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I hope this is a hoax.
Whoops, I forgot to register my Machete. My buds in MS-13 will forgive me though.
Darn, guess it’s a good thing I use a old mini gun to mow down MY vegetation huh?
Sigh. This dose of comic indigestion brought to you by “Massholes R Us. Don’t blink - we don’t know what we’ll do next, either.”
Umm.. that would likely be from the 98.5 percent of the Retards a.k.a. Dumbocrats who inhabit our legislative body.
I will challenge you a freep pledge if you can find a “D” voter in MA legislators who has an IQ over 90.
I noticed you posted this at least once previously. What exactly is the story, if you don’t mind my asking?
It has to be a joke but here in California they keep trying to ban war toys and stuff like that.
What do you care? If Mitt sent you a personal affidavit stating that he didn’t want to take your machete away, you wouldn’t believe him. Why don’t you go cry to Hillary or Obama about it? I’m sure they’re willing to help. McCain too, for that matter.
He didnt get elected till Nov 2002
And took office in Jan 2003
For your information:
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/269-10.htm
Subsection b states:
(b) Whoever, except as provided by law, carries on his person, or carries on his person or under his control in a vehicle, any stiletto, dagger or a device or case which enables a knife with a locking blade to be drawn at a locked position, any ballistic knife, or any knife with a detachable blade capable of being propelled by any mechanism, dirk knife, any knife having a double-edged blade, or a switch knife, or any knife having an automatic spring release device by which the blade is released from the handle, having a blade of over one and one-half inches, or a slung shot, blowgun, blackjack, metallic knuckles or knuckles of any substance which could be put to the same use with the same or similar effect as metallic knuckles, nunchaku, zoobow, also known as klackers or kung fu sticks, or any similar weapon consisting of two sticks of wood, plastic or metal connected at one end by a length of rope, chain, wire or leather, a shuriken or any similar pointed starlike object intended to injure a person when thrown, or any armband, made with leather which has metallic spikes, points or studs or any similar device made from any other substance or a cestus or similar material weighted with metal or other substance and worn on the hand, or a manrikigusari or similar length of chain having weighted ends; or whoever, when arrested upon a warrant for an alleged crime, or when arrested while committing a breach or disturbance of the public peace, is armed with or has on his person, or has on his person or under his control in a vehicle, a billy or other dangerous weapon other than those herein mentioned and those mentioned in paragraph (a), shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two and one-half years nor more than five years in the state prison, or for not less than six months nor more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction, except that, if the court finds that the defendant has not been previously convicted of a felony, he may be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction.
Romney joined NRA in August
Was advocate of gun control
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was a former advocate of gun control. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was a former advocate of gun control.
By David Abel, Globe Staff | February 19, 2007
Mitt Romney, who has touted his support of gun owners since launching his presidential campaign, yesterday acknowledged he did not become a member of the National Rifle Association until last August, campaign officials said.
A former advocate of gun control, Romney during his 1994 run for the US Senate backed measures the gun-rights group opposed, such as a five-day waiting period on gun sales and a ban on certain assault weapons.
The former Massachusetts governor has been criticized for changing his positions to appeal to social conservatives voting in Republican primaries. In a nationally broadcast interview yesterday, he also had to explain his switch to a conservative stance on abortion and why he once voted for Democrats in Massachusetts primaries.
Spokesman Kevin Madden said Romney did not join the NRA just to court gun owners, who are considered a force in Republican primary politics.
“He joined the NRA because, like millions of Americans, he supports the group’s advocacy of the Second Amendment and its commitment to education programs promoting the safe use of firearms by law-abiding gun owners,” Madden said.
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Asked why Romney joined only a few months before declaring his candidacy, Madden said: “I would argue not many Americans care when you join, but why you join, and I think I’ve made that clear.”
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Romney said he signed up for a life long membership “within the last year.”
“I think they’re doing good things, and I believe in supporting the right to bear arms,” Romney said.
Not all gun advocates are convinced of Romney’s commitment to their cause.
“His past votes have been anti-gun and I feel like it may just be a campaign strategy that we’re not going to fall for,” said Gerald Stoudemire, president of Gun Owners of South Carolina, an NRA state association. “I’ve never seen a politician change their way of thinking 180 degrees, except when they were running for office.”
In the interview, Romney also explained why he was a registered independent in the early 1990s and voted for former senator Paul Tsongas in the 1992 Democratic presidential primary. He said it was a tactical maneuver, his effort to get the weakest Democratic nominee.
