Reinke Faces Life

FROM A JEFFERY YONG EMAIL

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Violent crimes are rising faster than the Share Market. Malaysians used to watch TV and comment about how bad the crime rate is in USA while quietly thankful that “our Malaysia” is relatively peaceful. No longer! In my neighborhood alone, there is a snatch theft case every single week! If you’re lucky, you lose your money. Or else, you may be slashed mercilessly. The only saving grace is that “gun crimes” are still not as rampant as in the US. But for how long?

I’m not going to go into an emotional account of how the whole nation was in uproar and how even the “imam” (Muslim priest) who conducted the funeral cried openly. I’m also not going to go into a seething rant on how the police and government should be DOING MORE to prevent such crimes. These, you can read in the various blogs all over the net just by searching for “Nurin Jazlin”

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Well, aside from the snide reference to gun crime, it would appear that people can’t defend themselves. John Lott has done numerous studies that show when the good folks are armed, crime plummets.

I’d opine that there are a few reasons for it: (1) Criminals are cowards for good reason. Messing with an armed citizen, or in the vicinity of one, can get you killed. (2) Someone who his armed has assumed the mantle of John Wayne “What are you doing, pilgrim?”. And, is more likely to become the “police” when a neighbor cries out for help. It’s down right dumb to interfere unarmed. (3) Women, the elderly, and children are no longer “weak” and can’t assert their own rights.

As regular readers here know, I like the “sprinkle a few sheepdogs in among the flock and let the wolves guess” strategy.

The police are little more than sanitation men. They come along long after the fact, put up some tape, take pics to memorialize the event, write reports, and then go for doughnuts. Only an armed citizen has a chance to defend themselves and their neighbors from crime.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070910/D8RINT7O1.html

Cleveland Mayor: Ban Guns for Under 21
Sep 10, 1:26 PM (ET)

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CLEVELAND (AP) - Cleveland’s mayor called on the state Monday to create a new law that would prohibit anyone under age 21 from possessing a firearm.

Mayor Frank Jackson’s proposal followed the shooting death last week of a 12-year-old girl who was hit by a stray bullet as she walked to a corner store. He noted that police statistics from 2004 to 2006 show 70 percent of those arrested for crimes involving firearms were under 28.

Under Ohio law, no one under 18 is permitted to purchase a firearm. A person must be at least 21 to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

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And like a giant non sequiteur, how this helps the situation is unclear to me? Am I missing something?

End the pseudo drug war, and just like Prohibition, the collateral damage will end. We don’t see Bud and Miller shooting it out over who will sell their wares on what corner.

We have had a the “War on Drugs” for several decades now. It’s don a lot of good. We have more people in jail, more drug addiction, more shoot outs, and less treatment.

Let’s have the gooferment leave it to the marketplace to solve the problem. The gooferment should just walk away from the problem. Wonder what all the drug dealers will do when you can buy your drugs at the corner store for pennies. Best estimates that I have seen, say that MaryJane will be akin to tobacco. Other drugs will be akin to aspirin. That’s the way it was in the early 1900s. It would be a real laff to see the Columbian Drug cartel lined up against WalMart.

And, we won’t have young adults, who should know better, dead from drugs adulterated with poisons or of unknown strength.

Drug addiction is a medical problem.

Gun violence is due to the “drug prohibition” we have stupidly allowed the gooferment to enforce.

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Dear Assemblyman Bill, Assemblywoman Linda, and Senator Peter:

Please impress on your colleagues that this anti-gun bills are: (a) un Constitutional; (b) immoral; (c) ineffective; and (d) inefficient. And, vote that way.

Clearly, the Second Amendment precludes Government from regulating guns. Slice it and dice it any way you want the Dead Old White Guys were right on. When you take guns away from the People, or at least try to, that sets the stage for tyranny. Just remember Nazi Germany. Disarm the citizens; death camps in the 30’s and 40’s. Governments kill people in massive quantities. I can repeat all the bumper stickers, because they are all true. But let’s stick to the one most on point. When you outlaw, guns, only outlaws will have guns. Look to England with home invasions on the rise and they still have gun killings. Criminal don’t obey laws.

It is immoral to remove the People’s Right to Self-defense. I know you’d all love to live in a world where nothing bad ever happens. But, that’s not real life. The murders on the VT campus were a DIRECT result of creating a “gun free zone”. Guess it wasn’t do “gun free”? While we can’t ever know that there would have been an armed person there if that diktat was not in effect, we KNOW positively that there wasn’t even a possibility of one with it in effect. Even a young girl or an old teacher might have been able to stop the slaughter when the nut had to reload. But the politicians and bureaucrats ensured that the shooter would have no worries about armed resistance. John Lott’s studies show the power of guns in the hands of law abiding people. It’s immoral to deny the People the protection of “sprinkling a few sheepdogs among the sheep”. Recognize that good law abiding people will defend themselves, their families, their neighbors, and even complete strangers if give a fighting chance. Only the very bravest, or the foolish, will attempt to take on a shooter unarmed. But, given a weapon, how many of those VT dead an injured would have be able to defend themselves.

Gun Laws are ineffective. The NJ Legislature has passed how many gun laws. And, taxes on guns. And, restrictions. And, and, and. Still criminals shoot people. Do you think that all the laws in the world aren’t going to help? So for example, see any 50’s being used in crimes? Oh but let’s pass a law. What’s next, “if it saves one child”? You can’t legislate a solution. Go ahead and continue to try, but it’s futile. Good people will still be good; bad bad. When you pass a gun law, you shift the balance. Less good people with guns; more bad people with guns. When the law is exceptionally stupid, you might even turn “good people” into “criminals”. Stop the insanity. Every time you pass “gun laws”, you make the People less safe. Let’s take a Rutgers co-ed. Bright young girl. You have effectively made it impossible for her to defend herself. She get raped. Who’s fault? YOURS! You didn’t trust her to know when and how to defend herself. I do. Do I think that she will suddenly lose her mind and begin blowing people away. Not likely. Might some amorous young man get threatened. Could be. One thing is for sure that young girl will be in control. And, it’s a self-nominating thing. No one says she has to carry; she can choose to. With out you legislators playing God with her life. I trust women to know when they need to use deadly force. Don’t you? I trust all my fellow citizens to know when to use deadly force. Don’t you?

