45caliber,
sounds like a sure winner to me!!!

And if that Hillary Witch gets her way, she’ll help genocide occur all over the world with her global gun grab.
We’re not going to let that happen here.

I think the main reason they want to ban all guns is because they are afraid of the citizens of this country.

Sen. Feinstein carrys a gun. She was asked one time if she was going to give up her gun as soon as she got a law passed banning them.

“Oh, I can’t do that,” she said. “I have a lot of people out there that don’t like me. I have to have it for protection.”

But it isn’t okay for you and I to protect ourselves.

I wonder about the people that get road rage, or if you are in a bar or somewhere and someone gets honked off, whips out a gun and starts shooting. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for carrying handguns but this is something to think about. There are a lot of unstable people out there. But then again, a person can always get a gun, legal or illegally.

Hi Claire, When concealed carry permits in the first states to have them first came out, the road rage and bar fight issue was a concern. The stats show that it didn’t happen. People were more level headed than their government gave them credit for.

Jim H–This brings to mind–one day last summer I drove the ’69 Camaro back to work at lunchtime. I stopped for a stoplight, and a guy pulled up alongside in a sporty-looking car—I looked at him and he looked at me-then the light turned green and we both stomped on the foot pedal. Needless to say, I shot past him, my heart was pounding, and he cursed at me, called me an “f” bit–”, gave me the middle finger salute, his face was red as a beet. He zoomed past me madder than heck. Then I was scared. I don’t know what possessed me, at my age, drag racing. Maybe it gave me a feeling of power, I don’t know. It gave me quite a thrill at the time but I’ll never do it again. I almost had a heart attack. Whenever I drive that Camaro, people sometimes want to take me on, and I am so tempted! Certainly old enough to know better, too young to resist. My husband was a dragster-no one could beat him! Ahhh, memories of my youth.

Hi Claire, He must have been to young to know not to mess with a 69 Camaro. The way it sounds a little humility won’t hurt him.

Sounds like Mayor Daley with his thugs. They can have protection but no one else can.

This post was for 45caliber—

Jim H– Yeah, I took him down a notch or two! I won’t do it again though.

I never drag raced away from a light but always took pride (and stil do) in my ability to get the jump when the light turned. Incidently I ain’t a kid anymore either.

This is one gun owner who sees those street cameras as an encroachment on freedom and the right to privacy. And in a perfect world…as targets.

Here is another and I suspect 45 and Angel would agree as well.

To Officer Sam. I hope you really aren’t an office of the law. You are advocating BIG BROTHER and that is NOT RIGHT. As it is, we have too much big brother in the name of “keeping us safe”. No, they are trying to keep us controlled. A SUPER COMPUTER give government way too much power, which can and will be used.

Camera’s are only good for “who did it” after one has already become a victim. A concealed pistol is the equalizer and a deterent, not to become a victim.

A visible gun is even more of a deterrent. When Texas first passed their concealed hand gun license, the governor (a staunch Dem) stated that she felt that she should change it to an open carry instead. She didn’t – because most people here said that would be fine.

England has cameras almost everywhere in their cities. But they also have as much as 16 times as much crime as they do here. So it is obvious that cameras do not work as a deterant. Of course, the police are so overloaded there that they don’t bother to investigate little crimes like assault, burglary, etc. They only have time to handle things like murder, rape, and those citizens who feel like defending themselves.

Rebuttal to Officer Sam:

Red Light Cameras have proven to increase the number of rear end collisions at traffic lights. The increase in obedience to the law remains anecdotal and unproven, although the revenue return has been greatly enhanced.

Obedience to traffic laws has been proven to CAUSE crashes. Statistics from 1926 onward have shown that the number of highway deaths per 100,000 miles has continually declined continually at a rate of nearly 5% per year with only a few aberrations. Those periods of increase were limited to months following wars and the return of soldiers to civilian life. But there was one clear exception to this reduction. It was the multi year increase following the OPEC caused oil shortage in 1973. The Congress passed the “Double Nickel” or the National 55 MPH speed limit in 1974. it was fully effective in 1975. For the next 5 years the Highway death rate INCREASED by over 5% each year. This was a total reversal. The speed limit reduction KILLED people.

The repeal was supposed to result in many more highway deaths. It resulted in a reduction in deaths.

Every state that has passed a “Shall Issue” law has had a reduction in the incidence of violent crime. Those areas that have restricted gun ownership or carry have had an increase in violent crime. An analysis of “Gun Control” laws indicates that they should be renamed “Criminal Protection Laws”, or “Criminal Workplace Safety Laws”.

