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Jul 7, 2022 12:36:11 PM enn ess on It's not about GUNS. It's about CRIME. Every single weapon & tool devised and built, from the lowliest stick and spear to the use of the lowly rock, on up to the laser computer guided whatever blow it all up devices, has been devised and built by what? MAN! |
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Jun 2, 2022 7:43:01 AM Glypto Dropem on DON’T CALL MURDERERS “SHOOTERS” It's all just language manipulation by the commie propagandists. Everyone that has firearms is a murderer that just hasn't acted yet. |
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Jun 1, 2022 3:42:56 PM Mike-SMO on DON’T CALL MURDERERS “SHOOTERS” Really want to know what Swamp Agency provided the Texas Tranny with the expensive guns, ammo, and "kit". Otherwise "Sal" was an occasional burger flipper with an addicted mother, who was crashing on a mattress on Granny's floor. Someone found a use for that piece of trash. |
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May 1, 2022 11:55:56 AM enn ess on The Liberty Poll This is an easy one: YES to all the above. |
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Nov 29, 2021 1:39:21 PM enn ess on THE BIG SCOTUS GUN CASE - NATIONAL CARRY It has, and always will, remain the same; |
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Nov 20, 2021 10:08:49 PM Mike-SMO on THE BIG SCOTUS GUN CASE - NATIONAL CARRY I had previously accepted the weapons permit system since it allowed the Authorities to arrest and prosecute any "prohibited person" who was carrying, however since the Authorities generally don't prosecute "prohibited persons" for political reasons, there is no reason for a permit system that only affects law-abiding "normies". The permit system has become only a way to disarm the oponents of the Democrats/Progressives who might be tempted to defend themselves from attack. It has become obvious that armed citizens are no threat to others. The fantasy of violence and bloodshed is, however, a characteristic of the Democratic urban strongholds. |
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Nov 19, 2021 2:43:40 PM Glypto Dropem on NOW IT'S "DELTA" VIRUS, TOMORROW...? Still proudly walking around safe and sound with ZERO jabs in me. Went to my doctor today for a 6 month BP check. He could not believe someone like myself that works in EMS has not and will not get jabbed. He asked why? I told him he would not like my answer but he wanted to hear it. I told him I have lost all trust in the medical community when they decided to play politics and become policy makers and shills for big pharma instead of healers. I reminded him that no jab you can get right now is an apporved or a licensed vaccine, just a big lab experiment I wsnt no part of. He could not disagree with my points, but still insisted since he got it I should get it. |
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Nov 18, 2021 8:03:19 PM Mike-SMO on FREEDOM IS ALIVE AND WELL They have been pushing the myth that guns rather than the people are the cause of all the violence in the Democratic cities. They couldn't accept such posters. |
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Oct 26, 2021 10:19:03 PM Mike-SMO on Democrats are planning a new underclass I suspect that we are looking at a nation-wide implementation of Compton, California. Since, "forever", Compton has been ~100% Black (African American) with about 100 murders per year. The Hispanic population (and their gangs) moved in and by targeting the Black gang-bangers, encouraged that part of the population to relocate. Compton is now ~70% Hispanic and with ittle violent crime, unless you cross the new gangs. I don't think that gun "rights" was ever a question there. "Gun Control" and firearms regulation seems to focus on the extra-urban White population that might want to defend themselves, their family, or their neighbors and thus interferre with the planned relocation of the ghetto population. Similarly, the push for changing suburban zoning to allow "affordable", multi-family (ghetto ready) housing in the suburbs is in support of the "Great Relocation". I am pretty sure that viewing "Gun Control", "Open Borders", and rezoning in the suburbs in isolation is a mistake. The urban cores are now mostly a violent burden. The surge in urban violence serves to drive out the last of the "normies" and the surviving businesses. The new population is the likely source of profit and prosperity for the property owners and for the Corruptocrats. It's all part of the plan. |
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Jul 31, 2021 3:52:39 PM enn ess on AZ Illegal Safe House From my understanding of our Constitution this is a blatant violation of the Constitution. One of the presidents primary responsibilities, (if you can call comrade slo jo that) is to ensure the laws enacted by congress are enforced. Another responsibility is to ensure each state, and the country as a whole, protection from, invasion. Not only is this an invasion by it's very definitions it's a violation of immigration laws as they now stand. |
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Jul 30, 2021 7:35:00 AM Mr. Anonymity on AZ Illegal Safe House The fuze is lit and halfway to the powder keg. Just a matter of time now. So many commies, so few lamp posts. |
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Jul 26, 2021 4:38:25 PM Mike-SMO on JPFO Gun Confiscation Clock Loses 2 Minutes I think that you are missing the point. In Compton (California), the Hispanics, with their gangs, moved into a virtually 100% Black town, and drove the Black gang bangers out so that Compton is now majority Hispanic with virtually no "violent" crime. If the Black gang bangers are afraid of the Whites in the "surrouind", then they will not leave their ghetto and the "investors" in property and bribes will not be able to collect their profit. Disarming the White "normies" and making them afraid to defend themselves, their families, their homes and their neighbors is essential to "profit". Pay attention to the game. |
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Jul 6, 2021 7:13:18 PM SH68137 on JPFO Gun Confiscation Clock Loses 2 Minutes If you’re trying to convince me that giving a $15-an-hour clerk at a sporting-goods store another form to fill out is all that stands between us and anarchy, then I trust you’ll forgive me for declining to take you seriously. |
