BTW... Your posting to a gun toting Lefty, avid hunter, home protector, who believes in the fabric of the 2nd Amendment to an extent, who has earn the right to purchase guns legally. If ever I purchased another gun, I will plan ahead, and expect a background check and cooling off period. If you feel the need to purchase a weapon and demand you need it "now", well, in the real world, that raises all kinds of red flag issues.....
"To an extent?"
In other words....you "sort of" believe that you can "earn" the right to excercise a constitutional right... but only as long as the Government decides that its OK for you to do so.
Lets pretend we are talking about the First Amendment instead of the Second.
Using your "logic"....you should first "earn" the right to attend a church, or write and editorial to your local newspaper, or attend a town hall meeting to express your opinion on a local issue.
Having "earned" this right, you should then pay a fee, undergo a background check, and wait for some arbitrary length of time while an unaccountable bureacrat reviews your request and decides whether or not to grant you permission to excercise your "right".
And then...having paid the fee, undergone the background check, and gained the approval of your government master....you should be required to repeat the process every time you wish to excercise that right again.
I'm glad I'm not living in your little utopia!
Your hypotheticals are all over the place.... But I'll play your game. You see, words may hurt, they don't kill.....There are no "Word Detector" security machines to walk thru for access into the Whitehouse or a Courthouse....
I used "to an extent" where over-reaching lobbiest Org's like NRA over step the boundries of the 2nd Amendment.
I was married to "The Law" between 82' thru 97' and I can tell you first hand the unappreciatition Law Enforcement had for armor-piercing bullets (cop killers), and the assault weapons ban lapse. Why should I support gun show loopholes, so you can go to a gun show and buy a gun cash and carry that you couldn't buy walking into a gun shop.
Guns on College Campuses. I should know that my kid is safe at college. If teachers determine that a child is a danger, the school should be able to take them off the campus.There are many more examples..
Many of them are family heirlooms that were passed down from my grandfather....who fought in WW2.
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?whichpage=1&TOPIC_ID=453112�
My father's Army unit was the "Hells on Wheels"during Korea...Unfortunately, he couldn't take a Tank home with him. I wonder why not...
Im not forming a militia or making up for any anotomical shortcomings.
If we are going to throw around some ignorant stereotypes, lets talk about all the yuppie, Hell's Angel wannabe "bikers" who spend $15K on an "American made" Harley full of Japanese parts, just because they want to make a lot of noise and go real fast on a big, bad motorcycle.
I think those bikes ought to be banned, because I just dont like them. They scare me. They serve no legitimate sporting purpose, they go way too fast, they arent safe, and they are icky and yucky and poopy. Thousands of people per year die on them. If You are going to own one, you should be required to take a background check
every time you ride it in order to make sure that you are safe and responsible. We can no longer trust individuals to decide such things for themselves, we need the goverment to do it for us in order to keep us safe.
How does that shoe feel on the other foot?
If your going to stereotype Harleys, at least get your stereotype accurate....First off, "Harley" and or "Metric Cruiser" motorcycling is a lifestyle, not a sport, nor a "sport bike"....Harley's are made for crusing not for speed, unless you install a Screaming Eagle Big Bore kit or buy a water cooled V-Rod. The 1450 CC V-Twin is as American as it gets...It's the after market parts that maybe from Japan or China if your not careful where you purchase. But can you tell me why my 1 motorcycle is more regulated than your 17 guns...
You are wrong about that.
The majority of the weapons are being bought on the international black market. A lot of them are actually being obtained from corrupt Mexican Army soldiers. The smugglers arent buying the grenades, the grenade launchers and the belt-fed machine guns from US gun shops, despite what the gun-hating liberal media wants you to believe. Such items are not legal or available here.
In any case, the violence is a case study in the failure of gun control. Guns are, for all practical purpose, illegal in Mexico...yet the murder rate down there is hundreds of times higher than anywhere here in the states.
Apparently, Mexican criminals arent any more likely to obey gun laws than American criminals are.
Ok, so rocket science tells us they get guns from where? Great Britain, Japan ?
Before you go on a liberal hating media tyranical rant, Is Fox, NRA, Gun Lobbiest ever going to reveal their sources ? Or we just have to take them for their word because your scared of more talk of an assault weapons ban....the ATF and Mexican authorities have their sources, it's actual captured arms from the drug Cartels and the bullets they dig out from dead mexican police offiers....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/us/15guns.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
