Posted on 03/19/2008 9:54:51 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Washington, D.C. – Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement:
"Today, the Justices of the Supreme Court thoroughly discussed the Second Amendment of the Constitution for the first time in nearly 70 years, in the District of Columbia v. Heller case. Their probing questions, and the lawyers' responses, highlighted the complex history and competing approaches to gun regulation in our country. I am hopeful that their ruling will uphold the right of people in communities like the District to enact common sense gun measures they feel are needed to protect themselves and their families.
"One of the reasons we have weak or nearly non-existent gun laws today is because a lot of politicians, and many citizens, think the Second Amendment limits our ability to enact common sense gun restrictions. Today's arguments, however, demonstrated broad support from all sides for responsible regulations concerning guns.
"Think how much safer we all would be if we made it harder for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons nationwide, not just in a few areas."
The last line makes sense.
"Think how much safer we all would be if we made it easier for honest people to get dangerous weapons nationwide, not just in a few areas."
There fixed it.
The law the Brady Center is defending is the same law that did nothing to prevent Brady from taking a round in the head.
Brady Center and their members would rather see defenseless people killed rather than protect themselves.
I’m not sure which I want to be a fly on the wall for more: Hillary when it sinks in that she’s never going to be President, or this clown when the Court hands down its individual-rights ruling.
"Think how much safer we all would be if we made it harder for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons nationwide, not just in a few areas."
Yes it does, if you are of a mind to enslave the peaceful law abiding citizens of this country. Your answer presupposes that it would be possible to keep an inanimate object out of the hands of those who would use it improperly.
The solution is to remove from our presence those who do things that are injurious to our society. This has in the past, been accomplished by incarceration in a prison, or by extinguishing the life of the offender. Perhaps it is time to review our laws with the thought in mind to abolish those that are silly and to enforce those that are necessary to benefit society.
Semper Fi
An Old Man
Flip a coin and you can take one wall and I'll take the other :)
Life Member NRA. I should have added “sarc” at the conclusion of my sentence.
The only people being protected by DC's "common sense" gun laws are the criminals.
So they are going to start passing laws that forbid violent felons from having cars, baseball bats, golf clubs, crowbars, knives, box cutters, ropes, pipes, etc.?
Ok, please ignore my previous post to you, should have also included the sarc.
One thing I will note, that just because someone is a life member of NRA does not necessarily mean that they don’t agree with the current “gun control” laws or some of the others that are proposed like “AWB” and .50 cal bans.
I own a .50
These laws are on the books but they don’t seem to do much. You live in a cave someplace ?
So that would make you one of the evil rich or a terrorist. Wish I had one.
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