Reducing the number of guns could conflict with the Second Amendment - it therefore needs to be repealed.
“The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed” – Dana Perino, White House spokeswoman, about President Bush’s response to the slaughter of students by a gunman at Virginia Tech today.…
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426 - Gregory Eads
I am a professional combat weapons trainer. I live in the U.S... Repealing (or suggesting that) the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (should be repealed) is a clear and present extreme danger to free government AND the inalienable and MOST BASIC HUMAN RIGHT to self-defense (the Dead have few Rights), and would, I believe qualify, legally as SEDITION AND HIGH TREASON. I would also, in defense of the U.S. Constitution, from all enemies, domestic and foreign, see clear to provide the proper and unlimited persuasive action to deter, with every fiber of my living body, at virtually any and all costs and resources, any and all attempts to create authoritarianism, statism, fascism, communism, (aka 'communitarianism') or wild eyed, weak and defective minded, untenable and indefensible 'pie-in-the-sky' "utopianism", or any idiotic ideas like that, so help me God.
No one who knows ANYTHING about ANYTHING, let alone evolutionary human nature (not THAT far along!!!!) would suggest otherwise, unless thay are either: completely mis-informed, wildly and Pavlovianly utopianist, crazy, or with the MOST EVIL INTENTIONS, wishing that or seditiously abetting totalitarian (read:tyranny and mayhem) government.
Make No Mistake. We, the People, shall not be useless guinea pigs for utopianists who have not read George Orwell, wherein "some animals become 'MORE' equal than others". No frigging thanks.
Live free, safe, happy !!!! Or die uselessly.
Your choice, comrades !!!
Take no life unless absolutely warranted.
Muzzle in safe direction, Finger off trigger - FRONT SIGHT !!!
Gregory Eads, Professional (LEGAL USE !), Nationally-Certified Close Quarters and Long Range Self Defensive Un-Armed and Armed Shooting Instructor, Coach, and Trainer for Select Civilians, Police and U.S. Military by appointment only.
200+ Year Old Motto: "Don't Tread on Me".
427 - Paul Levinson
You're very mistaken if you think that suggestions of repealing any Amendment to Constitution would qualify as "sedition". You obviously don't understand what the word means.
428 - STM
Yeah, what a hoot. What about the provisions of the first amendment. The US Constitution exists precisely to allow people like Paul not only to hold these views, but to feel free to air them, publicly, along with the othetr millions of Americans who feel the same way he does.
It ain't seditious, it certainly ain't a threat to freedom, and it certainly ain't teasonous ... and it ain't a clear and present danger - Yessir!! - to the United States, or even to Joe Blow next door who doesn't hold the same views.
You are forgetting Gregory that you live in a democracy (semantics aside over it being a representational republic and all that, as most democracies are representational) in arguably the truest sense of the word.
Paul can say what he likes about this stuff without fear or favour, becasue the law says he can - as can you.
429 - Christopher Rose
Gregory Eads - a sterling example of the case for limiting the availablility of weapons. What a loon!
430 - Gregory Eads
I thought personal attacks were not kosher here ?
Loon ? Do you want to revile, recriminate or eliminate avian loons, or those you couldn't possibly understand or agree with ?
The vast majority of Americans never GET past "the First Amendment". That's all they know. There are Eight Amendments of Ten in the 'Bill of Rights pertaining to INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN'S RIGHTS'.
The First Amendment is the only one generally known by the news media and most 'luminaries'.
It's not like jelly beans, where you pick the ones you like, or UNDERSTAND, and cast the others away.
'The Bill of Rights; One(1) through Ten (10)' is emphatically NOT open to renegotiation, revisionism or abolishment. It IS the pre-eminent 'Law of the Land'. As such, suggesting, agitating or formenting it's destruction, in whole or in part is QUITE seditious in nature and act.
Those who pose as so-called "sophisticated" proponents for neo-European communitarianism/ communism, where the only God is omnipotent Government fit well into the shoes of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Che and Idi Amin, to name a few modern statist examples.
No, it's NOT 'the Government's Bill of Rights'.
Nay, nay.
And these loons (?) think the Government and it's magic guns will protect them personally ? Why, then, does every legal jurisdiction in the United States BAR (not allow !) any and all actions, claims and suits relative to FAILURE to protect any and all individual citizens ?
However, any argument contrary to the dogma of utopianism is summarily rejected, reviled and subject to hysterical, Pavlovian prose.
