[BobL]

I forgot the Second Amendment, but let’s just say that military-style training is required in High School, along with some military or civilian service. We should use Israel as our role-model here...as we may not have many friends.

[Nowhere Man]

I forgot the Second Amendment, but let’s just say that military-style training is required in High School, along with some military or civilian service. We should use Israel as our role-model here...as we may not have many friends.

Normally I'm a bit of a libertarian, I don't believe in forced national or military service although training in school is OK, one thing I did admire about the USSR is their DOSAAF program in schools where the military was involved in teaching children such skills. I do see your point where Texas might have to do what you said because of Mexico and a hostile U.S. unless the States around Texas break off and form a friendly Neo-Confederacy.

[Ancesthntr]

Let’s make the 2nd Amendment what it SHOULD have been all along - anything you can carry, you can own. Specifically, no restrictions on full autos that don’t exist for other firearms. No special license, no tax, no CLEO sign-off, no matter if you have mixed full- and semi-auto parts in the same gun.

Let’s see Uncle mess with Texas when you have 500,000 or more full autos here, along with our own armor (Ft. Hood) our own airbases (all over the place) and probably a bunch of nukes (they ARE manufactured at the PANTEX plant near Amarillo).

We would be a magnet for freedom-loving Americans in all states - we’d get the most committed, most capable people to move here.

[bestintxas]

I like the Swiss model where it is required by law that every able-bodied man has to own a rifle and be part of the national guard.