So you think you know the 2nd Amendment

[Yossarian]

I know, I'm fringe. Twenty-six body bags later, people who were no more human to the shooter than the baddies on the screen in Halo, and I'm officially off the deep end. No more glorifying killing power for me - in reality or in fantasy.

In what video game do you shoot your mother 4 times in the head while she is sleeping?

I'm not seeing the people who engage in shooting sports committing any of these crimes. The common thread seems to be mentally ill young males, not sportsmen or even self-defense (translate that to killing if you want) oriented gun owners.

[peggy]

Given that I have multiple Title II/NFA items registered with the BATF, and a Class III license pending, participate in sanctioned CMP events and own many "assault weapons" purchased directly from the US Government for this purpose, and participate in a winery business, I'm pretty sure they already know where to find me. I talk with them every few weeks. Nice guys really.

I don't smoke or grow tobacco though, maybe you could drop them a dime about that.

But thanks!

Well, just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not watching you!

[Mrs-M]

Originally posted by Yossarian.
In what video game do you shoot your mother 4 times in the head while she is sleeping?

And if such a game doesn't exist, does it matter? Your statement suggests we reside in a world/society where all is tickety-boo.

[peggy]

Don't get me wrong, I hope we never have the need for violent/armed resistance. I do think the powers that be are kept in check to a certain degree because such resistance is a possibility and because they realize it would be impossible to squelch. To attempt to do so would be akin to scratching poison ivy, the itch would spread AND become more acute. That may just be one of our greatest strengths. God bless the USA.

Why do you all think the government, our government is just itching to enslave us all? That without the gun toting tea baggers at rallies to 'remind' our officials that we are armed is the only thing standing between us and total subjugation? Isn't that kind of...well, paranoid? This whole us against them meme is what's tearing the country apart, and why we can't get anything done. When when we start giving voice to the tin foil hat crowd, pretending that 'they got something there', then we are doomed to civil war at some point.
My husband works for the government (VA). Is he evil? So does my daughter. Is she evil? How about the firemen and police men in your town? What about the lady at city hall who issues building permits? Is she poised to invade your home at gun point? This is the government! The ARE the government. And those in Washington? They are just building permit issuers on a grander scale. And each and everyone of them, save the Supremes, can be voted out of office.

Let me ask you this. When a tea bagger wears a side arm to a town hall meeting with the political leaders, which one is trying to subjugate? Which one is trying to intimidate and bully by the threat of violence? Which one is trying to get their way at the point of a gun? Here's a hint. It isn't the political government guy up on stage.

[Gregg]

Why do you all think the government, our government is just itching to enslave us all?

We don't. Because they can't. Can't speak for everyone, but I would just like to keep it that way.

when we start giving voice to the tin foil hat crowd...

Unless the First Amendment is now also up for grabs they automatically get a voice. So do the Nazis, Muslim fundamentalists, communists, Christians...

[Yossarian]

And if such a game doesn't exist, does it matter? Your statement suggests we reside in a world/society where all is tickety-boo.

Au contraire.

[Spartana]

Guns (with few exceptions) are manufactured to kill things. That's what they do: they fire a projectile so you can kill something from a distance without having to grapple hand-to-hand with it. That most folks (like me) only use them to shoot tin cans is a wonderful thing. But nobody's lobbying Congress for the right to shoot clay pigeons with a Bushmaster, or have a concealed carry permit so they can peg a few Coke bottles in an emergency.

Well I guess we'll have to label anyone who collects swords or knives or practices martial arts and martial arts weapons, who buy, restore and fly vintage war planes or collect war memerorbia, etc... as mentally ill. And I thought many just did those for sport and hobby. Who knewthey were all just mentally ill and should be locked up!!

[Lainey]

Color-coded map of U.S. states and their respective laws on assault rifles:

http://smartgunlaws.org/wp-content/u...ltweapons1.jpg

[freein05]

NRA has the answer to these mass murders. Arm the teachers and everyone else in schools. They say Everyone in the country should be packing heat to prevent mass murders. i just can not understand what makes them think the way they do. What a bunch of idiots

[Alan]

NRA has the answer to these mass murders. Arm the teachers and everyone else in schools. They say Everyone in the country should be packing heat to prevent mass murders. i just can not understand what makes them think the way they do. What a bunch of idiots

Actually, what they said was to put a police officer or security guard in every school, which is already done in virtually every inner city school.

But, even if your version was correct, what effect would the possibility of an armed teacher or school administrator have on a potential mass murderer of schoolchildren?