The constitution was written by people who believed our destiny was controlled by a higher authority than any on earth. So yes the constitution and our entire way of life is based on the premise that there is a God.

Did you forget? None of George II or Reagan’s clown commies were voted in either and they both financially bankrupted the country.

A.L. you state “Federal law, state law… You right to own a gun is protected” Then why is it illegal to own a handgun in chicago?

American Liberal… Why don’t you find a blog that suits you instead of all the insults you throw around on this one? You rant and everyone thinks you are the armpit of society for your lack of understanding as to what is happening around you. Poor guy… I do feel sorry for you…

One bill that would be considered anti-gun is HR-45.

Obama said the only reason he was not introducing new gun control legislation at this time was the fact he did not have the votes to insure its passage. Feinstein and Pelosi said much the same thing with Feinstein adding the legislation would be introduced when she was ready. Holder has called for the re-institution of the ban on so called assault weapons (which is a ban on semi-auto rifles and shotguns not true assualt rifles). One of the New York senators has called for additional restrictions on firearms purchases.

Have you heard of the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership [JPFO]? I think they would resent being called right-wing nut jobs.

You need to read some history. Check it out and read why the Japanese force that attacked Pearl Harbor didn’t just head for San Francisco and invade the US proper. Something about an armed militia waiting for them I believe. And granted we are not an armed militia now, but should there ever be an invasion by arms, the more guns we have ready the better. At least that was part of the reasoning of the Founding fathers when they added the right to bear arms.

say: “You need to try.. Factcheck… Snoopes… Truthorfiction.com…..”
HAH!

Jon…Am Lib is well known in these circle for his liberal baiting…as Alinsky said:
“The job then is getting the people to move, to act, to participate; in short, to develop and harness the necessary power to effectively conflict with the prevailing patterns and change them. When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an ‘agitator’ they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function—to agitate to the point of conflict.”

Last year the DOD decided that all military brass was to be ground up rather than resold as surplus to bullet manufacturers for reloading. This nearly put bullet manufacturers out of business till it was changed a few months ago. My Brother in law is a Reloader and uses his brass over and over. For some reason there is an absense of primers on the market. Withour primers, you have no bullet. There is no reason given for this, but his suppliers cannot get primers.

Liberal legislators have declared war on law-abiding gun owners. As you read this, our current gun laws routinely result in the confiscation of property and prosecution and incarceration of law-abiding citizens for non-violent administrative violations.

Proposed legislation is even worse.
H.R. 2159 (King of New York, Rangel, McCarthy, et al.): This bill would allow Eric Holder to declare any person a “prohibited person” (revoke licenses of, etc.) if he “suspects” that individual of aiding terrorism. Given recent disclosures that the government regards pro-lifers, pro-gun advocates, veterans, and other conservatives as potential terrorists, this has to be regarded with some alarm. This is particularly true because Holder is specifically authorized by the bill to withhold information concerning the basis for putting conservatives on his “enemies list

H.R. 2324 (Castle, McCarthy, et al.): This bill is a reincarnation of the year-after-year effort to effectively ban gun shows by allowing them to be regulated and inspected to an unlimited extent. In addition, any gun show sponsor would be subject to up to two years in prison if he failed to notify every single attendee of his responsibilities under the Brady Law.

H.R. 2401 (McCarthy): This bill is a reincarnation of legislation to make “prohibited persons” of everyone on an administration “terrorist watch list.” Suffice it to say that:

•there are virtually no guidelines to who can or can’t be placed on one of these lists, and they have prohibited boarding by people like Ted Kennedy;
•it is impossible to find out why you are on the list and very difficult to get your name off

Senate:
S. 941 (Crapo, Leahy): This is the Senate counterpart to H.R. 2296
The bill would allow BATFE to impose, for the first time, civil penalties on federal firearms licensees. Civil penalties could easily put a small licensee out of business, but can be imposed without the burden of proof, disclosure requirements, and other protections accorded criminal defendants.

