Re: Gun Control - Are our "babies" safe?

[KamikazeKoscki]

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- In a major backing of gun-ownership rights, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a 32-year-old municipal ban on handguns in Washington D.C., according to media reports. The justices, in a 5-4 ruling, cited the Second Amendment in supporting the right to own guns for self-defense and hunting. The court had not conclusively ruled on the Second Amendment since 1791, according to the Associated Press.

[DavyCrockett2]

6/26/2008  Gun ban in DC overturned by the Supreme Court!

FUCK YOU LIBERALS! FUCK YOU!

[SN0TRAG]

you tell em.

[DavyCrockett2]

Yeah, fuck liberals all the way! Never give them an inch! Those misinformed fucking morons!

[zozx]

type in "The great new orleans gun grab"

the government can come in and disarm anyone tring to protect their home rights or family under the so-called "Martial law"

[DavyCrockett2]

They passed a new laws after the New Orleans incident. The government can no longer legally do that because of a disaster.

[KamikazeKoscki]

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

[AreThereNoMoreNames]

Awesome. What book is that, if you don't mind my asking?

[KamikazeKoscki]

I saw it at Barnes and Noble and thought it was interesting and just pulled out my camera and video tape it and enjoyed what they had to say, can't remember the title of the book.

[Watcher3223]

The book is titled:

"Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes"

There is also a YouTube video detailing part of the journey of photographing gun owners throughout the nation.

Search on YouTube: Armed America

[Winchester748]

His babies and cat and dogs are safe.

[GunOwnerDan]

Free people can own guns, slaves can not.

[Watcher3223]

And an armed people will stay free and superior to their elected public servants whereas the disarmed will fall to the whims of those in power.

[mikethem]

Thank God those people have guns so their babies can be safe.

[KamikazeKoscki]

Amendment 2--Militia and the Right to Bear Arms

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.

[KamikazeKoscki]

Our founders risked their lives to create a free nation, and they guaranteed freedom as the birthright of American citizens through the Bill of Rights, The second amendment remains the first right among equals, because it is the one we turn to when all else fails.

[KamikazeKoscki]

To the founding fathers a civilian population that is protected from the threat of disarmament contributes to "the security of a free state" in two principle way: Self-Defense, and the protection of the republic through a citizen militia.

[KamikazeKoscki]

An armed citizenry is much less dependent on the one Federal court reminded that " there is no Constitutional right to be protected by the state against being murdered by criminals or madmen.

[KamikazeKoscki]

As the Founding Fathers were well aware, the right of civilians to arm themselves enables citizens to exercise their fundamental, natural right to self-defense when they are threatened with criminal attack, the most reliable studies indicate that armed civilians defend themselves against criminal violence

[KamikazeKoscki]

over two million times each year. Simply displaying a weapon is almost sufficient to stop an attack, through armed civilians who far outnumber the police also shoot many more criminals than the police do.

[KamikazeKoscki]

In addition, the widespread civilian ownership of firearms in the United States creates powerful deterrent effects on criminal activity. Burglaries of occupied dwellings, for example, are rare in the United States compared with Great Britain. The recent wave of liberalized concealed-carry laws has produced dramatic declines in violent crime in Texas and other states that have adopted this policy.

[KamikazeKoscki]

Among the greatest beneficiaries of this policy have been women (who are more physcially vulnerable than men) and minorities who tend to live in areas where violent crime rates are higher.

[DeceitandTrickery]

What is this book? What is it trying to show? Personally, I think "gun control" is a flat out failure, and I dont go about spouting second amendment rights, but I do have guns. Im not giving them up either.

[KamikazeKoscki]

Secondly, the founding fathers trusted an armed citizenry as the best safeguard against the possibility of tyrannical government. The very existence of an armed citizenry and its ability to form a citizen militia will tend to discourage would be tyrants from attempting to "pacify" the population.

[KamikazeKoscki]

This is not and could not be a guarantee against tyranny, but it surely raises the risks and costs of a tyrannnous pacification, and thereby reduces the probability of its being attempted.

[KamikazeKoscki]

James Madison, author of the second Amendmet, wrote the Americans had the advantage of being armed, that was lacking in other nations, where the government are afraid to trust the people with arms. Patrick Henry proclaimed the "great object is that everyone be armed..EVERYONE who is able may have a gun.