Intellectual "potty-mouth". Read: "B.S."
Fondly Yours-
Gregory Eads
431 - Christopher Rose
No, I was wrong, it's a Babbling Loon!
432 - Gregory Eads
Babble, babble, that's all it is to the rabble..
Aye, mate, guess you're done and finished.
No intellect need apply here. Statist Dogma wins; All rights summarily diminished.
You look like CCCP to the average Fin...
How eloquent and masterful, your prose-
Aspersions, insults, and a rubber hose up your nose!
Hey, bagladies like Rosie, Sarah B. and Dianne F., Carolyn McC. and that IANSA whore want a date with you...spongebobsquarepants...
Have a nice life.
433 - Gregory Eads
Oh, yes, tasers work so well too. Yet kill the wrong people, and don't stop the 'amped up' coke/crack/smack/speedball/drunk 6ft.4inch 245 lb. 'Godzillas From The Ghettos" just out of supermax prison...who eat 'black belts' for breakfast....
Oh yes, and POLICE don't ever, never 'slip the track', become deranged or trigger happy, eh ??????
Perhaps you've not seen any news lately ????
What about grandma or grandpa or your sister who actually DO repel lethal attacks from teenage and 20-something punks WITH MODERN "GUNS"???????? Should they die instead ?
Did ya all know that in 93 to 97% or all armed encounters wherein the victim(s) or police are armed with real modern functional hi-cap guns, NO SHOTS ARE FIRED ??????????? Hmmmmm.....
Those chambered cartridges (bullets for the laity) seen to practically and instantly convey / confer a 'college education' to potential miscreants who instantly "get smart" and 'break off the intended lethal assault'.
If guns are so bad, why do the police and the military insist on having SOOOOO MANY of THEM ????
Hey, all the well-connected 'luminaries', many of whom are avowedly "anti-gun", like Sylvester Stallone, and so many more, have their OWN pistol permits - or armed bodyguards - in NYC, D.C., Chicago, San. Fran., L.A. etc. etc.
Hypocrites !!!! All of them....
And the politicos who have armed escorts.....
Me thinks that a certain 'science FICTION' writer should stick to what he does best...and not venture into an abyss of which he has no knowledge, and the 'chosen abyss' has N-O bottom.....
Reality, countless times, has shown that where former 'citizens' are barrred from bearing arms, complete tyrannical subjugation and genocide quickly follow.
There are too many 'Murphy's Laws' to cite herein,
but, one may suffice: "Every man has an idea that will NOT work." To which I added: "Every Day".
By the way, it's not about 'liberals' and 'conservatives' anymore either.
You're either a 'statist/tyranicist/totalitarian' or, like me, a L-I-B-E-R-T-A-R-I-A-N !!!!!
Failure and genocide have always characterized the 'former'. What fun !!!!
And now back to our "regular programming" :the religious and, now, geo-political oil wars......
Millions upon millions can die or freeze in the dark, sans modern transport....
Have a REALLY NICE DAY....and life....under really BIG government guns !!!!
434 - Driveby
Guns are evil. Cant we all just dial 911.
435 - Gregory Eads
#434 'Driveby' - Are you tongue in cheek ?
Guns are no more evil than those who bear them.
Almost all people have relative goodness in them, and are definitively NOT homicidally motivated.
Therein is the need for the MANY GOOD people to properly defend against the FEW EVIL PEOPLE amongst us.
Dialing 911 is fine - advised to all my civilian clients ASAP -
But when the attack ensues, police are ALWAYS too many minutes from EFFECTIVE life-saving intervention.
Too frequently, CYA (cover yer ass) SOP's (Standard Operating Procedures) prevent police officers from intervening prior to the arrival of a SWAT team. That can take 1/2 hour for all of the Special Operators to assemble, reconointer and plan the Entry Assault.
That's way too long to save many lives.
Sure, SOP's and SWAT appease the public, media and the ambulance-chaser-lawyers, but there are too many deceased resultants to be fat-happy-and complacent.
Incidentally - do any of you know about the the most recent and ALL TIME GREATEST NUMBER OF DECEASED VICTIMS - MASS MURDER - IN all of U.S. History ?????
In 1988, in gun-ban NYC, at the "Happy Land Social Club", a jilted male lover of a woman took One(1) Gallon of Gasoline, doused the only available stairwell access to the "H.L.S.C." (the other doors were purposely made disfunctional by the crime-ridden owners) and touched it off .....
