The Fork Does Not Make You Fat!
And for some additional insight when I was ambushed in my own front yard in 1999 the FULL ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN was in place and it did not do one damn thing to stop the attack. The attacker did what they will do in the future and that is just carry several guns because any criminal knows that the fastest reload and highest capacity magazine is another gun or several guns in my case. Absolutely fascinating how criminals and deranged people know this but policy makers with college degrees just cannot grasp the facts of violent situations so they just make stuff up in order to punish law a biding citizens and protect the criminals ability to conduct mayhem on an unarmed and uneducated public.
Applying an Eastern Method to a Western Culture
Well, the Brits were to the east of British America, weren't they ?
Seriously, I ran into this article, How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution (by David B. Kopel, 6 Charleston Law Review 283, 2012) (50 pp.), and thought it was material to this thread:
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Abstract:
This Article chronologically reviews the British gun control which precipitated the American Revolution: the 1774 import ban on firearms and gun powder; the 1774-75 confiscations of firearms and gun powder, from individuals and from local governments; and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. It was these events which changed a situation of rising political tension into a shooting war. Each of these British abuses provides insights into the scope of the modern Second Amendment.
From the events of 1774-75, we can discern that import restrictions or bans on firearms or ammunition are constitutionally suspect — at least if their purpose is to disarm the public, rather than for the normal purposes of import controls (e.g., raising tax revenue, or protecting domestic industry). We can discern that broad attempts to disarm the people of a town, or to render them defenseless, are anathema to the Second Amendment; such disarmament is what the British tried to impose, and what the Americans fought a war to ensure could never again happen in America. Similarly, gun licensing laws which have the purpose or effect of only allowing a minority of the people to keep and bear arms would be unconstitutional. Finally, we see that government violence, which should always be carefully constrained and controlled, should be especially discouraged when it is used to take firearms away from peaceable citizens. Use of the military for law enforcement is particularly odious to the principles upon which the American Revolution was based.
I thinking about that era, I found it an interesting question (for which, I've no ready answer) as to why the American Revolution had no traction in the rest of British America (e.g., Canada and the West Indies).
Regards
Mike
Zero Protection From The New Law
is what you get as this poor girl found out in Chicago. As the investigation continues LE believes she was shot with a REVOLVER not an assault weapon nor any kind of weapon with the so called high capacity magazines just a plain old six shooter in the control of a thug. THUGS kill people not gins and THUGS will always find a weapon. We need THUG control not gun control!
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...n-chicago?lite
The Proper Moral Response As We Used To Be Taught In School As Part Of Citizenship Tr
This is how I was taught to become self reliant as part of learning to become a good citizen back in the days when Real Americans accepted the responsibility for the difficult situations that everyone would face as part of life itself. Instead of falling for some left over pseudo commie euro trash philosophy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ6Ew...=results_video