The gun laws are inefficient. The costs of ownership are artificially increased by legislation. Economics teaches us that when you raise the cost, the supply demand curve shifts. Raise the taxes and fees and you deprive the poor of the good. They can’t afford it. Now I know the political elite, the rich, and the celebrities all have all the armed security they need. I’m sure that the politicians and bureaucrats get all the gun permits that they could want. How about the poor minority woman who has to walk from the bus stop to her home at night? She doesn’t deserve to be able to protect herself. She doesn’t even show up on anyone’s radar. When you eliminate cheap guns or raise their cost, exactly whose hands are you taking them out of? Not the criminal’s. Not the elite’s. Yup, that poor person is at risk.

So in summary, I urge you to vote against ALL gun regulations everywhere anytime. The criminals won’t obey. And, the law abiding, who would, aren’t the problem.

Now, would you like to talk about the “drug war”? Would you believe it too is (a) un Constitutional; (b) immoral; (c) ineffective; and (d) inefficient.

If you have to make laws, make them limiting government. You guys don’t even fasten your own seat belts, but make us.

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New Jersey Update On Gun Ban Legislation!

On Thursday, May 10, the New Jersey Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee decided to take no action on Assembly Bill 3494, sponsored by Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt (D-6) and Assemblyman Peter Barnes (D-18). A3494 would drastically raises all firearm license and permit fees and would allow the Superintendent of State Police the discretion to annually reconsider fees for a manufacturer or dealer license, a carry permit, the firearms purchase I.D. (FID), and the pistol purchase permits.The committee also voted 4 to 2 to amend Assembly Bill 3998, sponsored by Assemblymen Reed Gusciora (D-15), Michael Panter (D-12), and Robert Gordon (D-38), which would ban the possession of all .50 BMG rifles by declaring such items to be a destructive device.

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http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle410-20070325-02.html

http://tinyurl.com/2fktnb

Scorched Earth
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@netzero.com

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What kind of twisted psychopath do you happen to be, Madame Mayor, Mr. Councilman, Commissioner, Legislator, Governor, Congressman, Senator, President, that you’d rather see a woman raped in an alley, and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand?

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Guns are the litmus test issue.

Ask a politician where he stands on the “gun issue” and if you get anything but straight Second Amendment stuff, then you have discovered their politics. They want to impose their views on you. By force, if you don’t agree to submit to their will. The Second Amendment is there for only one reason and one reason only: To allow the citizens to forcibly remove a tyrannical government!

It’s not about hunting. It’s not about permits, licensing, and background checks for “criminals”. It’s about control. The first thing a dictator does is disarm the scapegoats. The Jews learned it in Nazi Germany. And, over time countless millions get killed by “gooferment”.

The professional soldiers talk about the Fourth Generation War we are facing Iraq. Unfortunately, there will be a Fifth Generation War here as well when the citizens rise up against those in power. The politicians like their easy life with the constant shearing of sheep. Heaven help them if there are a few sheep dogs in the flock that object to being sheered.

FMPOV, even if they succeed, they will eventually fail.

Look what a handful of Jews did in Warsaw with about six guns. When the sheep decide they have had enough, and are willing to die for freedom, then the politicians better get out of Dodge quick. Revolutions fail. I remember being in school when the Hungarians revolted against the Soviets. Ever heard of a “Molotov Cocktail”? Guess where it originated. On the streets of Hungary, where young children said “no” to Soviet Oppression. Hungary is free now. It’s inevitable.

Don’t let the sheep shearers put your fangs.

Women should be “packin”. Not a cell phone, Mace, or car keys. But a nice little “girlie” gun. They should AUTOMATICALLY by being in America have one. I’m sure that the gun makers can make them in coordinating colors just like cell phones.

To quote Heinlein, “An armed society is a polite society”. And, safe too.

http://www.jpfo.org/alert20070321.htm

March 21, 2007
BATFE Killing Idaho’s Oldest Gun Shop

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Red’s Trading Post in Twin Falls, Idaho, is the state’s oldest gun shop, opened since 1936. In 2004, a routine BATFE audit revealed minor clerical errors. According to Red’s, out of nearly ten THOUSAND firearms transferred between 1996 and 2004, the alleged error rate did not even reach 1%. Even the BATFE acknowledges these are minor paperwork errors — there are no missing firearms and no willful illegal acts.

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Paperwork errors?

Let’s apply the same standard to politicians and the gooferment.

Right!

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/content/sports/
epaper/2007/03/06/a1c_umfoot_0306.html

http://tinyurl.com/3y93jl

Shannon: Firearms will not be tolerated
By Jorge Milian
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

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CORAL GABLES — Randy Shannon has issued a straightforward warning to his University of Miami football players:

Get caught carrying a firearm and your days as a Hurricane are over.

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Interesting. UofM is a “state skool”. Maybe it’s not as much of one as a State University, but only Hillsdale College isn’t beholding to the gooferment.

As such, this brings up so many many issues Like separation of Government and Education? Like the proper role of “non-profit” in a civil society? Like why don’t they pay “taxes”? Like why not treat every corporation equally? Like why we permit the illusion of student athlete? Like why we allow the “skool” to make grazillions off their efforts and treat them like serfs?

But today’s issue is that wonderful tool … Sam Colt’s equalizer … the gun.

I’d say that Shannon’s statement is just flat out wrong.

What he has done is paint a bullseye on his player. Bad people will know they can’t defend themselves. He’s equated the possession of a tool with a bad intention.

If UofM is a government entity, (and it’s hard to argue that it isn’t), then he is an agent of the gooferment, and he has infringed on these player’s rights.