S. 1317 (Lautenberg): This bill would allow the Attorney General to deny the purchase of a firearm pursuant to an Instantcheck (or a permit which would allow a person to by-pass the Instantcheck) if he “suspect[s]” that the person has been engaged in conduct “related to terrorism” and the Attorney General has a “reasonable belief” that the firearm might be used in connection with terrorism. The Attorney General is specifically permitted to withhold any information concerning his “reasonable belief.” Take into consideration, in evaluating the application of this bill, that DHS in 2009 circulated an advisory attempting to link mainline Second Amendment and pro-life groups to “terrorism”

Not even mentioning the weak Brady Campaign and NY Mayor Bloomberg’s MAIG and personally lobbying Obama’s support to ban all legal guns.

Every bill to do with gun regulation since the 2nd amendment was written qualifies as an answer to your question. You’re probably bright enough to realize that it is more than a few.

The small appearance of insects in my home isn’t worth my time, either. But, left unattended to and it grows into an unmanageable problem. It’s like raising your kids… they do something bad and you don’t correct them (because it wasn’t worth the time), they see it as permission to continue the bahavior. Small problems are easier to keep under control… just ask BP.

And yet you are!

Yea, the nut cases attracted are your likes. You do nothing but make enemies here with your unfounded rants. You take one small, unrelate account and make a claim it applies to the whole event. You are obviously a small person making judgement on others here. Classic move by somebody who’s wrong. We aren’t gullable enough to be moved by your distracting attacks. Real Americans don’t think like you, and that is why America will succeed. You have been drinking way too much of the Kool-ade!!

Amer. Lib., since it takes you 10- seconds to process a thought, there’s no way you can understand the U.N./ small arms treaty. it means you can lose your rights too. stop the Obama worship and do your research.

Am Lib…”One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.”

AMERICAN LIBERAL ,YOU POST LIKE ” MOTHS TO A LONE LIGHTBLUB, WELL YOU ARE LIKE A FLY WALKING ON GOOD FOOD,PLEASE SOMEONE ON THIS SITE GET A BIG CAN OF RAID,THE JERK IS DIRTYING THE SITE,WHAT YOU GIVE YOU GET FLY BOY.

Alinskyitis has many symptoms…here are just a few of the symptoms that you seem to display…

rule# 5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
rule# 8. “Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.”

and most importantly…
rule# 7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time….”

WHAT! THE CRIMINAL SOCEITY.GET REAL AND GET A BRAIN.

The ” holocaust Lol.. You managed to insert that into the conversation?.. All I can say is it’s a goodthing your no longer a cop… Talk about fantasy…so produce the bill that says they’re taking your guns… Let’s see it?..

AL, it is interesting to note that generally speaking crime rates rise during economic downturns, but not this time. I would like to beleive it has something to do with the increase in gun sales.

Am Lib, maybe you need to take a course in economics. People respond to incentives. If the linkelyhood of a criminal being shot by someone carrying conceiled is good, they are less likely to do the crime. By the way, how’s that “secured” weapon of yours going to help in an emergency? You REALLY think you’ll have time to get it? Yea, thell the bad guy… “wait, I need five minutes to get my gun.” It is always better to be prepared for the worst, and it never happen, than to be wanting when that ONE time happens to you! You’ve obviously been blessed with never having a bad situation happen and dealing with the remorse later because you COULD have made a difference.

American Liberal… Yes! Less crimes are being committed. Criminals do not know who is packing and who isn’t. And if they are even half smart they will know that gun buying and ammo buying is up since Obama took office. I guess there is one bright light out of this dark administration! More people are applying for carry permits, my 18 year old son being one of them! I intend to get one, too!

You seem very apathetic to what is going on around you. I am not paranoid, but I will not be sitting on my hands either. I have told you this before, it is not right versus left, it is right versus wrong!

If you would research the statistics on other than propaganda gun-grabber sites, you would discover that areas with relaxed gun laws have less crime. How do you explain that?