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Feb 7, 2021 3:16:24 PM enn ess on Dems Introduced Total Gun Bans I have had more than enough of this commie march towards oblivion, when it comes right down to it, of the human race, all but the elites that will be running the worldwide circus. We are now living in 1930's Germany. With their recent attempt to turn the military in it's entirety into another Hitlers SS corps. HR 127 - reply with one word....NO.... When the governed become ungovernable – Let Them Herd Cats……. You are endowed with God given rights, let none take them from you. You do not need permission, you have those rights by your very humanity. |
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Feb 5, 2021 12:34:29 PM Bill Charette Sr on Dems Introduced Total Gun Bans One wonders if anyone has ever tried to estimate just how many American Citizens would obey these dictates. States have tried to order involuntary "turn in"s" and have been laughed at. |
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Jan 12, 2021 12:44:32 AM Rainey on Joe Biden's Plan for Everyone's Guns Hi Alan, |
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Nov 6, 2020 2:36:47 PM enn ess on Joe Biden's Plan for Everyone's Guns It's my view and mine alone, that whatever happens in the outcome of this total election fiasco, I answer to a Higher Power, That of Gods Word. |
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Oct 23, 2020 4:53:51 PM Laura on The Real Threat to Your Guns Is Not Just Rust and Politicians Per #18. Add ASU's Cronkite School of "Journalism" Blaze Radio to the list: Their firing of Station Manager Rae'Lee Klein for reporting truth. I'm glad to see she is fighting back. |
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Oct 23, 2020 1:46:43 PM enn ess on Alan Korwin’s 2020 Arizona Ballot Analysis I have found over the years, most every time you vote yes on any gov mandated legislation is always a vote for more reg, gov control over your basic freedoms. Less for you, more for them. |
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Sep 22, 2020 12:01:38 PM Harold Gielow on Kamala Harris Is Not Eligible http://www.gielow.org/Writings/Natural_Born_Citizen.htm Natural Born Citizen “I find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen; but, sir, I may be allowed to say further, that I deny that the Congress of the United States ever had the power or color of power to say that any man born within the jurisdiction of the United States, not owing a foreign allegiance, is not and shall not be a citizen of the United States.”
“The whole system of decisions applicable to this subject, rests on the law of nations as its base. It is, therefore, of some importance to enquire how far the writers on that law consider the subjects of one power residing within the territory of another, as retaining their original character, or partaking of the character of the nation in which they reside. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/85070/the-venus-rae-master/ The unanimous opinion in Minor v Happersett of 1875 written by Chief Justice Morrison Waite defined natural born citizen as follows: “The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.” https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/88998/minor-v-happersett/?q=minor+v+happersett In US v Wong Kim Ark of 1898 written by Associate Justice Horace Gray, Chief Justice Fuller’s dissent had this to say: “Considering the circumstances surrounding the framing of the Constitution, I submit that it is unreasonable to conclude that ‘natural-born citizen’ applied to everybody born within the geographical tract known as the United States, irrespective of circumstances; and that the children of foreigners, happening to be born to them while passing through the country, whether of royal parentage or not, or whether of the Mongolian, Malay or other race, were eligible to the Presidency,...” In Luria v. United States, 231 U.S. 9 (1913), the Supreme Court said:“Citizenship is membership in a political society, and implies a duty of allegiance on the part of the member and a duty of protection on the part of the society. These are reciprocal obligations, one being a compensation for the other. Under our Constitution, a naturalized citizen stands on an equal footing with the native citizen in all respects save that of eligibility to the Presidency. Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wall. 162, 88 U. S. 165; Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U. S. 94, 112 U. S. 101; Osborn v. Bank of United States, 9 Wheat. 738, 22 U. S. 827.” If it was intended that anybody who was a citizen by birth should be eligible, it would only have been necessary to say, "no person, except a native-born citizen"; but the framers thought it wise, in view of the probable influx of European immigration, to provide that the president should at least be the child of citizens owing allegiance to the United States at the time of his birth." - "NATURAL-BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES: ELIGIBILITY FOR THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT" (Albany Law Journal Vol. 66 (1904-1905)) In 1873, the US Atty Gen ruled the word "jurisdiction" under the Fourteenth Amendment to mean "the absolute and complete jurisdiction. Aliens, among whom are persons born here and naturalized abroad, dwelling or being in this country, are subject to the jurisdiction of the US but only to a limited extent. Political and military rights do not pertain to them." Sen. Trumbell noted during the drafting of the 14th Amendment that it was the Amendment’s goal to "make citizens of everybody born in the US who owe allegiance to the US," and if "the negro or white man belonged to a foreign government he would not be a citizen." "The provision is, that 'all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.' That means 'subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof.' What do we mean by 'complete jurisdiction thereof?' Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means." - Sen. Trumbell Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36, 21 L.Ed. 394, 16 Wall. 36 (1872) (in explaining the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment clause, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” said that the clause “was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States;” https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/88661/slaughter-house-cases/ “From the premises already established, it may be farther inferred, that citizenship, by inheritance, be∣longs to none but the children of those Americans, who, having survived the declaration of independence, acquired that adventitious character in their own right, and transmit∣ted it to their offspring.”