Eighty-eight (88) persons were burned to death (or suffered fatal smoke inhalation) ---- and the wildest part of all --- ?????
The intended female victim was not even injured - let alone killed.....
A gallon of gasoline can go a long way.
(I'm a fully trained (FF1) firefighter too.)
Police are very good providers of body bags and investigative services.
Rely, solely, on "911", at your own extreme peril.
Not on 'my watch', thanks...
Additionally, and unfortunately (budget issues), a fair number of police are not at all well trained for heavy-duty armed combat. In a ridiculous sense, from MY perspective, some of them are merely temporary 'bullet-stoppers'. You have to have yer stuff "wired" to do this stuff well.
Trust me. I know. Fer sure. Alternately, with proper close quarters combat DISARM techniques I teach, I "joke" that "I don't have to carry a gun", "I'll just - - B-O-R-R-O-W --the very gun that the 'bad guy/girl' brought to "the party""....
Er, ah, what else do you need to know ?
I specialize in hitting tennis balls at three football fields distance with way better than 90% hit probability, with a custom built 300 Win Mag, which, for practical effect, is similar to being hit by an 80,000 lb. Mack Truck going 70 MPH.
I am a technician, a trainer, a TOTAL PACIFIST and hate the thought or ever having to employ/deploy such powers. It ain't pretty or pleasant. But, on rare occasions, some SOB has to protect the innocent.
Any more questions, Pilgrim ?
Gregarious Gregory
436 - Gregory Eads
Hey - Jack Burton I'd like to chat sometime. Uh-rah!
Hey - Paul Levinson --_ and Chris Rose (Espana), we can chat too... sharpen yer "resources", eh ?
Gregory Eads
Estados Unitos
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437 - Driveby
Gregory, I was just being fecious. Have been a member of the NRA over fifteen years and the proud owner of various weapons including an AK 47.
Have a great day Sir.
438 - Driveby
Greg#435. Excellent comment.
439 - Sanitet
I didn't bother reading all the posts, but many good points, on both sides of this controversy. 2nd Amendment -- ratified in 1789 along with the other nine -- allowing for a militia to be created for the defense of our nation -- also allowing for the right to keep and bear arms by its citizens. Well, many believe it to be in case the government gets a wild hair up its butt and creates a totalitarian government (which is what normally follows a democracy once it begins to corrupt within -- the people voting themselves the money from the treasury (welfare)) (another topic, I digress). In 1789 there was a good reason why this was decided -- one our government and its soldiers had the same technology as its citizens and the big one, in my opinion, would be Shay's rebellion of 1786-87. All one has to do is look at history -- something that most people in this world do not do. "It's ancient history and has no bearing on our world today." Thinking like that and we're done. Yes, guns create some horrible trauma, both physically and psychologically, but so do drugs, knives, automobiles, a person could go on and on. Firearm technology is here to stay and allowing persons to keep and bear arms is tough to police, especially on the criminal side of the topic. Look at England and Australia after they banned firearms, granted, their government hasn't gone totalitarian (probably won't see that for many, many years), but violent criminal acts skyrocketed. The nice side effect of having citizens armed with the same technology as criminals is they have a means to negate the threat or if it comes to blows, fight back. Not all gun fights are "blast them away" fights, normally not a shot is fired. Watch V for Vendetta -- people are corruptible and if we don't keep an eye on our liberties, they will soon be gone. I apologize for being a bit disorganized in this post, just wanted to throw my two cents in. Remember, always question and always remember history. And yes, I carry concealed and have yet to "blow away" anyone and I pray to God that never happens, but if it comes down to it, its going to be them and not me.
440 - John
I don't believe in a constitutional right to bear arms. The Second Amendment outlines a civic duty of the population to be active in militias and that the people's natural right to bear arms shall not be infringed. The fact that our militias have been disbanded has eroded our civic pride and sense of duty, and if you believe the words "necessary to the security of a free state" our security and freedom.
441 - nk23
if you want to talk about this with a real man contact me you gun hating bastards. Grow the F*ck up.
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442 - Chicago Matt
Great article. We really need to repeal the 2nd, and take gun ownership out of the hands of ordinary citizens, like most advanced industrial countries have already done a long time ago. Too bad a repeal will never happen. Not against the almighty NRA. So much for democracy.