Posted on 06/30/2009 4:29:37 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Tulsa - A man is in the hospital after police say he tried to attack another man with a hatchet, but ended up being shot.
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The investigation revealed that during a domestic dispute between a man and a woman, another man became angry and began chasing the man involved in the argument with a hatchet.
The chase continued to a nearby home, where the homeowner came out to see what was going on. The homeowner went back into the home, got his pistol and returned outside, yelling at the men to stop.
That's when the man with the hatchet came after the homeowner. The suspect hit the homeowner in the head, just before the homeowner opened fire.
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Just a good ol red neck BBQ party.
WHEN WILL WE BAN HATCHETS!!!!
The dude brought a hatchet to a gunfight.
If “hatchet-man” survives he will probably sue. . .
The guy may have just been trying to axe a question. ;-)
“A man is in the hospital after police say he tried to attack another man with a hatchet, but ended up being shot”
And therein lies all you need to know about the Second Amendment.
Not all, only the "side benefit". The second amendment is about protecting ourselves, and our state, from incroachments on our liberties by our own government. Also to be able to help repeal any foreign invasions. But the main purpose was to guard against "infringements" of fundamental rights by the government.
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive. ---Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.
---Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
During the Massachusetts ratifying convention William Symmes warned that the new government at some point "shall be too firmly fixed in the saddle to be overthrown by anything but a general insurrection." Yet fears of standing armies were groundless, affirmed Theodore Sedwick, who queried, "if raised, whether they could subdue a nation of freemen, who know how to prize liberty, and who have arms in their hands?"
[W]hereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it. ---Richard Henry Lee, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
The Virginia ratifying convention met from June 2 through June 26, 1788. Edmund Pendleton, opponent of a bill of rights, weakly argued that abuse of power could be remedied by recalling the delegated powers in a convention. Patrick Henry shot back that the power to resist oppression rests upon the right to possess arms:
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.
Henry sneered,
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone...Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation...inflicted by those who had no power at all?
Case in point, the recent events in Iran.
do you think Alcohol was involved?HUH?
Maybe he was trying to bury the hatchet..
Harrison Ford was very sick that day and not up for the scripted fight scene. As an incredible improvisation, he just drew the handgun and fired a blank, thus ending the scene and his need to exert himself. The director loved it. If you look at Harrison Ford, he does look like he is about all gone.
It is and has never a good idea to bring a knife, sword, or hatchet to a gun fight. Then again, criminals and movie bad guys are not the smartest of folks.
The infamous scene in which Indy shoots a marauding and flamboyant swordsman was not in the original script. Harrison Ford was supposed to use his whip to get the swords out of his attacker’s hands, but the food poisoning he and the rest of the crew had gotten made him too sick to perform the stunt. After several unsuccessful tries, someone made the off-handed remark, “Why doesn’t he just shoot him and get it done and over with?” Steven Spielberg immediately took up the idea and the scene was successfully filmed.
The ONLY person of the cast and crew who did not get sick during filming in Tunisia was Steven Spielberg. The reason is he only ate cans of Spaghetti O's that he brought with him from the U.S.
I found this info by going to www.IMDB.com and enter "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and look up the trivia.
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