Posted on 01/25/2002 9:07:46 PM PST by mrustow
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:03:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
By JOHN R. LOTT, JR.
January 25, 2002 -- ANOTHER school shooting occurred last week and the headlines were everywhere the same, from Australia to Nigeria. This time the shooting occurred at a university, the Appalachian Law School. As usual, there were calls for more gun control.
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And if I'm going places where I'm alone and could possibly run into multiple hazards, so to speak.
I believe in my Right to KEEP and BEAR arms.Unfortunately like many other American's I don't have the money to defend myself in admirality courts or the smarts to get my case tried in a common law court.
The way things are going I don't really expect to see a court room, but hopefully I will make it out of my house.
Peace
I've thought about these students who were LE, concentrating on disarming the shooter and holding him for police. The way I was taught, once you've pulled your piece, the time for talking is over. I was also taught that once you've taken aim, you squeeze the trigger while the sight picture is clear. Dad disabused me of that cowboy movie crap of drawing on someone just to cover them and make them do something you want them to do.
Yo Jim! There's your next media "snip!"
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That's what's lacking in our permissive society today RESPONSIBILITY.
And there are too many people who want NO RESPONSIBILITY willing to sell the rest of us down the road.
And that's what WE are really facing right now, the lazy assholes who are willing to give away everything so they don't have to do anything, against the people who care, that don't have the time to deal with it BECAUSE THEY HAVE JOBS, AND FAMILIES THAT THEY CARE ABOUT.
I can't make excuses for us though, look at who's winning.
But if I had my way, there would be a lot of politicians with rope burns, if You know what I mean......
Regards,
Mark
Not that I like Paul Harvey but one of his shows I heard said that lawyers were actually run out of communities in early America.
There's also the thing about our politicians not accepting titles from foriegn governments and lawyers holding the title of Esquire from the King.
I also read once that some of our politicians hold citizenship in other countries mainly Israel, probably for bank accounts.
Just curious.......
And ditto on the examples, I don't think we would have much trouble filling the dancing classes for years.
I think that there are enough dance lesson candidates to keep us busy for decades. Seems to me that if lawyers didn't hold a virtual monopoly in court proceedings, there would be a bounty on them.
I once went to an open hearing held by the legislature of Delaware on the public sentiment over some changes to the state workers comp law. I was recognized to ask a few questions. Instead of questioning the panel, I asked the large number of men surrounding the panel's table (in the best seats to view the proceedings, BTW) how many of them were members of the Bar Association. Nearly all raised their hands. I then asked how many were residents of Delaware. Not a single one raised his hand.
That crowd of men were Bar Association members who had written the draft legislation under review. They were the sole lobby for the passage of the legislation. Not a single resident of Delaware spoke in favor of the legislation, and it passed in the next session.
John Swinton (considered 'the dean of his profession' by his peers), Chief of Staff, New York Times when asked to give a toast at the New York Press Club in 1953. (note-how true, today),
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for anothr job. If allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."(note-Yes)
P.S. Any difference between the media and the universities?
When You talked about the out of town lawyers deciding things for you, it reminded me of an agency I read about in Chicago. Supposedly this agency writes volumes of laws, which our hard working politicians just read and vote on (which must happen between their information gathering trips to the Bahama's.
I think You probably see the same future I see coming, one I can't accept.
It amazes (and disappoints) me how easily people accept this illusion of Freedom. Sometimes I wonder if it's me that's just too stupid to accept slavery, something that has never been eliminated only disguised.
Thanks for listening, this sht makes a person feel all alone. Nobady wants to hear about it let alone talk about it.
This has nothing to do with this article, but I want to put out feelers.
At a K-Mart in my city a man bought all the CD players they had paying cash. The manager thought it was strange and watched him load his van. The manager said the van was full of them, thinking this was suspicious she called the cops, who inturn called the FBI. The manager was told by the FBI that this wasn't an isolated case, that there is a chip in the CD players that can be used to make something that can shut down electronic equipment.
I asked around and found out about something called E-Bombs.I was sent an article about E-bombs which said they can be made on the street for around 400 dollars.Everything from your automobile to power plants can be shut down.
Peace
I know some people use KABA and RKBA interchangably; I was wondering aloud if people refer to http://www.keepandbeararms.com as "kaba" the way I do.
Ping!
and
BUMP!
Bingo, buddy! A revolver is your basic point-and-click defense weapon. Use hollow-point .38s, of course, when you care enough, to send the very best......FRegards
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