Posted on 01/31/2005 3:59:45 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
Done!
By voting for him, he helps the dems in Congress. He's one of the reasons the Republicans can't stop filibusters.
Look at it this way. Our RINOs in liberal states help us keep a majority in the Senate and Congress.
You said about the Demoncrats: "But these clowns still believe that gun ownership is all about hunting game."
What I was saying is that many (if not most) gunowners (based on my experience) believe the same thing. If Demoncrats say those words, many (if not most) gunowners will support them. Even in the last election, I read comments from gunowners (some who held elective office in state gun clubs) saying that Kerry wouldn't take your hunting gun so vote for him. With "friends" like them, who needs enemies. I believe most gunowners do NOT believe that the 2nd Amendment means what we say it means here.
LOL, mine weighs about as much as 4 or 5 of yours. But it doesn't hurt at all to shoot, those 42oz of steel soak up most of the recoil.
FWIW, I keep a 13oz Taurus 85 ultralight in my pocket at all times, as either a primary or backup.
They're Jerry Miculek stocks, made by Bang, Inc. Also available from Brownells. I love them. Bought them originally for IDPA competition, but love em for Carry also, easy to get a good grip and they don't pull your cover garment.
By the way, for folks who don't know, the term "Saturday Night Special" is as racist a term as there ever was. It's a shortened version of the phrase "(N-word) Town Saturday Night Special." It refers to a black prostitute. The phrase "Saturday Night Special" in reference to handguns was a calculated attempt to scare white folks by conjuring up visions of mobs of blacks armed with cheap handguns.
You are so right. The roots of most gun control are racist. Virtually every state and federal law on gun control from the 30s was racist in nature. The one you cite ended up being the gun control act of '68 I believe.
That's odd. I would think a "Saturday Night Special" to Bawney Fwank would be anything with a bull barrel and a length over six inches!
You know...somehow you'd like to think ANY politician conducting themselves in violation of a Constitutional Ammendment would be easy pickens to shoot down....
I'll paraphrase what Clemenza said: The 2nd Amendment is about protecting the right to keep and bear arms (RKBA) from governmental interference. The purpose of the RKBA is to deter or, if necessary, to defeat a domestic tyranny. If you don't believe that, then read Federalist Papers #46, written by James Madison (you know, the guy who wrote most of the Constitution).
Fighting common street thugs, hunting and the shooting sports are just by-products of the RKBA.
"...If I could re-invent the world, Saturday night specials wouldn’t exist,” said congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts..."
Let's not forget what a "Saturday Night Special" really is: the original term was "niggertown Saturday Night Special." * Check out the racist roots of gun control at http://www.sightm1911.com/docs/whitelaw.htm Gun control in the mid- to late-1800's was aimed at the Negro population, and laws like the 1911 Sullivan Law in NY were aimed at "swarthy" Eastern and Southern European immigrants. None of the laws were intended to operate against "regular white people" (as Archie Bunker would call them), but they have all been used by the would-be tyrants in our society to attempt to disarm the entire civilian populace.
It is critical to understand the origins and terminology of gun control - because unmasking it will destroy the movement. The only problem with unmasking it is the the Lamestream Media won't ever participate in the process - except maybe to try to distort the real history and the real motivations of those who began the process of regulating and banning firearms and the possession of firearms.
*I mean no offense to anyone by this term - it is an historical fact that this term was used to speak of cheap handguns, with the inference that only Negroes/Blacks/African-Americans would have such guns.
Uh, we didn't win yet - we only stopped a further erosion of our gun rights, and succeeded in a minor reversal of gun control by preventing the re-enactment of a single, rather narrow, ban on certain guns and magazines. That's hardly my idea of victory. My idea of victory over gun control is where Wayne LaPierre would dress in a white toga, wear a laurel wreath and drive down a Pennsylvania Avenue covered in rose petals in a horse-drawn, slave driven, chariot to present the head of Sarah Brady to President Bush.
No, the fight for gun rights will be won when any adult resident of this country can walk into the local hardware or department store and buy a full auto gun for $500-$1,000, without any registration tax stamp, backround check or permission slip from the local PD - just like our grandfathers were able to do prior to the 1934. I want to do that in my lifetime, and to have the only question from the clerk be, "Sir, will that be cash or charge?"
Ok, now I see what you mean.
Interestingly, my experience, with some exceptions, is exactly the opposite. All of my close personal friends are gun owners and only a few are also hunters.
But, I do know hunters with the mentality you're describing. What these guys don't seem to realize is that if my AR-15 becomes an "assault rifle" today, their scoped .270 can become a "sniper rifle tomorrow".
well, the gun control mob now is no longer the "regular white folks" that wanted to take guns away from the freedmen. They are now "high-class" elitist snobs that put us regular white folk in the same class that we put the freedmen in during the last century. As far as they are concerned, we are all the scum of the earth.
I love my .38 special hammerless snub-nose. Saturday Night Special, indeed.
Joe, please put me on your hit list...
Well said and worth repeating, often...
Done!
To understand the elite's position toward guns, you have to understand three things:
No guns also equals no property
You only own what you can effectively defend. Most people allow the government to defend their lives and property for them. In the absense of a personal self-defense ability, this means that you own what the government decides you should
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