They won't use modern tractors or wear buttons because they're afraid of technology, but they'll farm genetically engineered poisons. Okay...
It's nice to know that the tobacco will still have all of the poisons though. We wouldn't want to stop the deadliest and most expensive of the easily prevented killers.
I think there's a requirement to get elected to Congress that not only do you have to be a 25 (or 30 for the Senate) year old citizen, but you have to have absolutely no knowledge of the Constitution.:)
Especially the 10th Amendment and Article 1 (where the very limited powers of Congress are explicitly laid out.)
How about F-4s, A-7s, M-60s (the tank and the machine gun)?
The VC did an excellent job against them. Sure they took 20:1 losses in many cases, and it took them over a decade, but they won.
A determined uprising will eventually defeat any government that does not have the support of the people. It might be relatively peaceful like in Eastern Europe, or violent like Vietnam or Colonial America.
And incidentally...one of Hitler's first act upon election (yes, he was elected, scary but true) was to ban private ownership of guns.
I agree with what you say about the Second Amendment.
However, I don't agree with where you draw the line.
Firstly, a sniper rifle, is usually a bolt action 7.62 or.30-06 with a small clip. How does that differ from a hunting rifle? There's really no line between them.
Secondly, the Second Amendment was added so that the people would have the power to fight back against a repressive government once words and votes started to fail. So the line should be above military grade small arms (M-16s, M-249s, etc.) but somewhere way below nukes.
And if anybody here thinks that the Second Amendment is moot because a determined popular uprising with small arms can't defeat a technologically advanced, well equiped, professional military (I hear that one a lot), go talk to some of Ho Chi Min's troops, or the US troops that faced them.
The Libertarian Party Website is a great place to get anti-gun control information.
They'll have studies, statistics, and a bit of rhetoric.
Some stuff I've seen there and in their monthly newsletter:
Rape and mugging of women went down in FL and other states after they passed a concealed carry law, but went up in the nation as a whole. (I don't know the exact numbers, or remember the other states mentioned). Their interpretation is that criminals are more worried, because an armed woman is a riskier target.
Cities like Philly and Chicago that ban (and sue) guns have higher crime per capita than cities like Dallas and Phoenix where gun owners are relatively free.
(But it could be attributable to the region, socio-economic breakdown, etc.)
The basic logical statement that making guns illegal won't stop criminals from owning them, because they don't follow the law: that's why we call them criminals. (Like the "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" bumper stickers.)
It's not really related to crime, but one of the most popular arguments against guns is all the accidental deaths of kids. But the LP newsletter (and it might be on their site by now) had an article saying that bathtubs cause more child deaths than guns, as do buckets.
I back up all of my data from my two boxes to a second HD on one of the boxes in case of OS or disk failure, but what do I do in case of fire? Simple I printed out all of my important files. Now you're thinking, "that must be reams of paper how do you organize it?" Simple as well, I scan it all in and store it on my PC. So now if something goes wrong with my PC, I just grab the scans off of my...oh crap...I think I discovered a problem.
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They won't use modern tractors or wear buttons because they're afraid of technology, but they'll farm genetically engineered poisons. Okay...
It's nice to know that the tobacco will still have all of the poisons though. We wouldn't want to stop the deadliest and most expensive of the easily prevented killers.
I think there's a requirement to get elected to Congress that not only do you have to be a 25 (or 30 for the Senate) year old citizen, but you have to have absolutely no knowledge of the Constitution. :)
Especially the 10th Amendment and Article 1 (where the very limited powers of Congress are explicitly laid out.)
How about F-4s, A-7s, M-60s (the tank and the machine gun)?
The VC did an excellent job against them. Sure they took 20:1 losses in many cases, and it took them over a decade, but they won.
A determined uprising will eventually defeat any government that does not have the support of the people. It might be relatively peaceful like in Eastern Europe, or violent like Vietnam or Colonial America.
And incidentally...one of Hitler's first act upon election (yes, he was elected, scary but true) was to ban private ownership of guns.
I agree with what you say about the Second Amendment. .30-06 with a small clip. How does that differ from a hunting rifle? There's really no line between them.
However, I don't agree with where you draw the line.
Firstly, a sniper rifle, is usually a bolt action 7.62 or
Secondly, the Second Amendment was added so that the people would have the power to fight back against a repressive government once words and votes started to fail. So the line should be above military grade small arms (M-16s, M-249s, etc.) but somewhere way below nukes.
And if anybody here thinks that the Second Amendment is moot because a determined popular uprising with small arms can't defeat a technologically advanced, well equiped, professional military (I hear that one a lot), go talk to some of Ho Chi Min's troops, or the US troops that faced them.
The Libertarian Party Website is a great place to get anti-gun control information.
They'll have studies, statistics, and a bit of rhetoric.
Some stuff I've seen there and in their monthly newsletter:
Rape and mugging of women went down in FL and other states after they passed a concealed carry law, but went up in the nation as a whole. (I don't know the exact numbers, or remember the other states mentioned). Their interpretation is that criminals are more worried, because an armed woman is a riskier target.
Cities like Philly and Chicago that ban (and sue) guns have higher crime per capita than cities like Dallas and Phoenix where gun owners are relatively free. (But it could be attributable to the region, socio-economic breakdown, etc.)
The basic logical statement that making guns illegal won't stop criminals from owning them, because they don't follow the law: that's why we call them criminals. (Like the "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" bumper stickers.)
It's not really related to crime, but one of the most popular arguments against guns is all the accidental deaths of kids. But the LP newsletter (and it might be on their site by now) had an article saying that bathtubs cause more child deaths than guns, as do buckets.
When they ask, say you don't want to be in their database, you just want to buy something. They always give in when I say that.
I back up all of my data from my two boxes to a second HD on one of the boxes in case of OS or disk failure, but what do I do in case of fire?
Simple I printed out all of my important files. Now you're thinking, "that must be reams of paper how do you organize it?" Simple as well, I scan it all in and store it on my PC. So now if something goes wrong with my PC, I just grab the scans off of my...oh crap...I think I discovered a problem.