ for the original sketch about this, very funny.

        • voegelinian says

          Oct 2, 2015 at 6:36 pm

          When Paul McCartney performed with what’s left of Nirvana in 2012 at Madison Square Garden, a Beatles fan on the Beatles Bible discussion forum referred to what he was wearing as “dad jeans” —

    • Huck Folder says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 3:14 am

      APF:

      “Feminized or infantalized?”

      “Detesticalized”?

      Can anyone do a cartoon of an acorn riding a bike?
      If not, flip the obuMBoy pic, and follow with this:

      http://www.kendavis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Bike-crash-cartoon.-190×133.jpg

  4. Don McKellar says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:16 pm

    The writer of the NY Times drivel forgot the part about Modern Man on his knees cowering and blubbering on about the Islamic State having nothing to do with Islam.

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 9:18 pm

      Oh, he didn’t forget. He just couldn’t write that part. He was blubbering too much himself, being a ‘modern man’.

      But he did forget to say what the ‘modern man’ won’t be doing hardly at all. To wit: Making love to any woman worthy of the name. Oh-and joining the Military.

      What an appalling loser twit.

  5. Beagle says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:18 pm

    Then in a world full of ‘modern men’ one man with a rifle will be king. Stupid, dangerously so.

    Rather than ending as predicted over a decade ago, history got mad and started brandishing a knife.

  6. Katnis says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    The NYT won’t allow you to comment on the article. Such a shame.

    • Don McKellar says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 2:25 pm

      Of course not. Old Pravda in the USSR wouldn’t let people comment, either.

  7. Joseph says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:27 pm

    The modern man cries. He cries often.
    _________________________________

    That is because the modern thug killed someone in his family and he didn’t have a gun to protect them.
    Outlaws don’t care about gun laws.

  8. Eddiethed says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    No wander nobody reads that paper anymore.

  9. Paul G says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    He cries cuz his wife won’t let him have a gun.

  10. Sam says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    “The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will.
    The modern man cries. He cries often”

    AND SUBMITS TO ALLAH and says Allahu Akbar!

    Am I going nuts or the whole world has gone CRAZY?

  11. August_West says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:44 pm

    I’m a modern man…

    Colt AR 15 with various optics.
    Anderson Rifle Co AR 15 Upper chambered in 22 LR (for practice)
    Anderson Rifle Co AR 15 Upper chambered in 300 Blackout

    Remington 870 Tactical Shot Gun – 6 round side saddle and very bright flash light/laser combo.
    Its only ever fired Slugs and 00 Buck

    Glock 21 (chambered in .45 ACP)
    Springfield Armory 1911 (chambered in .45 ACP)
    S&W 686 + revolver chambered in .357 Magnum

    About 1000 rounds (full metal jacket and hollow points) of ammunition per weapon.

    I am a modern man – and as you can plainly see I *need* a Glock 19 (chambered in 9mm)

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 2:53 pm

      Whaddya need all that hardware for, the gubmint will protect ya. You can’t count on ’em.

      ***

      When I saw that big BLM SWAT team that invaded the dude’s ranch out in Nevada, my question was: What do these guys do when they’re not out on a SWAT operation? I guarantee you that they sit around in some federal building somewhere receiving full pay and benefits to browse the Web, waiting for the alarm bell to go off the next time.

      Did you know that the valley in which that ranch sat used to have dozens of ranches but only a few now because of ever tightening BLM regulations. It turns out that Harry Reid’s son is making millions by renting out that vacated land to some Chinese company to run solar farms on.

      • R says

        Oct 1, 2015 at 3:15 pm

        “What do these guys do when they’re not out on a SWAT operation?”

        Lift weights and train.

    • Tiredofstupid says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 4:24 pm

      Actually a glock 23 40 cal works and you can buy an aftermarket 9 mil barrel that drops right in to save ammo costs when practicing.

      • Undaunted says

        Oct 1, 2015 at 9:56 pm

        Stick with the 9mm. More bullets = more dead bad-guys.

    • jihad3tracker says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 4:30 pm

      Actually, a better description of you is “modern survivor”. I have about 1% of your arsenal’s firepower, but back in my youthful twenties I handloaded 4 pistol and 3 rifle calibers.

      I hereby nominate you for Recoil magazine’s 2nd Amendment award in the month of November.

      The author of that NYT article, Brian Lombardi, is going to wish his whimpering ass were under your protection when Allah’s frat boys throw a “Win Those Virgins!” party.

    • vlparker says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 7:19 pm

      They sure could have used some guns in Oregon today.

      • Arthur says

        Oct 1, 2015 at 9:51 pm

        To think that an legally armed student or teacher could’ve ended or at least disrupted the attack several lives earlier…

        • Laura says

          Oct 2, 2015 at 9:06 pm

          Arthur – unless it has changed, OR is a carry state (I got my first CCW there).

    • Undaunted says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 9:54 pm

      Mossberg 12 ga pump, shooting Federal slugs

      Browning Hi-Power with multiple hi-cap mags shooting Hornady Critical Duty 9mm +P

      Like this… http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2011/11/proactive-shopping.html

      Man up, America.

  12. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:49 pm

    The modern man cries. He cries often.

    Gonna be a helluva lot more crying going on in the future, that much is for sure.

    • Tom Davis says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 6:43 pm

      Yep.

  13. August_West says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    Actually the article does have a bit of truth to it.

    “The modern man does not need one…”

    Of course not – the modern man *needs* at least 5 minimum.

    However, you certainly don’t *need* an AK 47 or 74 for obvious reasons.
    You do, however, *need* to know how to use one when you pull it out of the hands of a Jihadi.

  14. Not I said the sparrow says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    He’s pedalling backwards (obvious isn’t it) but most people will swear he’s pedalling forwards. It’s a real street-savvy trick. He got the rhythm man.

  15. Angemon says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 3:11 pm

    If being a “modern man” requires being at the mercy of the whims of “less than modern men”, I’ll stick with being an old-fashioned gentleman…

    • John C. Barile says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 5:14 pm

      Yes. There no place for wussies in a crisis.