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N17114.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext A contemporary Supreme Court citation of Vattel citing his expertise, his current applicability, and his credibility with the founders. Finally, my two cents. http://www.gielow.org/Writings/Natural_Born_Citizen.htm |
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Sep 15, 2020 12:50:48 PM enn ess on Joe Biden's Plan for Everyone's Guns This gov has and continues to tread down the tyranny path of past dictators and monarchs.It has ignored our Constitution for so many years now it isn't even recognizable anymore. It is not that difficult to follow the outline of what was laid down by the founders in our Constitution. |
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Sep 10, 2020 3:01:20 PM Nark on WHY BACKGROUND CHECKS ARE A LIE I saw your article with 8 rights violations of Lautenberg Amendment. I fall under all these with a fakse acusation mcdv, cpl days in jail, in 1991. Was never told of lifetime ban until failed dros nics check in 11/2017. Felons can reduce their crime to get their rights back but falsely accused misdemeanors cant? How is any of thus constitutional? |
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Aug 16, 2020 9:28:55 PM Cheryl Paxton on What Is a "natural born Citizen"? Alan, you are a very knowledgeable man! Thank you for sharing your much researched facts on what a nbC is. You also have a wonderful sense of humor that makes your serious writing so delightful to read and digest! |
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Aug 10, 2020 12:47:39 PM N S on Kamala Harris Is Not Eligible For anyone who has read or paid any attention at all to our Constitution, they should know this easily. Same reason why Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio are not eligible. |
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Jul 26, 2020 1:12:49 PM Enn Ess on Democrats Gun Restriction Plan Bidens/Demoncrap Gun Control Bill HR 5717 = 34,416 words of mostly gobbledegook incoherent gibberish. Founders Gun Control Bill of 1791 = 28 words of clear, concise, easily understood language. Choose wisely, it's not that hard! |
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Jul 25, 2020 12:45:47 PM Bob Easton on Valuable Information Missing data: |
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Dec 16, 2019 1:33:04 PM Enn Ess on Gun Laws We Need Are No Longer Options Exactly right on all counts. The biggest issue I can see is what you stated: There is no punishment! |
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Dec 16, 2019 1:15:49 PM Enn Ess on BILL OF RIGHTS DAY, Dec. 15, IS IN BIG TROUBLE Until we "man up" and ensure our rights under the Declaration and Constitution are enforced, we will continue to lose them and have them otherwise trampled upon. Each and every one of us has the obligation under our system to ensure this remains the norm simply by being engaged. Once we refrain from being engaged we allow those who would trample upon those rights to continue down this path. The 2nd Amendment was designed as the ultimate stopgap. |
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Nov 13, 2019 2:00:09 PM enn ess on THEY’VE GONE TOO FAR The founders knew that our Constitutional Republic, the rule of law, or rule of ourselves by ourselves, was the only type government that had not ever been tried throughout history, and it was an experiment. |
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Nov 10, 2019 4:52:37 PM Jon M. on THEY’VE GONE TOO FAR I remember back in the 1980's, talking with various gun owners, about government overreach and the continuing and evermore egregious infringements they proposed. I am reminded of the following warnings. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters |
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Jan 14, 2019 12:09:38 AM Bob Hisserich on Background Check Clamor Obscures Real Problem Alan: |
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Nov 30, 2018 12:28:40 PM Bob S on Infringement is Constitutionally Banned google athens, TN. |
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Oct 14, 2018 2:55:49 PM Debra Hamel on AZ 2018 BALLOT PROPOSITIONS We'll get you on the email list. Thanks, Anne! |
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Oct 14, 2018 1:47:04 PM Anne Fesler-Butts on AZ 2018 BALLOT PROPOSITIONS This very interesting article was sent to me by a friend, and I would like to see more by Mr. Korwin. Unable to sign up for newsletter or send an email, as my paid-for email addresss is not accepted by the media giants that pop up as one's only choices. So may I use this comment space to sign up to receive Alan's newsletter by email? Thanks. |
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Sep 23, 2018 12:51:35 AM Jerry The Geek on The Marine Corps is quietly monitoring sections of the US-Mexico border to stop migrants and drug traffickers "...The Ground Sensor Platoons evolved from a Vietnam War-era remote sensor program whose success during the battle of Khe Sahn showcased how important early notice of enemy movement could be." Yeah, right. I was there. I can't tell you how many times we (as infantry on patrol) were alerted by radio that "there's a group of VC moving toward you ... they're getting closer ... they're right on top of you!!!" Only there was nobody there. Once my platoon was hunkered down in a graveyard (it was not always fun and games) at midnight when the call came it like the callers were afraid we were going to be over-run. We went on 100% alert all night, and the party in question never was there. Starlight scopes didn't spot a lizard within 100 yards of us. This ground sensing radar business is a bunch of unreliable crap. I could cite a dozen instances of false readings, and not ONE SINGLE POSITIVE that resulted in enemy movement within 200 yards of us ... often on moon-lit nights. If the Viet Nam experience is the standard measurement of technological efficiency, I rate this article a huge ZERO because what looks good on paper is an absolute wash in the field. That "evolution" in technology had better have taken a HUGE QUANTUM LEAP in reliability, and knock of references to Viet Nam. |