Regardless if they push back or not, that infringes all our rights.

The fact that the liberal media gets all gushy about this “enlightened” policy just proves how shallow they are.

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=2724

http://tinyurl.com/33zr23

D.C. Gun Ban Ruled Unconstitutional, Violates Individual Right To Own A Gun
Friday, March 09, 2007

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This week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Second Amendment is an individual right and concluded that the District of Columbia’s ban on guns in the home is unconstitutional. According to the majority opinion, “[T]he phrase ‘the right of the people’…leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual.”

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In a victory for all the little people of the District, our right was affirmed.

Now let’s see what roadblocks the “state uber alles” throws in everyone’s way.

I find it hard to believe that it was 2-1. Send that judge back to private life. I bet she has an armed security detail everywhere she goes. Taxpayer funded of course. If I was a citizen of the District, then I’ve have demanded her recall. (Yes, it’s a she. Appointed by Regan!)

Of course, if I was a citizen of DC, I’d have moved eons ago.

Let’s face facts. Most of DC’s violence is caused by the “War on Drugs”. End drug prohibition and you’d end the violence. End the various wars on nonsense (drugs, gambling, prostitution, and all “victimless” crimes) and it would be a peace in minutes.

What does an out of work drug dealer do?

End welfare, absurd taxation, and ridiculous regulation as well.

You’d have a city that would rival Singapore in a matter of “minutes”. People would be moving to DC as opposed to fleeing from it.

And, maybe bribing politicians wouldn’t be its only industry.

With a tax, regulatory, and legal environment like that maybe we could make something useful there.

One can only dream!

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
article?AID=2007703050350

http://tinyurl.com/3bsdt4

March 5, 2007
A death averted
# Passer-by uses gun to halt attack
By Nicklaus Lovelady

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As customers watched in horror Sunday afternoon, a man stabbed a woman and attempted to set her on fire in the parking lot of a Jackson store, witnesses said.

The attack was stopped by a passer-by, who held the man at gunpoint until police arrived, witnesses said.

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This writer is going to be drummed out of the liberal media union.

Violating the “gunz is bad” mantra.

Here we have a passer by using his tool to save a woman.

Other passers by didn’t interfere. Going face to face with a knife wielding nut isn’t good for your health.

What would they have done if they had been suitable armed?

It’s my “sprinkle a few sheepdogs amoung the sheep” argument.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?
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GUN CONTROL QUESTION

Anyone care to guess which answer is mine?

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/02/atCarbine070219/

Better than M4, but you can’t have one
By Matthew Cox - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Feb 23, 2007 5:27:44 EST

Delta Force worked with a gun maker to come up with a better weapon. The 416 is now considered in many circles to be the best carbine in the world, but the regular Army is sticking with the M4 and M16.

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March 4, 2002. An RPG tore into the right engine of an MH-47 Chinook helicopter loaded with a quick-reaction force of Rangers in the Shahikot Mountains of eastern Afghanistan. The Chinook crashed atop Takur Ghar, a 10,000-foot peak infested with al-Qaida fighters.

Enemy fire poured into the fuselage, killing Rangers even before they got off the aircraft. Capt. Nate Self crawled out.

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Once behind cover, Self tried to fire again, but his weapon jammed.

Instinctively, he tried to fix it with “immediate action,” a drill he’d practiced countless times.

“I pulled my charging handle back, and there was a round stuck in the chamber,” he recalled.

Like the rest of his men, Self always carried a cleaning rod zip-tied to the side of his weapon in case it failed to extract a round from the chamber.

“There was only one good way to get it out and that’s to ram it out with a cleaning rod,” he said. “I started to knock the round out by pushing the rod down the barrel, and it broke off. There was nothing I could do with it after that.”

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To Col. Robert Radcliffe, the man responsible for overseeing the Army’s needs for small arms, the M16 family is “pretty damn good.” It’s simply too expensive, he said, to replace it with anything less than a “significant leap in technology.”

Since 2000, that leap centered on development of the XM29 Objective Individual Combat Weapon — a dual system featuring a 5.56mm carbine on the bottom and a 25mm airburst weapon on top, capable of killing enemy behind cover at 1,000 meters.

Seven years and more than $100 million later, the 18-pound prototype — three times the weight of an M4 — is still too heavy and bulky for the battlefield.

“We think that somewhere around 2010, we should have enough insight into future technologies to take us in a direction we want to go for the next generation of small arms,” said Radcliffe, director of the Infantry Center’s Directorate of Combat Developments at Fort Benning, Ga.

“We will have M4s and M16s for years and years and years and years,” he said.“We are buying a bunch of M4s this year … and we are doing it for all the right reasons, by the way. It’s doing the job we need it to do.”

But many soldiers and military experts say this mind-set is off target now that soldiers are locked in a harsh desert war with no end in sight.

“We are not saying the [M4 and M16 are] bad,” said former Army vice chief of staff retired Gen. Jack Keane. “The issue for me is do our soldiers have the best rifle in their hands.”

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Well, General, (General, Gen Real, Generally Unreal), I’d say they were. I’d probably call them POS. That’s what they are. And, I’d like to hear what you’d say if you were in a fire fight and had the thing stop shootin on you! Betcha we could NOT print it here or put it on the tv news for the family! Ahh, yes, and we also have another good post office bureaucrat Colon-el (Head up his?) looking for the “perfect” answer. He’ll get it around 2010 when he retires to go work for a politically connected gun maker!?!

No, the issue isn’t to have the “best one”! It’s to have a “working one”!!

Is it any reason that the front line troops ALWAYS refer to the REMFs?

Hopefully, they can survive these idiots.

http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/
sports-0/1172209964102120.xml&coll=1

http://tinyurl.com/ynrptv

New game code delays bear hunt
Friday, February 23, 2007
BY FRED J. AUN
For the Star-Ledger

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In the proposed new state game code you’ll find this sentence: “There is a closed season for black bear until the commissioner approves a comprehensive policy for the protection and propagation of black bear.”

