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Legislation seeks to block federal gun laws on Kansas firearms
I didn't claim to be an expert marksman and well-versed in military weapons, so it's OK that I used the phrases in the same sentence. I'm just a simple man who loves his freedom.
I don't give the expert marksman as much credit as you do. He said, "I have no idea why anyone needs an assault rifle outside of the military." I read that as his conflation of so-called "assault rifles" with military small arms.
February 19, 2013 at 2:48 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Legislation seeks to block federal gun laws on Kansas firearms
If you were an "expert marksman" and "well-versed" in military weapons, you would know better than to use the phrase "assault rifle" and "military weapons" in the same sentence. "Assault rifle" is a political term which has nothing to do with military weapons.
Go back to HALO 4, you're in over your head here.
February 19, 2013 at 1:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Legislation seeks to block federal gun laws on Kansas firearms
You never had my ex-wife's fried chicken.
February 19, 2013 at 1:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
KU researchers push for government-funded college savings accounts for children
Honest jobs, every one of them.
What do you have against honest labor?
February 3, 2013 at 5:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
KU researchers push for government-funded college savings accounts for children
How about this? The taxpayers of Kansas don't pay $500 to each new baby for college, and these babies don't grow up expecting the state to act like their grandparents.
Personal responsibility- what a concept!
Remember, the world needs ditch diggers, garbage collectors, farmhands, and parking lot attendants, too.
February 3, 2013 at 4:06 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
In Obama's second inaugural address, he calls on U.S. to help poor, elderly
Very, very rich people can afford to buy tanks, and owning a tank is not prohibited by Federal law or the laws of the State of Kansas..
Very, very, very, very rich people can afford to buy nuclear weapons, and owning a nuclear weapon is not prohibited by Federal law or the laws of the state of Kansas (although 3 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have laws prohibiting private ownership of nuclear weapons).
Both may be prohibited by Lawrence city ordinance, however. If not, you should contact your city councilman if you're worried about it.
Do you know what a drone is? It's an RC plane with a camera. A 14 year old could build one from a kit, completely legally. Aside from spying on coeds while they sunbathe topless at Clinton Lake, they're not much of a threat.
And many people in this country, although sadly not most anymore, believe that our anything is allowed except for those things which are specifically prohibited under the law. I believe that. Do you?
January 24, 2013 at 8:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
In Obama's second inaugural address, he calls on U.S. to help poor, elderly
Not all of us. I trust me. You, not so much.
:-)
Since we're talking about private ownership, I'll ask you in reply: Can you afford a tank or nuclear weapon? I can't , so I don't worry about it.
January 23, 2013 at 6:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
In Obama's second inaugural address, he calls on U.S. to help poor, elderly
The first three words are part of a subordinate clause. It does not limit the body of the sentence, merely comment upon it.
Do you know the original and current meaning of "militia" in the United States, and why that subordinate clause alone does not in any way limit the right of the people to keep and bear arms?
When the Constitution was ratified, private citizens owned the most advanced weapons and weapons platforms of the day: cannon, mortars, warships, and explosives. Given the writing of both Federalists and Anti-Federalists, the most modern military-grade weapons of any particular era were exactly what the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote it.
The Second Amendment isn't about hunting or target shooting. It is about the natural right of self-defense (the first law of nature, according to John Locke), and protection from all enemies, foreign and domestic, according to George Mason, co-author of the Second Amendment.
"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
-George Mason
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
-Patrick Henry
January 21, 2013 at 6:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Native Americans, supporters put on flash mob demonstration in South Park for Idle No More
I can see it now...
Two Canadian MPs are sitting in a lounge in the Centre Block on Parliament Hill. One is reading a newspaper.
"It appears some Americans were protesting C-45," the MP with the newspaper said.
"Americans?" asked the other. "I never saw them."
"That's because they were in Lawrence, Kansas."
"Where?"
"Lawrence, Kansas. I saw it on a map once. It's aboot 1,400 kilometres south of Winnipeg."
"Damned odd. Why would Kansawegians, or Kansonians, or whatever they are, protest a Canadian bill?"
"Well, the article says Indians were part of the protest."
"What did we ever do to India?"
"Nothing. "Indians" are what the Yanks call their First Nations."
"But you still haven't told me WHY they were protesting!"
"Oh, right. Apparently, they are upset aboot some hunger strike amonst our First Nations, so they had a potluck supper in protest."
"Now you're having me on!"
"I'm serious!"
"Americans!"
January 15, 2013 at 6:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Native Americans, supporters put on flash mob demonstration in South Park for Idle No More
BWAHAHA! My work here is done.
January 14, 2013 at 10:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )