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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Dec 25, 2012 - 12:27am PT
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I think Robert Parry puts this all into perspective in relation to the original intent of the founding fathers when they tagged the 2nd amendment on to the Bill of Rights onto the Constitution:
Robert Parry puts it in perspective: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/22
Not quite what the NRA says it means.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 25, 2012 - 12:34am PT
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Just because he used to sing for Journey doesn't mean he knows shlt.
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GhoulweJ
Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
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Dec 25, 2012 - 12:53am PT
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Ron, my AR was ordered 6 months ago
Ammo was ordered longer ago
Just picking it all up
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 25, 2012 - 01:47am PT
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The gun lobby likes to tell its loyal customer base that simply by owning guns, they are ready to live Hollywood fantasies where their unerring aim and the angels at their back would mean the swift putdown of a criminal who shows up ready to kill people. The reality is that it leads to shootouts that may or may not lead to the bad guy getting killed before the good guy does. The NRA’s notion that the best way to end violence is to escalate it owes way more to Westerns than reality. Gunfire exchange can and often does eventually lead to an end of a shooter going on a rampage. But it would be better if there wasn’t anything for the shooter to rampage with in the first place.--http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/21/more-guns-theory-disproved-during-presser/
I don't know sh#t. I just toss sh#t.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Dec 25, 2012 - 01:55am PT
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Grammatically the worst Amendment ever!
Don't agree? Take it to a University English professor who may know a thing or two about grammar and ask them what grade they would give you if you included that in an essay.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Dec 25, 2012 - 01:57am PT
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Dec 25, 2012 - 03:02am PT
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Stephen Ray "Steve" Perry is definitely not Robert Parry. Steve sometimes practices down at the end of the block with my neighbor Greg Rolie, likewise formerly of the band Journey.
No, Toker, not everyone lives in Okie Town. Not everyone is uppity self-made sh_t.
Parry's point is well taken however: The 2nd Amendment was tacked on to the Constitution not so citizens could form private armies to oppose the Federal government, but rather so that the Federal government could use those militias to put down destabilizing peasant revolts like Shay's Rebellion.
It's obvious that the defeated nation, the CSA, still wants to hold onto their guns so that they can rebel someday against any "socialist" central government that attempts to enforce the civil rights laws down in their "neck of the woods" in the Deep South. Fortunately for the rest of the country, a bunch of red necks in South Carolina couldn't stand up to the 101st Airborne for five minutes. The South is definitely not going to rise again no matter how many resentments the have about their defeat in 1865 and at the ballot box last month.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 25, 2012 - 01:10pm PT
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To buy poppies?
What, were they heroin addicts?
I thought it was tulips.
Yeah, things were crazy then and are now, but that doesn't mean there isn't money to be made.
WTF is Okie Town.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 25, 2012 - 01:14pm PT
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Ron, it's off to Barter Town with you. You'll feel right at home there.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Dec 25, 2012 - 02:05pm PT
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Chanukah's over.
Anders, one of my routes is named MasterBlaster.
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