Comments on: “She’s not a girl who misses much…”

By: joel hanes

joel hanes — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:59:17 +0000

best subject line evar. just sayin’.

doo dee ooo dee ooo doo …. oh yeah
a soap impression of his wife which he ate

By: hyzmarca

hyzmarca — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:45:43 +0000

No, it is still quite true. Take a look at Iraq, for example. The proliferation of weapons stolen from pre-war caches is a prett but factor in the difficulty we’re having over there. If nothing else, it shows that a bunch of disorganized hicks with rifles and fertilizer bombs can, indeed, effectively resist a powerful occupying force.

By: Kamachanda

Kamachanda — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:51:40 +0000

“To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them.”
This is no longer true.

By: Guav

Guav — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:31:06 +0000

Like before you can own a gun you must demonstrate that you know how, and how not to use it. Wasn’t teaching gun safety the NRA’s mission once?

There are more than 51,000 NRA Certified Instructors in the country, and the NRA’s Eddie Eagle program has been used by 25,000 schools and civic groups to teach kids basic gun safety (such as if you see a gun, don’t touch it, and go tell an adult). In fact, I don’t know of a single gun safety program taught or sponsored by any of the major gun control groups.

By: Eric Farnsworth

Eric Farnsworth — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:00:04 +0000

Thanks Greg. What I keep coming back to with the 2nd amendment is the ‘well regulated’. A militia is not a standing army,as Miz Shoes notes. Maybe more like the National Guard, though they seem like army-lite to me. We don’t really have a militia except for those guys in Idaho & Montana, and they’re certainly not well regulated, or contributing to the security of a free state. So it seems to me that the second amendment demands regulations. Like before you can own a gun you must demonstrate that you know how, and how not to use it. Wasn’t teaching gun safety the NRA’s mission once?

By: Guav

Guav — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:06:38 +0000

Thomas Jefferson: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes … Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

Samuel Adams: “The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”

George Mason: “I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them.”

Patrick Henry: “The great object is, that every man be armed … Everyone who is able may have a gun.”

James Madison: “The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

Now I am not personally advocating that “that every man be armed,” but the idea that the framers only included the 2nd Amendment in lieu of a standing army to defend against foreign threats is simply not true. The 2nd Amendment was also included as a doomsday provision in the event that the citizenry would have to defend itself from a tyrannical government. The Army, Navy, Coast Guard, National Guard, Marines, Air Force, CIA, NSA and any other branch of the military establishment are obviously part of the potentially tyrannical government—kind of defeats the purpose.

Heinrich Himmler: “Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA—ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.”

By: Miz Shoes

Miz Shoes — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:45:37 +0000

Yes, exactly. The second amendment was there to provide for the common defense in absence of a standing national (or state by state) army. Period. End of sentence. You want to carry a gun and defend citizens from the “eeee-vil doers”? Join the army. Or the navy, coast guard, national guard, marines, air force, cia, nsa, or any other branch of the military establishment. But don’t tell me that you need a gun to stay safe from other (crazy) gun owners.