27 Words

Sorry about not posting the past couple of days, I had to have some oral surgery. If anyone would like to know how it feels to have a chunk of tissue sliced from the roof of your mouth and sewed on to your lower gum just let me know. Now on with the show.

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.

While in a nice Loritab® funk after my surgery on Tuesday I listened to the to the arguments for the 2nd amendment case now before the Supreme Court on C-SPAN. (yeah, I know, I need to get a life) It seemed to me a lot of this case hinges on one word that the framers did not include. That word is “And” . Had this word been included, and the amendment read like this:

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

Then maybe I could fulfill my dream of having a Howitzer stationed in my front yard. But as it stands I can only dream for now.

This case stems from a couple of law abiding residents of Washington DC who are suing to have their “Right To Keep And Bear Arms” returned to them. As it stands now no person who lives within the city limits of DC can own or posses a hand gun of any kind. Also any long guns (rifle or shot gun) under the law may not be operational. This means that it must be unloaded, broken down and have a trigger lock. So in affect, the citizens of the DC metro area are forbidden to protect, and defend themselves. This might not be that big a deal if we all lived the leftest fantasy land of Utopia, where the citizens do not need arms because the government will “protect” you. But this is DC were talking about here. I went there when I was in High School and let me tell you, it is a cesspool. Coming from the the south it was quite a culture shock to see real “hoods”. I’v been to Atlanta many times, but Tech Wood is a country club compared to the area around the National Zoo in DC. I was honestly worried that our charter bus would break down as we drove through Anacostia. The news has had story after story about how bad crime is, and how high the murder rate is in DC.

I own guns. So I guess I am biased on this. And I have made my pro gun argument (see posts from April 07 http://punishtheinocentaswell-aaron.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html) until I’m blue in the face.

Now the Supreme Court could end this argument once and for all. All a majority has to do is come back in June and find that the second amendment does indeed give law abiding citizens the right to keep and bear arms. The same way the court ruled in 1973 that all women have the right to abort their children. If that can be done then why not this? At least the gun thing is written in black and white in the Constitution. Yes all you loonly leftists we gun crazies should be able to use the Constitution to our advantage as well.

But I’m sure the nine idiots will chicken out, this being an election year and all. My prediction is a majority will find for the two plaintiffs, but for some sort of procedural misstep. And we will once again have the question hanging over our heads. Oh well. It’s just our liberty.

FUCK THAT!!!!

FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS IS ONLY WAY YOU WILL GET MY GUNS!!!!!!!!!

A WELL ARMED SOCIETY IS A WELL MANNERED SOCIETY!!!

GUN CONTROL MEANS TAKING DEAD AIM ON THE PERSON BREAKING IN TO MY HOUSE!!!

Sorry, I did’nt mean to go off on a bumper sticker tirade.

Criminals, people who are judged to be mental incapacitated, and minors should not be able to buy guns legally. And we already have a system and the infrastructure to make sure of this. I have no problem keeping fully automatic weapons illegal also. (well I do because I would love to have one but I understand.)

Laws of course will not keep guns out of the hands of the people who should not have them. Nor will it keep weapons that are deemed illegal off of the streets. The best thing we as law abiding citizens can do is go to our local shooting range and practice, practice, practice, so our aim is true and the only people we hit is the criminal and not innocent bystanders.

Violent Crime In The UK

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2710596.ece

So it seems that violent crime in the UK is a lot higher than the limy, brown tooth's were willing to admit. Hmmm............hows that gun control thing working out. The Brits took a page from our corporate world and cooked the numbers, so that they could keep brow beating the US about how bad crime is over here. Let me be the first to say HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. Also let me retort by saying USA USA USA USA USA!!!!!! I think I'll go out and fire off a few rounds at the target range today.

Mental Capacity

One Addendum on my thoughts about gun control, The mental capacity of a person should be considered for the purchase of any firearm. It is now known that the VT shooter was admitted to a mental health facility in 2005. This should have been taken into consideration and he should not have been allowed to legally purchase a firearm. This of course would not have stopped him from getting one, and these tragic events most likely would have still played out. Their needs to be a way to check the mental background of individuals before purchase. I'm not sure how this can be done but it should be considered.

It Was The Guns Fault Not His

What the gun laws did in Virginia did was make it illegal for for anyone on the VT campus to defind themselves. This evil man knew he would have no resistance because It is illegal to posses a gun on campus. The politicians write these laws knowing this. The question that needs to be asked is why to the law makers want this kind of wholesale slaughter of innocent lives? It is their laws that enabled Cho Seung-Hui (remember him?) to ruthlessly kill 32 people Monday, not the guns. Maybe we need to find out what kind on music he listened to or movies he liked as well, that seemed to be the MO of other investigations of school shootings. Blame the gun, blame the music and movies he liked, blame video games. Anything to take the blame away from the criminal who actually did it. Once again my heart goes out to the victims and families who this waste of oxygen destroyed.