The problem lies in it being half-baked. Some guns are permitted, some are not. Some require licenses, some don’t. Some states make it easy to get a concealed carry license. Some states don’t. It’s a basketcase, and extremist positions on both ends each have some validity.

In other details: I ask, when you are driving down the highway and see a police car hiding behind a billboard, do you feel more or less safe? If you are more frightened of the police than of your fellow citizens, then that’s a classic definition of a police state.

J.

There’s evil afoot at our nation’s highest levels with a plan, no matter how seemingly disconnected at times to reduce our citzens to a nation of abject beggars and tax slaves.

We best know who our betters are…eh?! / : |

To me as well as Thomas Jefferson there is no ambiguity concerning the intent of the Second Amendment. There can be no quarter concerning its standing.

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“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” … Thomas Jefferson

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Bolt action rifles no differently than single shot, black powder muskets will not cut the mustard in our times if the need should arise to defend our core freedoms. Even with semi-auto AR15′s citizen patriots will be severely challenged and outgunned by a professional military contingent utilized by crimpols to enforce their jackboots of tyranny upon our collective necks.

Freedom is not free…! : |

Carl Nemo **==

I have only one question for the White House. Who pulls the trigger for the drones? Orwell understood! His readers were too damn dumb to catch on.

They think they’re cool, they think they’re not going to pull it in a fight, every one of you who have responded think (and some have said) “I’m not that kind of guy”.

You know what? Those who did pull a piece thought exactly the same of themselves … before they did.

And then they said, “Well, I had a reason”. Ha ha.

J.

Yes, by all means. And then, while we’re at it, why don’t we make sure people are responsible with words and only say things we agree with before just granting free speech.

We had also better make sure that the people they peaceably assemble with meet our (read: your) definition of a “peaceable” and agree with what we (read: you) think.

As well, let’s just make sure that as long as the authorities believe you have committed some infraction that they be allowed to come into your home at any time. No proof necessary. As well, let’s just let them arbitrarily execute us with no trial or due process. (oh, wait, they already do that because the president knows best).

“The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.” – James Earl Jones

“There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you … it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.” – Dalai Lama

“…the right to defend one’s home and one’s person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.” – Martin Luther King

“As a card-carrying member of the liberal media, producing this piece was an eye opening experience. I have to admit that I saw guns as inherently evil, violence begets violence, and so on. I have learned, however, that in trained hands, just the presence of a gun can be a real “man stopper.” I am sorry that women have had to resort to this, but wishing it wasn’t so won’t make it any safer out there.” – Jill Fieldstein (CBS producer, Street Stories: Women and Guns)

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

Keep is to own, bear arms is synonymous with waging war since at least Shakespearean times. It is only in modern times these words have been changed to mean we are allowed hunting rifles and small arms for our own personal defense.

Do you call a gun dealer when you want to purchase tanks, APC’s, rockets, missiles, and bombs?

No, that’s an arms dealer. See the point?

In a country where a Unitary Executive orders the assassination of anyone he wants to without being required to provide any evidence, hold a trial, or even say that he has done so, is it so outlandishly ridiculous to think that the only thing keeping them from murdering us in our own homes is the fact that we are armed?

We have every reason to be concerned. First they will ban the “assault weapons” which include some shotguns if anyone bothered to read what the Vice-Unitary Executive has put out there. Then it will be hand guns, the real firearm of choice of criminals. Finally, we’ll be so modernized, we won’t be hunting so we won’t need those hunting rifles anymore either.

Ask Australians and the British how much they enjoy their gun bans. A plurality will tell you they wish they still had that right!

Funny thing is, if we truly believe these are basic rights, they do have that right would they only stand up and take it back.

In this country’s early days citizen militias were key to its continued survival. These militias trained together in groups and during the Revolutionary War fought together as one. In the 21st century the gun proponents make the claim that gun ownership is necessary for protection against our own federal government. This to me is nothing more then paranoid nonsense and is what I like to call the “black helicopter syndrome”.

The reality is neither the left nor the right has a strong answer to the problem of guns in this country. But in the absence of stricter gun control regulation the continued ownership of an increasing number of guns by fewer individuals will be increasingly more dangerous to all of us at best.

Were our founding fathers here today they would be horrified at what we have done to their Second Amendment, of that I am certain!