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Jun 2, 2018 9:03:15 AM MarkPA on BACKGROUND CHECKS -- JUST LIKE "RED FLAG" LAWS I offer a unique take on "background checks". First: Do we have a prohibited-person (P-P) law? Prescinding from whether anything in that law is Constitutional - the Expat provision clearly IS - we HAVE a law. How do we enforce that law? Cops and prosecutors need to know whether a person found in possession of a gun (under suspicious circumstances) is a P-P or not. (Likewise, is he a fugitive, escaped prisoner, convicted of a previous crime, . . . ) How is that supposed to work? Got to have a database. Now, we have to be concerned with the maintenance of that database. Fair enough. What does the NICS check on the sales floor of the FFL do for us? It's PR for lawful commerce in arms. Like hanging a sign in the window: 'Prohibited-Persons need not apply'. Nothing more. Does the FFL-NICS-check turn-away lawful buyers on false-positive matches? Yes; and, this MUST be remedied! Neither errors nor weaknesses in the government's database may be tolerated for an FFL-industry PR measure. What of this national delusion that point-of-sale checks will prevent a P-P or minor from obtaining guns? Do we harbor this delusion for alcohol? Tobacco? Don't minors obtain these lawful products via straw-buyers? Let's consider ATF extending its 4473 form, with a 20 year record retention, to sales of Alcohol and Tobacco. 'Are you addicted to alcohol or nicotine?' 'Are you buying for your personal use or as a bona fide gift?' Then, let's extend the Alcohol and Tobacco regime to all transfers. Holy Communion must be officiated by a licensed alcohol dealer who checks ID and documents the symbolic serving of Christ's "blood" to the faithful. Likewise, BBQs and dinner-parties involving individuals (other than the host's immediate family members) must be officiated by a licensed alcohol dealer. Constitutionally, there is no impediment baring State legislatures from adopting such a Universal Paperwork Check law. ATF and the FBI would simply support and enforce the State's Constitutional regime. What? No takers? Arn't the States' legislatures concerned about drunk-drivers? Minors imbibing before driving home? What of the safety of the CHILDREN! ? By all means, let's refine and reform our P-P laws. Let's vigorously enforce these laws. Let's maintain a database of those individuals whom we have lawfully stripped of their 2A Constitutional rights; and do so honestly and conscientiously. Let's be sensitive to the possibility that any P-P law - no matter how carefully crafted - is apt to unconstitutionally deprive a citizen of rights endowed by her Creator; strive to right these wrongs. But harbor a delusion that prior restraint has any meaningful effect in preventing acquisition of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms or unlawful drugs? |
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Jun 1, 2018 7:18:19 PM Jay Dee on How to Ban the AR-15 Ok. Government bans AR-15s. I pull the gas tube, cut it off with a pipe cutter and insert the stub upside down. I now have a straight pull bolt action rifle. It's no longer an AR-15. If and when a police officer shows up, I give him the other half of the cut off gas tube as proof I no longer have a semi-auto. Meanwhile, I'm designing a pump action adapter. It's still not a semi-auto, auto loading, nothing. The rate of fire is almost as good as an AR-15 and I can even install an auto sear. |
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Jun 1, 2018 7:07:40 PM Jay Dee on BACKGROUND CHECKS -- JUST LIKE "RED FLAG" LAWS The gun violence campaign is probably the dumbest propaganda I've seen. The 30,000 deaths attributed gun violence is two thirds suicides. Good progressives believe in a right to die then claim we need more gun control to reduce gun suicides. In other words we have a right to die only in the progressive approved manner? Perhaps they're secretly being funded by the funeral industry to make their job easier. If they really cared about gun violence as they claim, common sense dictates that we shut down NICS and repurpose their 9.4 billion dollar budget for health care. Another sign that background checks have failed is that many government agencies are no longer inputting data into the database. Ohio's governor Kasich went so far as to issue an executive order to Ohio court clerks to do their job and input the data. |
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Apr 26, 2018 5:53:14 PM Rev R Vincent Warde on "Red Flag" Laws Reduce Safety OK, playing Devil's advocate for a moment, court's issue warrants to seize property all the time in just the kind of hearings you are talking about. You do not get your day in court until after your property is removed. My concern is the potential and actual abuse. In CA's system, a second hearing to hear they "defendants" side is automatically scheduled within 21 days. In 2016, 89 of these orders were issued. In 79 cases, the order was lifted at that hearing. In other words, even though we are talking about California - over 90% of these orders were found to be groundless. Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership has issued minimum guidelines for such laws to at least provide for due process, protection of seized firearms and penalties for abuse of the system. I also believe that the standard of proof should be beyond a reasonable doubt - not a preponderance of the evidence. Having said all that, as a first responder, I think the focus should be on finding and committing dangerous people - not simply removing their firearms. |
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Apr 9, 2018 9:34:03 PM John Moore on Everyone Backs Speech Ban, the Idiots The laws are not banning speech, they are regulating the technology used for the speech, under certain restrictions. Hence, I doubt the First Amendment applies. But... actually doing any good with such a law strikes me as really difficult, so I don't favor it. |
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Apr 6, 2018 1:05:57 PM Torcer on Anti-Rights Groups "Out" Themselves Leftists Demanding Gun Confiscation – The short List updated to March 2018 *Abbreviated because a full listing would be far too long and it’s extremely difficult to track down all of these demands by the many varied euphemisms for Gun Confiscation. |
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Feb 28, 2018 11:13:06 AM Robert Russo on The Bump Stock Deception A person did this. There are already many laws violated, ENFORCE THEM. The MEDIA is elevating this person to HERO STATUS. They are partly to blame for it. |
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Feb 27, 2018 5:15:51 PM Geoff on The Bump Stock Deception "Bump stock? We don't need no stinkin' Bump Stock!" Apologies to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. |
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Jan 3, 2018 12:02:39 AM George Bratten on Kosher Gun Laws I have some updates for you since your list is 6 years old. 1. If you criminally misuse a gun you go to jail (your guns stays outside). 2. People who are a threat to themselves or others may be detained in a mental health facility (their guns stay outside). As Thomas Jefferson, that 18th century liberal Democratic Republican said "no free man (or woman, et al.) shall ever be debarred the use of arms. 3. Until age 18, your parents manage your gun rights for you. 4. You are responsible for every shot you fire (except in San Francisco if you are a 5 time deported illegal alien). I hope this helps the cause. |
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Jan 1, 2018 9:45:33 PM 2ABill on The Gun-Free Zone Liability Act of 2018 If I lived in AZ you would have my vote. |
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Dec 27, 2017 11:50:53 AM Geoff on Fix NICS, Cont'd. The problem is if ATF decides to redefine what a machine gun is by including bump stocks or Slide Fire stocks then it declares them as illegal as no new machine guns can be owned by civilians after May 19, 1986 due to the Hughes Amendment to FOPA, courtesy of Charlie Rangel. |