  16. Grntonpnt says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 3:24 pm

    I am an older modern man. I remember from 45 years ago how to lock and load an m-16, I have no problem with facing these islamists and as I faced the NVA so long ago….there are still lots of us alive who won’t cower in the face of violent islam. Some of us will have to protect the likes of obama who will be in the corner holding his teddy and crying his eyes out from fear…..the new york times reporter will be cying right next to him …….

    • Joseph says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 5:16 pm

      Some of us will have to protect the likes of Obama
      __________________________________

      I’m most certainly am NOT going to be one of them. Remember what he said about when it comes down to a conflict, that he will side with Islam.
      Obama better not be around the likes of me when the &%it hits the proverbial fan.

  17. Bart Goldman says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 3:29 pm

    Item that should have been added:
    “28) When an intruder enters his bedroom as mentioned in item #16 and brutalizes his wife while he stands helpless, he decides to buy a gun and to never be without one. He realizes that the melon baller just won’t do the job nor will the shoehorn.”

    • Papa Whiskey says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 3:45 pm

      Assuming that the intruder (or intruders) is kind enough not to kill him before making of his wife a woman possessed by a believer’s right hand.

      • Joseph says

        Oct 1, 2015 at 5:20 pm

        P.W. They will kill him AFTER he sees that his wife is in possession and is violently being used as such. These are the vilest of creatures to ever walk on Earth.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 1:33 am

      Just what I was thinking, Bart.

    • Huck Folder says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 3:19 am

      @ Bart Goldman:

      He will lend the jihadist the shoehorn.

  18. Dan says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 4:04 pm

    You know when a modern man cries the most?

    When his family is slaughtered in front of him and he can’t protect them.

    The only way it could be worse, is if he KNEW he hadn’t heeded warnings to prepare.

  19. Westman says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 4:22 pm

    Well, now we know what happened to those past empires. They got modern men. Their enemies infiltrated their social and miltary organizations and said, “We’re taking over”, upon which the modern men cried.

    Soon enough, enemies in our society will say, “Your Jizya, ….or your life”.

    Got modern men?

  20. Tiredofstupid says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 4:42 pm

    I also read all 27 and don’t think I do any of them (who is michael mann and why would I have his films on blue-ray) with the exception of I do sleep closest to the door so I can shoot any intruder before my wife needs too. #proudlyneanderthal (hope thats not a twit)

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 1:45 am

      The weird thing is that Michael Mann makes films about hardasses who would walk all over this “modern man”. I guess it’s just like his listening to the Wu Tang Clan…

      By the way, the Wu Tang Clan has a Rap titled “Bells of War” that contains a line about the “truth of Allah” along with its profanity and lines about murdering police officers:

  21. Wellington says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    There’s something wussie about the Modern Left and it’s getting wussier every year.

  22. Anushirvan says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 5:53 pm

    ““The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will….The modern man cries. He cries often.” What will the modern man do when the Islamic State threat that he has ignored, denied, and dismissed as “Islamophobia” for so many years becomes undeniable reality staring him in the face? He will cry. He will cry often.”

    Indeed. And that’s all down to the fact that the West has been sissy-fied by 20th century Leftist World Solidarity Views becoming rule of law in an effeminate, hypocrite, moral relativist, good-for-nothing, double-crossing, megalomaniac organization like the UN that advocates the chaos it creates as a universal jurisdiction to destroy everything we hold dear !

  23. jayell says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 6:00 pm

    We’ve been hearing about ‘Modern Man’ and ‘New Man’ for about the last 30-40 years, so he must be well past his sell-by date by now. And, frankly, in the real world, I think he’s still up there for sale on the shelf. So has Mr Lombardi been briefed to do an end-of-season drive to get shot of him?

  24. joeblough says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    So the modern (read western) “man” is a helpless, whining p**sy.

    Which is pretty much what the jihaddists say about the west too.

    And also why they’re winning.

  25. Jon Korn says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    Progressive ideology is so convoluted. This guy can’t even keep from being contradictory in a list of 27 things.

    I noticed, if you have #16 how can you possibly put in #25 and expect anyone to take you siriously? Of course, it IS the NY Times….

    16. The modern man lies on the side of the bed closer to the door. If an intruder gets in, he will try to fight him off, so that his wife has a chance to get away.

    25. The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will.

  26. Mo says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    If this is what a modern man is like, I don’t want one. I’ll take an old fashioned REAL man anytime over such a wuss as this.

    Ugh, how embarrassing! Please tell me this was some sort of satire. I don’t have the stomach to go over there, read the whole thing, and learn that it was done in seriousness!

  27. Kaffir007 says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 7:20 pm

    26. The modern man cries. He cries often. – because he doesn’t have a gun.

    Modern guns were in fact designed by modern men, for modern men in modern times to protect modern society.

    This info on “demoscide” should be “Required reading” ( check the links on the site as well )

    https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM

    Snip it from above link

    4. 61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State
    5. 35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
    6. 20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State
    7. 10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime

    8. 5,964,000 Murdered: Japan’s Savage Military
    9. 2,035,000 Murdered: The Khmer Rouge Hell State
    10. 1,883,000 Murdered: Turkey’s Genocidal Purges
    11. 1,670,000 Murdered: The Vietnamese War State
    12. 1,585,000 Murdered: Poland’s Ethnic Cleansing
    13. 1,503,000 Murdered: The Pakistani Cutthroat State
    14. 1,072,000 Murdered: Tito’s Slaughterhouse

    15. 1,663,000 Murdered? Orwellian North Korea
    16. 1,417,000 Murdered? Barbarous Mexico
    17. 1,066,000 Murdered? Feudal Russia

    • TJFreedomjihad says

      Oct 4, 2015 at 1:14 pm

      Kaffir007, thank you so much for that excellent reference source, from a college no less. With my and so many others lack of faith in modern day colleges to see reality and truth, so often demonstrated, your outstanding reference is truly like a miracle, of bygone days of 50 years ago and more, (BA-before Alinsky).

