Posted on 10/26/2002 7:25:44 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
John Allen Muhammad, the man arrested in the suburban Washington sniper case, owned at least two Bushmaster XM15 rifles in the last two years: the one linked to the shootings and another one that he sold at a gun shop in Tacoma, Wash., according to court documents and an executive of Bushmaster Firearms.
It is not yet known where or how Mr. Muhammad bought the Bushmaster rifle that the authorities say was used in the killings. It was the other gun that led to his being charged with illegal gun possession on Thursday in Federal District Court in Baltimore.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Both of these people already were criminals, and yet slipped through the fingers of federal agencies. And for this reason many would seek to give these federal agencies even more powers, despite their repeated and demonstrated failures - at the expense of the rights of non-criminals.
NYSlimes "reporter" Fox Butterfield himself is one of these people calling for more gun laws.
The NYT has no qualms about publishing shameless lies. Purchases at gun shows from licensed dealers require the same background check as any gun store purchase.
More likely, he used a 'straw buyer' with a clean record (I wouldn't want to be that person now), or bought it from an individual.
Us gun toting Bubbas out here in fly-over country might be the best defense against terrorist attacks against the food supply. I can assure any would be terrorists that attempting to attack crops and livestock in these parts would be met by a well armed resistance.
Idiots at the NYT! It is obvious he picked up the gun on the black market. Criminals don't buy their guns legally. Everybody knows that .... Gun control doesn't stop criminals. Everybody ought to know that .... PC-Jerks! Idiots! Dumbsh!ts! .... Their ignorance is on display for the entire world ....
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAH !
Bushmaster Firearms, Inc.
999 Roosevelt Trail
Windham, ME 04062
I would bet that olympia snowe, sue collins, johnnie baldacci and his little buddy tom 'the mosquito' allen never saw a penny from this Maine company.
Oh come now! Don't you realize that for a Liberal, it's the intention that counts?
Politics suck -- politics suck objectivity out and insert irrationality in.
Sometimes a small error will be compounded over and over until it becomes a massive problem.
In mid-term and presidential elections tens-of-millions of people vote for the lesser of evils despite that it still begets evil. How can so many people thinking they're right be so wrong?
"The oppressor no longer acts directly and with his own powers upon his victim. No, our conscience has become too sensitive for that. The tyrant and his victim are still present, but there is an intermediate person between them, which is the Government - that is, the Law itself. What can be better calculated to silence our scruples, and, which is perhaps better appreciated, to overcome all resistance? We all therefore, put in our claim, under some pretext or other, and apply to Government. We say to it, "I am dissatisfied at the proportion between my labor and my enjoyments. I should like, for the sake of restoring the desired equilibrium, to take a part of the possessions of others. But this would be dangerous. Could not you facilitate the thing for me? Could you not find me a good place? or check the industry of my competitors? or, perhaps, lend me gratuitously some capital which, you may take from its possessor? Could you not bring up my children at the public expense? or grant me some prizes? or secure me a competence when I have attained my fiftieth year? By this mean I shall gain my end with an easy conscience, for the law will have acted for me, and I shall have all the advantages of plunder, without its risk or its disgrace!" - Frederic Bastiat
Thus it follows logically:
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everyone else." -- Frederic Bastiat
Politics suck.
War of Two Worlds
Value Creators versus Value Destroyers
The first thing civilization must have is business, science and art. It's what the individual and family needs so that its members can live creative, prosperous, happy lives. Business, science and art can survive, even thrive without government and its bureaucracy.
Government and its bureaucracy cannot survive without business and science. In general, business, science and the individual and family is the host and government and bureaucracy are parasites.
Keep valid government services that protect individual rights and private property rights while upholding the sanctity of private contracts -- military defense, FBI, CIA, police and courts. With the rest of government striped away those few valid services would be several fold more efficient and effective than they are today.
Underwriters Laboratory is a private sector business that has to compete in a relatively free market. Underwriters laboratory is a good example of success where government fails.
Any government agency that is a value to people and society -- there are a few -- could much more effectively serve people and society by being in the private sector where competition demands maximum performance.
Wake up! They're parasites. We're their host. We don't need them. They need us.
You're the host. You don't need them -- they need you.
It's your life. Make them meet your terms and become a value creator or let them chose to perish.
I have always contended that if you believe that gun control will prevent gun crimes then you must also believe that there is no cocaine in the United States. After all, possession of even minute amounts of cocaine is illegal under federal law and under the state laws of all 50 states.
Have you every seen a movie called Scanners? Not a particularly good movie but...
The same logic leads one to conclude that the real problem with 9-11 was the planes.
Logic and fact will make a liberal's mind explode. You should have gave a Surgeon General's warning.
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Sheesh.
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