Liberal Statist Control Freaks: Begging not for the boot to be taken off their throats, but for a different boot to be placed on their throats, maybe one that has a tread pattern that isn’t quite as uncomfortable as the current one....at least only for them...
Tell the Lakotas at Wounded Knee about state protection.
Or the Branch Davidians at Waco.
It is well-settled fact of American law that the police have no legal duty to protect any individual citizen from crime, even if the citizen has received death threats and the police have negligently failed to provide protection.
This is an excellent time to remind everyone that Jim Robinson is not a “gnome.”
Her argument all suggests that simply having a firearm tempts you to commit murder.
who is going to protect me from the STATE???
that is what the 2nd is all about...not hunting or target shooting...
you did the right thing. found the article somewhere else.
Huffington Post is not wanted for good reason.
WHY DO THEY WANT OUR GUNS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4
Of course the government already has this right and there are already many, many laws on the books regulating access to firearms. What the author really means is, "shouldn't the government have the right to ban private ownership of guns". She just doesn't have the guts to say it.
It is a primary function of the state to protect people. If the State fails, for any reason, in meeting that obligation then the people must intervene. To organize the necessary intervention Vigilance Committees are formed. Such committees are not nice, warm, fuzzy and cuddly but they can be effective. See San Francisco in the 1850’s.
Same old same old. Yawn.
The Brady crowd do love to keep on trying.
They should all move to Connecticut.
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...ready access to guns is, in the terminology of Catholic dogma (but logical to anybody who can think) an occasion of sin. If you want to avoid committing a sin, stay away from the immediate temptation
No it is NOT logical. It is an example of projecting her own evil intentions on the rest of us. What is this "temptation" of which she speaks? The fact that SHE would apparently be constantly tempted to commit murder if she had a gun readily available to her does not mean everyone is so tempted.
I have NEVER felt the slightest temptation to shoot someone simply because I was carrying a gun. Even on the two occasions in my life when I found it necessary to brandish a firearm in order to assure my self-protection (neither of which ultimately involved the necessity of firing the weapon) I STILL felt no temptation, nor inclination, to shoot the perpetrator unless it became absolutely necessary.
No, it should not. And, in fact, it does not, and CAN not have such a right -- because government does not HAVE "rights", government has POWERS.
But, it shouldn't have the POWER to do it either - and, by a strict reading of our Constitution, it does NOT have that power.