Would you prefer to live where guns are allowed?
I'd like to live right next to Ragnar, and that's it.
What About You??? -- j
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What About You??? -- j
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I prefer to live where I don't need anyone's permission to own a gun.
But in answer to the posted question - yes.
your gun openly outdoors. . like I needed permission
to do so. . zowie!!! -- j
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A well-regulated neighborhood watch, being necessary to the security of a free community of neighbors, the right of all our neighbors to keep and bear arms, should not be infringed by Home-Owners' Associations, the local town, or State or federal governments.
purple paper, once, telling me that my spare car
parked in the driveway Did Not Run and had to
be towed away. . so, I cranked it up and drove it
to my backyard. . neighborhood watch isn't so
peculiar where I live, now. -- j
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against whom we might have to defend ourselves..... -- j
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we are in the county and guns are here with us!!! -- j
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gulch. . we can do target practice from our back deck,
with a target on the other side of the gulch. -- j
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Better that we should just shoot any bastard that wants to Disallow them!
Every freedom we have came from the end of a gun!
things ... we are free to choose, dammit!!! -- j
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(Hold on. I think my tongue has gotten stuck in my cheek)
by five card, and have room left for a table of the
elements. -- j
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The question is as usual where do you find the names to squeeze into the table of elements?
News media? NO
Education? HELL NO
Political parties in power? Double HELL No
Any nominations from...damn! Here's a thought? From the citizens?
In any case, I’ve always appreciated guns, especially the rights to own and even the right (which is now a really a permit) to carry one. I find as I read or hear more stories about crime I carry more often. And as I hear about crime closer to the area I might frequent, I carry much more often than not. Sometimes I think about not having my carry and I worry about it. But I seldom even think about it when I am carrying. I just never want to be caught in any kind of similar situation like Dr. Suzanna Hupp.
We’ve been robbed (once). Now they seem to go elsewhere, perhaps because I have a 1300 pound statue of a Vietnam Soldier with an M-16 at the ready in my front yard. And I fly, 20 feet in the air, a lighted American Flag 24 hours a day. Those in addition to the notices on the major parts of entry to my house that read, “Nothing Inside Worth Dying For” give me more piece of mind. I get the same piece of mind when I carry.
So if you don’t want me to carry then don’t commit crimes where I live. It doesn’t matter if a criminal is bigger or smaller than me, I'm pretty confident I can out shoot him. And if he can outshoot me, then he would not be a criminal and would probably be doing some kind of gun profession. Wouldn’t it nice to not need locks on our cars or even our homes? There are few places anymore that don’t really need locks, that’s where I’d like to live.
Jan
farm situation which is so safe that he doesn't have
to lock up and cower inside. . delicious!!! -- j
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Come And Get It!!!" -- j
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that the good folks don't have guns, while it's 100
percent certain that the bad guys WILL have guns. -- j
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from the bad guys, thus the good guys will always
need to be armed. -- j
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I also hang out in an area with an old style Las Vegas attitude of keep the tourists and foreigners happy so the control of crime is from two directions. Point of interest. the murder rate per 100,000 of the one million US citizens who live most or all the year across the border is slightly less than three. or less than thirty. The rule is stay more than fifty miles south of the border and use common sense when going and where going in the local area. Just like LA or Chicago or most of Houston (the latter has a rarte of 12 per hundred thousand.) When crossing North I can and may pull out a weapon and a carry permit where needed. I feel no such need south of the border.
So...having read Hallings second book back to a Second Amendment comment. I realized it was a contract between the States (then 13 now 50) to ensure the States had protection. National Guard being 95% federally funded and 100% federally controlled doesn't qualify as a State Militia per Constitution.
There is no extension on the subject beyond the State and to it's citizens that I can find. No Powers Granted unless they are in the State Constitution but it's either or both 9th and 10th amendment as the root source. Just like appointing people illegally. Having not been visited by the Supreme Court is not an excuse for seizing power a la Hitler or any of the others.
There are references to self defense etc. in most of those documents except perhaps California and Chicago.
It would appear from that view point control of citizens owning weapons is none of the federal governments business.
Haven't thought it all the way through but it ties a couple of threads, one about using stories to spread knowledge, together in a practical example. Providing the Constitution is followed and therein lies the the problem with the dictatorship of the Government Party.
Your turn.
regulation from the executive branch before it took
effect, and that these regulations should expire in
4 years unless re-approved. -- j
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If you can't get any interest in Amendments for adding the word Education or changing Census of those present to census of citizens or replacing electoral college with popular vote or...replacing income tax with end user consumption tax or....the list goes on and on and on. If you can't get a Congress of the present party in power to enact a bill for that or perhaps dumping all non-elected from the Act of Succession or making themselves subject to Insider Trading or laundering tax dollars into campaign funds via Davis-Bacon, or the court to say a Representative and Senator are State Delegates not Federal employees, or a President to do the same by Executive Order, that leaves dumping the Party in Power forming a coalition of the disenfranchised and instituting Recall for those who don't have it at the local level and that means targeting selected areas of those 110,000 precincts and going after 13% of those who eligible to vote to who registered and do vote.
No sweat!
Any of those will get you to stripping the Executive and passing an equal amount of power to the Supreme Court.
Remember the War Powers Act? Only the Republican half complied. The Democrats wars were started without seeking approval.
And let's add a law against ignoring the Constitution in defiance of 9th and 10th Amendment. Wait a minute. It's already a law and a Constitutional law at that.
But no one to enforce it except what's left of voting rights.
At the time of the writing of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights "well regulated Militia" was understood as every male over the age of 16. That it was the responsibility of every father to instruct his sons handling, care and use of sword, shield and musket.
Under the current wording of the Constitution NO restrictions to the ownership and transportation of Arms can be implemented. This being said, do not assume that I am against any restrictions at all. There is a procedure that MUST BE FOLLOWED, an amendment must first be proposed by ether by the Congress or by a conversation of the States under Article 5. Then this amendment must be ratified by 2/3 of the States.
Or perhaps one of State Constitutions was granted the power by it's own population but if not and if so usually in the area of requirements to purchase but I don't of any State with a real state militia which changes nothing.
Therefore 9th amendment powers not granted. is the trump card.
I don't remember them being appealed.
I seem to remember them being ignored which brings us to high crimes and misdemeanors.
I don't remember voting someone back into office as a method of amendment come to think of it.
If the politicians would quit whining about guns in general and enforce the existing laws on illegal guns we'd have a much better society.
And those with no political purpose, whining about guns, consider this: You, I, and hundreds of thousands of others are the problem, not the guns. A quick check of the mirror will verify one clear fact, we are all predators, designed originally to consume protein, fresh, raw, and bitten off. Limit your urges as I have and the world will be a better place.
been using the term "redundant superfluities"
for years!!! -- j
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I believe it was the intention of the founding fathers that the 2nd Amendent to the Constitution is to maintain the individual safety of each citizen by the right to bear arms. There should have been addendum to the 2nd: That the states will not infringe their will nor interpret the 2nd amendment.
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