cannot wait to read the news about the next home invader getting shot! folks we best get armed and ready to defend our homes now!and the very ideal anti-gun groups would take away our guns!
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quote:Originally posted by meanasasnake:
There is no chance that guns used for average home protection will be confiscated by anyone, so drop the hysterics. If ,on the other hand, you are stockpiling weapons of mass destruction - you get no sympathy from me.
P.S. I keep weapons for home protection. They do not include automatic assault weapons. I am not expecting to have to kill 60 or 70 home invaders.
quote:Originally posted by HIFLYER:quote:Originally posted by meanasasnake:
There is no chance that guns used for average home protection will be confiscated by anyone, so drop the hysterics. If ,on the other hand, you are stockpiling weapons of mass destruction - you get no sympathy from me.
P.S. I keep weapons for home protection. They do not include automatic assault weapons. I am not expecting to have to kill 60 or 70 home invaders.
Not that it matters but no one can legally own a automatic assault weapon without a federal permit. As far as "no chance of guns used for average home protection not being confiscated" one only has to to look at England, Canada etc to see it is a real possibility.
quote:Originally posted by meanasasnake:quote:Originally posted by HIFLYER:quote:Originally posted by meanasasnake:
There is no chance that guns used for average home protection will be confiscated by anyone, so drop the hysterics. If ,on the other hand, you are stockpiling weapons of mass destruction - you get no sympathy from me.
P.S. I keep weapons for home protection. They do not include automatic assault weapons. I am not expecting to have to kill 60 or 70 home invaders.
Not that it matters but no one can legally own a automatic assault weapon without a federal permit. As far as "no chance of guns used for average home protection not being confiscated" one only has to to look at England, Canada etc to see it is a real possibility.
Those nations have no Constitutional provisions which protect the "right to bear arms" as we do in the United States. Both the nations you cite have lower crime rates than the United States - and far fewer cases of gun related violence. Also, I have been in gun shops in England AND Canada (my father and grandfather have hunted in both countries). It must also be pointed out that both Canada and England seem to be quite comfortable with their gun laws.
quote:That depends on who you talk to most I talk to lately do not like their gun laws. While gun violence went down in Canada home invasions and robberies went way up.
quote:Originally posted by meanasasnake:
There is no chance that guns used for average home protection will be confiscated by anyone, so drop the hysterics. If ,on the other hand, you are stockpiling weapons of mass destruction - you get no sympathy from me.
P.S. I keep weapons for home protection. They do not include automatic assault weapons. I am not expecting to have to kill 60 or 70 home invaders.
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"I don't believe gun owners have rights."
Sarah Brady, Hearst Newspapers Special Report "Handguns in America", October 1997
"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them. "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in," I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here."
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D/CA) speaking of her authorship of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban on "60 Minutes" 2/5/95
"We must get rid of all the guns."
Sarah Brady speaking on behalf of HCI with Sheriff Jay Printz & others on "The Phil Donahue Show" September 1994
"For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments."
James Brady, Parade Magazine 6/26/94
"...When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly....[However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."
President Bill Clinton on MTV "Enough is Enough" 3/22/94
"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
HCI President Sarah Brady to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, The National Educator, January 1994, p.3
quote:The 2006 rate of violent crime involving the use of firearms in Canada remained stable for the fourth consecutive year, according to a new study examining trends in gun violence.
Canadian police services reported just over 8,100 victims of violent gun crime, ranging from assault to robbery and homicide, accounting for 2.4% of all victims of violence. Handguns made up nearly two-thirds of all firearms used.
Violent crimes were more often committed with other types of weapons than guns. Knives accounted for 6.2% of violent victimizations and clubs or other blunt instruments were used against 3.0% of victims.
quote:Those nations have no Constitutional provisions which protect the "right to bear arms" as we do in the United States. Both the nations you cite have lower crime rates than the United States - and far fewer cases of gun related violence. Also, I have been in gun shops in England AND Canada (my father and grandfather have hunted in both countries). It must also be pointed out that both Canada and England seem to be quite comfortable with their gun laws.
quote:Originally posted by Psychomom63:
My uncles and my Daddy always told me to keep a gun but never register it because they were in WW2 and when the Nazis started to take over they took the lists of registered gun owners and disarmed them. I believe my right to bear arms is a personal right and should not be mandated by the government. And as far as owning a fully automatic rifle-any semi-automatic can be changed with a little work.
quote:Originally posted by shimara12:
In August of 1999, Donna Dees-Thomases, a New Jersey mother, read with horror about a gunman who randomly shot at a group of children in Granada Hills, California. Seven days later, on August 17, Donna decided to apply for a permit to march on Washington to protest this country's lack of meaningful gun laws.
In September, Donna was joined by a group of 25 Tri-State mothers at a news conference in Manhattan, where she announced that a grassroots movement of mothers called the Million Mom March was planning to march on Washington on Mother's Day in May 2000.
After nine months of organizing, mobilizing, advertising, and energizing, the day finally came. On May 14, 2000, approximately 750,000 mothers and others gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC to demand sensible gun laws. An additional 150,000 to 200,000 people marched in support events across the country. View the Photo Gallery from Mother's Day 2000.
Following the event, the Million Mom March participants became a chapter-based organization to promote sensible gun laws in state legislatures, merging with a victim led organization called the Bell Campaign, but keeping the name Million Mom March as the new organization.
On October 1, 2001, the Million Mom March merged with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. By combining the experience, talent, and resources, of two powerful organizations, the new organization is better positioned to encourage Congress to pass national laws that prevent gun violence in this country, rather than legislation to placate the gun lobby.
As part of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (the nation's largest, non-partisan, grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence), the national network of Million Mom March Chapters is devoted to creating an America free from gun violence, where all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in our communities.
quote:Million Mom Marcher Barbara Graham shoots innocent man Kikko Smith - also known as Barbara Lipscomb
"You can't tell the kids to stop the violence with the mothers running around like this." --- Mary Ann Smith, after her son was shot by a Million Mom Marcher
After helping to organize the Million Mom March, and even speaking at the event, Barbara Graham was convicted of shooting an innocent man. Now he is paralyzed for life.
The Washington Post reported that "Police recovered three handguns and a TEC-9 submachine gun at her home." Note that the TEC-9 was banned by the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban (AWB).
quote:Originally posted by FirenzeVeritas:
mean, I'm not in an organized militia. How about you? Sassy has already told me that he comprised a militia of one.
I almost hate to tread here, but since John first brought it up... John, you mentioned a previous felony conviction. You do know unless your right to own a gun has been restored by the ATF of Alabama that your weapon(s) is/are illegal?