O. Sam’s claim that “Gun lobbyists seem to support more of a POLICE STATE not freedom.” ignores the fact that a reduction in crime means a reduced need for police. (Maybe he’s just lobbying for job security.)

And finally, the only thing that can be said about universal camera coverage of the whole country is that the crimes will be recorded, but not a thing about identifying the criminal or bringing the criminal to justice. Nor of course, anything about preventing the crime and the psychological and physical damage done by the criminal.

Brother gun ownership does seal ones freedom. History has proven armed citizens that resist are a deterant to dictators. If you were a robber would you take a chance you may be shot and killed by a home owner that you know is armed? No”"” The robber is looking to prey on the easy one that can’t resist. History has also proven when the citizens are disarmed, only criminals will have weapons. As a police officer I realize that I work for the citizens and I am subject to them, not they are subject to me.

I agree. My wife laughs when I buy more guns or ammo – but she also learns to use them.

45caliber–My husband was after me constantly to take shooting lessons ath the gun club. I finally did and you know what?? I am pretty good at it.

Claire,
Keep practicing lady!!!!

JC, well don’t ever give up, we’ll win in the end.

Oh Come On! So you’re immediate reaction is that gun owners leave guns lying around where children can get at them?
Well that in and of itself is criminal isn’t it? And it hardly accounts for a very high majority of American gun owners.
Do tragic things happen? All the time. Do we live in cocoons because of it? Hardly.
Gun ownership is a necessary reality in a free republic.
Responsibility is necessary to gun ownership.

JC,
What? You didn’t know that we gun owners leave guns lying around and even encourage kids to play with them??? Boy, are you behind the times! What a crock Big Daddy!!!! Right now my guns are locked up in a safe and no child could possibly get to them!!! Big Daddy if you believe that all gun owners leave their guns lying around in the open all the time, then YOU ARE DENSE!!!

Joe, I get them the guns with bayonets so if they manage to not shoot themselves the can get cut up really bad.

To Big Daddy, Then don’t be stupid and keep it laying around where kids can get to it. AND when kids are old enough to understand EXPLAIN That they are NOT to touch the gun then dictate punishments if they even touch it. THEN when they are older still teach them how to safely handle the gun and use it. IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS in this case. Guns don’t kill people – stupid people and criminals cause people to get killed.

The biggest proof to what you espouse is the experiment done two years ago by the goverment of Australia. They passed a law that no citizen was allowed to own or posses a gun and the government would buy from each citizen the gun(s) he owned at fair market value. After spending over 500 million dollars paying for this mass confiscation of arms from the law abiding citizens, for they found out later that all the criminals intent on crime kept theirs, all crime statistics increased tremendously, including murder and personal assualt and crimes committed with guns. They, the government, now says they are perplexed as to why this has happened and do not know what to do to bring the crime rate back under control, for another year has come and gone and the rates of these crimes keep going up. For now the law abiding citizens are un-armed prey, unable to protect themselves from the armed criminals, and the criminals know it and have no fear of resistance to their crimes with firearms. Australia needs to take a lesson from Switzerland, who issues every male citizen a rifle at the proper age and teaches them how to use it thereby resulting in the lowest crime rate of any country in the world. Down through history every country that has banned weapons, as Australia has, suffers the same result,bar none and there have been about 12 of them. Some of those 12 were also taken over by dictators who then committed genocide on millions of its citizens (Turkey, Russia, Germany, and Angola to name a few). the description of ignorance is to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. Now Obama and the Democrats are trying to make it our turn, I hope they fail, but they are adament and are now trying to do it through U.N. treaty.

Not long ago, in Australia, five men broke into a man’s apartment with baseball bats and pipe. They beat him badly enough that he spent three months in the hospital. He finally managed to get hold of a katana one of his family in WWII had captured and had on the wall. He killed one of his attackers and wounded another. The other three ran off.

The police were puzzled as to what charge they could file against him for “murdering” his attacker. And they made no effort to find the three that ran or even learn why he was attacked.

And you know nothing of guns or how to train children, do you?

Only careless and stupid people leave guns laying around. I believe it is the parents’ fault when something like this happens. Stupidity, carelessness and idiocy. You don’t leave guns unattended and you don’t leave children unattended. Simple as that. Accidents can happen but remember an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Just because some parent can be ignorant doesn’t mean all of us are.