      The source very strangely lacks only the greatest source of murder in all history of man, mohammad’s madness, criminal concoction of the gang dictatorship who in other quality sources have been attributed with or credited with somewhere in the third trillion (between 250 to 600 billion) total deaths, so far and counting.

      Perhaps the Hawaii college has fear of naming the greatest of the evils of existence, on this earth, “mohammadanism”, since it still exists and does seek to destroy truth telling detractors, such as I am. Because that is what evil always does try!

      I know Hillsdale sees and speaks truth to evil, but how many more such colleges so exist, in this modern world existence of madness of delusions, lies and deceits, in so many places, and peoples.

      We seem to exist in a time and space of the madness of those mid 1930s or so, before major physical war, as the winds of war were being committed all over again, but not so much just the innocent Jews, and some others. Now it is all inclusive, who are in those so well known crosshairs of pure evil-mohammadanism, as expressed clearly in the hadiths, koran, and sira as well as the reliance of the traveler.

      • TJFreedomjihad says

        Oct 4, 2015 at 2:46 pm

        I hopefully had looked over some of the site (https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM), and it has some usefulness, in spite of my discovery that like most colleges, they are after all, basically anti-American, as with most modern colleges. Full delusional, full leftist. I went to the picture gallery, ‘photos of democide’, and learned they commented on non-American involvement fairly reasonably, realistically, but when it came to actions involving America, saving democracy, and people, in war, they commented to the benefit of purely the enemy of America. When they spoke of the Rape of Nanking e.g., involving rape and worse atrocities, not to mention also against us, they spoke not of a quarter million Americans being saved to conquer Japan, by our tactics, including the a bomb, but how terrible we were for using the a bomb and firebombs on the enemy, who had boiled our men and fed them to our POW men in stew, among uncountable atrocities against us and China and others, for a too long while!!!

        They didn’t dare mention the sneak attack and loss of American lives in Pear Harbor alone, as though the Japs never attacked us without warning!!!! No, I had been wrong, the Hawaii college is populated by typically bigoted disturbed teachers, who are hideous sorry excuses for real college professors, loving only all our opponents to Liberty, and by the term “our”, I mean all the western and still free world opponents.

        Pretty much explains why they as a typical leftist college, did not include the worst of the murdering gangs of all history that involved humanoid beings in existence. As leftists, they haven’t the courage to tell the real, nor full, truth, as modern man usual, with all their Alinsky leftist their ilk.

        So clearly, they are crying over and about America, as so many radical leftist marxist alinskyites so do, outrageously. America’s victory for Liberty, came at terrible expense, in the vast majority of times on the side of historical Liberty, of our own nation, and many, many other nations, and then departed the vanquished, sadly not always helping to Marshall plan rebuild the destroyed imperialist enemy. But equally sadly, not all such enemies could be aided, due to circumstances of hopelessness of an enemies culture.

      • TJFreedomjihad says

        Oct 4, 2015 at 8:09 pm

        Whoops, I committed a serious numeric error that must be corrected, just above, at Oct. 4, 1:14 pm, In too much of a hurry, I didn’t check my digits, so I overstated jihadi murder global all time totals. It is not part of a trillion, nor multi billions. Rather it is 250 million at minimum by all the best sources of calculations, and up to two thirds billion, at highest estimates. So actually it is at least a minimum of a quarter billion murders committed by jihadi criminals, in 1400 years, so far and daily counting. A good source of illustration, is here, among many: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks

        The remarks the Hawaii college writer or author makes are often ridiculous, regarding some of the pictures, particularly those that involve America at war, of atrocities, primarily as relates to realities involving America. And that is exceedingly horrific, as they echo o’hussein’s and other socialist alinskyites radical disturbed individuals ideologies and attitudes and hatred of America, and the West. I’d like to say a hell of a lot more, including broad comparative recent history of the last several hundred years, globally, but will not at this time.

  28. abad says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    The New York Time is THE most liberal newspaper in the world.

    Sorry NYT but your anti-gun agenda will NOT affect my legal right to own a gun.

    Maybe the NYT should move to Syria

  29. David M says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 9:10 pm

    So what’s happened in Oregon, the gunman made the students state their religion before he shot them? This sounds like what Boko Haram do when they kill non Muslims. Was this a Muslim killing?

    http://www.smh.com.au/world/umpqua-community-college-massacre-shooter-opens-fire-at-school-in-rural-oregon-town-20151001-gjzil8.html

    • Wellington says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 9:50 pm

      I have suspected such but I will withhold asserting such until incontrovertible proof is given. After all, it is imperative to get Muslim atrocities, of which there are so many, completely and accurately described lest the pc/mc crowd in the West be given an opportunity to cry “falsehood” and “Islamophobia.”

      Well, even if a Muslim did perpetrate the atrocities in Oregon today, the MSM and other fools (e.g., Obama) will cry “Islamophobia,” if Islam is blamed in any way, never mind that the reputed founder of Islam, Mohammed, said, “I have been made victorious with terror.” {Bukhari Hadith 4.52.220}.

      But should the gunman in this particular tragic and criminal instance, who thankfully was killed, prove not be a Muslim, the pc/mc crowd will, quite deceitfully and ignorantly, use such information against those who know what Islam intends for us all. Guaranteed, since those who continue to try to exculpate the spiritual fascism which is Islam will go to great lengths, seemingly any lengths, to insure that Mo’s warped creed is portrayed as something noble and benign, even though nothing could be further from the truth.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 12:00 am

      Hard to tell, David M–certainly, he did shoot anyone who dared to witness that he was Christian in the head. He had no questions about other faiths.

      While Chris Harper Mercer is not an Islamic moniker, he might be a “revert” with a Muslim name.

      Reportedly one of only two links on his MySpace page is Mahmoud Ali Ehsani–who disturbingly uses the motto “My D*ck is Hard Like a Pistol” on his own MySpace page, along with images of the Middle East.

      Certainly, there’s enough there to raise suspicions–but like Wellington, I’m going to wait for more solid information.

