Speakeasy forum: Multiple shootings at Conn. grade school

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than explain to me why every session of Congress and the Senate starts off with a prayer?

IF there is real separation of state and church, enough so that the mere mention of God in a public place is deemed unConstitutional and needs to be removed, then explain why in both seats of Congress, sessions are opened with a prayer? I, personally, am all for bringing God back into all public places, but I'm wondering why it is still within our Government and that nobody says anything about it.......EVER.

and one I don't dispute, even if I choose not to join in, I respect it when others pray by keeping silent during the prayer.

The other reason they still do it, the hypocrits in congress (=99%) exclude themselves from the very laws they pass for the rest of us to follow.

be a symptom rather than a cause of a greater disease. With a common cold, we know all we can do is treat the symptoms until it goes away on it's own. People buy guns for many reasons and one of them is fear. While it's true that people who buy guns for protection and not because they're raving loonies might just have that gun fall into the wrong hands. Is that enough reason to prohibit their purchase? I'd have to think that if people felt less reason to fear, they'd spend less money on protecting themselves from criminals and crazy people.

collecting them, they're not violent, angry people. I even occasionally admire a gun or even a knife just because of workmanship. Those of course are high dollar trimmed out for looks as well as use, or in some cases more for looks than use.

I've know people that have a different gun for each type of hunting they do, and they don't even hunt that often. I can even understand a collecting desire, and not just for historical types. If someone does do a lot of different hunting he will probably own at least two different shotguns and 3 different rifles. You don't take a big horn sheep rifle out in dense woods, even hunting deer. Many like a light 22 cal for squirrel hunting instead of a shotgun, though that requires a very good shooter IMO. Geese and duck hunters generally use a shotgun with a much longer barrel than you would want to try to carry walking through your local woodland for rabbits. Adjustable chokes are fine, but for waterfowl I'm told you really need the longer barrel.


One man I know owns at least three rifles, two shotguns, and at least three pistols, and he's not even that paranoid. Take the pistols, he's bought them over the years, basically replace one with a new one that he liked better but he never got rid of the old one. At least one of the rifles is the same, sort of left over, but kept in shape even if seldom used. That's how quite a few end up with large gun collections. The ones I know that have several guns gradually accumuate them as they see something new they like and add it to their collection. They don't have a hundred rounds of ammo for each on hand. Him and his boys still throw and shoot skeet for fun.

Now there are the paranoid types that keep enough guns and ammo in their house because they at least semi-believe somehow sometime they'll have to hold the fort against a mass attack, either by gang/drug users or other mauraders after society totally breaks down.

of "Gilligan" in this photo. I wonder if he ever saw that TV series?