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And, if and when a bear hurts or kills a person or pet, what will happen to the commissioner?

Can you say “nothing”?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/tonso4.html

‘Unspeak’ and the Gun Prohibitionists by William R. Tonso

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Isn’t it interesting that while the Founders trusted the citizenry more than they trusted government, ongoing attempts to ban military-style “assault weapons” and bullets that can penetrate the body armor of the armed agents of government indicate that nowadays a significant part of the ruling class we’re not supposed to have would have us trust government more than the citizenry?

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Yup, while it may be too soon to start the Third American Revolution, we should at least recapture the high moral ground of language. We would do well to learn from Pre-Hitler Germany. For those who say it can’t happen here — Japanese Internment, Ruby Ridge, Waco. For those who say not now — free speech zones, Military Commissions Act, the new Berlin Wall for the Mexican border, and the erosions of our Bill of Rights. Maybe that revolution might be sooner rather than later?

http://www.kotv.com/news/topstory/?id=119714

Intruder Killed By Homeowner Had Long Criminal History
KOTV - 2/5/2007 8:49 PM - Updated 2/8/2007 9:05 AM

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There are deadly consequences for a man police say tried to force his way in to an East Tulsa home. Now the question is will the shooting fall under the “Make My Day” law and protect the homeowner? News on 6 reporter Jennifer Loren reports on the latest in the investigation.

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That means Oklahoma’s “Make My Day” law will likely apply in this case. The “Make My Day” law allows people to use deadly force in their homes when they fear for their safety.

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The “Stand Your Ground” law extends victim’s protections to other locations, like a car. It also clarifies the law’s boundaries, so deadly force cannot be used against someone who has the right to be there.

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Now, where are all the bleeding heart liberals suggesting that the victim should have just dialed 911 and left it to the police?

I’m all for thinning the gene pool of the bad guys. And, I’m pro-life.

The Castle Doctrine, Make My Day, Stand Your Ground, and any other legal doctrines aside, I’ll stand by the old gun adage “better to be judged by 12, then carried by 6″.

Hope I’m on your jury should you fall afoul of the “victim disarmament” laws. Not they are not “gun control” laws.

“Gun Control” is EITHER hitting what you aim at OR keeping a careful inventory of the government’s arsenals.

I call laws that infringe on people’s natural right to arm themselves …

… … “unconstitutional”. Thus, null and void.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/24/ngun24.xml

http://tinyurl.com/yfnp3y

‘Deactivated’ guns made lethal in four minutes
By Tom Harper, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 12:37am GMT 24/12/2006

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Gun crime victims have criticised the Government for failing to close a loophole that allows criminals to legally buy “deactivated” firearms that can be turned back into lethal weapons within minutes.

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When will people realize that human beings are dangerous. When motivated, we can do ANYTHING! There’s a reason we’re at the top of the food chain. Adaptability.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/
video-gauss-gp-219-silent-electromagnetic-pistol

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The Gauss GP-219 is an electromagnetic pistol that boasts a “PIC microcontroller, dual coils with “precision pulsing” to fire steel projectiles, twin infrared sensors to assist in positioning, and even a laser sight to keep your enemies pegged.”

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Guess the gun grabbers will have to write some new “laws”!

http://www.mchenryidpa.com/special/pro-gun/youarenot.jpg

This picture makes the essential point FOR concealed carry.

The bad guys have no clue who is or who is not packing heat.

If they guess wrong, they could be over matched and wind up dead, crippled, or arrested. It also creates a “bystander problem” for them. If they are assaulting someone, one has to be foolish to try and intervene. But when the bystander is carry concealed, they can bring an overwhelming amount of force to the situation from an unexpected direction. So now the bad guy not only has to worry about the victim presenting, but he also has to worry that a passer by might not just pass by. Worst case, the bad guy could wind up dead.

Certainly, we know that the police aren’t everywhere and can’t get somewhere fast enough. If they intervene, it’s by luck. But, there are always witnesses. And, if someone is carrying concealed, they have invested time, money, and effort in their skill. They have a self-image. And, I want them to feel free to help me.

We will need to retrain the police and gubamint that the citizens are the masters!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/
20061207-110519-9728r.htm

http://tinyurl.com/y2u2z3

Right to bear arms applies to militias only, city tells court
By Matt Apuzzo
ASSOCIATED PRESS
December 8, 2006

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In a case that could shape firearms laws nationwide, attorneys for the District argued yesterday that the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals.

The city defended as constitutional its long-standing ban on handguns, a law that some gun opponents have advocated elsewhere. Civil liberties groups and pro-gun organizations say the ban in unconstitutional.

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The Second Amendment have NEVER been interpreted to mean anything but an individual right!

The dead old white guys must be rolling over at the stupidity of the serf in the new Amerika!

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Nov-19-Sun-2006/opinion/10713125.html

Nov. 19, 2006
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: Giving way to the twenty-something spendthrifts

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You cannot bestow upon your children or grandchildren a world without guns. Your two choices are: a world in which they are trusted and encouraged to own guns and keep them ready to hand and know how and when to use them, or a world in which they are disarmed and the guns are in the hands of some other class or race of people who tell them what to do.

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You have to like how he can distill it to a simple principle. There’s a big difference between the Law of Gravity and any law passed by tyrants.

NJ DEP chief: There will be no bear hunt
- Daily Record (NJ)

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New Jersey’s top environmental official late Wednesday scotched this year’s bear hunt, and hinted that none would be staged in the future, saying non lethal ways to keep peace between humans and bears need to be tried. Jackson’s move comes some two weeks after Gov. Jon S. Corzine said he wanted to explore non lethal ways to deal with the state’s growing bear population.

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You have to admire today’s liberals, who don’t live in the real world. They are going to spend a lot of money, stolen from NJ taxpayers, to convince the bears not to procreate. You have to love when some one plays poker with your chips.