      • Francis Merde says

        Oct 2, 2015 at 1:13 am

        The guy’s online dating profile suggests otherwise.

        http://spiritualpassions.com/seeme/ironcross45.html

        I’m guessing it was more along the lines of disgruntled mixed race atheist. The religion question might’ve just as easily been him power-tripping. The Columbine shooters did that too and they weren’t Muslim.

        Who knows, he might’ve just been power-tripping and dropping one liners like “You believe in God, eh? I’ll send you to meet him then” or “Wrong. You’re just worm food.”

        Apparently, someone with his e-mail address under the ironcross45 nick purchased Nazi memorabilia.

        And despite his claims of being a conservative he had a lot of photos of the IRA on his MySpace (a Marxist left-wing organization).

        It’s compiled here.

        http://heavy.com/news/2015/10/chris-harper-mercer-photos-pictures-roseburg-oregon-umpqua-community-college-shooter-family-facebook-twitter-instagram/1/

        So no, it looks like he was just a nutter, not a jihadi.

        • Francis Merde says

          Oct 2, 2015 at 1:26 am

          Then again some people have suggested that Nazism (National Socialism) actually belongs on the far-left next to communism, and that anarchism and nihilism are what constitutes the actual far-right. Big government = left, Individualism = right. In other words, this nutter might not have even classified his own views correctly. Well, whatever they were, he was unhinged enough to unload a gun in school. At the end of the day that’s all that matters.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 2, 2015 at 2:47 pm

        Turns out that the shooter’s friend is not just Muslim–he has praised murderous Jihadists. Further, the Islamic State has claimed the shooter was acting on their behalf.

        Still unclear if this was the case–but some *very* disturbing stuff here.

        • Dr. Divinity says

          Oct 2, 2015 at 4:30 pm

          Did I not read somewhere that Muslim terrorists should stop trying to look islamist???

        • voegelinian says

          Oct 3, 2015 at 1:09 pm

          “Did I not read somewhere that Muslim terrorists should stop trying to look islamist???”

          Yes — 15 years ago. Old news. That’s another important reason to put on the scale weighing in favor of the Oregon shooting being a jihad attack. Jihadists must have figured out by now that they can exploit the sophisticated welter of the modern age — exacerbated by the slickly muddle-headed PC MC of the Western mainstream. In this chaotic context, it doesn’t seem to matter much for the purposes & goal of the jihadists that there is a clear message being sent to the Infidel. In fact, it seems more useful for them to reinforce and foster the general confusion of the Conversation about “terrorism” (i.e., Islam). Thus, an Oregon shooting happens; people on the fringe of the Mainstream wonder if it might be Islamic, they try to piece together clues. Doubts arise; why didn’t the Muslims resonsible immediately crow about it? Why isn’t there more direct evidence (e.g., why did he have posts on his MySpace admiring the IRA, when there are multitudes of more recent & more relevant information about Islamic terrorists out there?)? Then a day or two later, ISIS claims responsibility. People on the fringes again wonder, is ISIS just pretending in order to sow more confusion and terror? Etc. The very confusion and uncertainty itself is part of the sidération strategy of Islamic terrorism — and it can be sown both by planning the Oregon attack, or by falsely claiming after the fact that it was theirs all along. In line with this, there could well be many violent events that have occurred over the past 15 years which Jihadists never bothered to claim as theirs but which were — because in their own way they help to sow more anxiety and confusion in the Enemy. Etc.

          The Strategy of Sidération
          http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-strategy-of-sideration.html

        • Angemon says

          Oct 3, 2015 at 3:09 pm

          voegelinian posted:

          ““Did I not read somewhere that Muslim terrorists should stop trying to look islamist???”

          Yes — 15 years ago. Old news.”

          This begs the question: ho would you, voeg, distinguish a western-looking muslim who denied being a muslim from a mon-muslim? Context being your sneers about me allegedly possessing a decoder ring and being able to distinguish “dangerous” and “harmless” muslims (a statement you never provided any evidence for, despite being asked) and your insistence that the only (final?) solution is “total deportation” of all muslims. How can you deport all muslims if you can’t tell who’s a muslim or not?

        • Lenny Thetruth says

          Oct 3, 2015 at 5:20 pm

          The problem is not if you are a Muslim. There are billions. The problem is are you trying to intervene in legitimate laws in the US. Do you, as a Muslim, allow for non-Muslims to live their lives and care less about your prophet? If your religion tells you to do something America deems illegal, will you still follow the law of the land? If you hear the Imam call for death to infidels, are you going to rally to that call? If yes, we don’t want you. If you can live like an American, and be proud of being an American, You are welcome here. You don’t have to eat pork. Just don’t try to justify Sharia. We already have good laws. Don’t justify Female Genital Mutilation. That’s barbaric. There are no honor killings. Your kids should marry who they want. You can live with these rules, then we can live with you. If you can’t, we’ll help you pack.

        • voegelinian says

          Oct 3, 2015 at 1:11 pm

          I meant to add to my post that part of that jihadist “strategy of sidération” crucially involves the terrorist operative pretending to be “un-Islamic” in behavior and appearance. I.e., the reason for that pretense is not merel to avoid detection; but also to sow confusion after the attack.

  30. More Ham Ed says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 9:49 pm

    A strict follower of the unholy ko ‘ran breaks into your house – you serve them milk and cookies.

    • David says

      Oct 3, 2015 at 9:16 am

      No milk and cookies here. Just me, the cat and my .45 automatic.
      Yes! I’m a firm supporter of the RIGHTS of a citizen to SELF DEFENSE.
      Let the felons and those with mental issues be disarmed. But PLEASE leave the rest of us in peace.

      • Lenny Thetruth says

        Oct 3, 2015 at 3:11 pm

        That’s the catch, isn’t it. I am okay, and I own a gun, so why bother me? When you look at humanity, there will always be those who are “out of place.” There is no way to tell who is who. Making any law that restricts your ability to get a firearm infringes on your right. Background checks mean nothing if a person just does not have anything of note to prevent him from buying a gun. People want more laws, but they will not stop a single person from killing an innocent. We already have laws. Criminals, and those bent on suicide, really don’t care. So, these laws only go after the good people, and stop no bad ones.

