Finally, some common sense, DC has the 5th highest crime of a major city, and finally law abiding citizens can protect themselves.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.as...20070309d.html

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Cheney is the second executive officer to shoot someone in the face and chest. Clinton was the first.

My favorite part of the article...
So much for gun control laws.

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One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings. --Diogenes

Let's knock these laws off one by one and move on to something real. Not just something that gets the plebes all excited. 100% gun restriction is just that.

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JMS gets another English lesson:

Quote:

there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.

The result:

Quote:

By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.

Thats good news.

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McCain 2008
"We make war that we may live in peace"
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever."
"War critics can no longer credibly argue that we are losing in Iraq, so now they argue the war costs too much."
"Oderint dum metuant"
http://members.cox.net/neddy/bobhope_kerfuffles.wmv
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnfflRNpwKA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-QYIP7o2-A

A BIG WIN for the U.S. Constitution.

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

While I agree that a near-total gun ban is probably unconstitutional, anyone else bothered by the fact that the ruling apparently overturns 70 years of precedent? Or is it only judicial activism when you don't like the ruling?

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Scarred survivor of the April 2008 Mod War.

Here's the D.C. crime rates going back to 1960:
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/dccrime.htm

If you can see any meaningful correlation between that and the gun-control laws, you're a better man than I. Murders peaked in 1991 at 482, then dropped more or less steadily to 195 in 2005. The population of D.C. fell during that period, but only about 8 percent.

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Scarred survivor of the April 2008 Mod War.

2nd Amendment: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

I read nothing in this statement that would prohibit an individual from owning any armament he chooses. Individuals in 1778 could, if wealthy enough, own the most advanced weaponry the world had to offer. Why should it be different now?
Perhaps, because we might have to live with its consequences.

What was funny was hearing an NBC news reporterette breathlessly exclaiming that this decision apparently means individuals can own guns! Gasp! Garsh, next week, she'll discover that the Equal Protection Clause means folks have to be treated equally! Who knows, maybe liberals will discover the whole constitution!!!!





Nahhhhhhhh

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Read this post quick before the mods delete it!

why the heck did I get sentenced to gun advocacy hell?

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And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.