Posted on 12/25/2005 3:49:06 PM PST by neverdem
Five years ago an elderly Los Angeles woman who had agreed to move out of her daughter's apartment bought a handgun. She cleared the background check, passed the safety test and practiced on targets at the local shooting range. Then she shot and killed her daughter and her daughter's fiance -- my brother David.
As someone who has lost a member of my family to gun violence, I see the new federal legislation to limit gun manufacturers' liability as unconscionable beyond my ken. But what troubles me most is that the gun control lobby is pouring its resources into battles that probably won't save many lives -- and we're losing even those.
In the past decade, states have passed law after law to require safety locks, force gun-purchase waiting periods, trace bullets back to their sources and allow victims to sue manufacturers for negligence. That such measures have produced at best slight decreases in the rate of gun deaths is hardly surprising, because only 3 percent of gun deaths are accidents, and most murderers own their handguns legally and know how to use them safely. California has passed a raft of such laws in the past five years and
is widely praised as one of the most progressive states on gun control. In that same period, the number of handgun-related homicides has fallen and then risen again, with no correlation whatever.
The real problem is not that handguns aren't safe or well-regulated enough, or that you can't sue and try to bankrupt a corrupt manufacturer after someone you love has been killed. The problem is that 60 million people in the United States own handguns. The gun used to kill my brother was a Glock 19, a light and portable semiautomatic. These guns are designed to kill people: That's their...
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That would be very interesting. What if an abortion doctor found a way to kill the babies with a gun, not harming the mother, instead of crushing the babie's skull, or some other "pleasant," liberal approved, method? Of if the doctor figures out a way to kill the baby by smoking. Many liberals heads would explode not knowing what to think: Abortion = good. Gun = bad. Abortion = Good. Smoking = Bad. EEEEeeeekkkKKKKK!!!!!!
Ok if it was not in the Constitution then any law passed to deny you the ability to purchase and keep and bear arms would be legal and as such you and I would have NO RIGHT period. I really like it when the people say the Constitution does not give rights. It is the Supreme Law and if it were not for the RIGHTS that it states belong to the people, and says the government may not trample on them, we the people would have NO RIGHTS. So if it does not give me jack then there is no reason to have judges that support and defend the Constitution we could be like other countries and have NO freedoms except those the ruling class gives out and then takes away the next day. I take you never read the preamble?
I'm not tyring to get into an argument with you, but you are wrong. Everyone on the face of this planet is born with the same rights as given to us by Yahuweh our elohim. In this Country our forfathers fought over those rights and established the Constution for the United States to limit governmental powers.
I believe it was Jame Madison although I'm not sure (I have it somewhere in my files) that said there was no need for a bill of rights because 1). The people know what their rights are, and 2). Once those rights are put to paper the government will attempt to regulate those rights. That is exactly what is happening today.
(As one who has taken the pledge to support and defend the Constitution, I will not surrender my right to bear arms to enemies domestic or foreign.)
Brother, I feel safer having you in the same country as I. One of the few regrets I have is not to have served my adoptive country in the military. I try to make it up in other ways. I wish to have earned the right to say: Semper Fi.
wrong. God gave you that right.
She has a PhD in history from Yale.
That explains a lot, doesn't it?
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