Posted on 12/29/2001 5:06:33 PM PST by PJeffQ
In January (South Carolina Attorney General) Condon declared "open season," on home invaders and sent a letter to all solicitors, sheriffs and police chief directing that citizens acting to defend their homes will not be arrested, charged or prosecuted.
"Citizens protecting their homes who use force, even deadly force, will be fully safeguarded under the law of this state and subject to no arrest, charge or prosecutions," Condon said in a Jan. 24 press release. "In South Carolina, would-be intruders should now hear this: invade a home and invite a bullet."
LMBO !! Stay Safe AAA ......
No 'almost' about it. Defense of self, family and country is the right, responsibility and duty of any rational human being. Pacifists are intellectually bankrupt and immoral fools. Right, JA?
A happy and prosperous new year to clan Adams from clan noumenon.
Lawmakers have an opportunity next year to make a lasting contribution to homeland security. Empowering citizens is the surest way to reach this goal while making things safer for everyone.
This is applicable for everyone;-)
I have a friend that is a police officer. I was with him one day and there were 10 or 12 calls on the radio but he couldn't take any of them because the calls required 2 officers. All the other officers were tied up on other calls. He finally ended up taking a call miles away just to chase some homeless people away from a 7-11.
Moral of the story - protect yourself.
The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed !!
An Armed Citizen, Is A Safe Citizen !!
No Guns, No Rights !!
Molon Labe !!
Happy New Year !!
"Invade a home and invite a bullet"
I think I'm gonna make a cross-stitch of that and hang in on the wall in my den. Kind of a subtle (yet homespun) warning. :)
Thanks for the ping, Merc. And for the great post, Anna.
I posted a variation of the following on another thread last week (in response to proposed Kennedy/Schumer gun control, 'anti-terrorism' legislation), but it is relevant here, too:
Put simply, the purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the fundamental right of self-defense. Be it self defense against foreign invasion, a political coup, our own encroaching government, or the criminal element. It was for this reason that the Constitution authorized 'the militia' (i.e., the people) to be used 'to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.'
The Second Amendment thus guaranteed the freedom to keep and bear arms as a defense against 'terrorism' (be it home-grown or foreign) of any kind. So to use the threat of terrorism to disarm Americans is disingenuous at best....devious at worst, and certainly the antithesis of the founding fathers' intent in penning the words the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The fundamental right to the means of self defense has not changed since the eighteenth century, and an armed citizenry continues to have great value both to those who choose to be armed and to their fellow citizens. Had just one of the passengers on any one of the four doomed flights had a firearm in his or her possession, the tragic scenario on at least one of those flights might have been different.
None of the hijackers was armed with anything more lethal than a box cutter. So why the cry for greater control of guns as a strategy to combat terrorism? Simply because anything that chips away at the peace of mind of the average American (and the events of 9/11 surely fall under that unsettling category) is ripe for exploitation by the leftist, Constitution-loathing, gun control crowd, of which Schumer and Kennedy are charter members.
Schumer, Kennedy, and their ilk need to pay heed to the words of Justice Benjamin Cardozo, in The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921):
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles, by enshrining them in constitutions, and consecrating to the task of their protection a body of defenders.
Make no mistake, Senators Kennedy and Schumer: You are the opportunists/encroachers of whom Justice Cardozo speaks. And the liberty-loving gun owners of America comprise the body of defenders. And we are resolute and immovable. Don't push.
This is clearly one of those places where one is very well advised to be armed, most especially when the rest area has no attendant and only the rest room is open. A few years back when making a stop for a call of nature some young males entered the rest room and I got the door to my stall kicked in. Since I had heard the ample discussion of their need to get some money I had prepared by filling my hand with a model 1911 while eotherwise occuppied. When one of these young men kicked in the stall door they got very wide eyed at the site of a cocked unlocked firearm pointing at there center of mass.
They offered profuse apologies for disturbing me and decided to leave forthwith.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
FReegards,
David
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