Give us some facts rather than jibberish please?

What you believe is irrelevant. The stats speak for themselves.

AMERICAN LIBERAL,ITS OK TO BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU WANT,QUESTION? DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE EASTER RABBIT TOO OR SANTA CLAUS ALSO, WHAT YOU BELIEVE DOSENT COME CLOSE TO THE THRUTH, IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE STUFF YOU POST GO TO A STATE PRISON AND SELL WHAT YOU BELIEVE TOO THEM, AND SPEND OF COUPLE OF DAYS WITH THEM INSIDE, YOU WILL TURN INTO THE BIGGEST ARMED CITIZEN ON YOUR BLOCK,THE POINT IS WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE COME FROM, SINCE AMERICANS HAVE WAKEN UP THESE THUGS REALLY ARE HAVING A HARD TIME BECAUSE EVERY DECENT PERSON IS TRIED OF THESE JERKS DOING AS THEY WISH AND ARE FED UP WITH MORONS ABRIGING THEIR 2ND AMEN. RIGHTS. AND NOONE EVER HAD ANYONE VOTE FOR GUN CONTROL IN ANY STATE IN THE NATION, SO I ASK THIS SIMPLE QUESTION,WHY WERENT THE CITIZENS OF THIS NATION ( THE NON CRIMINALS) HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE ON THIS NATIONALLY ,COULD IT BE THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE PUSHING THIS AGENDA ,JUST WANT ALL THE NATION AS UNARMED SHEEP SO WE WOULD CRY FOR MORE POLICE> A POLICE STATE WE BEGGED FOR,WELL I DONT TRUST ANY ONE THAT PUSHES THIS STUFF,WHY? SOUNDS LIKE TRAVELING SNAKE OIL SALESPERSON,YOU NEVER KNOW WHATS IN THE BOTTLE,AND NO I DONT BELIEVE IN THE EASTER BUNNY, ONLY IN 7.62x54R IT TELLS NO LIES.

American Lib. How could you possibly think up a stupid question like that? “Is it Possible that less crime is being committed” LOL I wonder what if any facts can be thought of as facts. Have you called the police? if you have, you might discover that they don’t want to take a report. each report is anaother statistic. Maybe crime is going down look at how many illegals are being deported! If people come in to this country illegal then they are criminals how many of these people are on the crime statistics? You must clean your own house before you can clean the house of yor neighbors.

American liberal says:
May 27, 2010 at 7:35 am

I don’t believe the lower crime rate has anything to do with weapons…. Isn’t it possible that less crime is being committed… ?
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Anti-American Liberal;

WELL DUH!! Of course the crime rate has gone down because fewer crimes are being committed! What an ignorant question!

The reason the crime rate has gone down is because gun sales are up. More people are starting to realize the police can’t protect them, and are starting to protect themselves and their property. The criminal element is aware of this and are more careful about who they choose to commit crimes against, and HOW OFTEN they want to put their lives on the line, because they don’t know who the easy targets are anymore.
Could you see the gun in that old ladies purse before you tried to carjack her last week?

Paul, you are against owning guns…good for you. Yes, it is a shame that crimes are committed by criminals with guns every day. And, just yesterday an 80 yr old youngster in my neck of the woods shot and killed an intruder in his home. Yeah! Oh and did I mention the criminal had his own (stolen) gun and fired first. So, we could go back and forth with stories and tragedies. Live with your Karma, I think you are the coward. And, if you think your “karma” will protect your family, then okay. Good luck with that. And, btw, stories of people killed by guns makes national news, stories of guns protecting people do not.

Paul…. I agree that this countrys biggest threat comes from far right anti government nutcases….. Dumping millions and millions of guns on a society can’t be a good thing….I don’t want to end up like those 3rd world countrys where firing Ak 47′s into the air is commonplace….I’m for strick background checks and protecting the 2nd amendment…. Things have changed since the powder and ball musket days when the 2nd amendment was written… Everything needs to be reasonable and so does how we read the 2nd amendment in 2010… It doesn’t apply like it did in 1776…

I’m sure if you took the time to do the research you would find out how many times fire arms in the hands of citizens prevented crime. if you don’t think we should be able to defend ourselves from criminals, you should move to Russia with Amer. Lib.

