Link Why? Is the 2nd Amendment really at stake here? Aren't guns illegal in D.C.? At first it seems like it could be a benign group of people gathering to celebrate the 2nd Amendment but I did some digging and found this: WELL REGULATED AMERICAN MILITIAS ! You can't arm a mob and expect to do anything peacefully. It's all or nothing. So, maybe just scrap the peacefully part?
They are just trying to provoke. Once again the high school bullies try to bully their way again. Put it this way. If one of those dumb frackers screws up, opens up and gets a large segment of their group gunned down, I won't lose sleep over it.
This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. It escalates the protest in the eyes of the police, thus they will up their level of security. It could turn ugly if someone loses their cool. I hate this idea.
When I lived in Oregon, our house was broken into and I shot the "fine young gentleman" who was scaring the heck out of my family and trying to steal what I had worked hard to buy. Sadly, however, I didn't kill him. I say sadly because a little over a month later that same "fine young gentleman" went into a house 3 streets over from mine and killed a father and mother in front of their children when he was trying to rob their home. Luckily for everyone else, this "fine young gentleman" was caught and locked away. Asked why he chose that house, and why he killed those people he reponded with this. "The last house I broke into I was shot. No warning, no nothin, just shot. I didn't go back to that house cause I didn't want to get shot no more, so I went to another house that didn't have no guns." How did you know they didn't have any guns, asked the officer. "I ain't sayin, but I found out they didn't, so I went there." Why did you shoot them, asked the officer. "Because I needed their stuff, and I told them not to try and stop me, but they didn't listen." I guess my point is that owning a gun might have saved my families lives, and if I hadn't been so nervous, a gun might have saved the lives of two parents doing nothing but trying to protect their family. Guns = Good People = Bad
My issue with this commonly made statement is that the only hands it keeps handguns out of are those of law-abiding citizens.
I have no problem with responsible gun owners. I think they are actually really cool things. Firing a gun is a fun, exhilarating experience. I do have a problem with a large group of people who bring loaded weapons to protests. No one is advocating a repeal of the 2nd amendment. No one is proposing new restrictions on guns. No one is going to take their guns away. It's a silly stupid march for people who believe in the "Marxist, Nazi, Muslim, Socialist Conspiracy"
That's not history, that's the future. http://agoldenworld.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/empire-strikes-back.jpg
I can't help but think at some point this Tea Party/Birther/Gun Rights movement is going to go too far and we're going to have another event akin to the Oklahoma City bombing. There just seems so much festering rage, and the Republican Party seems to go out of its way to stoke it. Just look at the home page for GOP.com. The Pelosi caricature makes her look like one of the minions of hell. (The contrast in tone with Democrats.org is stunning.) Republicans better hope if something truly explosive happens, it happens after the midterms. Because if it doesn't, I think the blowback against the party will be immense.
It says "fire Pelosi", thus the flames. It's not the Republicans fault that she looks the way she does. As far as the contrast, I think you are reading way too much into it. The midterms can't come fast enough.
Glock 21? Which one did you use in the attempted robbery? I have a Glock 21 and it's okay. They've had some problems historically.
