Hammers should be banned...

Jan 07, 2013 159 Replies

Agreed on the militia. But, the orwellian federal monitoring precludes those being formed today. They'd arrest you. So, that's not the answer.

The answer is simpler, it's an idea: freedom. The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

If someone really wants women to be defenseless, let 'em try to make that argument, and counter it when they do. No one can defend that argument.

If they--in the name of the general welfare--want to argue against the dangers XYZ people (e.g. gays) might pose to the general public, that those people should be forced to register, take training courses, and apply for licenses... well, that /is/ effectively what the administration is arguing for, just applied to a different group. This time.

Everyone knows that's wrong. If that's where they want to go, the American people will throw it off.

We are a free people. The government works for us. It's our servant, not the reverse.

James Arthur

You missed the point.... "militia" is not plural.

...Jim Thompson

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And verified every time that you post something.

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So does constantly referring to yourself as 'one'. People would treat you better if you didn't come across as a know it all jerk. That make it look as if you're trying to fill Sloman's shoes.

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Ah, yes, I have an unfilled space in my filters... the wimp will fit right in. ...Jim Thompson

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Got rid of the other one also >:-} ...Jim Thompson

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I totally get it. But I lived in Germany. They amply showed that 20 SS guys--or Obama ATF--can take out any number of resistance, one house at a time, and their neighbors allow it. Unless you're willing to die, that is, per Solzhenitsyn.

James Arthur

"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt." ? Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Well, that's irrational.

So, if your actual concern is saving lives, you're saying we should register gay people, right, since their behavior kills far more people? Require a federal license?

Stop teenagers from driving? How about not letting felons drive? After all, the Sandy Hook guy /drove/ to the scene; without a car, none of this could have happened.

And if a woman's attacked in some dark corner of a parking lot, that's okay? She can't defend herself?

Since bad guys do bad things with guns, we should take them from good people? Since 95% of firearm crimes are committed with handguns, you'd outlaw rifles?

None of that makes any sense, or makes any difference. You'd take people's basic human rights away--the right of self-defense--for nothing. It's all a bunch of blather.

James Arthur

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If i remember my Latin correctly it is. Less sure for a Greek derivation.

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Someone who understands 'the word'. Freedom Liberty

People still use them but I contend they have no idea what they mean. I.E. Liberty is not 'winning an election to impose your beliefs on others'.

Then why is it so important the any elected official be a christian ??

As opposed to what? A devil worshipper?

Reread my reference....

"The word "militia" is a Latin abstract noun, meaning "military service", not an "armed group" (with the connotation of plurality), and that is the way the Latin-literate Founders used it. The collective term, meaning "army" or "soldiery" was "volgus militum".

And I'm Latin-literate myself... 1 year in Jr. High School (Middle School in today's lingo), 3 years in High School >:-}

[snip] ...Jim Thompson
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Actually, I don't care... as long as the politician's agenda doesn't include anything PRO or CON with regard to the practice of religion. Leave the Constitution alone. ...Jim Thompson

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Well, this is the point.

The christians are pushing an agenda that include adding to the constitution, things that do not need to be there.

The next constitutional amendment: Freedom of religion is fine as long as you are christian.

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     ...Jim Thompson

That's how the original colonists did it, with specific denominations being the *compulsory* "State religions" of individual colonies. Adherents of other denominations were unwelcome, to varying degrees of severity up to and including hanging.

The Founding Fathers were not deities; they had a few less-than- brilliant ideas.

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Mark L. Fergerson

Yet you lefties want to ignore the second amendment. You knotheads really are some liars.

Utter nonsense.

What a liar. You lefties are somethin'.

I haven't seen one run for office yet so your gibberish is just that.

Delusion

Paranoid delusion.

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