Posted on 01/30/2013 6:28:44 PM PST by marktwain
Living here in the shadow of our nation’s great Capitol in this fine Federal City, my neighbors and I enjoy the peace and serenity of a tightly enforced “no-fly” zone. By “peace” and “serenity” I mean that we are under near-constant assault by helicopters everywhere whapping just over our rooftops.
Sometimes they are orange, sometimes green, sometimes they are blue with an orange stripe. And, yes, sometimes they are even actual black helicopters flying just overhead. I have even seen them ride over my little house with a guy tricked out in tactical gear hanging out the door holding a machine gun, scanning the neighborhood as if searching for someone to shoot.
This also being a “gun-free zone,” we are mostly disarmed and defenseless. On one particularly busy day earlier this month, I counted 42 flyovers buzzing Capitol Hill rooftops.
They disturb dinner, rattle dishes and windows, shake pictures off the wall, startle children awake from naps and make it impossible to talk on the telephone. They fly in great yawning arcs across the neighborhood before circling back to fly right back overhead. They are not going anywhere. Just circling aimlessly overhead. Because they can.
The near-constant drone thunders deep into your spine. It is like a boot always just starting to exert pressure on the back of your neck. I understand why people living in a place like Iraq or Afghanistan seethe at being occupied.
In most of America, this would not last long. Too many guns. People would get tired of the constant whapping at their rooftops, the endless fading and mounting noise. Or, somebody would get drunk and test his aim.
There is a good lesson here these days with so many politicians making political hay out of 20 young children and six educators gunned down
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Yup, they know that when seconds count the police are only minutes away.
Long enough...
Bttt.
To a deranged mind a Gun Free Zone is an invitation. It’s like daring an eight year old to eat a whole pizza. It’s like putting up a sign on a straight stretch of road that says “Speed Limit 50 mph ... but no cops ever patrol here.”
We need to put a stop this lie about “40% of gun sales occurring without a background check”.
It comes from a 1994 TELEPHONE SURVEY!!
Politicians and liberal Pol’s around the country continue to spread this utter nonsense!!
I don’t know any gun owners with an I.Q. over 90, who would answer a phone survey about guns!
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