GET A GUN

Newsmax.com | 11-19-02 | Geoff Metcalf

[Jerrybob]

Excellent thoughts here. A call to arms.

[Jerrybob]

Excellent column here.

[harpseal]

A column for everyone who values the Ameican Constitutionb to print out and display to everyone else who values liberty.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[Huck]

Militias SHOULD be local people

And they should be well-regulated.

[umgud]

I love gun quips. "A gun in the hand always trumps a cop on the phone".

[conservativemusician]

Damn straight.

Peace through superior firepower.

[Vic3O3]

ping

[PatrioticAmerican]

BTTT

[jim_trent]

Unfortunately, there have been far too many instances of the police (and to some extent the military) following orders to confiscate legally held firearms in this country. I have no illusions that if Schummer, Boxer, Feinstein, etc. get a law passed to do so, the police (and perhaps the military) will follow orders to enforce it.

[mhking]

National Ammo Day ping!

[Centurion2000]

And they should be well-regulated.

Your'e correct ... they should function well. Regulation in the second amendment refers to functionality, not registration.

[CapandBall]

bang

[Mr. K]

I have a great slogan for Naional Ammo Day- "Buy a round for the house"

LOL

Send me a check...

(and yes I already thought of "- and another for the senate" but lets not be nasty...)

[CapandBall]

Let me add, lay in a couple of 1000 rounds of ammo. For years I owned guns but had only ten to twenty rounds of ammo, if that, for each. A gun without ammo is nothing but a club.

[Boonie Rat]

...well-regulated

ie: Well Trained.

Boonie Rat

MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66

[wordsofearnest]

An armed society is a polite society.

[gnarledmaw]

"After the alleged end of the Cold War, several CIA types were informally meeting with a group of their KGB counterparts. Eventually, after a few vodkas, the question was asked, "So Ivan, did you guys actually have plans for invading CONUS (Continental United States)?""

Ive often seen this referenced but cant find any documentation of the event, Im often referred by others to the similar Japanese commentary from WWII. Does anyone have any less vague suggestion of the approximate time frame and who was involved?

[conservativemusician]

Agreed. Why, do you suppose, it is so difficult to get this through the thick skulls of the left?

Wait, I may have answered my own question.

[supercat]

And they should be well-regulated.

Indeed, a smoothly-functioning militia would be much better than a ragtag bunch of people who have little idea which end of the barrel the bullet comes out.

A poorly-regulated militia, after all, would be about as useful as a poorly-regulated clock. Though a poorly-regulated double rifle (one where the barrels fire to different points of aim) may be at least somewhat useful if the shooter knows how it shoots.

Of course, you did realize that a "well-regulated" militia isn't made so by an oppressive government.

[Howie]

"The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious, if it were capable of being carried into execution. A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it. To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss. It would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country, to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil establishments of all the States. To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise: and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year. "

Alexander Hamilton, federalist 29