I have a challenge for those that want to strip our individual rights to own guns. A sort of mock trial basis.
Since these folks think they love America so much - and they think they can reason with those in the world that are obviously beyond reason. I extend this.

Go to Burma, thats right BURMA, or Colombia or Darfur, or The West Bank and try to talk to some of those in power, on the opposite side of your faith beliefs of course, about their ''issues'' with no weapons. If you are successful at solving their plight, come back, and enlighten the rest us, you know, we bare-footed hill-jack redneck ignorant Bubbas, sorry Bubba, as to how you fixed their genocidal tendencies with talk. That way you will have practical experience with which to negotiate with violent killers - and can actually have something to debate with besides your feelings.

By the way, please complete your last will and testaments before you go - I don't want to pay for your children's lives after yours expires.

This stuff will be in court forever!

In the meantime, more bans, exorbitant "registration fees", serial numbers on ammo and anything else these people can figure out to make owning and using a firearm such a pain in the a$$ that people just quit.

That's the goal.

Jim

DK

My understanding is he did it on the steps of the police station because his attorney believes the police are misinterpreting a provision of the revised law. That interpretation (by the police - not the lawmakers) that the revised ban extends to weapons which are loaded from the bottom is ludicrous. Guess that bans certain rifles and shotguns, no?

By the way, the revised DC law is nothing more than a lightly modified ban. I read it and it does not appear to even come close to being in sync with the SCOTUS decision.

DC is bringing this upon themselves - the lawsuits, the expense, etc., because they refuse to abide by the law.

I'm with Heller on this - again. The DC government is demonstrating its contempt for the Constitution and the people. They should suffer a consequence.

Until we truly take this country back from the anti crowd by putting those politicos in jail when the fail to comply with SCOTUS decisions and Our Constitution itself then we are going to suffer from their agenda. As I said when Heller was first announced it isn't going to change a thing!
SA

Posted a link here about England; that genteel, polite nation. Seems our friends who have no guns have taken to the knife.

Just maybe a few guns in citizens' hands would make for a more polite London again... Maybe something other than the availabiity of guns ir responsible for the upswing in violence among youth? Maybe, just maybe; some of the violence in our media is seeping onto the streets and real blood is seeping right behind?
SA

The majority of gun violance has its roots in the use of illegal drugs. Now the Nation has two choices, either a full war against drugs which means lots of people dieing and going to jail; or decriminalize the dope and let nature take its course killing off the users. I do not care which method the politicians employ, just do something other than their gun control circus.

I am right with you, Elvis, decriminalize the stuff! Use the billions which we now spend on locking people up to help the ones who want to get help cleaning themselves up.

The 'War on Drugs' has proven nothing, solved nothing, but has made for lots of 'compelling true cops in action footage' to entertain TV viewers nationwide!
SA

“Accidental gun deaths among children are fortunately much rarer than most people believe. Consider New York, with more than 2.6 million children under the age of 10. From 1993 to 1997, the Centers for Disease Control report that there were only six accidental gun deaths in that age range - an annual rate of 1.2 deaths. Yet, with over 3.3 million adult New Yorkers owning at least one gun in 1996, the overwhelming majority of gun owners must be extremely careful or such gun accidents would be much more frequent.
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Guns clearly deter criminals: Americans use guns defensively around 2 million times each year - five times more frequently than the 430,000 times guns were used to commit crimes in 1997. And 98 percent of the time, simply brandishing the weapon is sufficient to stop an attack.
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Recent research that I have done, examining juvenile accidental gun deaths or suicides for all the states in the United States from 1977 to 1996, found that safe-storage laws had no impact on either type of death. However, what did happen was that law-abiding citizens were less able to defend themselves against crime. The 15 states that adopted these laws during this period faced over 300 more murders and 3,860 more rapes per year. Burglaries also increased dramatically.”
-John R. Lott, senior research scholar at the Yale University Law School, author of the book More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws

“Liberalizing concealed carry laws won't lead to a return to the Wild West - though it wouldn't be bad if it did. ... in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capita robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City's. The burglary rate was 1%. Rape was unknown.”
-David Kopel, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, 1994-Feb-28, in “Have Gun, Will Eat Out”

“Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.”
-Dave Kopel

“[...] we agree with the National Rifle Association that assault weapons right now play a small role in overall violent crime.”
-A Handgun Control, Inc. representative, in Congressional testimony

“It is true that despite an increase in gun ownership in Australia over the past 15 years, there has been a decline in the murder and suicide rates.”
-Melanie Granger, for the Hon. Daryl Williams, Attorney General of Australia and Minister for Justice, from a Letter to Ross Wilmoth dated 27/8/97

“Tighter gun control laws were not framed with the specific expectation that gun related deaths would decline.”
-Anne Standford, press secretary for Police Minister Bill McGrath, in The Geelong Advertiser, 11/9/97

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“Armed women equals polite men.”
-Charles Curley

Now more than ever it's important to vote and join the N.R.A. Don't really like the options for president but if Obama gets in there With Pelosi and Reid and the other anti-gunners well be in real trouble.