Speakeasy forum: A father Owns Congress . . .

About time someone told them off good. Maybe they'll listen to someone directly from that situation telling the other side of it, for once. Now, if only that parent can help straighten out a few of the grieving parents so they'll quit blaming anyone other than the one who did it.

Have you not read the proposals? A complete ban on hunting rifles with added cosmetics, AKA "Assault Rifles" and their standard magazines.

I live in Texas. Our governor is telling gun manufacturers to move to Texas because of much lower taxes and more relaxed gun laws. And local authorities have no veto rights on the state concealed handgun law.

I do possess a CHL and have for years, and I carry a small .380 with laser sight every time I leave the house. I've signed up with the State to get certified as a CHL instructor, and have also signed up for the NRA certification courses. Retirement is great BTW, lots of free time.

There is also a motion (just talk right now) in the senate for open carry. I'm not too fond of that, but I don't make the laws. And even if it did pass (like Georgia and other states) I doubt if I'd open carry.

they know a lot more about it than I do, since they have several guns. At least two of the ones talking have a concealed permit. Of course, if they drive to work with it, they can be fired. They can't pick their kids up at school with a gun in the car, or face heavy penalities. You can't carry in a bank or post office, almost every business has a no carry placard on the door meaning you can't carry within.

Honestly, I'm doubt you could legally carry your gun except on a Sunday drive without breaking someone rule or law.

Most business still don't allow employees to have guns on the property, not even in the vehicle.

......is on new sales. Nobody is proposing or suggesting any effort to take away the ones you already have.

That also goes to the NRA's claim that the 1994 ban "didn't work." That was also only a ban on new sales and had no effect on the assault weapons already out there. Any such legislation will need more than a ten-year trial, to account for the expected lifespan of an average gun of that type.

just slap'em with some hot lead. Might as well make it worth the charge.

that the anti-gun lobby is trying it?

It's clear that you are not a staunch second amendment supporter and therefore not prone to keeping up with the current legislation. But the anti-gun lobby is actually trying to make registration mandatory and therefore they will have a list of all gun owners when they try to confiscate our guns. This is a fact.

Do you really needs a assault weapon to kill a deer? And how many rounds do you need?

.....that those same people argue furiously against any cuts in military spending. You'd think if they wanted to be able to defeat the US military in a war then they'd want to level the playing field a bit more.

....that nearly the entire military would stand against an attempt by a president to establish a totalitarian government. Plus, there are so many other legal and Constitutional safeguards in place to prevent such a thing that to fear it is a bit ridiculous.

process.

I'd say it was completely paranoid, but government works that way sometimes. Good things happen that way too, not overnight, but bit by bit.

then say that with a straight face Josh.

The discussion should not be about banning weapons of any sort but about Congress LACKING any authority to do such a thing because Congress was forbidden to infringe upon the right to keep and bear arms equivalent to those of the military.

The Second Amendment was placed in the Bill of Rights because the delegates to the Ratification Conventions DEMANDED them as a pre-condition to ratification. The Founders told the worried citizens who had just fought a war and were concerned about this new government treating citizens as King George did that the new government had LIMITED POWERS and had no power to do ANY of the acts the Bill of Rights forbid any government authority over.

The firearms under discussion are the very type of arms that the founders had in mind, arms equivalent to those carried by American or Foreign soldiers.

Tench Coxe of Pennsylvania even indicated in his statement that the founders anticipated technological advances because during their own lifetimes they had seen such - "Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American . . . . The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." --Tench Coxe in The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788

"[T]he people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them." --Zacharia Johnson, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -- Jefferson`s "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764

"The said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms." -- Samuel Adams, delegate to Massachusetts` U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788

And George Mason of Virginia sounds like he anticipated Obama and crowd - "If, at any time, our rulers should have unjust and iniquitous designs against our liberties, and should wish to establish a standing army, the first attempt would be to render the service and use of militia odious to the people themselves--subjecting them to unnecessary severity of discipline in time of peace, confining them under martial law, and disgusting them so much as to make them cry out, "Give us a standing army!" I would wish to have some check to exclude this danger; as, that the militia should never be subject to martial law but in time of war. I consider and fear the natural propensity of rulers to oppress the people. I wish only to prevent them from doing evil. By these amendments I would give necessary powers, but no unnecessary power. If the clause stands as it is now, it will take from the state legislatures what divine Providence has given to every individual--the means of self-defence." -- Virginia`s U.S. Constitution ratification convention, 1788

and make a tank if you wish. Plate steel and two inch multiple laminated polycarbonate vision panels. Gas mileage will suffer though and better start with a semi-tractor diesel frame to build upon.

for anyone to interfere with the Second Amendment and even to seek to infringe it to any degree.