  31. Dave J says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 10:52 pm

    Well he won’t cry for long, as that requires that the head still be attached to the body.

  32. TJFreedomjihad says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 12:21 am

    Modern Americans will eternally have need of rifles and handguns, and the practice and determination in how to use them well, so long as American remains free, for the prime purpose of maintaining it free, not just from a tyrannical government, always and eternally a danger, witness current and recent times of last 50 years, but also to provide effective resistance to invasion from without, even after massive bomb damage!!!!

    Witness these two sources, and after you do, consider if Ben Carson, who is strong, smart, agile, not naïve, a great learner, and a Patriot, might just not be our current actual Reagan style candidate:

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259257/constitutional-ignorance-and-dereliction-walter-williams June 30, 2015 Walter Williams

    Ben Carson: 2nd Amendment Needed In Case Gov’t Goes ‘Off The Rail’
    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/ben-carson-2nd-amendment-needed-case-gov-t-goes-rail
    Carson made his comments on May 23, 2014, as the guest host on the conservative talk radio program, the Sean Hannity Show.
    May 28, 2014 10:11 am Second Amendment
    (CNS News) – Dr. Ben Carson, author and retired pediatric neurosurgeon, said the “real reason” THE FOUNDING FATHERS CREATED THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS BECAUSE THEY KNEW IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR OUR GOVERNMENT TO “GO OFF THE RAIL” AND TRY TO “DOMINATE THE PEOPLE” AND THE CITIZENS WOULD NEED THE MEANS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.

    You all would be greatly impressed to listen on you tube to many of Ben Carson’s recent speeches, he can devastate the left wing leading media jerks (Tapper, Blitzer, and Vixen, too), quietly, “low energy” smoothly, but devastatingly. Watch some of his videos, you too will be impressed.

    • TJFreedomjihad says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 12:47 am

      Meant to add this piece, ever so slightly off exact topic, covered elsewhere as well, although overshadowed by other news, today.

      Make of it as you will, by having someone else do it, he provides sneaky aid and comfort to his buddies, theoretically quietly. Huh? And of course, plausible deniability, riiiiiight!

      World Leader Drops MAJOR Bombshell… Accuses Obama Of TREASON Live At The United Nations
      http://conservativetribune.com/world-leader-obama-treason/
      October 1, 2015 2:46 pm Obama Nation

      (Conservative Tribune) – Lost in the media hype surrounding the addresses of Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday was a bombshell claim by the president of Argentina.
      PRESIDENT CHRISTINA FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHENER ANNOUNCED THAT HER NATION HAD BEEN APPROACHED BY AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL WITH A REQUEST THAT ARGENTINA PROVIDE ENRICHED NUCLEAR FUEL TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN IN 2010.
      The official in question was Gary Samore, former White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, who did not dispute the seemingly outrageous claim and has been open about his opposition to the nuclear agreement currently worked out between Obama and Iran.
      Kirchener said that Samore wanted Argentina to provide nuclear fuel to Iran, ostensibly to counter Iran’s excuse that they needed nuclear fuel for their reactors, removing the impetus for them to continue their own uranium enrichment program.
      Kirchener stated that the deal fell through when her government asked for the request in writing, to abide by proper protocol, at which point the issue was dropped and Kirchener never heard from Samore again about it.
      For his part, Samore released a statement admitting that he had in fact traveled to Argentina in 2010 and made the request, though he insinuated the incident was no big deal.
      In fact, Samore went on to explain how after Argentina balked at the deal, he subsequently approached France and Russia with a similar proposal in which Iran would send their low-enriched uranium to Russia, which would further enrich it before sending it along to France.
      France would in turn finish converting the enriched uranium into nuclear reactor fuel, sending it back to Iran for its own use, ostensibly preventing the Islamic republic from weaponizing its uranium stockpiles.
      This deal fell through as well, according to Samore, leading to the 2010 U.N. resolution that increased economic sanctions on Iran, ultimately bringing them to the bargaining table for the horrible deal Obama eventually worked out with them this year.
      THE WHITE HOUSE DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RESPOND TO THE POTENTIALLY TREASONOUS ALLEGATIONS.

    • John Forsman says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 9:44 am

      I think Carson is smarter than most of us, me inclused.

  33. mortimer says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 12:43 am

    Conclusion: “modern” man disarms, while “primitive”, 7th-century Muslim-man arms himself to the teeth.

    Guess who will win if “modern” man doesn’t wake up?

    • Huck Folder says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 3:00 am

      The weak shall ‘inherit’ what’s left of the world.

      As dhimmis.

  34. Alice says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 12:53 am

    Perfect day for this to come out, with another shooting. Too perfect.

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Oct 3, 2015 at 12:09 am

      Yes: And just today the fools in Oregon ‘celebrated’ their pot legalization!

      Anyone think for one minute that the Oregon shooter wasn’t a weed aficionado?

  35. gravenimage says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 1:23 am

    NY Times: “Modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will….Modern man cries. He cries often.”
    ……………………………..

    As noted, this sad pantywaist will find plenty to cry about at the hands of ravening JIhadists. And so will anyone who might rely on him.

    And the tone of this whole article could not be more trivial.

    The very first of the twenty-seven points is that the modern man knows his spouse intimately–well and good. Is it that he knows her dreams and goals and shares her values?

    No–it’s that he knows *her shoe size*. And not just that–but that “he knows which brands run big or small”. So he doesn’t just need to know his wife’s shoe size–it is required that he is familiar with a wide range of women’s shoes.

    Unless he is a shoe salesman or designer, this is just bizarre. Incidentally, while I know my own shoe size and what styles I favor, *I* couldn’t tell you which brands run big or small–and I sure as hell wouldn’t expect my husband to know. Why would I?

    Would my husband act to protect me or other loved ones, or his neighbors, community, country, or his own values? Apparently the New York Times wouldn’t consider that a “modern” question…

    The modern man does exhibit a moral sense in point #3–but this is pretty damn trivial, too. It has nothing to do with real goodness or loyalty or courage–instead, he is at pains not to annoy patrons at a movie theater by crunching popcorn too loudly. I kid you not. Oh–and he also dries dishes thoroughly.

