Posted on 12/29/2010 8:00:50 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe
The news media wasted no time in attempting to portray New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a darling of the National Rifle Association after he commuted the sentence of Brian Aitken.
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On the pro-gun right, some were espousing the theory that Christies commutation was a strategic move to set up a legal challenge to the overly restrictive nature of New Jerseys gun laws. Both the anti-gun left and the pro-gun right seem to believe that Aitkens commutation was a shrewdly calculated move to win favor for the governor in Southern and Western states in the event that he jumps into the 2012 Republican presidential primaries.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I’m not interested in your childish fantasies.
Childish fantasies? That's rather insulting; I have presented my case with some reasoning and I well admit that I may be in error regarding either my logic OR my assumptions/facts; I readily admit that I might be in error. You, however, are not challenging or addressing these and this [last post] seems to have much the same attitude as a child yelling "that's your opinion!" at someone while stopping up their own ears.
If I am reading too much into this (after all it is text, and as such does not carry nonverbal cues), then consider my rebuke as nothing.
You want to create a fantasy part time militia in your head to deal with 21st century warfare capable nations.
Like this childish fantasy. “Thats actually the easy part: make such assignments rotate among the various state National Guards.
This benefits two ways: it keeps such posts manned AND it keeps trained personnel in-practice.
So you think it would be untenable even if the rotations were 3- or 6- months at a time?
I told you that it was a faulty assumption to keep the current “one weekend a month, two weeks a year” AND do the rotations; but I do believe that it is doable with longer terms of service.
In fact, if we were to abandon our foreign entrenchments like Germany and Japan we could probably reduce the rotation times to a month.
And, as I said earlier, MUCH of the “foreign attack” interdiction should be handled by the Navy which _IS_ supposed to be standing/active according to the Constitution.
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