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Posted on 01/08/2013 10:45:12 AM PST by Red Steel
Couldn’t an enterprising Governor of a state just set up a procedure whereby any citizen of the state with no criminal record or mental health issues to be sworn in as a member of the state militia and order them to own an assault weapon as a condition of membership in good standing? Kind of a Switzerland approach.
That would seem to fall directly under the plain language of the 2nd Amendment.
I think the 2nd Amendment is broad enough as it is but the gun grabbers are going to try everything they can.
So lets combine the 2nd and 10th Amendment and make it a states right issue.
I like it.
Whatever they get on a state level is what they deserve - communism.
Isaiah 18
God's mercy... Every nation that fields an army to surround Jerusalem in the last days will be destroyed completely. With Obama wielding our military like it was "his boys in da hood" instead of following the Laws of the land, there is no doubt that if the UN declared war on Israel, Obama would comply.
Isaiah 18 states in the end, after being crushed and cut asunder, occupied and looted, America will bend its knee to Christ. Europe, Russia, China will no longer exist at that point. A remnant of the USA will.
Tim Mc Veigh never came into my thoughts on this.
The problem with rural areas is that many of them are “poor” below the poverty line. This meanse they get free government ebt handouts and the like.
The rugged individuals live next door to the rugged government handout form fillers.
Ping
North Carolina already has.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H250v3.pdf
“First in Flight, First to Fight”
Hmph.. You Montanans will have to hurry up there if you are gonna beat us Texans to disobeying any new gun laws....
Personally, I'm going for door #4...
What could would it do? They don’t care about the 2nd or the 10th by themselves, why would they care about them combined?
Really? Where is the evidence that it has had any effect on the feds or even the police? All I can see is that his actions caused the collapse of the militia movement back in the 90s.
Because there was no United States in the first century when John received the Revelation.
Do you think it will take 200,000,000 million troops to invade the country called Israel (Rev 9:16)? Israel has 7.5 million people. Who do you suppose they're invading?
Exactly. It's spelled out plainly in Genesis 48 that the name Israel would go to Joseph's sons.
Listening to Sheriff Richard Mack talk the sheriff's responsibility and power might interest you. It is a lesson Donnie Smith must not have learned. The question posed at the 4:00 minute mark is one Mr. Smith would not truthfully answer and stay in office as it is apparent he has already shown his answer. Maybe you know some folks in Washington County who would benefit from this video and in turn stand up for our country.
NOTE: This video was made just weeks after the theater shootings in Aurora and well before the current media fueled hysteria following Sandy Hook.
Here we go.......The Lost Ten Tribes
Thank you.
Isaiah 18 is dead on
No kidding.
I wouldn't expect John to say "The United States of America", but I don't think hoping for an oblique reference is too much to ask.
He could have referred to the land of the Eagle, a land not yet known, a nation of immigrants, the new Babel, or any of dozens of phrases that wouldn't be out of place in a first century text, but would grow in meaning to unambiguously (or even, throw me a bone here, ambiguously) refer to us.
We ain't there.
Therefore in the end times, we are irrelevant.
Or The Book is wrong.
Rev 9:16 says 200,000,000, not 200,000,000 million.
Given God and Israel's track record I don't think I'd try it with less than a 25:1 advantage either...
Did you intend to link to the Urban Dictionary’s definition of wallow?
Some of us have waited "decades" for the Supreme Court to accept a Second Amendment case. The Heller decision in 2008 followed by the McDonald decision in 2010 have set the stage for a recovery from past infringements.
Here in Kalifornia the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals has dragged its feet and tied virtually all of our cases to one ten-year-old case which has evidently been settled with no actual determination of the meaning of the Second Amendment.
I would not characterize the behavior of U.S. citizens as cowardice, but rather we follow the teachings of our Founders. From the Declaration: "... accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. "
A federal so-called "Assault Weapons Ban" was tolerated, knowing that it would expire in ten years. Our patience was rewarded by seeing that it was not renewed.
A so-called "Assault Weapons Ban" was implemented in Kalifornia. It took three different laws to have any effect at all. Some relatively simple work-arounds allow one to keep one's arms. Some of the workarounds can be reversed in minutes to restore the full function of the original rifles.
Even the "normal-capacity magazine" law is practically unenforceable because the law does not forbid "possession", only manufacture, importation, or transfer.
I expect that our patience will be rewarded again when the Republican controlled House refuses to consider ANY further federal gun control.
If we are disappointed in that, then I would expect the Supreme Court to accept an emergency hearing and a declaration of unConstitutionality.
If the Supreme Court does not act, then I would expect many local sheriffs to defy the federal government by disallowing any federal action in their jurisdictions. We see some of that happening already with regard to the War on Some Drugs. (I don't expect that it will be my sheriff who takes my side.)
If the President, ... and the Congress, ... and the Supreme Court, ... and the local sheriff all fail us, then I will act.
I was kept in a state of anxiety throughout the debacle known as Watergate. I was eventually rewarded by seeing a corrupt President impeached and forced to resign and seeing five dozen of his minions convicted of felonies.
How the nation will handle the crimes of Obama, I don't know. But there is time, if we remain strong AND ARMED.
That would mean you have to register. No?
True. The regulating of militias was understood to be by the states only.
i think you like most of our politicians are misreading the mood of most americans who are informed and educated enough to see what is happening in the us and what the future looks like without a confrontation...gun control is just the tipping point of many abuses just like 1776
Ever wondered why Arkansas is mentioned in the book of Genesis?
(Noah looked out the ark and saw dry land.)
Hey, I know it's not real funny now but I heard it in Sunday school when I was a kid in the 50s, it was funny then.
*groan*
Only *#4* (you cute fuzzy bunny). hahaha
that bothers me*
The point of the entire exercise is that it is so easy to MISREAD something when there are OTHER points of view on the same *subject* that are equally valid, IMO. But yet we all tend to wallow in our conditioned (pre)conceptions whether subliminal or of the soapbox variety.
Just listen to that little voice in your head.
Unless you have a pet tapeworm....
BTTT!
Great point. I read a book quite awhile ago that suggested that God had blessed the USA with such great power so as to do just two things at a certain time or era:
#1. To help create and nurture the modern state of Israel so as to still be in existence when the end times and the tribulation period would get underway and the Lord could act himself in the eyes of the planet.
#2. To become a "free" superpower with advanced technology so as to spread the word of God across the planet.
Following the accomplishement of those two missions, there is not a great reason for us to exist as a superpower anymore and when we started turning our backs on God and promulgating such a state that mirrors Sodom & Gormorrah as we are now, well, judgment follows inevitably.
I always felt that our very own Travis McGee was being frighteningly prophetic when he wrote his series Enemies Foreign & Domestic and we should refer to the first book in that series that mentioned what happened to some of the politicians who voted or actively lobbied for those laws.
Normal law abiding Americans behave very differently when the government turns on them and begins to act in the manner of a tyrant. Yes, they first rely on the ballot box and hopefully the jury box but when all else fails there is still the cartridge box and for verification just read the personal letters of the Founding Fathers.
Funny how a lot of that stuff slacked off after Oklahoma City.
Why don't you ask formerSeattle U.S. Attorney Tom Wales how he feels about it?
Funny how a lot of that stuff slacked off after Oklahoma City.
Why don't you ask formerSeattle U.S. Attorney Tom Wales how he feels about it?
Yup. Hilarious.
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