Posted on 01/27/2007 1:36:11 PM PST by tpaine
--Just wait until I get out and seek public office. Then I'll get back to you.--
I just hope you one of your anarchist buddies doesn't put the bead on you while you are mayor.
--And if you live in a state where that decision is binding, then you just get screwed?--
We are not a socialist country. You are free to move to any state and county of your choosing.
Awesome Post volunbeer. And thank you for your service.
My thanks too.
--I'm sure you're a baby boomer how is saddling my generation with Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security debts.--
Bitter toward your parents?
Sorry, I kinda posted while in a bad mood. In fact, as I hit the "send" button, I knew I shouldn't have.
I was hoping that the comment would get lost among the hundreds of others in this thread. Obviously it didn't.
I simply see the slow creep of tyranny taking place around the globe, and in this country as well. I fear for generations later who will not know how well we had it. Sometimes, I react foolishly. I did not mean to come off as anarchist, but it seems I did. I just don't like totalitarianism. We've fought enough wars against it to fail, both at home and abroad.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for the military before, and those serving now. Which is why I am so defensive of the even the smallest violation of liberty, even if it is some man defending his property from a alderman with a backhoe.
My apologies for being an ass, though. And thank you for putting me in my place.
Clarification accepted. You were not an ass. However, I still take exception to your latest reference to the backhoe driver infringing on Garry's rights. The backhoe driver was executing a lawful repair of a county owned facility on the county easement. The homeowner violated the backhoe driver's rights. The homeowner was nothing more than a misguided soul that lost it one morning and took out two innocent people.
"Those who have better ideas in a democracy should not have to shoot people to promote them."
Y'know, you may have inadvertently hit on a piece of the overall problem. Our form of government isn't supposed to be a Democracy but a Republic. Democracies usually become Socialistic because of the "greater good" idea.
Maybe if we had a real Republic and a Republican form of government, as is "promised" in the Constitution, fewer people would feel the need to shoot civil servants to make their point.
--Maybe if we had a real Republic and a Republican form of government, as is "promised" in the Constitution,--
What do you mean?
--fewer people would feel the need to shoot civil servants to make their point.--
This guy went over the edge. He is no hero. He was a murderer, plain and simple.
Or maybe if we had real republicans it would'nt be an issue.
;)
You've been up all night. Why don't you go back to sleep.
An easement is a piece of land. You don't have an easement for a sewer line, you have an easement for a piece of land that will contain a sewer line. A 10 foot easement can contain several pipes, power lines, etc. Existing easements are routinely used to place new lines, which is simply common sense.
Such as the NRA's "guns at the workplace" push to further erode property rights.
Please, don't try to pick a fight with me over guns and/or where/when they can be carried and by whom. Neither of us would or could convince the other to change his mind, so we'd just be wasting bandwidth.
We agree.
Thanks.
In your opinion, is the NRA a Second Amendment organization, or is it a lobbyist for gun manufacturers?
I've been reading opinions on Second Amendment sites on the net lately, and a good number of them don't seem to think a whole lot of the NRA.
The 13th. Amendment has nothing to do with this, there nothing involuntary going on here...
I have a job to fill, we discuss the job, I inform you of all pertinent aspects of the job, including parking lot regulations that may or may not include gun restrictions, and you either accept the job (with all policies and workplace regulations) or decline it.
No slavery or involuntary anything going on.
Neither does the 15th.
You're really grasping at straws.
At will employment likened to slavery?
You're such a Marxist.
So you're on a thread where people are discussing the ability to carry guns, but you don't want to talk about it?
The NRA suffers from the same malady that infects nearly all large organizations: Overinflated opinion of their own worth. Kinda like government.
I'm a member but only because my gun-club requires it. I consider my yearly NRA dues part of my club dues.
See...we probably agree on this.
What's probably going to happen, if it isn't happening already, is that by picking this unecessary fight with business owners, the NRA will actually HURT the RTKBA by involving a whole lot of soccer moms into the question of when and where guns should be allowed.
Once the combination of soccer moms, liberals, and government gets rolling NONE of our rights will be safe.
No.
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