1) I’m the only contributor here who is an anarchist.

2) Don’t know why you can’t cut and paste. We do it all the time here. You may have an archaic browser. Time for an update?

Oh well, here we go again.

I was going to attempt to be thorough in my attributions by copying and pasting a complete list of all the various “nobles” & “knaves” from either side of this debate, but I just discovered that the cowards who run this site prevent one from having that capability (unlike most other blogs). I suppose they put a high value on the content, and harbor fears that others might try to steal their copy.

Given the comprehensively erudite nature of the arguments mounted by those who respectfully disagree with the bishops’ position on gun control so ably misrepresented and distorted by the likes of (oops, can’t list them all, haven’t got time, and I can’t copy and paste; you know who you are, anyway – we ALL do!), I must conclude that it is the content contributed by the conservative, constitutional, gun-rights-Catholics that has such great value requiring protection from copyright violations.

It certainly couldn’t be MM or Kat, or digby or nate, etc. Their arguments are thin gruel.

And speaking of you guys, I got one for you!

You’ve all been demanding – in your typically self-righteously haughty manner – our blind loyalty to non-Magesterial pronouncements by groups of bishops without sufficient authority to issue statements with any greater weight than advisory. And you’ve done so unequivocally and passionately. This is irrefutable. It’s in the record (don’t worry, it won’t get out – they won’t let me copy and paste it…).

Therefore, would I not be correct in drawing from your individual and collective (doesn’t that word make you all feel so warm and fuzzy inside?) positions the inference that you unreservedly and completely refute the alleged Vat II notion oft-cited by liberal Catholics of the Primacy of Individual Conscience over hard Church teaching, dogma, doctrine, Canon law? Catholic liberals all, YOU are familiar with the concept that one must follow one’s own conscience over the Magesterium, right? I’m SURE you’ve advanced that position now and again – maybe over the abortion issue, perchance?

I mean, don’t you guys use that one now and then yourselves? Or, if not you, then certainly most of your liberal Catholic friends do who elevate a few bishops’ non-binding opinions to the level of hard Church teaching on policy positions that are more in tune with hard left teachings. Funny how that works.

Kudos to Freddie, SB, jh, Paul in the GNW, Teutonic Tim, and so many others who cleaned the collective clocks of these pseudo-Catholic anarchists. Special compliments to Richard, who set MM back on his ass so well MM still doesn’t seven see it. Richard, you and the others operate within such a fact and thought-based framework that MM and friends were out of their league. They certainly demonstrated no grasp of your arguments sufficient to meaningful retort.

Thanks.

I wonder about your insistence on this point: that slave owners considered slaves to be fully persons. What are you attempting to prove by making such claims? That slavery “wasn’t so bad”?

It most certainly does not. It reduces a person to property. You’re out of your mind.

“Peace, many people believe and say, is impossible, either as an ideal or as a reality. Here on the contrary is our message, your message too, men of good will, the message of all mankind: peace is possible! . . . peace is a duty.” – Paul VI

As it relates to guns – it is our duty to create a world where homicidal weaponry does not exist.

“Let us all unite to fight every kind of violence and to conquer war!” – JPII