Paul Ringgenberg…let’s only speak about the threats on legal gun owners and not toss the illegally aquired guns and criminals into this discussion

This is from a 1988 study
Armed Citizens and Crime Control…
Research by award-winning criminologist Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz reveals Americans use guns for self-defense as often as 2.5 million times a year–that’s three to five times more often than they are misused by criminals.
BY PAUL H. BLACKMAN, Ph.D.

More significantly, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology invited Marvin Wolfgang to submit comments on the Kleck-Gertz study.5 The late Prof. Wolfgang was one of the most prominent criminologists in the world. His “round criticism” speaks for itself:

“I am as strong a gun-control advocate as can be found among the criminologists in this country. If I were Mustapha Mond of Brave New World, I would eliminate all guns from the civilian population and maybe even from the police. I hate guns–ugly, nasty instruments designed to kill people . . . . What troubles me is the article by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz. The reason I am troubled is that they have provided an almost clear-cut case of methodologically sound research in support of something I have theoretically opposed for years, namely, the use of a gun in defense against a criminal perpetrator . . . . I have to admit my admiration for the care and caution expressed in this article and this research.

“Can it be true that about two million instances occur each year in which a gun was used as a defensive measure against crime? It is hard to believe. Yet, it is hard to challenge the data collected. We do not have contrary evidence. The National Crime Victim Survey does not contravene this latest research . . . .

“The Kleck and Gertz study impresses me for the caution the authors exercise and the elaborate nuances they examine methodologically. I do not like their conclusions that having a gun can be useful, but I cannot fault their methodology. They have tried earnestly to meet all objections in advance and have done exceedingly well.”
http://www.nraila.org/media/misc/Blackman.htm

Here in Washington we have lost 5 Police officers in the past year to bad guys carrying guns. But it wasn’t the guns that did the killing, it was the bad guys using guns. If you apply the same rationale that the liberals apply to guns to the automobile, we should ban automobiles. There are more people killed by automobiles in this country yearly than by firearms. So where are these bleeding hearts standing on this injustice. “Cars Kill People” Park your car and save a life!! Get Real Folks.

Paul Ringgenberg,
Your personal opinions are NOT factual and do not match statistics.
You claim that you can show us facts to prove your rantings are true, but you fail to provide them. Until you do provide some statistics, and facts to back up your socialist rants you will not be considered credible.

AL, it is true that the current administration has made no overt “threats” to gun owners, in fact, there has been a regional softening on restrictions and purchasing. There may or may not be any future plans to change this. But, vigilance against a number of hefty anti-gun lobbying and diverse entities such as the NAACP, AMA, NOW, LOWV, NEA, et al is essential as their influence on a left leaning administration is well known. Once the oil spill, the Sestak cover up, Memorial Day Weekend, etc. are behind them there is a general feeling on the right that gun control is on the list somewhere. As for restrictions, so what if I want to file down the sear on my MAC-10 and make it fully automatic? Is it truly any more dangerous? Probably not, as it makes it hard to hit the broad side of a barn!

Apparently you don’t know about Hillary signing the U.N. small arms treaty? or are you gonna choose to ignore it like all the other violations this administration is guilty of. you sound like a good little “commie” Amer. Lib. the only guns you probably have is squirt guns.

Hey dumb-o-crap would you like to put your money where your mouth is with that statement that you probably own more guns than anyone on here? And learn to spell it! And I guess I’m one of those whackos running around with a gun all the time, or maybe I live in Texas where the goverment trusts the people. And the second amendment is just as important now as it was in 1776. The founding Fathers said those rights were given us by our creator, and as rebels against the rightfull ruler of America, the King of England, they intended for us to have the right and means to take back the government when they got too big for their britches. And if you really owned guns you would not be running your big mouth like that, like Rep Wilson yelled out to Pfres Obama, “You LIE”

American liberal, just for you…The UN “Small Arms Treaty” is an unacceptable infringment on my right to keep and bear arms!

