There have been several positive developments for the 2nd Amendment recently.
There have been several pieces of good news lately relating to 2nd Amendment rights in the United States. By now everyone should be aware of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the 32 year old Washington, D.C. ban on citizens keeping guns in their homes. Florida has a new law which allows gun owners to transport their legally registered guns to work as long as they keep them locked up in their cars. There are exceptions to the law – those who work in schools are still prohibited from bringing their firearms onto school grounds. Lastly, Governor Sonny Perdue of Georgia signed legislation in May that allows the state’s 300,000 concealed weapons permit holders to carry hidden guns on public transit, in state parks and restaurants that serve alcohol. Congratulations to those political leaders in Florida and Georgia and the 5 justices on the Supreme Court that got it right for a change by supporting the Amendment to the Constitution that ensures all the others.…
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76 - Baronius
Wait, is Jet in Jerusalem now? Where's Ruvy? I can't handle so much change...
77 - Jet
Oh bitch bitch
78 - Dr Dreadful
I can't handle so much change...
That presumably would be why you're a conservative, Herr Baron.
79 - Jet
Ruvy's on vacation in Mecca
80 - Dr Dreadful
[sprays coffee everywhere]
81 - Jet
You sprayed the once leader of the United Nations????? everywhere????
82 - Dr Dreadful
No, actually, not everywhere, just on Ann.
83 - Baronius
Dread, you took the cheap shot. I could have pointed out that your comments wouldn't get blocked as spam if you didn't make so many postings about male enhancement, but I didn't. I took the high road.
84 - bliffle
I think you should start Packing Heat Jet. get with the program.
Look at it this way: if those wimpy student protestors at Kent State in 1970 had properly armed themselves beforehand they would have been able to defend themselves when the NG opened fire to enforce The Rule Of Law.
Sure, maybe some of them would have died, but at least they'd have been able to improve their Kill Ratio.
85 - zingzing
"I can't handle so much change..."
that's a hell of a pun.
86 - zingzing
"Look at it this way: if those wimpy student protestors at Kent State in 1970 had properly armed themselves beforehand they would have been able to defend themselves when the NG opened fire to enforce The Rule Of Law."
mhmm... yeah, ok. it would have been a total bloodbath.
"Sure, maybe some of them would have died, but at least they'd have been able to improve their Kill Ratio."
does "Kill Ratio" have to be capitalized? i'm sure a lot more people would have died, and that's not what anyone was there to do.
i don't like the government wandering around killing innocent civilians either, and four is too many, to be sure, but... those soldiers were stupid kids with guns in their hands. what do you think is going to happen?
guns make stupid people even more likely to do something really stupid.
87 - Jet
Zing if you really want to enjoy it, try previewing your comments first!!!
88 - Baritone
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..."
I don't see that as refering to our own government, but rather to other states (i.e. countries - i.e. England, France, Spain) Why the presumption that the militia should be maintained against our own government?
What we have here are a load of paranoiacs who have read a few too many Stephen King or Robert Ludlum books. You all seem to buy into the notion that the government is out to get you, or all of us. You are just conspiracy theorists. On the one hand you complain at how inept the government is, yet on the other you ascribe to it nefarious, evil plans to send us all to the gulag or some such. So which is it? - the government of Spielberg's "Minority Report," or just a government of "Dumb and Dumber?"
Just curious, which one of you gunslingers is going to lead the charge against the evil government? Who is going to stand tall urging true lovers of freedom to gather round at your feet (until of course, someone else decides they want to lead that charge, at which point they raise their Ithaca 12 gauge pump action shotgun and blow your face off.
I think you all have yeehaw, cowboy delusions of grandeur. Do all of your really see yourselves as part of an "organized militia?" Give me a break! Most of you, at the crucial moment would wind up blowing your nuts off in the adrenaline rush of fear and excitement.
B
89 - zingzing
jet, the system keeps failing to connect back to the page once i press "submit." so, i check the "recent comments." it doesn't show up there. then i go ahead and submit again, hoping it will work. it works! but now i have made two comments.
it's happened twice today.
and don't stick your tongue out at me.
90 - Dr Dreadful
zing2, if it happens again, hit the Back button, highlight the text of your comment in the box, right-click and copy. Then go to the top of the page and click on Fresh Comments. You will probably find that your comment did post. If it didn't, then and only then try again.
91 - Dr Dreadful
Baronius (#83), in the current economic climate, cheap shots are all I can afford!
92 - Dan Miller
Doc,
Is it conceivable (pun intended) that your comment #91 here was posted on the wrong thread, and should perhaps have been posted following your comment #78 here?
Just curious.
Dan
93 - Dr Dreadful
Dan,
That would be completely, totally and in all other ways inconceivable.
("You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.")
94 - Dan Miller
Doc,
According to an old story, a person whose English was not the best was trying to explain why his wife could not have children. He said, "She is impregnable. No, no I mean she is inconceivable. No, no that's not it either. I know, she is unbearable."
Dan
95 - Baritone
Today in the "Let it Out" section of the "Indpls Star" a fellow recounts how he ordered flowers over the phone for his wife who just got a promotion at work. He asked that the card read "I believe in you."
His wife was taken aback when she opened the card which read "I be leaving you."
B
96 - Dr Dreadful
Awkward...