    There *are* things he will not countenance–is it cruelty? Oppression? Dishonesty? Abusing the weak? No–it’s consuming unfashionable off-brand sodas…

    Way down at #16, we get something substantive–that he will sleep closest to the door, so that he can try to fight off an intruder and his wife can get away. Of course, since he refuses to buy a gun, it is unlikely that he will be able to succeed in either of these goals. Still–it’s something.

    Then it’s back to gems such as his being stoic in the face of improperly charged phone batteries.

    I kept looking out to see if there were any indications that this is a spoof piece–if so, it is a particularly deadpan one. It is presented as a strait “men’s style” article. Good grief…

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 1:27 am

      That would be “straight”.

    • gungadin says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 8:02 am

      At the footing of the article it states that the author lives with his “wife” and children…….cosidering that there’s a PUSH to eliminate the words “mother” and “father” so “swishers” and their disgusting lifestyle can be further “recognized” and accepted by the majority of the worlds population that is NOT “swishers”…

      They’re disgusting perverts who demand that THEY be recognized at the expense of the rest of the worlds population………please all you swishers and swisher wannabes, go back to your respective closet and close the door behind you…….

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 2, 2015 at 11:49 pm

        Nope–there’s nothing to indicate that this “modern man” is supposed to be gay.

        There are several references in the piece to this figure’s wife–gay men refer to their spouses as “husbands”, not “wives”.

  36. Rocky Lore says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 1:55 am

    Anyone willing to be the New York Times has armed security?

  37. Mark A says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 2:50 am

    The “modern man cries. He cries often…”???

    Maybe in New York Times land but not in any place I inhabit.

    What a steaming pile of male bovine excrement. Is this really what passes for commentary in the New York Times these days?

    • shrugger says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 9:54 am

      Though the NYT could never have been called ‘conservative’, they were at one time ‘liberal’.
      Today their ranks are filled with nothing but far left wing extremists. They attempt to make what they print appear ‘mainstream’ but it’s not. It’s all minority fringe and the papers painfully slow death is proving it.

  38. Mark A says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 2:52 am

    I don’t cry and I do own guns. Guess I don’t qualify as a “modern man”, thankfully.

    • Gungadin says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 8:04 am

      Mark A……….my sentiments exactly…..I’ll continue to keep my powder dry….

  39. Edward Cline says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 5:13 am

    “Being a modern man today is no different than it was a century ago.” Correction: “…no different FROM what it was….” Why do illiterates keep making this error. Anyway, Obama won’t need a gun. He’ll have Secret Service protection for the rest of his life. What a hypocrite.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 11:51 pm

      “Modern men” don’t care about proper grammatical usage, Edward–or, really, any aspect of rational thinking…

    • Jay Boo says

      Oct 3, 2015 at 12:12 am

      I have forgotten the rule but I can see that FROM would seem to be more correct since their is and element of (before and after) but I do not see an obvious direct (cause and effect) for — modern man today is no different than it was (for a modern man of that time) a century ago — so is THAN really wrong? Maybe I need to look up definitions.

      • Jay Boo says

        Oct 3, 2015 at 12:15 am

        yes I see the typo ‘their’

  40. ronen says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 5:23 am

    I would alter the headline to: ‘POSTmodern man has no use for a gun’.
    Modern men used guns when they had to fight for their principles. Its the postmodern men that would rather hide behind stupid cliches (e.g. ‘modern man cries’) to avoid standing up for anything.

  41. Mr D says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 5:29 am

    In other words, the New York Times has already submitted to dhimmitude.

  42. duh_swami says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 6:09 am

    It takes all kinds of ‘modern men; to make up the world, and I’m glad I am not one of them….

  43. Bill says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 6:26 am

    Real Men have no use for the New York idiotic liberal times.

    Modern men like the frail, cry baby John Andrew Boehner, for instance, who is the 61st and current Speaker of the United States idiot House of a plethora of misRepresentatives seems to have the typical traits of the modern man.

    !. Cries a lot
    2. Silicone (flaccid) backbone (possibly no backbone or snakelike)
    3. Neutered
    4. Effeminate
    5. Anemic
    6. typical Pajama Boy: The Obama Machine’s Id
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/366643/pajama-boy-obama-machines-id-charles-c-w-cooke
    7. Dependent and entitled
    8. Among other traits which I just can’t come up with at the moment but you get the picture I’m sure.

  44. RR says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 7:06 am

    I would change the title to: “POSTmodern man has no use for a gun”. I think modern men fought for their principles. Its the post modern idiots that use stupid cliches (“they cry a lot”) in order to avoid risking anything.

  45. Barnaby says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 8:53 am

    This is just about the dumbest post I’ve ever seen on here. Gun ownership is wrong, full stop. Americans are incredibly backward, you’re the only developed country in the world that allows gun ownership and you get more massacres than everyone else put together. When will you halfwits learn?

    • David says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 10:59 am

      Sorry. But as an American Citizen in his mid sixtys, I KNOW that, on this issure, you are dead wrong. The founders of our American Republic were right. Once you have taken away the Citizens right to keep and bare arms, you have essentially made them SLAVES!

      • Joseph says

        Oct 2, 2015 at 5:25 pm

        Barnaby
        Gun ownership is wrong, full stop.
        ___________________________
        Tell that to a woman who would have been raped and possibly murdered if it were not for a gun.
        Tell me Barnaby, why do states where it is legal to carry a gun the crime rate drops? While you’re at it tell me why where it is illegal to own a gun(Washington DC, New York city) the crime and murder rate is out of control?
        Guns are only tools, they don’t go out by themselves and kill people at random. I can set a gun on a shelf and come back in 50 years, it will still be there and not a shot fired. What about all those sporting goods stores like Gander Mountain and Cabelas??? They have hundreds of guns in each store, thousands of them across the nation. WHEN…I SAY WHEN was there any instance of one of those guns just up and shooting someone.

