OK you've baited me in one last time but only because biere thinks we're entertaining. I live to be entertaining.
Here we go:
Your "impression?" No NRA quote? Then from where did you derive your anti-NRA opinion a decade ago?
Don't remember. Also possible that I'm not the man I was 10 years ago so may be more me or more them, who knows. Accept it as a data point and move on. That means that if I thought it, others might and I'm telling you others do TODAY. If the vast majority thinks the NRA is a bunch of gun nuts then the anti's win. RKBAers loose. We need to change that image and make sure the NRA holds true to it as well.
That would be James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, Samual Adams, Paul Revere, etc. My guess is you've not paid close attention to the Federalist Papers or the Federal Farmer. Better eat some roughage before you do.
OK we were fighting the Brits back then no? Yeah ok they were the "Government" but they're not THIS Government today, in this time. Gun nut definition stands - no personal insult intended of course. If you think you’re going to be shooting at the US Army anytime soon, or gunning down the local Sheriff (who you probably went to school with, or coached in Little League) THEN YOU ARE A GUN NUT. A bad thing in general and specifically for the RKBA movement.
You haven't a clue. Being rude is what makes me successful as an activist. It makes the others seem more moderate. "Hey, Mayor Scruggs, better go with what the GOA says, cuz we can't get Rick to stop leafleting your neighborhood." My guess is you've never gotten so much as a splinter carrying a protest sign as armed police look on.
Do you make a living as an activist? Because if so, I can't compare professional resumes with you. If not and you are as active as you say, then that has to mean that you don't have a wife, or kids or if you do, you don't spend much time with them. Everyone makes choices - yours is just as valid as mine, and my choice is to live my life based on the things I consider important. Like family.
GASSSSP!! What utter nonsense. They either mean what they say or not.
Wow, a BLACK and WHITE guy. How basic. I am certainly no historian, but I know the reason why these documents survive today is the fact that they are living, that means they can be AMENDED. That's not nonsense; it's what our system of Government is based on. For someone who proclaims to be a (rude) activist, seems like this basic fact is missing from your knowledge base. Curious. Makes me think you are just a troll after all.
Other professions do not have guns, badges and the acceptance of the local prosecutor. To compare them is nonsense. You've never been held at gunpoint for lawfully carrying a gun, I take it? I have... right here in Arizona.
Too easy. Guns and badges represent things that can do harm to others if misused. Let's see, what other professions does that apply to? Doctors. Bus Drivers. Airplane Pilots. Nuclear Reactor Engineers. Lawyers.
Do I have to go on? Practically EVERYONE. Hell, if the guy in McDonalds doesn't throw away the old meat he qualifies too when he kills ten kids with e-coli. You can do better than that, convinces me all the more that you're not for real.
Although based on those two points I have concluded that you are a Troll and I am tempted to resort to some base humor but I'll finish seriously:
Do you actually read the other threads here at THR? IF you did, you would already know that there have been no criminologists able to show that any of our gun laws reduce crime (Wright & Rossi, Cook & Ludwig, CDC, etc). If people are dangerous, keep them in jail. I suppose you would also require that newspaper sales be banned. How about sales to friends and family? Do they require a Brady check too? Jacobs & Potter as well as Cook & Ludwig could find no reduction in crime from the Brady Law. Crooks still get guns. Even in England, which is a friggin' island with strict gun control laws. The only people who are disarmed are the good guys.
I have both of Professor Lott's books and have read them cover to cover. Had you done so you'd realize your conclusion is wrong or at least unsubstantiated.
Lott demonstrated (quite well I might add) that enactment of CCW laws i.e. allowing law abiding citizens to obtain and carry firearms for self defense, REDUCES CRIME.
Even the CDC which had no business doing any studies on guns came to a complimentary conclusion, that Gun restrictions like the 1994 AWB (don't specifically remember which) do not reduce crime.
Great news for the RKBAers.
Both of these conclusions are DIFFERENT from yours. You are saying that "all gun laws do not reduce crime" so let's do away with all of them.
I do not think that a study to support that particular conclusion has been undertaken by anyone as yet - but again, my common sense says that if ANYONE including criminals, psychos etc can just go to Wal-Mart and buy a gun we would be worse off.
You need to take a walk down a street in DC or Manhattan . . . . the asylum doors have been open for many years, and although many of those folks are harmless and I bear them no ill will, I am happy that they aren’t packing.
I am in favor of record-less background checks to weed out the mentally ill and criminals.
Not sure how I feel about the permitting process. Don't like the idea that the state has a list but I do like the idea that people who want to carry, just like driving a car have to qualifying for a CCW permit.
Maybe the permit, with no gun registration and the instant background check is the most reasonable way to go. They’ll know who has guns, but not how many. Since they can probably figure out who has guns from our Visa statements I don’t think freedom suffers much and the goal is reasonable and achievable as well as marketable to the masses.
Now be a good troll and go to some other board. In the event you're not a troll, I'd recommend that instead of replying, you take some time to brush up on your facts and assemble your arguments so they hold water.
(If you really are an "activist" let me know so I can go bury a gun or something - that RKBS (right to keep and bear slingshots) modification to the 2nd will be along any time now and I want to be prepared.)
Get a violin-case for that Thompson, for Pete's sake.