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Dec 26, 2017 7:18:27 AM Thane "Goldie" Eichenauer on Voter Fraud Is Rampant Is there a state governor that is on the same page? |
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Dec 26, 2017 12:22:31 AM Thane "Goldie" Eichenauer on Fix NICS, Cont'd. I read this far Alan. |
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Dec 3, 2017 12:54:49 AM Mort on Background Check “News” Deceives How many of those rejected were criminal democrats? |
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Dec 1, 2017 4:43:15 PM Rev R Vincent Warde on Background Check “News” Deceives I highly doubt that gun control groups want current laws to be enforced. It might just result in some degree of improvement - and that would work against their registration/confiscation goals! The most any gun law can do is force criminals into the underground illegal market. This could be done with a few minor adjustments to current law: 1) Aggressively prosecute all criminals who lie on 4473 forms and make sure the are sentenced to prison. Notify local authorities so they can bring state charges and/or violate their parole or probation. 2) Prosecute all straw purchasers and make prison time mandatory. These people all have clean records, therefore the threat of prison should have some effect. 3) Make sure that all states and agencies report convictions and committals to NICS. Failure to do so should result in the loss of federal funds. 4) Open the NICS system to private sellers by requiring all FFLs to conduct checks of buyers in private sales for a reasonable set fee. LET ME BE CLEAR - I AM TALKING ABOUT OPTIONAL CHECKS, NOT REQUIRING CHECKS ON ALL OR EVEN SOME PRIVATE SALES!!! Most of us do not want to sell to a prohibited person. There are lot's of ways we can do this. We may know the person well enough and long enough to be sure that they are not a felon or otherwise prohibited. They might be able to show us a C&R license, a CCW permit, or a badge. Optional access to the NICS system would simply be one more resource that we could optionally choose to use. BATFE already publishes a manual on how dealers may do this, so it would be nothing new. None of the above would stop criminals from getting guns. It will make it more difficult - how much more difficult is unknown. However, if BATFE actually does their job and focuses upon illegal sales, the above would likely do as much as any of the gun grabbers draconian proposals. |
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Dec 1, 2017 3:44:51 PM Vincent Barbour on Death by Hurricane! Remember years ago how the Holiday Traffic deaths were reported almost like of contest to see which state got the highest highway deaths? Well, it had gone away once it was shown that while the highway death toll when up on holiday weekends, the overall death rate went down....because folks were safer on the road than at home. |
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Oct 5, 2017 6:35:55 PM Lundo on DESTROY THIS STATUE! I agree that this thing is an abomination. But you don't need to push your own lies to prove it. "I was there. It's revolver size. Yup, revolver sized." This image shows that it's more like 3-4 feet in length. |
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Sep 30, 2017 6:41:27 PM Thane "Goldie" Eichenauer on Orders Issued to Disarm... Everyone? You may find a PDF of the Mapp order at: |
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Sep 29, 2017 9:45:30 PM Fred on Orders Issued to Disarm... Everyone? "What would YOU do if armed troops showed up at your door and demanded your guns, because they had orders, or it was going to... rain?" Wish them goodbye. |
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Aug 21, 2017 10:56:47 AM Mike on Republicans Quit Trying on Gun Rights The biggest difference between a D and an R is the letter after their name. |
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Aug 13, 2017 10:05:41 AM Geoff on Republicans Quit Trying on Gun Rights Even if it should pass, there are 8 States and D.C. where your gun and/or ammo will still be illegal to carry. |
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Jun 26, 2017 10:46:57 PM Tom RKBA on Constitutional Carry Sweeping Nation Virginia has partial constitutional carry. Open carry is constitutional carry according to the state's court decisions. We are working on full constitutional carry :) |
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Jun 25, 2017 12:38:57 PM Dan on Constitutional Carry Sweeping Nation it sucks we have to legislate what's already inherent by God and the Constitution. |
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Jun 25, 2017 10:03:24 AM Geoff on Constitutional Carry Sweeping Nation And the Democrats in South Carolina stalled the Open Carry permitless Concealed Carry for another year because they were arguing over raising the Gas Tax. We.ve been trying for 5 YEARS now and still can't get it past the Democrats. |
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Jun 24, 2017 10:00:09 PM John Moore on Is Science Now Decided By Voting? While I agree with your definition, I think you are missing something in this case. The scientists are essentially arguing about the definition of continent. Such a definition is not based on observation, experiment or hypothesis - it is meta-science, not science, and it is necessary. I think that the climate charade has led people to believe that all of science is infected with this "consensus determines scientific results" nonsense. But, that is still just a political argument by climatistas. The work they do is not determined by consensus, but by more classical scientific means - hypotheses and experiment. I know a bunch of these folks, and while I think their reliance on climate models is deeply flawed, they otherwise are acting like scientists. Also, some science is immune to a lot of experiment - it is more observational. Some of geology falls into this - nobody creates a continent by experiment. But, they can create a hypothesis, which is then tested against known facts and facts yet to be determined. A good example of this is evolution. Most of the science of evolution is a result of testing hypotheses by observation, not by experiment. In more modern times, we can do some experiments... but nobody can create an experiment to evolve a monkey into a man... it would take way too long and involve far too many organisms. So not all science is a result of hypothesis -> experiment -> attempt to falsify the hypothesis. |
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Apr 28, 2017 8:57:11 PM Henry on Is Subliminal Sex Selling “News”? "bear a striking resemblance, according to reliable sources, to a woman in the midst of behavior that cannot be aired on regular daytime TV." Actually, it looks so much like a man that it's subliminally offputting. |
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Mar 17, 2017 1:08:55 PM Sailorcurt on "People of Color" Is Racism "Left-wing racists insist on singling out people based on race" There is one exception to that: When reporting on crimes committed by "people of color". In that one instance you'd be hard pressed to discover a reference to the suspect's race in the reporting. |
