Posted on 05/03/2010 8:52:31 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
I had similar thoughts. He’s likely gay and confused.
And I’ll bet he spends his evenings in New Hope (for those who don’t know New Hope PA is noted for it’s flamboyant types).
Agreed
With a bolt-action rifle and a telescopic sight, I could put a bullet through my neighbor from a hundred yards away as he crosses his living room.
Yes, and with my car at 55 MPH I can cross the yellow line and cause a most horrific tragedy. But it doesn’t happen because we trust one another to stay on their side of the line. Not withstanding the second amendment and I’m not trying to compare driving a car to owning a firearm. One is a privilege and one is a right.
I’m just taking about trust and the ability to cause tragedy. I trust my fellow citizens to own and to “bear” arms. I feel a hell of a lot safer at a gun show than I do at most any inner city back alley. The difference is between the good guys being armed and the bad guys.
The author apparently doesn’t know the difference.
I notice the sory shit never held a command. Hmmm?
Note his point about dispatching a dozen executives in a board room with a single clip in his Glock--wrong; if any single one of these executives is armed, Walsh is lucky to get off the second shot.
What people like that forget, or never knew, is that the definition of a militia at the time of the writing of the constitution, and the bill of rights, was every able body man between the age of 16 and 65. That included everyone, so the right was an individual right and still is. Militias weren’t for fighting foreign troops but for fighting our government. The words “a well regulated milita being necessary to the security of a free state” spells out exactly what the right to keep and bear arms is about. That is defending your country against a take over by the government. Couldn’t be more clear that the right is an individual right, not a collective.
“56 million people murdered by their own governments in the 20th century.”
Wow is that a conservative estimate.
Probably ROTC. A four year commitment after graduation.
I disagree. They're always telling you that, but I don't buy it. I think driving is a right, but running into other people or their property while you're doing it is not. I'm not saying that's the way the law's written, I'm saying that's the way it's really supposed to be. Can you imagine in the horse and buggy days if they tried to require a license to ride a horse or drive a buggy or wagon? People would have laughed their asses off. What's a car but an functional evolution of those "technologies"?
Really ironic that an “English” Master doesn’t know the difference between a prefatory and an operative clause.
Gun cancer? What is that, rust?
And politicians.
Ditch yours first, Paddy. Then take out an ad in the local paper to say you've done it.
And I don't feel that great about someone who lists Lolita as one of his favorite books.
There would be if we could somehow magically make guns disappear. Guns, axes, baseball bats and Bowie knives are just tools. Someone intent on committing violence will find a way, and liberal morons will continue to to believe that they can eliminate this behavior by banning inanimate objects.
Eventually, we'll get down to rocks. Then what?
“I fired everything from 9mm pistols to .50-caliber machine guns, routinely qualifying as “expert” with an M16A2 rifle.”
Probably soiled himself every time he did, too.
And, in what context do you see the right of free speech? Why is it always THIS amendment that has strings attached to it? Because YOU don't like it, sissy boy?
Tired, old retread of a bankrupt argument. At least
one other poster has referred to the Federalist Pa-
pers. I will go a step further. Refer to Federalist
#46 approximately paragraph nine.
Written by James Madison, deemed ‘Father ot the
Constitution’, this particular article was writ-
ten to show that local governments can balance
the power of the federal government. He GLOATS
at the fact that the American citizens are armed
and states that if European citizens had arms
they would throw off the yoke of their
oppressive governments.
Read it and weep gun takers everywhere.
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