@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:Terror is what the children in Sandy Hook, and the patrons of a cinema in Denver felt.
It's got nothing to do with making the world a safer place.
I wish that the victims had been better armed in their own defense
and been well drilled in defensive battle tactics. Candor moves me to admit
that there must be an age below which human beings cannot use tools, including defensive tools.
Maybe some of the victims cud have fought back with defensive gunfire and others cud not; I dunno.
As a general rule, I wish that the victims r better armed than the predators.
izzythepush wrote:The most powerful weapon you have isn't your gun, but your vote.
Yes; I do the best I can to degrade, curtail and to strangle the domestic jurisdiction of government,
to break its heart,
break its spirit, thereby to re-establish
Americanism, in accordance with the Founders' principles of personal liberty.
Liberty and government jurisdiction are
INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL
I vote as
anti-authoritarianly as I can.
Still: if attacked in the streets, I wanna use my
GUN, not my vote.
izzythepush wrote:Show a bit of faith in democracy.
History has proven that faith is not justified.
If it were, then Obama 'd not have been elected; nor Clinton.
izzythepush wrote:The most stringent laws that the current administration could possibly pass
will still let you keep your guns. You've got nothing to worry about,
I remain acutely aware of that situation, Izzy.
I am a (somewhat) active participant in it
and I have focused upon it for several decades
with meticulous political n jurisprudential analysis,
eventually vindicated by the USSC in the
HELLER case.
I remain optimistic that we
freedom-loving citizens
can prevent the "current administration" from passing any laws on that subject.
Accordingly, the Bill of Rights will be honored.
izzythepush wrote:unlike thousands of schoolchildren.
Your point is well taken; shockingly high numbers of them
remain un-armed and helpless from dogs in the streets or from assassins in the schools.
From the age of 8, I prepared myself for personal defense
as well as I cud. Eventually, I needed that defense.
David