Posted on 12/16/2015 6:37:30 AM PST by Kaslin
And the reason for the 2nd Amendment is NOT about hunting.
“And the reason for the 2nd Amendment is NOT about hunting.”
Never said it was.
We lived on Long Island in the late 50’s.
My Brother took his .22 Rifle to School since he was in the Shooting Club. They had a Gun Range in the Basement.
Nobody batted an eye when he was walking down the Street with his Rifle Case.
Heck, back in the 70’s in CA I always had two Rifles in the Gun Rack of my Big A$$ Burnt Orange Ford 4x4 with big fat tires and everything.
Today, I would be a Felon doing the exact same thing.
I agree, but I felt it added to what you said.
Much like the argument that all pot smokers must be worthless losers, because all the pot smokers I know are worthless losers.
Our local Cabela’s has had one for the last two years.
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She is a also a journalistic whore, pimped out to anyone on the Left who wants to use her.
I went to two large gun stores here in Jacksonville a couple of weeks ago. They were both packed and both had number dispensers in use.
I have recently become aware of GK Chesterton. I was interested in the author of Father Brown mystery series.
My mother mentioned that she was unable to watch the BBC series as she had read the books as a child.
I looked Chesterton on the web, very interesting man, with very interesting life.
my tag line:
Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern - Chesterton
I need to find a book of Chesterton quotes- since I suffer from CRS
I need to find a book of Chesterton quotes- since I suffer from CRS
The complete Father Brown books are available free on the Gutenberg.org in html and almost all the e-book formats.
The real difference between this case and that of tobacco is that pesky Second Amendment. Here the opponents of the Bill of Rights such as Hamilton were wrong: the government absolutely will encroach where those rights are not spelled out even where there is no specific enumerated power allowing them to do so. God may well have given those rights but the Constitution keeps Godless men from stealing them.
It appears to boil down to a contest of power: those for whom possession of a firearm represents personal freedom and protection, and those for whom the ability to take it away represents the same. The latter are not easily convinced otherwise in the absence of an immediate threat and often even that isn't enough.
A middlebrow book appeared a few years ago about the insularity and narrowness of the cosmopolitan Byzantine Greeks.
The excellences of their own city made them incurious about the wider world, and their cossetted existence shielded them, in the short term, from the price of their intellectual shortcomings.
In the longer run, they missed critical opportunities to befriend rising powers who could have pulled Constantinople's bacon out of the fire.
Thats a free country.
Amen! (Or a joint with your coffee.)
“I love the smell of cigarette smoke, but some people hate it.”
I smoked for approximately eleven years, quitting when I was 29 and exceeding three packs a day. I cannot stand the smell of cigarette smoke now. I can burn leaves or brush and while it is not a pleasant smell I can handle it but stale cigarette smoke makes me cringe. I used to really love the smell of cigar or pipe tobacco but I don’t even like that any more.
I can’t remember stuff either.
being mentally defective, they are afraid that if there was a gun nearby, they would uncontrollably follow their emotions and use the firearm to shoot everyone that does not agree with them.
In fact, that is probably closer to the truth than some would imagine.
Anyway, then they project their weakness onto others, assuming everyone thinks like them, and is thus irresponsible when in the vicinity of a firearm.
Therefore, in their eyes, all must be abolished.
Their masters, on the other hand, know what is coming, and wish the "rebels' to be disarmed.
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