Which politicians goes to jail when, not if, someone gets hurt by a bear?

http://www.jtk3.com/laissezfirearm/strossen.htm

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Letter to Reason magazine
Ms. Postrel:

Nadine Strossen’s rationale for the ACLU’s abandonment of the right to keep and bear arms is: “What it [the pro-gun position] comes down to is the very strong belief that having a gun in your home is something that can ultimately fend off the power of a tyrannical government. I find that really unpersuasive in the 20th-century context. Maybe it made sense in the 18th century.”

Recent history offers numerous examples of lightly-armed men able to inflict grievous damage on vastly superior forces. Afghanistan’s mujahadeen, initially equipped with archaic Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifles, stalled the Soviet Red Army for many years before receiving the advanced weapons from the West that finally tipped the balance of power in their favor. Chad’s desert fighters managed to repel Moammar Gadhafi’s tanks by the insanely brave expedient of shooting-up enemy supply convoys, mounting Libyan anti-armor weapons thus captured on their Toyota pickup trucks, and then charging the invaders in packs. In the former Yugoslavia, 5,000 Croat defenders carrying hunting rifles and Kalashnikovs were able to protect the city of Vukovar against 25,000 army troops and Chetnik irregulars backed by Soviet T-84 tanks and heavy artillery for eighty-nine days before they depleted their ammunition supplies and were overrun.

LF

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This is a great post.

Don’t forget: Gandhi’s defiance of the British in India after WW2, the ‘44 Warsw Ghetto Uprising, and the ‘56 Hungarian Revolution.

Against a tyrannical American government, there would be some “interesting” resistance.

First, you have to figure that the Bloods and Crypts would want to continue their current drug business. Since they haven’t been impacted by current methods, one would reasonably assume that they wouldn’t be impacted by future efforts. Given that they corrupt the cops, one would expect it to continue. These gangs would mount a very good light infantry, which in their own neighborhoods, would be impossible to root out. Especially since they, like all Fourth Generation forces, would blend in with the populace, and emerge to fight that asymmetrical war.

Second, the Gubamint runs on money. If it becomes too tyrannical, then the economy will grind to a halt. As the tax rate rises, and the inflation rate rises, they will “net” less and less value. Running a fascist state requires an economy. The leaders, and politicians, will want to be kept in the appropriate style befitting their “regal” position. It’s hard to be a King, if the subjects don’t pay or work. All we need is for the people to decide that it’s a good idea to work a little less, use a metal based “medallion”, do some bartering, grow a “victory garden”, and do other “muck up the works” activities. And there will be a lot of hungry politicians!

Third, the Ross book “Unintended Consequences” demonstrates how the ruling class can be brought to its collective knees. In the book, people just start killing bureaucrats and politicians. Like the internet, it would be possible to have leader-less bloody revolution. Pick out a government worker and kill them! It wouldn’t take long for the word to spread among the government workers that if you value your life, find a new line of work. That’s Fourth Generation warfare at its heart. I think to some extent that is what we are seeing in Iraq.

It really depends on the consent of the governed. If we don’t consent, they CAN NOT govern!

I read a stat that said about 130 of the 300 million Americans own a firearm. That’s roughly one in three. It could get real messy very quickly if a consensus emerged.

Look at what happened in NOLA when the good people left. But, they don’t have to actually LEAVE. They can just look the other way for the same effect.

Remember the dead old white guys on what the tree of liberty needs?

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11012006/
news/regionalnews/
mike_to_gun_permit_holders__pack_it_
in_regionalnews_kenneth_lovett.htm

http://tinyurl.com/tfe5h

MIKE TO GUN-PERMIT HOLDERS: ‘PACK’ IT IN
By KENNETH LOVETT

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November 1, 2006 — ALBANY - The city should slash the number of people who are allowed to carry concealed weapons, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.

“We’ve taken a look at it to see whether we couldn’t have fewer,” Bloomberg said. “I can tell you one thing: We will keep it to as a minimum as we possibly can.”

Bloomberg added that he has asked Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to tackle the issue.

“If you want a gun permit, you should have to really show that your life is in danger, and that having a gun will protect you, will improve the chances of you surviving,” the mayor said.

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This is really entertaining!

Never mind that the Second Amendment enshrines EVERY person’s Intelligent Designer given RIGHT to self-defense.

Mike travels the NYC Subway accompanied by his SECURITY DETAIL. Not just one guy with a gun, but lots of guys with guns.

Unlike the law of gravity, political “laws” only impact the law abiding.

I like to envision the poor “cleaning woman”, who has to travel home at night, riding the subway without HER security detail. Personally, I’d trust her to be PACKING.

I like the old bumper sticker “God made men and women; Sam Colt makes them equal!”.

My aunt was mugged in the subway during rush hour. Her life was never the same after that. Forty years of disability was the result.

I see the wisdom of the dead old white guys.

I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.

Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead! Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead! Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!

Nah, Mayor Mike, you’re living in fantasy land! The bad guys have all the guns they want. All you’re doing is making more victims. Stop the drug war. Arm the citizens.

And, you’ll see violence come to a screeching halt. You’ll run out of bad guys. Or their get “religion”, and find a new line of work. For those criminals, maybe they’ll go into politics.

Oh that’s it, you don’t want the competition!

http://interdictor.livejournal.com/113522.html

interdictor ([info]interdictor) wrote,
@ 2006-10-30 14:04:00
Incompetence — Oops, Have You Seen My Machine Gun?

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Well anyway, here’s some more government incompetence for you:

****** which quoted ******

The Pentagon cannot account for 14,030 weapons — almost 4 percent of the semiautomatic pistols, assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons it began supplying to Iraq since the end of 2003.

The missing weapons will not be tracked easily: The Defense Department registered the serial numbers of only about 10,000 of the 370,251 weapons it provided — less than 3 percent.

Missing from the Defense Department’s inventory books were 13,180 semiautomatic pistols, 751 assault rifles and 99 machine guns.

