Rice: Gun Rights Important As Free Speech

Freedom my arse,

what about cars? There's more restrictions placed on driving a car than a gun.

What the US needs is a tiny bit more legislation to prevent nut-cases from getting their hands on weapons. It also may need to change its culture a tiny bit.

First, no more gun regulations until the unconstitutional regulations are lifted, and we are compensated for the violation of our rights.

cjhsa wrote:

I'll take my chances with my weapons instead of begging for mercy. Thank you very much.

This raises a good point: Even if someone manages to show that guns are more of a problem than a solution, it is still imperative that we be allowed to have them. It is a matter of freedom.

Wolf_ODonnell wrote:

Freedom my arse,

Freedom is important. Better to have the whole country annihilated, and me with it, than to let the anti-gunners enslave us.

Compensated? Are you joking?

So when the founding fathers died, they entrusted the word from on high on all constitutional issues to Oralloy?

oralloy wrote:

cjhsa wrote:

I'll take my chances with my weapons instead of begging for mercy. Thank you very much.

This raises a good point: Even if someone manages to show that guns are more of a problem than a solution, it is still imperative that we be allowed to have them. It is a matter of freedom.

Just curious if this applies to all weapons, incuding WMD.

Then wondering why you get to have them and others don't. Seems a little bit hypocritical in my book.

oralloy wrote:

Wolf_ODonnell wrote:

Freedom my arse,

Freedom is important. Better to have the whole country annihilated, and me with it, than to let the anti-gunners enslave us.

Speak for yourself, Rambo.

Though, in fairness, I guess you are. If I can paraphrase: "I'd rather die and have the US destroyed, than give up my gun."

Which is to say, that you personally have no authority for asserting what you will or won't accept in the matter of gun control legislation.

Oralloy, this is the drivel you are peddling as though you speak from on high with regard to constitutional issues:

"Second, since the "tiny bit more" is likely to be a violation of our Constitutional rights, the answer is probably no to that anyway (though I'd have to see the proposal to judge for sure)."

I have absolutely no reason to consider it reasonable to think that you personally are authorized to judge what is or is not constitutionally acceptable. I think it not unreasonable to assert the Supremes and the Federal judiciary would take the same stance.

I claim to be capable of reaching the only correct interpretation.

Freedom of speech gives me the right to state that correct interpretation.

I wouldn't need authority unless I was trying to make my proclamations legally binding on the nation.

oralloy wrote:

I claim to be capable of reaching the only correct interpretation.

This is an assertion without substantiation.

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Not with the right kind of gun. They make a revolver which shoots small guage (20 or 410) shotshells and, at close range, that thing is death on snakes. Everybody in India should have one.

I'm sure it is death on snakes. But the two factors that stick out to me are,

1. Guns and ammo are expensive.

2. Guns take safety courses to handle properly.

Snakes are not a harmful part of nature when handled properly and in fact are instrumental in keeping the rat population down in India, which is immense to begin with.

I appreciate the sentiment of wanting to help the Indian people but I think this may be one of those rare cases where guns aren't the solution.

Cycloptichorn

ps many Hindus believe it is wrong to kill anything, so I'm not sure it would go over too well with them, the whole gun thing

D'artagnan wrote:

oralloy wrote:

Wolf_ODonnell wrote:

Freedom my arse,

Freedom is important. Better to have the whole country annihilated, and me with it, than to let the anti-gunners enslave us.

Speak for yourself, Rambo.

Though, in fairness, I guess you are. If I can paraphrase: "I'd rather die and have the US destroyed, than give up my gun."

I speak for all who value American freedom.