What you can’t see is that I’ve been around for a much longer time than many of the posters here. Which means I’ve lived through the attempts to curb guns and seen them all fall short.

Which means that I don’t get hysterical because one person suggests gun control. And I don’t think I used the word paranoid at all.

Bradky on April 28, 2007 at 9:01 PM

Bradky

The second amendment may have not been repealed but there are over 14,000 unconstitutional laws infringing the right to own and bear arms.

The average person cannot afford a million dollar lawsuit to oppose the laws that are passed in every state of the union every year that chip away at the second amendment. Almost every challenge that reaches the district court level is upheld and the laws are overturned as being unconstitutional.

In New York city, it is still illegal to have a handgun without a license which is unconstitutional.Until recently, it was illegal to own any firearm in Washington DC. A couple of weeks ago, the laws against gun ownership were overturned but the city is appealing to the Supreme Court.

So, please explain how all these attempts at banning guns fall short?

Boy have you hit the nail on the head.

When I was 14 years old I used to get my .22 rifle, walk down the street with it on my shoulder and went target shooting after school.My friends and I would go shooting in a farmers field and setup tin cans.

This was in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the 1960’s.

Today, a SWAT team of “Jack Booted” thugs would be called out and it would be on every news station.There would be pundits on analyzing how this misguided little boy decided to go target shooting with an evil gun. Was it his upbringing Blah Blah

Funny, how some people do not even realize the freedoms and liberty that they have lost. I do not recognize the country I grew up in the 1960’s and 70’s.

G Gordon Liddy has a similar observation about how we are loosing our “constitutional guaranteed” freedoms on his website.

AZ_Redneck on April 28, 2007 at 11:24 PM

Right on…..one of my pet peeves.

What’s interesting to me is that so many of ya’ll think we still live in a free state. We live in a police state framework has been forming for years. Now it is time to tighten the noose. Another crisis or two, and it will happen.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation took a survey back in 2002. The statement was “If we need to relinquish some of our personal freedoms and privacies to protect the country, we should all be prepared to do that.” 49% agreed (Washington Times 6/29/02 P A2). The same group thought that afforable health care and the right to an education we more important that the freedom of speech.

Sure are alot of sheep out there just ready to line up.

Free state? The goverment started with gun control back in the early part of the last century. Now the government tells you that you must wear a seat belt in a motor vehicle and how much water your toilet can use per flush. Now we have secret subpoenas and law enforcement personnel that think they aren’t civilians anymore and dress like jack booted thugs.

Bradky,

You spend much effort on how paranoid people sound, when all they are doing is voicing their passionate opposition to having liberty put at risk. You know where you’re posting, you know you’re in the minority, you know that trying to tell people that they shouldn’t be worried about a major infringement of their rights is pointless.

I’d tell you to give it up, but that would be in the same league; I know it’s all you have, so you don’t dare.

Freelancer on April 28, 2007 at 1:23 PM

It’s all I have? Really? I’d venture to say that my life experience and willingness to read extensively on the whole gamut of issues from a wide variety of sources makes me better able to discuss a subject rationally than the right and left partisans who are rather myopic in regards to their sources.

Had you really read my posts you would have seen that I said in no uncertain terms I have no desire for gun control. That make me a liberal? Hmm And it certainly doesn’t put me in the minority of posters on this issue as much as you would like to say so.

You would have also noted the comparison to the failed ERA amendment to the constitution which had far more support than any gun control proposal, which by the way has never even made it to proposed amendment status.

You might also have noted that in most elections Democratic candidates in all but a couple of instances will go out of their way to court left of center voters who enjoy owning guns. Heck, Michael Dukakis took it a step further and rode in a tank.

What you can’t see is that I’ve been around for a much longer time than many of the posters here. Which means I’ve lived through the attempts to curb guns and seen them all fall short.

Which means that I don’t get hysterical because one person suggests gun control. And I don’t think I used the word paranoid at all.

The New Orleans Police and National Guard did go house to house confiscating guns in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The order to confiscate the guns were given by FEMA and New Orleans’ police superintendent Eddie Compass.

I am surprised nobody here has pointed it out.

It took a emergency motion for a restraining order filed by the NRA to get a preliminary injunction to rescind the gun confiscations occuring in New Orleans.
After the City of New Orleans failed to comply with the court’s ruling and dishonestly claimed that the gun confiscations never occurred, NRA filed a motion for contempt that included an order directing all seized firearms be returned to their rightful owners.

To this day, people that have had their guns confiscated are having trouble getting them back
After strenuously denying the illegal confiscations for months, on March 15, 2006, Mayor Nagin and the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) finally conceded in federal court that the seized firearms were stored in two trailers. The city then agreed in court to a process by which law-abiding citizens would be able to file a claim to receive their confiscated firearms. However, few firearms were returned because the NOPD never notified gun owners how to claim their guns, and turned many away citing impossible standards for proof of ownership.

Today’s ruling sets the stage for a continued legal fight in which NRA will be forced to expend additional resources to fight back the anti-gunner’s blatant and shameful attempts to ignore the Second Amendment. The case will now move to discovery and pre-trial preparation.

Chuck Schumer and his fellow gun grabbers in the Congress have every intention of implementing Dan Simpon’s plan for disarming America.They know they cannot do it in one broad stroke but they intend to implement it by incremental unconstitutional legislation.

And secondly, once in office, with all the guns gone, what makes you think they would relinquish control through free elections ever again?

Catseye on April 27, 2007 at 12:10 PM

That’s the money question. Every forced disarmament in history has been followed by a totalitarian state, because the incumbent administration had NO ONE TO FEAR. Since they are in control of the military and police, the only persons authorized to bear arms, the form of government is now their’s to determine.

Can the libs not see that?

Bradky,

You spend much effort on how paranoid people sound, when all they are doing is voicing their passionate opposition to having liberty put at risk. You know where you’re posting, you know you’re in the minority, you know that trying to tell people that they shouldn’t be worried about a major infringement of their rights is pointless.

I’d tell you to give it up, but that would be in the same league; I know it’s all you have, so you don’t dare.

I agree, I’ll be gone to the hills before they start knocking on my door. I’m gonna need a bigger truck just to carry my ammo.

Guns don’t kill people. Weak, ineffective, intellectually dishonest, windbags who are too scared to stand up to idiots pass legislation that allows criminals and insane individuals to kill people.

Like the amps in Spinal Tap, this guy’s idiot volume goes to 11!

The whole thing reads more like it was written by a teenager trying to sound clever than by an adult who, furthermore ‘used to be a diplomat’.
Aylios on April 27, 2007 at 5:58 PM

Why do you think our foreign policy has been so abysmal for the last few decades?

Is it okay to say “You will take my penis when you pry it from my cold dead fingers” ?

Bradky on April 27, 2007 at 4:25 PM

Now that’s funny.

And gross.

Kristopher on April 27, 2007 at 5:20 PM

lol

When I can kill at 100 yards with my penis, I can discard my pistol.

Kristopher

Is it okay to say “You will take my penis when you pry it from my cold dead fingers” ?

Bradky

When they come for your penis, try not to be there.

But he DOES sound like a typical mindless liberal democrat/socialist wannabe…