        One of the real culprits in this mess are the violent video games these kids play; they desensitizes the person to killing and remove them from REAL consequences of killing. There is no RESET button in life.
        Another culprit is the fact that people are not taught on how to handle guns and give them the respect they deserve.
        You Barnaby are a fool when it comes to gun ownership. You are attacking the gun when you SHOULD be fighting for longer and in some cases permanent confinement for those who commit acts of violence with guns. Take the criminal off the street and keep him/her off.

        • Laura says

          Oct 2, 2015 at 7:29 pm

          Thank you, Joseph, you beat me to it! I JUST stated to my husband today that I will NEVER ever NOT carry again!

      • Joseph says

        Oct 2, 2015 at 8:49 pm

        @ Laura
        Wise words. Let us hope you never have to use it. If you do in defense of your life or loved ones remember one very important fact.
        It is not your fault that you had to shoot someone, that person FORCED you to shoot them.
        Also when you may be running a little late, your at your car and you remember that you don’t have your weapon….please, please turn around, go back into your house and get it.

        • Laura says

          Oct 2, 2015 at 9:01 pm

          No worries, Joseph! It is always in my purse – and I never leave home without it!

        • Lenny Thetruth says

          Oct 2, 2015 at 9:21 pm

          Being armed is good. Putting a gun in a purse is bad. The average criminal is a purse snatcher first. Why give them a gun? I used to date a detective, and she always kept her off duty gun on her body.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 2:54 pm

      Barnaby wrote:

      This is just about the dumbest post I’ve ever seen on here. Gun ownership is wrong, full stop.
      ……………………….

      Good thing the violent JIhadists in the photo above agree with you! Oh, wait…they don’t…

      And does your idea that owning a gun is wrong under all circumstances extend to police, security, and the military? I suppose you’d like to see Infidels completely unprotected. The Jihadists will thank you–right before they put a bullet in your head, that is.

    • Angemon says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 4:50 pm

      • Davegreybeard says

        Oct 3, 2015 at 2:33 am

        Excellent video, Angemon.

        Thanks.

    • Joseph says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 6:16 pm

      Barnaby,
      Those guns that you so despise are “”equalizers””. If a frail 80 year old woman can aim and pull 3 pounds with her finger then she is just as strong or stronger than a 220 lb criminal who is trying to or will harm her.

      Written on the side of a Colt .45 model 1911……
      “Be afraid of no man regardless of size, call on me and I will equalize”

      That says it all…DON’T IT?????????????

  46. Antonio Gutierrez says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 9:34 am

    That class of modern man bends down often too…
    ..

    • Joseph says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 6:18 pm

      But does that modern man reach around to help guide it in?

  47. Doug says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 2:25 pm

    “A modern “man” cries, he cries often”. I’m also guessing this particular type of “modern man” likes his boyfriends to give him a reach around while they’ve got her bent over.
    Does this “modern man” also get mani/pedis?
    Goes out and buys a razor to do his “manscaping”?
    Calls her wife or girlfriend in to kill a spider too?

    No, this type of “modern man” is no man AT ALL!!! Real men stand up for themselves and those that can’t, if his actions of defending himself or others requires the use of a gun, he will use a gun.

    If this is what defines a “modern man”, I’ll just stick to medieval times, thank you very much. I don’t cry and I own guns.

    I saw a previous post from someone named “Barnaby” who, “claiming Gun ownership is wrong, full stop. Americans are incredibly backward, you’re the only developed country in the world that allows gun ownership and you get more massacres than everyone else put together. When will you halfwits learn?”
    To Barnaby I respond, we’re NOT “the only developed country that allows gun ownership”. Look at Switzerland, their ENTIRE country has government sponsored shooting events, EVERY home has a FULL AUTO rifle brought back from military service. The main difference between the United States and Switzerland as pertaining to arms is in Switzerland, ALL are armed. As noted on Wikipedia, Swiss men between the ages of 20 and 30 are typically expected to undergo militia training, a program which includes the issuance of and instruction in the use of firearms.
    The Swiss army has long been a militia trained and structured to rapidly respond against foreign aggression. Swiss males grow up expecting to undergo basic military training, usually at age 20, after which Swiss men remain part of the “militia” in reserve capacity until age 30 (or age 34 for officers). Each such individual is required to keep his army-issued personal weapon (the 5.56x45mm Sig 550 rifle for enlisted personnel and/or the 9mm SIG-Sauer P220 semi-automatic pistol for officers, medical and postal personnel) at home.

    When their period of service has ended, militiamen have the choice of keeping their personal weapon and other selected items of their equipment. In cases of retention, the rifle is sent to the weapons factory where the fully automatic function is removed; the rifle is then returned to the discharged owner as a semi-automatic or self-loading rifle.

    To carry firearms in public or outdoors (and for an individual who is a member of the militia carrying a firearm other than his Army-issue personal weapons off-duty), a person must have a permit, which in most cases is issued only to private citizens working in occupations such as security.
    Switzerland has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world, with 45.7 guns per 100 residents (ranking below only the United States, Serbia, and Yemen in this measurement).

    A list of countries by firearm-related death rate shows Switzerland as having 6.4 firearm deaths per 100,000 population per year, a figure considerably lower than in the United States (10.27) but higher than a number of other countries. As for gun-related crime in general, a 2001 BBC article reported that in Switzerland “the gun crime rate is so low that statistics are not even kept.”
    Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/switzerland.asp#7LdAaZXWmtvhRag4.99

  48. Lenny Thetruth says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 3:24 pm

    “Modern man” is a Socialist and a dreamer that everybody else in this world is as well. The writer has taken a lofty position, assuming he thinks like everybody else, and they, likewise. Great ideals. We all live in peace and there is no aggression, ever. Nobody probably has to work, either. Or, work just bit harder, to get just a bit more. His refrigerator is always full, restocking itself overnight. Modern man has only one thing to do, raise his kids. That is modern man.

