Dick Metcalf (Guns & Ammo) in the NY Times

[Calbear]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/b...-for-questioning-the-gospel-of-guns.html?_r=0

 

[benenglish]

The article is pretty lousy. To be sure, there's obfuscation - bringing up the dismissed murder charges against Venola, for example. That's to be expected from the NY Times. The biggest problem with the article, though, is that it misses THE fundamental problem with the Metcalf column. That column (which I hope everybody here has read) accepted the gun-banner's revisionist and wholly inaccurate re-definition of the term "well-regulated" in the 2nd Amendment. His column treated "well-regulated" as equivalent to "limited by written rules", a mistake that no one who's been involved with guns for as long as Metcalf should *ever* make.

When I read his column, I had to (figuratively) pick my jaw up off the floor. Dick simply doesn't get it. Maybe he never did or maybe, somewhere along the line, he somehow forgot it.

Whatever the process by which he lost touch with the truth, we're better off without him.

 

[seeker_two]

Moral of the story: If the NYT supports your position, you have the wrong position.

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

 

[Mic]

**** Metcalf. He's a traitor.

 

[Vaquero]

Moral of the story: If the NYT supports your position, you have the wrong position.

Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk

Amen

 

[Calbear]

The article is pretty lousy. To be sure, there's obfuscation - bringing up the dismissed murder charges against Venola, for example. That's to be expected from the NY Times. The biggest problem with the article, though, is that it misses THE fundamental problem with the Metcalf column. That column (which I hope everybody here has read) accepted the gun-banner's revisionist and wholly inaccurate re-definition of the term "well-regulated" in the 2nd Amendment. His column treated "well-regulated" as equivalent to "limited by written rules", a mistake that no one who's been involved with guns for as long as Metcalf should *ever* make.

When I read his column, I had to (figuratively) pick my jaw up off the floor. Dick simply doesn't get it. Maybe he never did or maybe, somewhere along the line, he somehow forgot it.

Whatever the process by which he lost touch with the truth, we're better off without him.

Agreed. You instantly lose all credibility as a gun rights supporter when you start citing the words "well regulated" in the second amendment as carte blanche for government regulations limiting gun ownership. It shows that you are just as foolish as the worst political offenders.

 

[vmax]

.......

When I read his column, I had to (figuratively) pick my jaw up off the floor. Dick simply doesn't get it. Maybe he never did or maybe, somewhere along the line, he somehow forgot it.

Whatever the process by which he lost touch with the truth, we're better off without him.

that's what I don't get. I felt pretty betrayed by him but was I really? Did he ever fully support the 2A in the first place?
I just assumed he did but boy was I wrong.

good riddance...dick

 

[wakal]

Know him personally. Rich little boy from a rich little family, like mafia with guns. Grade A asshole.

 

[stdreb27]

At some point you'd think liberals would learn not to kill their golden goose...

 

[PhulesAu]

At some point you'd think liberals would learn not to kill their golden goose...

That would require intelligence, not just being opinionated azzholes. Who "Believe" they know it all.

 

[London]

He says he is still contemplating how a self-described “Second Amendment fundamentalist” who keeps a .38 snub-nose Smith & Wesson revolver within easy reach has been ostracized from his community.

1.) Because he's not.
2.) Because he's a dumbass. This is like a NAMBLA advocate failing to understand why he's been banned from the Boy Scouts.

"No one should be protected from the effects of his own stupidity." Good to see Metcalf got what he deserved. Too bad he's too stupid to figure out why.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

The fact that they cite someone having a CHL, carrying a gun or hunting as evidence of 2A support shows they're clueless.

Those are givens, by products, of a society where citizens never abdicated their own individual right to serve as a check and balance to the military controlled by the Federal and State governments.

 

[stdreb27]

1.) Because he's not.
2.) Because he's a dumbass. This is like a NAMBLA advocate failing to understand why he's been banned from the Boy Scouts.

"No one should be protected from the effects of his own stupidity." Good to see Metcalf got what he deserved. Too bad he's too stupid to figure out why.

Lol, his statement is almost as dumb as the "democrats for life" and "save the human babies" bumper sticker I saw yesterday.

 

[Texasjack]

Hard to believe he's getting any press so he can continue to whine about how he was misunderstood and mistreated. No, we totally understood what he meant and that's why the magazine had to dump his sorry ass.

 

[ROGER4314]

I read a Liberal anti gun article on Yahoo that quoted Metcalf. Lest you think that people like him don't harm all of us, that author was making some Liberal trash talk with Metcalf as his speaking points.

Metcalf should have been fired. It was the right thing to do. One can NOT ride the middle of the fence on these Second Amendment issues. If you aren't WITH us, then you're against us.

The friend of my enemy is my enemy..

Flash

 

[SC-Texas]

If the antis agree with you . . . . You are wrong

 

[texagun]

Metcalf can't keep from putting his foot in his mouth. He is not going away. I doubt if we've heard the last from him.

 

[M. Sage]

Know him personally. Rich little boy from a rich little family, like mafia with guns. Grade A asshole.

He strikes me as a Fudd. His byline picture was him holding a 1911 (wrong) and the NYT article talks about his room full of deer heads and how he's always got a snub-nosed .38 handy.

 

[Easy CZ]

Metcalf is a senile Douchy McDouchebag. I have no use for him or his opinions on gun laws. He's a worthless gun control collaborator and he can go F himself.

Besides, he's a DICK.

 

[Easy CZ]

And his gun shows suck! (jk)