The globalists at the UN know that your gun rights are a major obstacle preventing them from seizing the worldwide oppressive power they crave.

And the gun grabbers in the Obama administration are more than happy to advance the UN’s agenda.

Will you let them destroy the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and subdue our nation under a global yoke of tyranny?

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Barack Obama’s gun control policy, or should I write anti-gun record is long and informative:

* 1994 to 2001 – Obama was on the board of the anti-gun Joyce Foundation. This foundation is the largest funding source for radical anti-gun groups in the country.
* 1996 – Obama supported a ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.
* 1999 – Obama proposed a 500 percent increase in the excise taxes on firearms and ammunition. This tax would effectively punish gun owners for buying guns and ammunition.
* 2003 – Obama voted in support of legislation that would have banned privately owned hunting shotguns, target rifles and black powder rifles in Illinois.
* 2004 – Obama voted against legislation intended to protect homeowners from prosecution in cases where they used a firearm to halt a home invasion.

“But these idiots feel the need to wear a gun to walk down the street are whackos ..”

Yes, because the only time you’d EVER need to defend yourself with a firearm is in your OWN HOUSE RIGHT? That’s the only time huh? If you want to carry so you can protect yourself, family or other innocent civilians at any time or circumstance you are a “whacko” huh…. The 2nd ammendment doesn’t say “keep and bare arms only in your house.” I’m pretty sure that’s not what the founders intended.

What a narrow minded and bafoonish comment.

Am Lib, what good is a gun tucked safely away..most of the time I’m accosted is on the street or on hiking trails with my two little dogs. I don’t own a gun but am thinking about it, however I did borrow a friends once because there had been some rapes on a trail I like to take, the day I borrowed that gun was the day I would have been accosted and probably raped…all I did was grab the gun at my hip and these two men went on their way and I reported them. They were caught and I was unharmed…that is why I want to buy a gun and have it in plane sight for all ilk to see it and leave me alone! That’s why crime is down…if criminals know homes have guns, they are less likely to target those homes, if they know people have guns, they are less likely to cause trouble with those people…criminals go for the weak not the armed and able to shoot!

anti-American Liberal;
The way you continue to state that obama and his socialist, Marxist goons have no intention of taking gun ownership away from law abiding citizens has changed my mind about you. I now believe that you do know the score, and you approve, because NOBODY COULD BE SO IGNORANT TO NOT SEE THESE BILLS AS ANYTHING ELSE. Nobody could be that ignorant, not even you.

The Disarming American Citizens Act — H.R. 2159 the so-called “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009″ allowing anti-gun Attorney General Eric Holder to revoke the Second Amendment rights of ANY American he chooses based on pure suspicion;

A new so-called Assault Weapons Ban, targeting ALL semi-automatic rifles and shotguns — which, unlike the Clinton ban, will NEVER expire;

H.R. 45, the Catch-All Obama Gun Control Bill, which would create a national gun registry, require a two-day waiting period, hike taxes on gun sales, federally ban ALL private firearms sales and FORCE you to take a written exam just to prove you’re fit to own a firearm;

The U.N.’s Small Arms Treaty, which would confiscate and destroy ALL unauthorized civilian firearms and set the stage for INTERNATIONAL gun confiscation. Recently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, The United States is committed to actively pursuing a strong and robust [small-arms] treaty.

Finally, someone who understands the word traitor and whom our present traitors are! Fifty years ago, this could have NEVER have happened in OUR government! It all started with the removal of prayer from our schools, Under God from our Pledge of Allegiance, and the formation of the ACLU (American Criminal Liberties Union)!