    Yes, this is lunacy. Man always wants the best for himself and his family. He works hard to provide. He spends as wisely as he can, but some things will always be out of reach. When he finally gets something of value, he realizes that others covet it too. In fact, somebody just stole his bicycle. Uh-oh, his wife is having an affair too. Now it is 3 AM, and he hears a noise in his house. Somebody has broken in. He grabs his steak knife and goes to confront 2 men, armed with a spear and a bow and arrow. He calls 911 and dispatch tells him to keep them busy for half an hour, till they get a police officer out there to take a report, or him to the hospital, should he survive.

    Being a mere troglodyte I still have weapons. I don’t read the New York Times. (They use words that don’t really make sense). The intruders were not well adjusted people. They thought because I live in the country, they would have the safety of a slow police response. But, I am not Modern Man. The Intruders are no longer alive.

    But, it’s not me. Let’s face it, they were shot. The GUN! Yes, it was the gun that killed them, not me! They are dead because the gun killed them. How out of character. But, at least I am not to blame, am I? Yes, it was the gun. So what if these people wanted what is mine? Doesn’t Modern Man give everything away? Don’t we all work to support people who won’t work?

    If you read this whole comment, you probably figured out some things about me. I am sarcastic. I am also a Vietnam vet, and ex-deputy sheriff. I am retired now, but have worked over 60 years of my life. And, I am a Life Member of the NRA. I am also a Republican. I am a Jew, and I love my country. My country is being destroyed from within. By turncoat Democrats, wanting atomic demolition munitions in the hands of our adversaries. My government lies to me. It uses the news media to spread it’s tales. It tells me how I should feel on certain issues. No, I don’t trust the author of this madness.

  49. Jay Boo says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    Obama, stop lying.
    These Muslims are the one’s who “cling to guns and religion”

    Guns are brimming the cellar tops in every mosque in the country.

  50. Paul says

    Oct 3, 2015 at 12:41 am

    25. The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will.

    26. The modern man cries. He cries often.

    The savage man shoots the unarmed modern man and his family (except 9 year old daughter) in the head to stop all the crying.

    The savage man then rapes the daughter into unconsciousness, sells her into slavery, goes to bed and sleeps the sleep of a worthy servant of Allah.

  51. voegelinian says

    Oct 3, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    The Pact of Omar (7th century):

    We shall show respect toward the Muslims, and we shall rise from our seats when they wish to sit.

    We shall not seek to resemble the Muslims by imitating any of their garments, the qalansuwa, the turban, footwear, or the parting of the hair. We shall not speak as they do, nor shall we adopt their kunyas.

    We shall not mount on saddles, nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our- persons.

    The Pact of Obama (21st century):

    Summary: President Obama’s Gun-Control Proposals
    Resources

    Full text of the president’s plan
    Text of the three presidential memoranda

    White HousePresident Obama has unveiled a plan to address gun violence in the nation. The initiative consists of 23 executive actions and three presidential memoranda, most of which will require congressional approval. Many parts of the plan may have significant effects on states.

    The plan:

    Requires background checks for all gun sales and strengthens the background check system. This would include removing barriers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act so that states may more freely share information about mental health issues involving potential gun purchasers.

    Provides states with monetary incentives—$20 million in fiscal year FY 2013 and a proposed $50 million in FY 2014—to share information so that records on criminal history and people prohibited from gun ownership due to mental health reasons are more available.

    …

    Maximizes efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime. The president calls upon the attorney general to work with U.S. attorneys across the country to determine gaps occurring in this area and where supplemental resources are appropriate…

    Conclusion: Obama is much more clever than Omar; perhaps because he is operating in a sociopolitcal context that would be hostile to his ulterior agenda (even the majority of Democrats, for example, I am convinced, would recoil if they knew it); whereas Omar, of course, was operating in a context where there were no reasons for restraining or dissembling the designs of his naked brute power to lord it over, Muhammad style.

    .

    • خَليفة says

      Oct 3, 2015 at 2:39 pm

      If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

  52. mach37 says

    Oct 3, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    Why is ISIS/ISIL so successful in Iraq and Syria? Apparently nobody but IS members owns guns and has the will to defend themselves from Intimidaters.

    • voegelinian says

      Oct 3, 2015 at 5:27 pm

      Lots of ordinary Muslims in the region support and/or enable the agenda of ISIS.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 3, 2015 at 6:01 pm

        So true, Voeg–the common Western idea that all Muslims in territory overrun by ISIS are opposed to them and consider them invaders is quite mistaken.

        The Islamic State–the dream of the Caliphate–is central to Islam.

        And even among those Muslims who believe–for whatever reason, including simple power struggles–that Al-Bagdadi is the wrong Caliph for the job, how many will actually *fight* ISIS? Damn few…

        The fact is that Iraq is the #7 country in the world in terms of gun ownership (though Syria is somewhat lower on the list).

        So–it is not really a lack of weaponry, but lack of will, and–worse–a frequently shared agenda with the Islamic State.

  53. Pathfinder0100 says

    Oct 4, 2015 at 11:57 am

    “Modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will….Modern man cries. He cries often.” Well now, I guess that he will cry a lot more huh?? What do you think??

  54. steve says

    Nov 1, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    I think someone needs to post a map of the new york slimes for the next modern man flight to drop in for a friendly visit! But be sure to label it with a star of david so the modern man inbred islamists don’t miss!

  55. Bill says

    Nov 1, 2015 at 11:10 pm

    Ah!Yes, The modern man has no use for a gun and never will own one because he cries to much. I wonder how much he will cry when that sharp blade begins to slice his throat as the isis demon begins to cut his head off or maybe they wont to cut the cry babies throat they decide to burn him alive in a cage after throwing gas allover him. I don’t think the modern man has much of a brain nor the ability to understand that

    • Lenny Thetruth says

      Nov 2, 2015 at 12:26 pm

      As man advances, so do his weapons. Modern man is still a gun user and it is something he will pass on to his children. There will always be tresspassers who will need to be dealt with on a personal level. We must never surrender the right to protect our own family. Modern man only needs one gun. It can sit silently, for years, but you will eventually call upon it when the time is right. Or not, but it’s like insurance, without monthly premiums.

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