Obama calls for permanent ban on assault rifles

If personal responsibility is the connection you are trying to make, than owning a car would have been a better comparison.

Likewise, those in possession of "firearms", ought to be equipped with mental acuity, compassion, and integrity...attributes, seemingly, sorely lacking, amongst gun owners (in particular, Dick Cheney), in general.
I hope that I made myself and my intentions clear.

That's a pretty sweeping assumption/accusation considering you don't know even close to all gun owners.

What about driving a car? Getting a drivers license here is a joke. How many people do you see every day that truly are not ready to drive. From age 15.5 to 102. Should we revoke everyones driving privileges? Because that is how you are approaching the issue of firearms.

It's a valid point, the only hyperbole i see is yours. How many people do you know who own guns? What would be your guess for members on this board?

There is no place for guns in a civilized society...if all guns were done away with...and legislation were enacted to criminally prosecute anyone who discharged a weapon...this would be a better country, and crime would decrease markedly. IMHO

Therein lies the problem - "Civilized Society". It's not the civilized part that concerns me - it's the uncivilized part. You may live and work in a protected world but the rest of us have to make personal protective decisions based on the despicable element that surrounds us outside our homes. For me, personal protection includes weapons. I'll shoot an intruder before I'll try to reason with him. The notion of being attacked does not rule my life but I am not arrogant enough to think that it will never happen to me.

As for the rest of your comment, the penal system in this country is paralyzed by the lack of penitentiaries. In California, they are early-releasing thousands of thugs due to overcrowding. You're living in a dream world, son.

Talk about what you know, not what you presume to know.

I come from a family of peace officers and attorneys. I only speak to what I know. Granted, my perspective is from the law enforcement and punishment side, not the criminal side. I will repeat myself - a thug that my father arrested for drugs tried to kill me when I was 3 as an act of retribution against my father. When he was released for the murder attempt on me, he came back to the neighborhood to shoot my father - wound up dead in a bar shootout as a result. I do speak from experience.

As for you, was your time in city or county jail or was it state or federal prison? If you were imprisoned illegally you have recourse, call your friends at the ACLU, they will be happy to listen. If you are correct, you should be compensated. If you are not, well, I guess the penal system is full of innocent men, just as the guy that bunked with you. Do not presume, young man.

If you must know, it was in the county jail...I never quite made it to state prison, due to overcrowding (Thank God!)...
I was indeed, imprisoned illegally, and if you think I have recourse, or money for recourse, or that anyone, anywhere really cares what happened to poor little Aaron, then you must be partaking of the same drugs the thug that threatened your family was dealing. The system is broken. Innocent people are in jail, and on death row...because people don't care. Values are no more than lip service...and this country is predicate on lies and deceit. Ugly, but true.

Quite honestly, I feel sorry and sad for you. You need something good to happen in your life. Look forward - what has happened is done, move on. Find something positive in your life, get away from politics.

Quite honestly, I feel sorry and sad for you. You need something good to happen in your life. Look forward - what has happened is done, move on. Find something positive in your life, get away from politics.

Still you had some bad breaks - inside and outside of your control, it sounds like.