Posted on 04/24/2013 6:03:34 AM PDT by rktman
Catherine the Great once demanded of her favorite commander, Aleksandr V. Suvorov, why he had allowed defeated enemy soldiers to escape. "I wanted to kill or capture every last one," he admitted, "but pity stayed my hand."
"You are not known for pity toward my enemies," the Empress replied.
"It was a pity that I had no fresh cavalry at hand," Suvorov explained.
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We should be eliminating gun laws, not accepting small advances of the leftist agenda.
A resounding yes on that. We should be demanding less intrusion in all aspects by the “authorit-I’s”. Leave me alone! If I need your help, I’ll let you know.
Exactly right. At the federal, state, and local level, our goal should be to repeal bad laws against the possession or appropriate use of firearms. The laws on silencers are unnecessary, just a source of tax revenue and delays. Many other restrictions are silly, and those that serve no purpose should be repealed. That is where we need to take the Second Amendment fight, not to the trenches where we try to defend what we have against the steady encroachment of the far left but to them - we should attack and take back our God-given constitutional rights, rather than merely defend.
I'd also favor restoring Second Amendment rights to convicted felons, with the delay based on the specific felony and time elapsed without another felony conviction (perhaps never for armed robbery and similar crimes, but at some point for non-violent felonies).
Frankly, background checks are pretty much pointless anyway.
A trip to the nearest hood with a couple hundred bucks can result in a throw away weapon if a criminal intends to do harm with one.
I’d be okay with an optional mechanism to do a background check where a private seller could call in your driver’s license number and no other information (different from SSN in my state) and immediately hear whether you were permitted to own a firearm. That strikes me as useful. But a background check that includes a description of the firearm, including the model and serial number, is clearly gun registration, and that can have no rational purpose other than to infringe on my right to keep and bear arms.
Do sellers of knives do background checks?
Baseball bats?
Cans of gasoline?
Cars?
Oh yeah, if you go to the hood and wave around a couple hundred in cash - you'll get to see guns..
Problem is that there are too many squishy politicians who are all to willing to nickel and dime our freedoms away.
Excellent article. This is how we need to advance conservatism in general.
BTTT!
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