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Dec 20, 2016 11:45:39 PM Richard Lutz on How to Manipulate a Poll A thought provoking article. Most polls are designed to influence people, not merely gauge public opinion on an issue. A ‘push poll’ is an interactive marketing technique, most commonly employed during political campaigning, in which an individual or organization attempts to manipulate or alter prospective voters' views/beliefs under the guise of conducting an opinion poll. The pollster asks leading questions or suggestive questions that “push” the interviewee towards adopting a positive or negative response to an issue. In order to conceal the manipulation the interviewee will typically manipulate the interviewee before asking a seemingly neutral question. Thus a pro-abortion pollster would let the interviewee know they are pro-abortion and think anti-abortionists are immoral while informing them about main the arguments in favor of abortion (none against) and then ask a seemingly neutral question: “Do you support abortion?” The question is not neutral of course as most people are naturally averse to saying “no” to a proposition and would rather say “yes”. How do you know if interviewees were subject to such manipulation? You do not, but must assume they were. You must treat all polls as propaganda designed to service the interests of the people who pay for them and be willing counter your opponent’s rigged polls with your own. If you think the latter course of action is “immoral” or "dishonest" then perhaps you might like to condemn the Allies for misleading the Nazis about where the D-Day landings were. |
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Dec 18, 2016 10:58:19 PM Richard Lutz on Tucson Melting Guns. Again This article reveals the extremist mindset of some politicians. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) famously wrote in his 1821 play Alamansor: "where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well"; which turned out to be all too true in relation to the burning of Jewish books by the Nazis who subsequently burnt Jews after gassing them. Likewise, the burning of guns by power hungry politicians represents their desire to murder people who threaten their power by possessing guns. |
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Dec 16, 2016 9:34:14 AM Old 1811 on Illegal Immigrants Come and Go This is nothing new. Probably 80% or more of what the press calls "deportations" are voluntary returns (V/Rs). True deportation is a court proceeding and formally deporting every alien caught at the border would clog the Immigration Court system so that people under deportation proceedings would be either incarcerated or out on bond for years awaiting a hearing. Deportations also cost money, and the alien pays for his own V/R. Formally deporting every apprehended alien would financially destroy the DHS. V/R is the only practical way to remove a large number of illegal aliens from the United States. In some jurisdictions, a certain number of V/Rs automatically makes the alien eligible for a formal deportation hearing. |
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Dec 14, 2016 5:58:29 AM rick on Fake News ...continuing. Well, by their fruits ye should know them and it is be constant monitoring with a somewhat jaded eye which is the answer. Well, those things plus a memory. How soon do most people forget the news of even one year ago? Such is to the benefit of the MSM which seeks a bombardment of constant 'breaking news' and with an ever shorter new cycle. Why, in this manufactured environment, PT Barnum would have a field day! That the MSM has lost control via the internet blogs but mostly due their own duplicity has to have wrought much hand wringing among them. Hey, I know! Let's do what we do best, let's come up with something, oh I dunno, call it 'fake news' whereby we get to decide for the people what is trustworthy or not. Of course, by painting a picture that 'they' are fake, we get to win back the perception that we are trustworthy. For we are not them. |
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Dec 14, 2016 5:46:50 AM rick on Fake News Sharyl Attkisson spoke of this at her address at the Richard Nixon library in March 2015. To paraphrase, to avoid the pushback (from WH and government at large, and those in the media who are water bearers for the WH), the MSM has mostly deleted true investigative journalists in favor of those who parse through the webpages of Salon, Buzzfeed, etc so that they may pass on as news what they themselves have read. This is collusion. Then there is the manipulation of social media (Twitter being most favored) where a handful of MSM-types will open multiple 'personas' per employee which then parrot each other and can seem to appear as a groundswell, a consensus whereby the general public is likely to adopt that perception. |
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Oct 31, 2016 1:33:25 PM Vince Barbour on For Arizona Voters Are "legit absentees" somehow sure to be counted while "not legit" ones won't be? How do the counters tell the difference. Maybe "legit absentees" should just not bother either? |
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Oct 30, 2016 10:41:32 AM thinkingman on Growth in Arizona Gun Law A classic example; the all inclusive "ignorance of the law is no excuse" scenario. How is a lay citizen supposed to live up to that requirement, even though it is "modest" when compared to our current tax code, which is a monstrosity that has just kept having layers added to it, with layers made obsolete by subsequent layers not removed from the code. ( Although it seems SOME effort to "take out the trash" may have been made with AZ gun laws ) EVERYONE needs a lawyer now, even for everyday activity. |
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Oct 28, 2016 2:35:58 PM Vince Barbour on Miscellanea RACIST! Making being able to read a requirement to hold office!!.. Next you will me trying to make being able to comprehend the bills mandatory to hold office. Dissing Hank Johnson for thinking Guam would tip over wasn't enough for you huh? |
