Speakeasy forum: Multiple shootings at Conn. grade school

When that amendment was written, "arms" meant muskets. You want a musket? Have at it.

That document covers more stuff than the Bible.

while reaching for the rope to draw another "bucket full"

even if his use of it often isn't common sense.

There are things you can't say, e.g. threats to the president, incitement, etc.

It's time to recognize that there need to be limits on gun possession also. NOBODY needs automatic weapons. And again, the amendment says nothing about guns at all. It says "arms." You have a right to be armed. It never says what with.

the same people and, as I understand it, designed to prevent history from repeating itself. Free speech meant one could criticize government without fear of reprisal. The right to bear arms meant the government couldn't selectively arm or disarm it's citizens in order to secure itself from overthrow. Freedom of religion meant the government couldn't favor one practice or persecute another. In fact, religious freedom and the right to bear arms were more closely related than were the components of the first amendment.

ownership, approximately, has only a little more than half the number of deaths per 100,000? Granted the level of population pressure isn't as great in Canada, but Canada is no prize in this matter either. Canada's rate of shootings is appalling in comparison with countries in Europe, and Europe isn't immune to this same "slaughter of the innoicents" since it has occurred in Norway and Scotland in recent years. But, over all, the Europeans have learned to live together in much more crowded dense conditions than apply to the US and Canada without this bizarre behaviour.

There is something gravely wrong with this picture, and to repeat, throwing up your hands and saying nothing can be done, is no answer. So it takes 50 years, or 100, or more. Ending slavery was harder than this, and it was done. One sincerely hopes that it won't take a new Civil War to do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

Israel with high levels of gun ownership and terrorists attacking, has less than 1/5 the level of gun violence. Georgia, the crime and bandit capitol of the former Soviet Union comes in at 1/6th of the US rate.

Something is terribly wrong, and it needs to be addressed without an industry campaigning against the interests of the American people.

Rob

at least to me over the last two years of non-stop coverage of this massacre.......

While non-believers have had their way with removing God from anything to do with a school or public property (such as nativity scenes) and removing the Ten Commandments from every courthouse except in DC itself and attempting to remove "In God We Trust' from our money, etc., every single news commentator, no matter what channel you turned to, and even the prez quoting scripture, have ALL asked the country to PRAY FOR THESE FAMILIES. God is the first thing invoked by even the liberals so how have we gotten to the point that God is not welcome until someone needs Him?

Did they said to whom/what they were PRAYing?

Did they say they were...... PRAYing "to God" for these families?

PRAY

often used as a function word in introducing a question, request, or plea

God is the first thing invoked by even the liberals so how have we gotten to the point that God is not welcome until someone needs Him?

You heard them use the word "God"?

Examples of PRAY

There's little else to do now but hope and pray.
The minister said, "Let us pray."
He prayed that they would have the strength to go on.
He prayed that he would find a parking spot.

Pray to God for a parking spot?

For a parking spot?

You would have to ask them...since they didn't say, AND they didn't say "God" did they? (If they did I stand corrected) BUT

Do YOU have the same "God" as everyone else that might be praying for the families of the victims?

Be careful with your response.

you both have no real argument about who they were praying to, so might as well quit embarassing yourself by pretending you do.

How should we punish you?

Just imagine a forum, where he feels compelled to come everyday, and in spite of all he does, he's disproven in what he says, day after day. The frustration builds and......

YOUR head explodes?