****** which ended here ******

Hmmm. But it says some were stolen. They just won’t tell us how many. It’s comforting knowing our government has lost some unspecified number of RPGs. Yeah, losing the other stuff is bad, but you don’t want a bunch of RPGs floating around. Hopefully they didn’t lose any shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles like we’ve done in the past in Central America and Afghanistan. I don’t think the insurgency has much in the way of aircraft, so hopefully we didn’t bring over stinger missiles for the Iraqi defense forces, but given how incompetent our government is and how much some suppliers could make off a deal like that (and give kickbacks in return), I would not be surprised. That would REALLY be making Americans safer.

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What a bunch of bozos! First we had the story of “bricks” ( 100k$ clear plastic shrink wrapped USA currency). And, now they lost enough guns to arm … a small army … or an insurgency!

I’ve changed my mind. “Gun control” no longer exclusively means “citizens hitting what they aim at”. I’ll now include “keeping an inventory of the gubamint’s ordanance”.

So, if someone asks if you favor “gun control”, then you can say “sure, for the gubamint”. Gun owners don’t lose their weapons.

PA Police Refusing To Obey The Law
– Ask the Attorney General to rein them in!

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

The PA State Police are refusing to obey the law, despite court decisions to the contrary.

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Federal privacy laws prohibit the mandatory use of social security numbers as identification. In a recent court decision, U.S. District Judge Juan R. Sanchez stated that gun owners cannot be required to supply social security numbers when buying a gun or applying for a concealed carry permit.

But the PA State Police, with the help of the Attorney General Tom Corbett (R), are disregarding the court and are asking a circuit court judge to strike down Sanchez’ order. They don’t want to issue privacy warnings, as required by Section 7(b) of the Privacy Act of 1974; they want to keep collecting the social security numbers of all gun buyers and carry permit holders.

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The only reason the gubamint wants “gun registration” is so they know who to arrest when the crackdown comes.

Look at pre-WW2 Germany as the model.

From the JPFO http://www.jpfo.org/alert20061023.htm

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Okay, let’s pretend that’s true (historical evidence to the contrary). In the early 1930’s, in response to a recent crime wave, the right-of-center Weimar Republic passed several “vital, necessary” laws registering firearms and prohibiting Gypsies from owning them. Five years later, a left-of-center leader was in power and used those same laws, amending them as needed, to consolidate his power. The result was World War II and the murder of millions of what the US might today refer to as “unlawful enemy combatants.”

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Forewarned is forearmed.

The gubamint MUST be made to obey it’s own laws. Else all hope is lost.

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060115-111618-6393r.htm

U.S. Army sniper nails record shot
By Toby Harnden
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
January 16, 2006

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A single shot hit the Iraqi in the chest and killed him instantly. It had been fired from a range of more than three-quarters of a mile, well beyond the capacity of the powerful Leupold sight, accurate to 3,300 feet.

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And, we put up with tyrants, dictators, and other bad guys why?

One would think that the dead old white guy’s ideas about marque and retort could be applied usefully today. It would seem that bad people could be returned to the Intelligent Designer as sort of a warranty claim. Not that we, or our government, would do it. We’d just pay off like a reward.

http://www.2spare.com/item_61549.aspx

30 Funniest Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

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The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. “Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off. I’ve got the toe clippers right here.”

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1. Perhaps if we evaluated our politicians and our generals on this criteria we’d have a 500 year peace.

2. Perhaps we need to rename the military “the Department of Defense”. Oh yeah that’s right it is. Maybe we should have them doing more “defending” and less “offending”? Yeah, yeah, I know the best defense is a good offence, but that’s football. And, playing defense is playing to lose. So explain the Swiss?

3. Perhaps the fact that every Swiss man, old enough to “do anything important” and not too senile to point in the right direction, has a frigging machine gun and all the ammo he can carry. That was one thing that discouraged Hitler. That, every road can be an airfield, every tunnel an airplane revetment, and every tunnel destroyed quickly to stop an advancing army. Reminds me of a porcupine, just leave it alone.

4. An armed citizenry, hmm where have I heard that before? RKBA.

“A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

Seems like the Swiss originated the idea?

The Second Amendment is a issue today only because of the reality behind it. It’s force. Pure, naked, and unadulterated power. Simple put, you’re either a sheep, or a sheep dog. Take care of you and yours. Don’t depend upon the gubamint (e.g., Waco, NOLA, and all the social programs that enslave us).

Politicians who fear the people seek to disarm them. People who fear their government’s intentions refuse to be disarmed. The Founders understood this. So, too, does every tyrant who ever lived. The dead old white guys made it number two for a reason. It backs up number one!

Forget it at your peril.

American gun owners in the aggregate represent a strategic military fact and an impediment to tyranny. They represent a political challenge to home-grown would-be tyrants. You don’t make lamb chops out of sheep dogs. Oppress an armed citizenry? Ask those Russians who came home from Afghanistan or Chechnya. Ask the families of all those Russians who didn’t come home.

If the people cannot be forcibly disarmed against their will, then they must be persuaded or tricked to give up their arms voluntarily. This is the siren song of “gun control”, which is to say “government control of all guns”, it’s victim disarmament.

Ask the Warsaw Ghetto Jews what you should do? Look at what they did with less than a few dozen weapons. Ask the families of those who were gassed.

Genocide requires the government to disarm it’s citizens.

Bush Summit To Discuss Solutions For School Violence
– Great opportunity for GOA to show politicos facts, not emotions

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

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As GOA pointed out last week:

1. No amount of gun control would have stopped Charles Carl Roberts from acquiring guns to commit his atrocity. Roberts had a clean record and would have passed any and every background check.

2. The so-called “gun free school zones” have to go. Such disarmament zones never stop bad guys from taking guns into a restricted area. In fact, statistics show that the jurisdictions that ban guns tend to be the same areas with the highest murder or crime rates (Washington, D.C., England, etc.).

