[skinkinthegrass]

BANG ! :)

[Stand Watch Listen]

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[B.O. Plenty]

"As Americans have begun to think differently about their personal safety, courts have begun looking at the gun question in a more sober light."....sober light.... sober light....how about survival mode? Some folks belonging to the "religion of peace" have targeted us infidels for extinction, for crying out loud....and by all accounts they are right here among us. Some judges are bound to eventually realize that this is not the time to disarm the American people, for public actions sometimes have unintended personal consequences.

[robertpaulsen]

"that the handgun maker was partially liable for the death of her husband"

Wrong. Valor Corpoation was the distributor. Raven Arms was the manufacturer who went out of business (due to a fire) nine years before the shooting.

The gun went from Raven Arms to the distributor, where it was sold (to someone). That person then sold it to Hypoluxo Pawn Shop. The uncle of the shooter, Elmore McCray, purchased the gun from the pawn shop and placed it in an unlocked box in the unlocked drawer of a dresser in his bedroom. I don't know if the gun was stored loaded.

The shooter, 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazill, stole the gun from his uncle and shot his teacher, point blank, in the head, killing him instantly and leaving behind a wife and childern.

The wife sued everybody, uncle, pawn shop, distributor, and the school district, and was awarded $24 million. The distributor was deemed 5% liable (ergo, $1.2 million).

[FreeTally]

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[MCRD]

I was channel surfing last nite after the SOU speech and I think it was on CBS that they had Michael Bellesiles on as one of their analysts. I didn't watch him and I might be mistaken but how in Gods name can a "major" network put a discredited ass like this on with a straight face?

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[GovernmentShrinker]

Michael Bellesiles, the historian whose Bancroft Prize was revoked because of serious questions answers about the dishonesty of his scholarship

The WSJ should be ashamed of itself.

[Ancesthntr]

Those who hoped or feared the guns were the next tobacco should be beginning to realize it won't be.

In all of my years of studying history, I have never heard of a case in which a population won or protected its liberty while armed with cigarettes. What these folks didn't, don't and apparently can't understand is that the possession of weapons by the general populace is both a symbol of liberty and an important tool for obtaining and keeping that liberty. As a result, very few people are willing to part with their weapons because someone else has done something wrong, and those trying to deprive them of those weapons (properly) are forced to contemplate their premature demise.