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Flying to Nevada from Illinois with a gun
Bones:
--- Quote from: fredster on February 26, 2005, 01:36:28 am ---I guess I have never really understood why people have this aversion to guns. Especially getting comments from overseas.
I can't for the life of me understand why someone in another country doesn't like the fact that Americans have the right to bare arms.
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SeaMonkey:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones1 on February 26, 2005, 03:06:05 am ---
I don't think it's a case of not liking the fact that you bare arms.
It's more of a curiosity as to why, without fully understanding the social factors that drive a large population towards gun ownership.
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If you will go through the quotes in my posts above, the picture will emerge. We were told that our part of the deal is to own guns. The 2nd Amendment doesn't say anything about hunting, or target shooting. It tells Americans that like voting and jury duty, that having a gun is more than a right, it is an obligation you have toward your neighbor, for mutual defense.
I don't wonder that Europeans are baffled, I don't wonder that this last generation of Americans can't tell me who Thomas Pane was. What I do find quite remarkable is that the Swiss don't get this same guff.
Ever since Switzerland's founding in 1291, an armed citizenry has been a cornerstone of its defense. The Swiss Militia also inspired American revolutionaries from John Adams to Patrick Henry and served as the model for the Second Amendment. Ask them what a militia is...they know.
Everyone who feins ignorance here really knows that the 2nd Amendment is in the Bill of Rights. They also know that the Bill of Rights, secures rights of the people. The Bill of Rights is not a PROTECTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
And in spite of comments to the contrary, every school child knows that.
The Bill of Rights was to restrict government's power to take away fundimental rights. That isn't my "take", by the way. Says so right on the document.
--- Quote ---THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
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DrewKaree:
I think we need an assault-knife or assault-rope law on the books.
Something with TEETH!
Rope cannot be purchased unless you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have no clothes dryer and are going to use it to hang your clothes on to dry. If you wish to purchase rope, you can only have a certain length lying about the house, and you will be subject to a 5-day waiting period (after all, death by rope HAS to be premeditated, so a longer time period will weed out all the malcontents wanting to get their hands quickly on a phat hank of it)
Knives should be limited to the plastic kind available at any fast-food restaurant. If you can't complete your task with those, you are simply using them for frivolous purposes, as Grok the caveman didn't have a Henckels knife set and seemed to do just fine without them, therefore, you should be able to also.
Bullets will continue to be sold, at a price of one peso per 50 pounds, and they will be sold in 50 pound increments (your arm will wear out before you can throw all 50 pounds). All the new gun regulations shall be written in every language EXCEPT Engrish. We already kill each other even though they are written in Engrish, and those who come into our country always have that as a defense, since clearly there isn't a class required to own a gun, and only those who tend to obey the law generally are the ones taking those classes....which are still taught in Engrish.
We especially should have all the gun laws printed in Spanish and Hmong, with any language we can throw a translator at to be added daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. If undue amounts of Americans continue to kill each other with guns, we will continue to strengthen laws that protect the victims shot while unlawfully entering a home, as long as they can demonstrate that the bullet didn't do the damage, thereby clearing the homeowner of all charges.
And to the Republic for which it stands...viva 'merca!
fredster:
--- Quote ---It's more of a curiosity as to why, without fully understanding the social factors that drive a large population towards gun ownership.
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Well, anybody from Mexico?
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: fredster on February 26, 2005, 11:45:17 am ---
I agree that perhaps I don't need a Browning Heavy Barrel H2 50cal machine gun. While they are really fun to drive, there is nothing left of the squirel you were trying to bag if indeed there would be anything left of the tree.
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Since I don't own a chainsaw, I actually DO find a need to own a Browning Heavy Barrel H2 50cal machine gun, and if it were reasonably priced, I have a feeling I would make that purchase......for removing the diseases and dying trees on my property, of course! and around the rest of the neighborhood and city! w00t!