Posted on 09/11/2005 1:09:16 PM PDT by GOV'T MULE
BATON ROUGE, La. -- As fearful residents rush to stock up on guns, Wal-Mart, one of the region's biggest suppliers, abruptly stopped selling them at 40 stores scattered throughout the Gulf Coast.
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Wal-Mart's decision to stop gun sales also earned it praise from several customers, who said police would protect them from any trouble.
''Why can't we get along? This is a time of crisis," said Mike White of Kenner, La. He said people who need guns for legitimate reasons, such as hunting, would not be buying now.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
This families boycott of Wal-Mart is now on.
I think I hit the wrong button and sent you a freepmail, NetValue. Meant to post that. Heh. Sorry. Hard to tell the difference between a post window and the freepmail window.
"Wal Mart blew this one." A person could ask, how many murders and violent crimes did Walmart allow to happen?
P.s. I got a wishy washy email from the NRA. Make sure you let them know that they need to take a strong stand.
I had a wake up experience on a motorcycle at 18. It probably saved my life. Fortunately all I lost because of it was a couple hundred square inches of skin and a couple of minutes unconscious.
At least since the '68 Gun Control Act which introduced the "sporting purposes" test in to the import laws. That provision, among other parts of GCA '68, was copied from the Nazi era German weapons laws.
They do sell handgun ammunition as well as ammunition chambered for UGBs.
It never was. Only the governor or the President, or in some cases their military subordinates, can declare Martial (not Marhal) Law. The ability to declare martial law has been severely restricted since the 1870s, in part by passage of the Posse Commitatus Act, in part by various Court decisions.
"earned it praise from several customers" convicted of looting, rape and murder.
And your evidence that Gonzales is involved is? Federal troops are not enforcing the evacuation nor are they disarming folks. National Guard, under the command of Ms. Governor, apparently are backing up the NOPD, LA State Police, and other police and sheriff's borrowed from various jurisdictions, but still under ultimate command of the Governor or Mayor. (BTW, all of them swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and that of their state.)
I think we should wait for two things. First verification, second for heads to roll at WalMart, as, IIRC, they did last time some local or regional manager decided not to sell guns in her/his store(s).
Once upon a time Wards sold guns, now they are out of business. K-mart sold guns as did Sears. Neither does now, they had to merge because they were losing so much business. Target used to sell ammunition, they no longer do, but they are still going strong. WalMart, kicked all their a$$s. WalMart sells guns. You figure it out.
He should ask just about every black poverty pimp and black congress critter in front of a TV camera or radio microphone....who simply can't stop blaming whitey for everything, while at the same time demanding whitey cough up more money to assist them....
".......who said police would protect them from any trouble."
Tell that to everyone who was robbed, raped, murdered, looted, drowned or hunkered down in fear in their own homes -- while animals on two legs were on a rampage...
Semper Fi
Why wait? You can contact them via their web page at:
https://secure.nraila.org/Contact.aspx
BTW, I just did. Tried earlier in the day, but something didn't work.
Put a 12 gauge pump shotgun on someone and see how they act.
The page comes back up with the same message. Isent it two or three times before I gave up. It went through and I got a WEAK email back later that afternoon. Tomorrow I am going to call and express my displeasure.
Yea, you're probably right. It's just my gut reaction because they are not standing up for their right to sell arms to law abiding citizens who need them.
People, shoulder your responibility to yourself and your countrymen to be armed by arming yourself.
It doesn't hurt to stock up on nonperishable foodstuffs and a supply of water. Weather catastrophe is but one form of woe that can be visited upon the civilized.
Should those happen, and turn my neighborhood into a mess, would I be similarly disarmed as authorities move in? I live in Alexandria City, part of the Virginia Commonwealth. What about Seattle, Chicago, other cities and outlying areas? I want a law on the books, superior to any federal law, stating positively that armed law abiding citizens are militia and are not to be disarmed regardless of the conditions after an emergency including but not limited to hurricane, earthquake, terrorist attack, or otherwise. This should settle the question for those who have the not-so-bright idea to allow m-16 toting agents run around collecting guns. It would be a reaffirmation of the Virginia Bill of Rights that reads as follows:
"That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies in time of peace should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power." -George Mason, Article 13 of the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776.
And if there is any doubt about what "militia" means, click the LINK and start reading with #2 what George Mason has to say.
I would also add that if any federal government agent types are roaming around doing relief work, they should be unarmed and protected escorted and defended by Virginia militia, and watched to make sure they behave themselves. If they don't like that idea, don't even come.
Check this thread out it has good video links: LINK
You heard it here first from me. Jason_b predicts that IF there is a series of terror attacks around this country, that our own government will be the bigger problem by many magnitudes for us afterward than the initial attacks were. Mark my words. They will come to take our guns and if we fuss then we'll be painted as the ones who are hard to reason with instead of them being hard to reason with even though they will be in the wrong. We should also remember, that sometimes when people come to help, there are strings attached. You accept benefits, you give up something.
Several years ago someone had broken into our home just before my wife arrived home from work. She called me from a neighbor's house right after she called the police. It took me 1 1/2 hours to arrive home because of distance and traffic conditions. I beat the police; and, they only had to drive two miles.
A few years later I was home alone follwing back surgery. I was awakened when someone entered my home. I called "911", then hid in the shower stall with merely a .22 rifle. The intruder apparently left when I yelled when he came into the bedroom. This time the police never showed up; and, those dolts at the "911" center told me that they cancelled the call because I didn't stay on the line.
I have an number of "defensive devices" in my home now. It is obvious that "911" is a joke. It only takes an intruder 30 seconds to come face to face with the homeowner. I will not be the one they draw the chalk line around.
In his authoritative book Origins and Development of the Second Amendment, David T. Hardy, an attorney and expert on the history of law, quotes historian William Gordon 1.
"William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham, remained the colonist’s defender in the House of Lords. Shortly after Concord, he urged attempts at peacemaking. ‘(T)he Congress of Philadelphia…do not hold the language of slaves: they tell you what they mean. They do not ask you to repeal your laws as a favor: they claim it as a right; they demand it. They tell you they will not submit to them, and I tell you the (Coercive) Acts must be repealed; you cannot enforce them….My Lords, there are three millions of whigs. Three millions of whigs, my Lords, with arms in their hands, are a very formitable (sic) body. ‘twas the whigs, my Lords, that set his Majesty’s royal ancestors upon the throne of England.’"2
Pitt’s words fell on deaf ears. England stepped into the quicksand that soon became the Revolutionary War, and came to regret it. A precedent was set that would continue for centuries. From the Viet Cong to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, it has been proven much more recently that peasants with guns and a cause they believed in can thwart the organized might of the world’s greatest military superpowers.
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