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Oct 8, 2016 1:51:19 PM RICK on To Be Fair Just Let Anyone Vote Answers: Q2: ditto Q3: These people are the unthinking, uncaring, ignorant and uniformed (willfully so in most accounts) who have traded their liberties for the govt cheese. (They didn't intend to have actually ceded their liberties for they don't think that deeply. Too, those people continue to rally in their cry for their 'rights', In actuality, they intended to trade their responsibilities, yet unknowingly had relinquished the attendant liberties. Summarized, they are the useful idiots.) Q5: Yes, the elections within a sovereign state are limited solely to the lawful citizens of that state. I would go a step further and require proof of a lasting allegiance to that sovereignty and assimilation into the culture of the same. Q6: No. It matters why they are otherwise ineligible. Of course, here is the possibility of one who has truthfully proclaimed (and demonstrated) the aforementioned allegiance yet may be deemed ineligible due to incarceration or something along that line. But a civil society should have and uphold a code of conduct for lacking that the binds of society should quickly unravel. In that case, to what would one declare their allegiance? Therefore, anyone who is deemed ineligible should be denied a vote. That is, whether one is ineligible or whatever the reason, or is not in allegiance to, or is foreign to, the sovereign state is unsuitable to cast a vote for office of that state. An aside: unqualified is a synonym of unsuitable. Therefore, the argument could be should there be a qualifying of the constituency? My answer is yes. It has been tried before such as in the case of land ownership but that was rendered unlawful. I suppose I will leave this as a kind of overhead question. However, I can think of certain tests which would pass muster. To speak of that would require more words than allowed here. |
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Sep 26, 2016 8:32:20 PM DH on Article in Townhall.com Thanks! I've fixed it. |
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Sep 26, 2016 7:59:24 PM Thane Eichenauer on Article in Townhall.com http://lists.serverhost.net/admin/de/%20 has been prepended to the URL above |
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Sep 12, 2016 3:35:48 PM Vince Barbour on Government Weather Forecast Tells Nothing, Carefully So this means there is a 60% chance the weather this year will not be unusually adverse. |
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Sep 11, 2016 9:59:36 AM RICK on Of Course U.S. Can Ban Alien Immigrants Proofread your screed. At the least, for accuracy. |
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Sep 10, 2016 8:37:16 PM Liston Matthews on Government Weather Forecast Tells Nothing, Carefully Weathermen and economists get paid for being wrong. The exception would be John Lott. |
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Aug 25, 2016 10:46:44 AM Braden Lynch on American Protection of Arms Declaration This is most certainly the way to precipitate the Second American Civil War (ACWII). As the government tries to outlaw ammunition or additional firearms it does risk the few rising up and shooting the jack-booted thugs who try to enforce it and then the politicians who enacted it and the judges who uphold it. We liven perilous times and the Democrats will go down in history as the party that provoked it unnecessarily. |
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Aug 22, 2016 10:22:24 PM Barrel Twist on American Protection of Arms Declaration Awesome synopsis article. Alan I love the way you write regarding second amendment issues. You always write in away that is so clear and gets to the heart of the subject.You bring such sound reasoning to the issue. It seems like when I read your articles I cry out "that's exactly right" |
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Jun 24, 2016 4:03:21 PM Paul on The Flake Amendment HR 2578 It also says that, if you appeal, the appeals court will affirm the denial "based on a reasonable suspicion ... of conduct constituting, in preparation of, in aid of, or related to terrorism..." In other words, nothing even remotely resembling a burden of proof here. Not even the weak "preponderance of evidence" standard. The other problem is the "Selectee list" which appears to be a secret list operating by secret rules. The bill certainly doesn't say what the rules are, only that the "standard as of June 16, 2016" is to apply. Whatever that may mean. |
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May 23, 2016 12:31:04 PM DH on Columnist E.J. Montini Sets Record Thanks! Fixed it. |
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May 23, 2016 12:26:46 PM Joe Huffman on Columnist E.J. Montini Sets Record In item 9. you have the typo, "the U.S. Supreme Curt's descriptions". It should be "Court's" not "Curt's". |
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Apr 22, 2016 4:02:46 AM RICK on Caetano v. Massachusetts (part 2) An excellent read. Now I'm wondering how this can be applied in other states. CA as example. |
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Mar 22, 2016 10:51:59 AM Vincent Barbour on Should We Elect An American President? PDF available. It seems a shame that those born to American parents serving their country overseas, say, in the military or as Ambassadorial staff loose their eligibility to be elected president because of their parents service to the country. I guess it should be made a requirement that the parents of any such birth be provided transportation to the US, and for their return, for the birth of their child at no expense in dollars or "leave" time to them |
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Mar 20, 2016 12:06:55 AM 2ABill on "Law Abiding" Dying as PC Glossary Grows David Codrea, I believ, coined the term "Peacable Citizen"... |
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Feb 19, 2016 10:38:29 PM thinkingman on Obama Announces No-Buy List for Guns I WONDER if possession of the letter "Z" is a big enough offense. Oh , right. There is nobody to ask. |
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Jan 7, 2016 9:33:10 PM Marshall Hill on Obama Proposes Gun-Law Changes My Friends and Fellow Patriots. Alan Korwin, is a writer and someone I trust to spell it out...what just happened with New Gun Laws announced by Obama. Please take time to read the facts, the truths and the lies embedded in the Obama Speech "A crowd pleaser for the left, and the ignorant" Alan and I met a few years back at a National Trade Show in Las Vegas and I truly trust his take on the action upon our 2nd Amendment and Constitution Rights. Please READ and SHARE...Please |
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Jan 6, 2016 9:11:20 AM Penny on Obama Proposes Gun-Law Changes Thanks for giving us the straight of it, Alan. I knew we could count on you. I've shared it on Facebook for both my intelligent friends/family and also those too misinformed, misguided, or just plain clueless to know the 2nd Amendment is the last defense against tyranny. |
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Jan 1, 2016 3:03:43 PM Dagny Gromer on Gun Myths Endlessly Adopted, Abandoned by Left IF gun control works, why are homicides in Washington D.C. up 54% in 2015? Anybody? link: http://www.unz.com/isteve/thanks-eric-holder/ |
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Dec 2, 2015 7:09:48 AM DH on Gun laws and legislation Thanks for pointing this out, Thane! I've corrected the link for Alan. |
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Dec 2, 2015 12:25:53 AM Thane Eichenauer on Gun laws and legislation Mr. Korwin, your hyperlinks need a "http://" otherwise they will be relative instead of absolute. |
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Oct 1, 2015 1:26:51 PM Keith H in AZ on Comments help keep me going. Alan. Alan, you are so right about the rich Arab states not wanting the rabble from Syria in their countries. And yes, they will bring their problems with them and much, much more. But, you can't say that they aren't offering to help, after all,Saudi Arabia did offer to build 200 Mosques in Germany. And the Caliphate continues to grow... |
