Iceland is awash in guns, yet it has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world. US law student Andrew Clark asks why.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22288564
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Iceland is awash in guns, yet it has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the world. US law student Andrew Clark asks why.
Smooth said:Andrew Darmac said:but I can't see why someone would really have a need to own an armory of AK 47s, or the like.
Why shouldn't we? (Please take note of my sig line as you consider your reply.)
Andrew Darmac said:but the only guns who people general wield during public shootings seem to be assault weapons rather than personal guns/hunting weapons.
Where does this assumption come from?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/cowboy-style-cap-gun-gets-5-year-old-ousted-from-school-in-calvert-county/2013/05/30/a3a8a178-c93c-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.htmlCowboy-style cap gun gets 5-year-old suspended from school in Calvert County
By Donna St. George, E-mail the writer
A kindergartner who brought a cowboy-style cap gun onto his Calvert County school bus was suspended for 10 days after showing a friend the orange-tipped toy, which he had tucked inside his backpack on his way to school, according to his family and a lawyer.
The child was questioned for more than two hours before his mother was called, she said, adding that he uncharacteristically wet his pants during the episode. The boy is 5 — “all bugs and frogs and cowboys,” his mother said.
Smooth said:...tyrannical government, just like the one we are beginning to realize is in place now.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Smooth said:How about the insanely huge number of Executive Orders this criminal has passed?
Smooth said:How about aligning himself with Muslims?
How about his lack of action in Benghazi?
How about the list of lies he has told from day one?
And is that the only part of my post you care to discuss, Andrew??[/size]
The point of my Second Amendment rights have nothing to do with hunting in the least. It has nothing to do with "bragging rights" about a big collection or any other thing most folks who don't understand guns or are afraid of guns believe.
A well-regulated militia means the citizens of this country being able to protect themselves from a potential tyrannical government, just like the one we are beginning to realize is in place now. This country was founded on freedom from oppression and those in power are quickly ignoring that fact.
+paradox said:Dont the Congress make the president the rank of commander in chief in times of war?
Isn't the war on terrorism an never ending war just like the war on drugs? Hmm...
http://change.gov/agenda/health_care_agenda/The Obama-Biden plan provides affordable, accessible health care for all Americans....
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-cheapest-obamacare-plan-will-be-20000-familyIn a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year.
Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/06/2013649817734435.htmlObama unsure what to do about Guantanamo
US President said the prison is "contrary to who we are" but concrete plans to close the facility remain unclear.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/05/10/white-house-holds-secret-meeting-reporters/The White House today held a secret meeting to try to influence journalists’ reporting on Benghazi.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, according to a review by The Associated Press.
The scope of using the secret accounts across government remains a mystery: Most U.S. agencies have failed to turn over lists of political appointees' email addresses, which the AP sought under the Freedom of Information Act more than three months ago. The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay more than $1 million for its email addresses.
Well, if it is Thursday, there must be a new Obama scandal. But one thing is for damn sure, whatever that scandal is, you can bet the American mainstream media will be playing catch up and not carrying the glory of breaking a story about a major White House scandal.
Fact: Over the past few weeks, four major scandals have broken over the Obama administration, and it is a very sad (and frightening) truth that our pathetic, American, lapdog mainstream media is not responsible for breaking even a single one.
Verizon? Nope, not our guys. That was the Brits over at The Guardian.
IRS? Nope, not our guys. The IRS broke their own scandal with a planted question.
The Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press phone records? Nope, not our guys. Believe it or not, the Associated Press didn’t even break that story. Like the IRS, we only found out because the Justice Department outted itself in a letter notifying the AP of what it had done.
Benghazi? Are you kidding. With a couple of rare exceptions (Jake Tapper, Sharyl Attkisson) the media has spent the last 8 months attacking those seeking the truth (Congress, Fox News) not seeking the truth. It was the GOP congress that demanded the email exchanges around the shaping of the talking points, not the media.
Left up to the media, we wouldn't know anything about Libya. All of the media's energy was collectively poured into ensuring the truth was never discovered.