3. The only school shootings that have been stopped prematurely were ended because law-abiding citizens had guns — such as in Pearl Mississippi (1997) and at the Appalachian School of Law (2002), where faculty and responsible adults were able to bring their own defensive firearms to bear. This is an idea that Americans support, as 85% of the American public find it appropriate for a principal or teacher to use “a gun at school to defend the lives of students” in stopping a school massacre (Research 2000 Poll).

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It is interesting that people seem to feel that we can not trust Principals, Teachers, and Custodians. Should they choose to do so, I’d trust them with the tools that they need to protect the children in their care. I think they can tell the bad guys from the kids. Bad guys where black hats, right?

Further, I would presume that bringing a weapon on school grounds is protected by the Second Amendment. Using it to harm others has not.

Hence just in case any trial lawyers want to make a case for suing a person defending themselves or others, I make a rule granting them immunity from criminal prosecution or civil action should they make a reasonable mistake.

“Oh I’m sorry I shot you Mister Wack Job before you actually killed any little children with your Uzi that you brought into my school.” should not be a grievance heard by courts. It should be a story for the Leno or Letterman show.

From: agunnut08824
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 9:08 AM
To: Associate Editor Karen Hunter
(who handles concerns about the accuracy and fairness of news coverage)
c/o readerep [AT] courant [DOT] com
Subject: US unwilling to ban guns despite plague of school shootings AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat, Oct 07, 2006

Dear Ms. Hunter,

With all due respect to all the so called Liberals in the media, I respectfully submit that you are living in Fantasy Land. I’m a “gun nut”; I blog http://reinkefj.wordpress.com/tag/guns/ about it. May I point out some “facts of life”? (I’m not going to drag everything from my blog here. I’ll just hit the high points.)

(1) “Gun free schools zones” are an invitation to nut jobs, terrorists, and criminals to enter, in complete safety, and have minutes, days, and possible hours to act. This particularly dumb law creates what the military would call a “target rich environment with zero opposition”. Does anyone think that a Principal, Teacher, or Custodian can’t be trusted to protect their students? And if they are crazy, what prevents them from bringing a gun to school and killing people? A law? please don’t make me cry.

(2) Now I am not saying arm every one in the school! Although that’s not a bad idea. I’m just saying repeal the “gun free school zones” law. (Isn’t is Orwellian to use the word law to cover the Law of Gravity and anything produce be a Legislature anywhere? Go ahead an defy the Law of Gravity. You can’t do it. That’s a law.) If you can make a “law” like gravity, where a gun wouldn’t operate inside a school zone, then you would have something.

(3) “Victim Disarmament” laws, comically called “Gun Control” laws (IMHO “gun control” is being able to hit what you aim at.), is one of the steps on the way to tyranny and genocide. The dead old white guys knew that and enshrined in our Constitution a recognition of the natural right of self-defense. When we ignore the wisdom of the ages, we do so at our peril. Can’t happen here? Japanese Internment and Halliburton’s contract to build illegal immigrant detention centers and the suspension of habeas corpus for “enemy combatants”. Yeah, right!

(4) The world is dangerous place. There are two legged ne’er-do-wells and four legged predators out there. A gun is just a tool. A very powerful tool, but still a tool. It makes women equal to men. It make strong thugs very compliant. Quite frankly, I trust my fellow humans here in the USA to be responsible and smart enough to distinguish between kids in school and crazed milkmen. The police are merely the distillation of society’s desire for peace. they can’t be everywhere. And really depend upon the good people to back them up (i.e., NOLA).

(5) Wishing for peace doesn’t make it happen. Protecting school kids requires us to be smart. (I’m not a fan of government schools in the first place, but that’s another matter for another day.) We don’t make banks gun free zones. Aren’t kids as important or valuable as money? And “gun control” will never work. Criminals don’t obey legislative laws. If the government can’t keep weapons, drugs, and cell phones out of its prisons, then why do you think they can keep these things out of the country.

No, you don’t “reduce the number of these tragedies” by “making it harder for people to get guns”. Criminals have no problem getting the guns they want to do bad things. If you truly want to reduce the number of these tragedies, then you make guns easier to get. When the ordinary person can defend themselves, then criminals will seek other employment. Actually wide spread concealed carry is ideal because then the criminals have to guess.

All right, I’ll quote from my blog, because I think I made the point best:

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There are other benefits of an armed society. The value of concealed carry is that you don’t have to carry to receive a benefit. If a criminal has 100 potential victims, then he has to pick one. If out of that hundred people ten are packing, then the criminal has a 10% chance of facing an armed victim. “Hmmm” says the criminal who should I pick? The gay guy. Ever hear of the Pink Pistols? The thin spindly blond woman. Agggg, that’s Paxton Quigley and she’s describing what a center of mass is to me with a laser assist sight. I know. says out hypothetical criminal, the squat little brownish guy with the big mustache, looks like an mexican arab. Ohhh, good day Mr. Massad Ayoob. Yes sir, I’d be happy to put my hands up. See the unarmed sheep are protected when we “salt” the flock with a few armed sheep. The criminal has to guess. Sometimes they will guess wrong … dead criminal! Don’t have to worry about recidivism then. There’s reason why burglars choose unoccupied houses. And remember that TV show that ask hardened criminals what they feared most? Not the cops, the courts, or jail. It was an armed potential victim!

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Events like the school shootings are terrible, but they are the direct result of legislative stupidity.

Hope this helps change your mind,
F. J. Reinke

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http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/
editorials/hc-guns.artoct04,0,4527041.
story?coll=hc-headlines-editorials

http://tinyurl.com/tkx7o

School Killings, Gun Control
October 4 2006

A horrifying rampage at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa. - the third incident of a fatal shooting at a school in less than a week - has sparked nationwide debate about the vulnerability of our schools. But where is the talk of gun control?

On Monday, a milk-truck driver with three guns pushed his way into the one-room Pennsylvania schoolhouse, ordered the boys and adults to leave, then barricaded himself inside. He fired on a dozen girls, killing three before turning the gun on himself. Two girls injured in the shooting died Tuesday.