Al Sieber, thanks for bringing that up.
EVERYONE INTERESTED SHOULD SIGN THE National Association for Gun Rights petition against “The UN’s “Small Arms Treaty”.

To my United States Senators:

Whereas: The Obama Administration just announced they would be working with the United Nations to pass a new “Small Arms Treaty;” and

Whereas: The UN’s “Small Arms Treaty” is nothing more than a massive GLOBAL gun control scheme, designed to register, ban and CONFISCATE firearms from law-abiding citizens; and

Whereas: The new treaty will likely be designed to FORCE national governments to enact tougher licensing requirements, making law-abiding citizens cut through even more bureaucratic red tape just to buy a firearm legally; and

Whereas: The United Nation’s “Small Arms Treaty” would also likely ban the trade, sale and private ownership of ALL semi-automatic weapons; and

Whereas: The ratification of this treaty would also likely create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation;

Therefore: I urge you to vote AGAINST ratification of the UN’s “Small Arms Treaty.”
http://www.nagr.org/UNpetition1.aspx?pid=3

Jess… You mean your a cop and you left your police car door unlocked and your shotgun unlocked so any passing person could have come by and stolen the weapon or used it on you or another citizen?… I hope they fired you on the spot … That was a very stupid and dangerous act…. That’s what I’m talking about.. You were trained to be more responsible… Your shotgun was supposed to be secured… And you’re using this as a bragging point….?

Jmr… It’s ignorant people like you that shouldn’t be allowed to own a weapon… You’re very clearly an unstable person …

If crime is down, it’s only because Washington isn’t leaving anything for the “private sector” criminals to steal.

Your statment is basically correct. You are your first line of defense, NOT the police. With the Liberals in government, you as a citizen have been reduced to a number counted, instead of as a living breathing person. What the gun grabbers don’t realize (well, maybe some do) is that the Supreme Court had already made a decision about the Police not being required to provide you safety. The responsibility of the Police “is to bring criminals to Justice,” and nothing more. In other words, to investigate the crime to determine who the criminal was, and to proceed through the Justice System with that criminal…period. If the crime happens to you, the Police will usually be there, after the fact, to take the report and begin investigation. If you gave up the right to protect yourself, then that’s your problem.

American Liberal sounds like the consumate gun grabber. What is a gun? It’s nothing more than a high speed projectile launcher that can be used for good, as well as bad. Some people fear guns. What they should fear are ciminals. The gun by itself is nothing but a tool for good or bad. Criminals will always have access to guns, especially the ones brought in from Mexico. Did you know that it only takes a couple of weeks to get a fully automatic AK-47 illegally brought in from Mexico? If you have the money, the criminals will sell you one! However, it’s so much easier for the gun grabbers to twist statistics and incite emotion about guns being “bad,” or that the people who want a gun to have something “wrong” with them. Interesting about those gun grabbers who occasionally are revealed to carry a gun for protection? Anti-gun politicans like Nancy Pelosi, Diane Fienstein, Barbara Boxer, Barny Frank, and more all have CCW’s. What hypocrites. I can only assume that they think their lives are worth more than yours?

Such politicians know that in order to better control the public, disarming the citizens has to be done first….or as Nancy Pelosi was once reported to say, “Socialism cannot succeed unless we get the guns.” That statement seems to fit her personality and ideology. Especially in this present climate of over reaching politicians who function beyond the constraints and rules of the Constitution, the last thing any citizen should do is give up their guns! Who knows, perhaps one day you may need a gun to protect yourself from the corrupt politicians. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. You can trust the government no further than you can trust the average politician to do what is best for you, and that ain’t saying much. But what do I know…I was in Law Enforcement for only 14 years.

It’s the use of the word “scum” applied to anyone disagreeing.

This sounds like a statement from a Taliban militant who hates anyone who is not a Muslim.

Two sides of the same coin… no real difference… filled with hate and intolernce.

Yes, one can glean a lot from one sentence.

This is America, not Afghanistan, but it seems that there are some who would have it equally monolithic philosophically.