“In Massachusetts, if you register as an independent, you can vote on either the Republican or Democratic primary,” Romney said. “When there was no real contest in the Republican primary, I’d vote in the Democrat primary, vote for the person who I thought would be the weakest opponent for a Republican.”
But in a 1994 Globe story, Romney said he voted for Tsongas because he was from Massachusetts and “because he favored his ideas over those of Bill Clinton,” according to the story.Continued...
In yesterday’s interview on ABC, Romney added: “Let me tell you, in the general election I don’t recall ever once voting for anyone other than a Republican. So, yeah, as an independent I’ll go in and play in their primary. But I’m a Republican and have been through my life.”
Romney’s explanation that he voted for Tsongas because he would be a weaker opponent for George H.W. Bush struck Northeastern University political science professor William Mayer as odd. “It would have been a strange election to cross over,” he said, noting it’s rare for more than 4 percent of voters to “raid” an opposing party’s primary. “Everyone had conceded it to Tsongas.”
He added: “His explanation gets to his basic problem. He’s always trying to figure out what’s in his best political interest and is willing to cut and trim his behavior to what’s in his short-term interests.”
In the interview, in which Stephanopoulos questioned the governor’s “conversions of convenience,” Romney, a former supporter of abortion rights, refused to say which punishment he thought would be appropriate for women who have abortions. In recent months, Romney has campaigned strongly against abortion rights.
“Well, I’m not about punishment,” Romney said. “That’s not what I’m considering. I’m saying that, in my view, we should let the states make that decision, and I am in favor of life and in favor of choosing life.”
With his wife, Ann, on ABC, Romney also said his faith as a Mormon would not hinder his ability to govern.
“I’m not running for pastor-in-chief; I’m running for commander-in-chief,” Romney said.
Asked whether his Mormonism would alienate evangelical voters, Romney said: “I think we are, if you will, one family of humanity.”
When asked how Muslims might view Mormon doctrine, which holds that Jesus will return to the United States and reign for 1,000 years, Romney said “that doesn’t happen to be a doctrine of my church.”
“Our belief is just as it says in the Bible, that the messiah will come to Jerusalem, stand on the Mount of Olives, and that the Mount of Olives will be the place for the great gathering and so forth,” he said.
Michael Purdy, a spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said Mormons believe Jesus will return to both the “old Jerusalem” and “new Jerusalem,” which Mormons believe is somewhere in the state of Missouri.
“When Christ appears, we believe there will be people of many faiths on the Earth, and no one will be compelled to change their faith,” Purdy said.
Globe correspondent Michael Naughton contributed to this report. David Abel can be reached at dabel@globe.com.
© Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company.
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Dear Lord God, please look down on our country and send us some officials who have the preservation of it as their priority. Our help comes from You Lord. We are failing and flailing and we can’t stop the “bleeding”. We have lost our way. We need You so much. America will cease to exist if we are left to manage her ourselves. Evil has swept into every corner of our lives. Please send us Your loving mercy. We love America, or at least, what she once was. You brought her into being. She is Your’s Lord and there are still those of us who know she can not survive without Your loving hand on her. Absurdity has taken the place of prayerful thought. Change hearts to caring for each other. Take the “do unto others before they do unto you” attitudes and send them to hell. We need a change of heart and we need it yesterday. I’m still in love with America and I know others who are so I know there are more like us out there. We don’t want it to go under. Hear our prayer O Lord. Amen
The founding fathers really knew what they were doing when writing the constitution’ If the American people would wake up, we might even be able to hold onto our freedoms.
Here’s the summary of a nutty bill just introduced in Virginia(SB379)...and defeated in committee 15-0.
Concealed weapons; box cutters; penalty. Adds box cutters to the list of weapons that are prohibited from being carried concealed and allows the court to exclude certain weapons from being prohibited if such item was carried for a legitimate occupational, recreational, or personal reason.
Well...since they are so keen on clearly defining what is, and is not, a machete....perhaps they could spend a few minutes to clearly define what the words "keep and bear arms" and "shall not be infringed" mean.
It really shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Really.
Any individual who requires a machete for the purposes of cutting vegetation shall register the machete with the local police department on an annual basis and, upon payment of an appropriate annual registration fee as determined by the local granting authority, shall be issued a permit authorizing him to possess the machete solely for the purposes of cutting vegetation.
Darn, I guess I will have to do my killing in Massachusetts with an ax or are they outlawed too? I certainly wouldn’t want to violate the law while murdering someone.
Probably not.
The Speaker of the General Court (State Legislature) runs Massachusetts.
The Hutu mobs were getting out of hand.
Not to mention those hold-out Japanese soldiers in the Berkshires.