Speakeasy forum: A father Owns Congress . . .

to be "citizens" of our country, not "subjects" like Europeans are in theirs.

No socialism i Greece since long time. But militar dictators with help from USA. Because president call himself socialist does not mean it is. Many call Obama socialist and he is not.

Why say that europeans are subjects? You insult a continent.

It would seem she didn't have one. She depended on her phone, 911, and the police. Guess what? It all failed her, and now she's dead. This happens over and over again, to those who are not armed, even at home.

Woman Killed In Home Invasion AFTER she called police.

"Despite her grief, Lorna Gable said she was also relieved because she believes her mother is no longer suffering.

"It's a relief that she's hopefully in a better place," she said.

Lorna Gable called sheriff's deputies at 4:24 a.m. Jan. 19,
saying there was a man in her house in the 900 block of West 40th
Street.

The intruder confronted Gable, beating her with a Maglite. He
also attacked Gable's husband, William, before stealing money and
valuables.

He fled before deputies arrived.

Gable's death follows several others that are the focus of
$30,000 in rewards offered by the San Bernardino Police Department in
January.

Wanda Lee Paulin, 86, Mary Beth Blaskey, 76, and Josephine
Frances Kelley, 90, were killed in home-invasion robberies between 2005
and 2012. "

......that calls for people to give up something they already possess is the one on high capacity magazines, and that one makes no sense at all. How can you require people to sell something when the people buying it would be breaking the new law by doing so? I'd like to see another source for that proposal, and who was behind it.

Better legislation will make it harder for criminals to get guns.

Nobody ever said it would make it impossible, just more difficult.

.....we should just abandon all laws, remove the bullet-proof barriers in banks, take the locks off our doors, legalize all drugs, etc. since anyone who wants to commit any kind of crime will find a way to do it.

Guess who's been fighting to prevent enforcement of those "20,000 laws." Guess who got a rider added to a bill removing the requirement that gun stores take an inventory once a year. An inventory, Wayne. Whose privacy is being violated by a gun shop making sure none of its stock has been stolen? Guess who got the law changed to make it nearly impossible to name a permanent director of the BATF.

Yes, cracking down on the ways criminals get guns will make it harder for them to get guns. Not impossible, but harder.

that should solve several problems.

in most states that have a death sentence.

I sort of get why you feel there is less doubt in a stranger rape conviction than a date rape or rape of a prostitute, but I'd hesitate that being the only criteria for allowing or not allowing a death sentence.

I thought generally murder, rape, and kidnapping were the possibly death sentence crimes, depending on the circumstances of each.

As for being a stranger making it a death penality, people do meet and go off together the same night. No matter what you make of that regarding morals or wise, how much difference is there between stranger rape and date rape there?

I guess you're thinking more along the lines of the stalker type of rape? I think it's more prevalent than the just walking down the street, picking out a victim at random and grabbing her, although that can happen.

Drugged rapes? How you you treat the "date rape drug" cases?

You didn't mention the other very different rape, gang rapes. Hear the news recently about the trial in India where some woman was raped by a crowd of guys on a train then thrown off the train naked? Her father committed suicide over the shame, misplaced soceity values there.

Moveon goes after the NRA

Wait a minute. The guy talks about the NRA buying votes in congress. Wasn't moveon dot org one of the major contributors to the Obama campaign that even got a private meeting session with him after the election to discuss agenda items for his upcoming term? I remember it being reported that closed door meetings were held with both moveon and the unions. Is it just me or does something smell fishy here?

but they are a hit squad. I've never seen them support or promote an ideology, economic or social agenda...nothing. They are out to assassinate someone or something. Moveon is a PAC and the NRA has a PAC component attached to their organization. They aren't strictly a lobbying group such as is moveon. I just found it strange that moveon was reported as getting a special audience with president Obama right after the election...that it was behind closed doors and was to discuss agenda items...whatever that means. Could that mean that our president, who avowed not to live by PAC agendas, is now using one to advance his own? I've been quite open that I don't trust the guy or anyone who's background comes from social or political activism. That's exactly the course this man has taken since he entered the workforce. As such, he'd need to be skilled in the art of deception. I'd say he's master at it.

All he does is express the same tired old opinions while issuing veiled threats on behalf of "all gun owners". It's mindless BS.

Rob