FIREARM REFRESHER COURSE

[truthfinder9]

FIREARM REFRESHER COURSE ===========================

1. An armed person is a citizen. An unarmed person is a subject.

2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.

3. Glock: The original point and click interface.

4. Gun control is not about guns; it is about control.

5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?

6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.

7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

8. If you do not know your rights, you do not have any.

9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

10. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights reserved.

11. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?

12. The second Amendment is in place , in case they ignore the others.

13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.

14. Guns have only two enemies: rust and liberals.

15. Know guns, know peace and safety. No guns, no peace nor safety.

16. You do not shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

17. 911 - government sponsored Dial-a-prayer.

18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.

19. Criminals love gun control--it makes their jobs safer.

20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.

21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.

22. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.

23. Enforce the "gun control laws" we have, do not make more.

24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.

25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

26. "...A government of the people, by the people, for the people..."

PLEASE PASS THIS "REFRESHER" TO 10 FREE CITIZENS

[robertpaulsen]

On a per capita basis, probably. I'm talking about overall numbers.

CHICAGO (AP) — Despite a sharp drop in homicides, Chicago has regained a title it didn't want: America's murder capital.

The city finished 2003 with 599 homicides, police said Thursday. That was down from 648 a year earlier and the first time since 1967 that the total dipped below 600.

Still, the nation's third-largest city outpaced all others for the second time in three years. New York, with about three times the population, ended the year with 596 homicides. Los Angeles, which had the most murders in 2002 at 658, wound up 2003 with an estimated total just under 500.

Preliminary figures from the District of Columbia showed the homicide rate dropping 6% in the nation's capital, from 262 in 2002 to 247 last year. But 2004 began with two homicides in about nine hours.

You can read the whole story at USA Today.

[Dead Corpse]

"Supreme Law of the Land" is pretty unambiguous. The "incorperation doctrine" is a convenient legal fiction for legislators and judges to pull an end run on the Constitution.

Are we a Republic? Or not?

[El Gato]

The Second Amendment right to bear arms, however, has never been incorporated by the Court into the Fourteenth Amendment. The result is that today the Second Amendment, whatever it may mean, operates to restrict only the power of the federal government. The states remain unfettered by the Amendment's limitations. They remain essentially free to regulate arms and the right to bear them as they choose, in the absence of strictures in their own state constitutions and laws."

Just because the court hasn't "incorporated" the 2nd against the states via the 14th, doesn't mean that wasn't one of the major reasons for passage of the 14th amendment. That is to extend the protections of the Bill of Rights, most especially the 2nd Amendment, to state governmental actions. The Court screwed the pooch and later they tried to make up for it via the due process "incorporation" doctrine, but have never done so with regard to the 2nd amendment, nor the right to jury trial aspects of the 6th and 7th amendments. The Court is full of what comes out the south end of a north bound bovinecamel.

[from occupied ga]

Yes I was referring to the per capita championship. Wash only has about 400k residents

[dts32041]

Because like congress laws have been passed exempting them for their actions or lack of actions.

Can you say elitist anal orifices.

[El Gato]

Here's an interesting (and controversial) article.

You could have warned us that the article was from Time. Time long ago stated flat out that it was not unbiased on the subject, and was for disarming the people at large. I could care less what they might have to say on the subject.

[stainlessbanner]

btttt

[ought-six]

You don't need a FOID card if your are with an adult who has one.

[Barnacle]

Ping

[ought-six]

"Why on earth would you need a Firearm Owners ID card to go to a range and shoot guns they own on their property?"

The Second Reich, known as King Richard II's Illinois, is why.

[ought-six]

"Why the citizenry of Illinois (expecially downstaters) have allowed this to happen is amazing."

Don't blame me, I've opposed every gun-control measure this state has come up with. Trouble is, the semi-literate, despotic and tyrannical little dwarf, King Richard II, and his simian-browed cohort in the governor's mansion in Springfield, Blagodimwit, have other ideas.

[ought-six]

"I believe that Washington DC has won that title for the last several years."

DC is always been a contender for the prize, but Chicago has won it at least twice in the last three or four years.

[oyez]

Yeah, if a drunk steps out in front of a SUV and gets killed, everybody is getting sued, the driver, the SUV maker and the gas station that sold the fuel. Just about everybody but Moben-Daved which generated the MD 20-20 the wino drank are going to court. Too bad lawyers are so well protected.

[from occupied ga]

DC is always been a contender for the prize, but Chicago has won it at least twice in the last three or four years.

I guess to be in the finals you have to have strong gun control laws in place - both places qualify in this regard.

[Vic3O3]

Thank God for Texas! Conservative, Pro Life, Home of the POTUS, CHL state, lots of firearms and ranges too. Only downer so far is you have to pretty much get a lease to hunt and they're NOT cheap.

[robertpaulsen]

I'm all in favor of repealing the 14th. And the 17th, for that matter.

Those two amendments have done more to destroy states rights than the commerce clause ever could.

[SpinyNorman]

An armed society is a polite society.

[Dead Corpse]

The 14th was in there because the States were ignoring the BoR. Leave that one alone as we need it now more than ever. It only re-iterates what other portions of the Constitution says with stronger language. If anything, it needs a minor amendment saying "We really mean it this time."

The 17th... I wholeheartedly agree with you. Just as we should keep the electoral college, the election of Senators should be left to the State Legislators.

[Dead Corpse]

An armed society is a polite society.
An armed society is a free society.
An armed society is a just society.
An armed society is a moral society.
An armed society is a confident society.
An armed society is a kind of society anyone with a grain of sense would WANT to live in.

[robertpaulsen]

"The 14th was in there because the States were ignoring the BoR."

The BOR didn't apply to them -- it applied solely to the federal government. Of course they were ignoring it.

Each state had it's own Bill of Rights, as the founding fathers intended.