My right to choose is under attack. I choose liberty and freedom. I choose that my children and my children’s children are born and grow up in a free society. Disarmament of the populace will be the first step in depriving our children of their civil rights and human rights. Without the right to bear arms, there is no right to free speech, no right to due process, no right to trial by jury and certainly no right to be secured against unreasonable search and seizure. There will be rights and no choice. Your dictator will decide and will rule by executive order. Your dictator will decide who lives and dies. Recent history attests to the fact that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Ironically, many who viciously attack the Second Amendment do so by invoking their free speech protections under the First Amendment. Yet they seem blind to the realization that the First Amendment itself is only made possible by the Second Amendment that balances power between the people and the government, ensuring that the individual right to bear arms serves as a check and balance against the monopoly of violence every government inherently seeks. Obama threating to bypass Congress and create laws by executive order is an example. A government with a monopoly of force is a government that respects no boundaries and honors no limits. Grasping this point requires competent, critical thinking, which is why so many who now flourish in a diet of pop culture idiocy and media sensationalism fail to understand it.
You can't legislate crazy, so those are going to still occur.
Death penalty for crimes involving use of a weapon that does not involve murder is not reality. Such a sentance would be thrown out as unreasonable. Few states even have the death penalty for horrific crimes. For a second offense using a weapon during a crime could draw a mandatory 15-25 yr additional time. If the base crime had a 5-10 yr sentence this would lead to combined incarceration of 20+ years. 3rd offense for crime wtih a weapon 30-50 yr min. additional. Another words when added to the original sentence this could be the equivalent of life in prison for some of these repeat offenders.
By Edmund DeMarche Published January 19, 2013 A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten. Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days for issuing a 'terroristic threat.' But her punishment was reduced to two days after her mother met with school officials and had the incident dropped to 'threatening to harm another student,' which apparently carries a lesser punishment. Ficker says Mount Carmel Area School District officials said the girl made the threat on Jan. 10 as she waited for a school bus with friends. A school official overheard the remark and searched the girl's backpack and did not find the Hello Kitty gun. The next day, the girls involved were 'interrogated' by school officials, Ficker said. By the time the girl was done speaking to administrators about the incident, she was crying, he said. He called her "the least terroristic person in Pennsylvania." "What parent that you know would want their 5-year-old questioned about making terroristic threats without them in the room?" Ficker asked. The Associated Press contributed to this report Welcome to the crazed school administrators.
Percent Distribution by Region, 20111 Region "Total all weapons2" Firearms "Knives or cutting instruments" "Unknown or other dangerous weapons" "Personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.)3" Total 100.0 67.7 13.4 13.1 5.8 Northeast 100.0 66.0 16.0 13.9 4.1 Midwest 100.0 71.6 9.4 13.0 6.0 South 100.0 69.1 13.2 11.8 5.9 West 100.0 63.3 15.3 14.7 6.7
In terms of the first shot of the civil war, that rests with a Democrat. Lincoln was a Republican. It was the Republicans that freed the slaves, not the Democrats.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/19/16603029-5-accidentally-shot-at-gun-shows-in-north-carolina-ohio-indiana?lite
Politicians look for control of people. You wish it was that they served the people but their actions over the last 25 years in America show that they are in it for themselves. They are "control freaks" to the extreme. Yesterday it was medical care, today guns, tomorrow? Today's Democrats have all the hallmarks of the rise of facsism in Europe in the 1930's in Spain, Germany and Italy to name a few.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2013/01/18/fox-news-poll-gun-rights-and-gun-control/
Plugs doesn't have the time to do proper background checks.