In Colorado on Wednesday, a drifter with a gun broke into a school and, after a standoff, killed a teenage girl and himself. In Wisconsin on Friday, a 15-year-old student fatally shot his principal.

The incidents have provoked a dialogue about the safety of schools. Early this week, the Bush administration announced a plan for a conference involving education and law enforcement experts to discuss the nature of the problem and ways the federal government can help communities prevent violence and deal with its aftermath.

Maybe there are ways we can better protect our schools and children from such attacks. In the Pennsylvania shooting, officials speculate the gunman may have chosen the school because it was the closest one accessible and had little security.

But we can’t build walls around all our schools or shroud them in barbed wire. It’s also true that even the best gun-control laws won’t put a stop to these terrible and senseless deaths. By making it harder for people to get guns, however, maybe we can at least reduce the number of these tragedies.

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http://www.jpfo.org/school.htm

PROVEN SOLUTIONS
TO ENDING SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

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(A) schools/kindergartens make for very attractive targets for the deranged gunman as well as for the profit-oriented hostage gangsters or terrorist group, because:

(1) everybody sane will cave in to the demands of the evildoers (even somebody as hard-nosed as Golda Meir, may she rest in peace, said during the Maalot incident, that one does not make politics on the backs of one’s children). Nobody wants to play the principles-game when kids are involved. Kidnapping has thus often resulted in the paying of ransom demands.

(2) if you crave media attention, as for instance the PLO did in the 70’s, nothing will catch the headlines better than an attack on a school-full of kids.

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Seems like a “gun free zone” is a recipe for a lot of children dying. We don’t live in fantasyland where real world facts can be ignored.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-05-arming-teachers_x.htm?csp=34

Wisconsin lawmaker urges arming teachers
Updated 10/5/2006 9:36 PM ET

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state lawmaker, worried about a recent string of deadly school shootings, suggested arming teachers, principals and other school personnel as a safety measure and a deterrent.

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Seems that one fellow understands that it’s a dangerous world out there. And, we don’t live in FantasyLand, where passing a law changes the laws of physics, or even influences human behavior. I trust that good human beings can be trusted to go armed and know when to fight and when to run.

http://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/10/03/guns-tragedy-would-have-been-stopped-if-schools-not-gun-free/

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/10/shot-through-heart_02.html#comments

Sorry, but the answer is not to create more potential victims.

The world’s, by its very nature, is a dangerous place. Two-legged and four-legged varmints abound. Maybe if schools were NOT a “gun free zone”, then the staff would have a fighting chance to keep their charges safe.

Everyone predicted that Florida would become the OK corral at every traffic accident. It didn’t BECAUSE those that are armed are law abiding.

I know I can’t convince you, and other nice people, that you are living in Fantasy Land if you think that by passing more laws and regulations and rules you can keep these things from happening.

Maybe I CAN convince you that what you are doing is depriving yourself of the protection of your fellow law abiding citizens and residents, who would choose to arm themselves for their protection, and that of society. See part of the benefit of unrestricted concealed carry is that the bad guys don’t know which of the good guys are sheep and which are the sheepdogs. Fatal to the bad guy if he guesses wrong!

Envision if that teacher, who had to run to call police, was “packing heat”. I don’t fault her at all. Only an idiot would try to take on an armed madman with her bare hands. Like the hijacked airline passengers. But if armed, look how the situation would have changed. While the varmint was busy boarding up the doors, would anyone have minded if she had put five in his back? If she was even charged, then I’d like to be on that jury. I’d convict the prosecutor who charged her. Five little girls would be alive and one madman dead. Hard to envision a worse outcome than the one we have now.

The “gun free schools zone” merely ensures that the madman will have no armed opposition to worry about until the police get there.

Why make it easy for them?

After all who are the police anyway? They are nothing more than the agents of the citizens. If we can empower the police to defend us, why should we defend ourselves?

Do you think that teachers, principle, and school custodians can’t tell the difference between bad guys and their students?

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/15663292.htm

Death toll in Lancaster Co. Amish school shooting rises to 5
MARK SCOLFORO
Associated Press

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NICKEL MINES, Pa. - Two more children died Tuesday morning of wounds from the shootings at an Amish schoolhouse, raising the death toll to five girls plus the gunman who apparently was spurred by a two-decade-old grudge.

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There is no doubt that this is a tragedy. Young girls cut down by a madman.

But, just as the antidote for bad speech is more free speech, the antidote for this is not more victim disarmament.

I don’t understand the “gun free school zones” legislation. Do politicians think that they actually DO something by passing a law? They should realize that only law abiding people obey laws. The lawless just go on their merry way and take advantage of the opportunities that we give them.

In Israel, schools are NOT gun free zones. And, they are trouble free. Grandparents guard schools and school trips. Teachers, and the average citizen, are more than likely “packing heat”. The terrorists have a problem because there are no target rich zones where guns are absent.

The world is a dangerous place. No amount of wishful thinking or inane laws is going to make it any less dangerous. My grandmother traveled the Oregon trail and she had “her” long gun hung on the mantle until she died. She was no “victim”. I’m not sure that she ever used it, wish I had asked, but, even in her old age, she was not someone to be “crossed”. Read her bible and prayed, but she was armed. I know she would have protected any child. Let’s give women an “equalizer”.

Envision the scenario where a nut job KNOWS that there is a good chance that, in his killing spree, he may run into an armed citizen. Bet that dampens his ardor for blood just a little. Imagine he invades the school, and instead of the teacher running to call police, she whips out a “girlie gun” like a 380 and puts a full clip into him. Or, as he is ushering out the pregnant lady, she grabs him close and dispatches him with three to the gut a la the French Resistance of WW2. Or, the teacher’s aide, or anyone else, does their civic duty. See if there is no restriction, he has to rethink his plan.

Just as no American airline passenger is going to allow a hijacker to take over a plane, we should be armed to take care of two legged, and four legged, varmints.