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Sep 23, 2015 2:25:01 PM Mark C. on Comments help keep me going. Alan. To Bill S., so you're a proponent of shooting-on-sight anyone seen in mere possession of an "assault rifle" in public? So you'd shoot all of the open-carry demonstrators on sight if you ever happened to drive by one of those demonstrations? As far as why I choose to carry a concealed weapon but not bother with a bulletproof vest, maybe it's because I don't consider myself to be nearly as much of a live target as a uniformed police officer seems to be lately. I'm also concerned enough about a house fire that I have a fire extinguisher in the house, but I don't wear a Simpson seven-layer fire suit to bed every night. Mr. Bill S., even though you apparently don't carry a concealed weapon on your person, don't you still wear a bulletproof vest? If not, why not? Are you actually that unconcerned about your personal safety? There are dangerous people out there with guns! - Mark C. |
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Jul 29, 2015 12:45:21 PM Vincent Barbour on "Should America Subarm Its Citizens?" We are already subamred. Fully armed would mean we have access to any individual arms in common use by our military. LAWs (or their upgrades included) and anything that does not need to be towed behind a vehicle to be deployed. |
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May 1, 2015 10:03:40 PM Billll on Obama provides cover for radical islam El Prez won't use the phrase Islamic Radicals" because it's not accurate. These are Islamic Fundamentalists we're dealing with trying to pursue the purest form of Islam they know based on the life and times of their prophet who was after all a horse barbarian. The difference between Big Mo and any of the others from Alexander to Genghis Khan is that Mo made his empire stick by imposing his religion on the conquered. Convert or Die is very persuasive. |
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Feb 20, 2015 11:24:54 AM Carl Stevenson on PBS scraps ethics, assaults civil-rights group (NRA) "The real power rests with 100 million gun owners, who vote, contribute, demonstrate, and are armed." That is EXACTLY why the left is so intent on disarming everyone but their enforcers. It's so much easier to control, and eventually eliminate defenselesss populations. (And historically elimination has always been the ultimate outcome. Read below and follow the link to read how leftist governments murdered about 262 million of their citizens in the 20th century alone ... After first disarming them.) No matter what additional unconstitutional infringements of our gun rights are passed - bans, registration, and/or any/all other infringements of our rights, I will not comply. Millions more will not comply. To quote a few of their heroes, with explanatory comments in ( ): “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” – Mao “If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. … The only real power comes out of a long rifle. … Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. … We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? … The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” — Joseph Stalin “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that kall conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.” — Adolf Hitler Obama's DHS Gestapo and other alphabet agencies have recently purchased over 1.8 BILLION rounds of hollow point ammo – enough to shoot every man, woman, and child in the country 5 times or more - enough for over 20 years of warfare here in the homeland at the intensity of the Iraq/Afghanistan conflict - ammo that’s illegal for military use under international law, and have just ordered more and an additional 7,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC "personal defense" weapons. They have also recently purchased almost 3,000 armored fighting vehicles for use on the streets of America, in addition to the many already obtained from DoD. How does anyone with the capability of rational thought escape the conclusion that the ruling class is preparing for a war on its own citizens? Feinstein, Schumer, Obama, Holder, Bloomberg, Cuomo, Durban, and their whole gang are tyrant wannabes. To them, anyone who does, or might, oppose their control over every aspect of our lives, is “a criminal” because they said so. Hitler disarmed the Jews and others, then murdered millions They ALL thought “It can’t happen here” – until they were disarmed and it started, then it was too late. Don’t make the same mistake. Don’t EVER let your government disarm you. Don’t tell me, “It can’t happen here in America.” To borrow a quote from Mike Vanderboegh, “Anyone who tells you that ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no ‘house rule’ that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos.” The Founders knew that government, if not constrained at every step, will continue to accumulate power and control until it becomes tyranny. That’s why they feared standing armies and insisted that the “right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” The ruling class thinks they can ignore (and will quite enthusiastically gut) the Constitution. We have allowed them to accumulate too much illegitimate power and organize their agencies too well to trust them with the Constitution. They must be forced, by any means required in the end, to obey it or be removed from power. “A tyrannical rule cannot in any reasonable construction be accounted lawful, and therefore the disturbance of such a government cannot be esteemed seditious, much less traitorous.” – Thomas Aquinas When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance becomes Duty – Thomas Jefferson |
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Jan 15, 2015 1:20:52 PM Thane "Goldie" Eichenauer on U.S. Senate may cancel the Superbowl It appears that President Obama has signed this measure. |
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Jan 13, 2015 5:29:24 AM pyrodice on PBS scraps ethics, assaults civil-rights group (NRA) And when they say NRA, most times they actually mean the ILA anyways, don't they? |
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Dec 4, 2014 9:58:17 AM Scott Wilson on Media Misrepresents Ferguson Riots, Fuels Hatred (2) No sane business owner will be rebuilding anything there. Let the looting animals enjoy their charred wasteland. |
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Oct 11, 2014 8:29:10 PM mike ross on Ebola questions reporters need to ask Hey, let's not start using common sense in this issue. You know we are talking about GOVERNMENT here, and usually GOVERNMENT and common sense are mutually exclusive. |
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Oct 11, 2014 2:52:49 PM Dagny on Lessons from the Ferguson Black Riots of 2014 A friend has a great expression, "Panic early and avoid the rush" meaning be prepared. |
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