07 Monday Mar 2011
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Source: Big Government
Just wanted to put SEX in the title to grab attention!
This has been a long time coming. Slowly the Left has chipped away at the 2nd Amendment, so some wouldn’t notice, and now it’s here.
These gun grabbers won’t stop until they erase the 2nd Amendment.
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Sigh. I’ve said it dozens of places elsewhere, so now I’ll say it here. I’m a former Chicagoan. Chicago has some of THE toughest gun laws in the nation (and the world). A semi-auto pistol (think cop-issue Beretta) takes months of paperwork, a fair chunk of money for paperwork (twenty-some-odd bucks per weapon back in the 90s), and a statewide ID card. A fully-auto AK was IMPOSSIBLE to get unless you were a specially-registered gun dealer AND had a clean record for decades AND paid special surcharges. Most of my WW2 re-enacting friends carried bolt-action rifles or M1 Garands – forget being able to afford an MP40 or Tommy Gun.
So what? So, Chicago kills 2-3 people, on average, every weekend. The vast majority are shot with 1 of 2 types of weapons – “Saturday Night Specials”, which no-one has introduced regulations against, and full-auto assault rifles like the AK. Which will get you in MORE trouble than being high behind the wheel, doing 90mph with 2 naked 15-year old girls (or guys for the women, or whatever your tastes). With all the regs, and all the restrictions, and all the law-abiding citizens carefully recorded and counted, the gun laws do ZILCH to stop these killings. And no law would’ve stopped Jared Loughner – except maybe a law that says if you’re a friggin’ LOON, it will NOT destroy your “civil rights” to have that noted somewhere so you can’t even buy a water pistol.
My ideal? Kennesaw, Georgia. By law, EVERYBODY has to pack heat. Ask yourself something – that little old lady, with the bag full of cash, who looks MIGHTY tempting as a target – is she still so tempting knowing she could whip out a snub-nosed 38 and ventilate your sinuses from the outside in?
I had an alcoholic unregistered child sex offender as a neighbor. He’d already served time, so he was a hardened felon. His wife and I had words, and he was gonna kick in my door and “explain” things to me. I’m a 200+ pound marshmallow – white and soft, seriously. He coulda cleaned my clock. But he went simpering back home when I grabbed the first thing handy – my 3.5′ long sword! The point of this tale? With my bare hands. I’m a victim. With a little steel (whether it spits bullets or not), my home, wife, and dog are safe. Leave my dang weapons alone, go bust the dang criminals! And start by forgetting the “racial profiling” crap – I’ve never had a 50+ year old white man in a tux try to hold me up! (Actually, I only ever suffered one hold-up attempt. Dude was pretty tough with a switchblade knife. What he didn’t know – my briefcase – required apparel with my 3-piece suit – was actually built to carry tools, so it had a steel frame, a sharp corner, 20+ pounds of computer printouts inside, and his NUTS for a reception committee! He wasn’t so tough after one good swing……)
Oh, I forgot to add. Even by Chicago’s tough gun laws, a smoothbore muzzle-loading percussion-cap fired black powder weapon is not considered a firearm, so you can BUILD them in your garage or workshop. Including revolvers – like the French one the Confederates used, that carried 6 shots of 44 caliber and one 12-gauge shotgun cartridge!
Hmm, my posts are disappearing – or Windows is eating my stuff again. If this gets through, I’ll retry my earlier posts. Sorry for the clutter!
Rats! I had a long post, which has vanished, but here’s the short form. Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the nation, and they still manage to kill 2-3 people every weekend. Slightly under half are done with BLATANTLY illegal full-auto assault rifles. It is next to impossible to legally own a full-auto weapon in Chicago – even for gun dealers. The only thing you get from more laws and regulation, is more victims. I live in a poorly-policed area of Ohio – I’ve already chased one neighbor (a drunk ex-convict unregistered child sex offender) off with my own weaponry (well, it was a sword, but hey – swords don’t jam!). We need to ENFORCE the laws we have, and drop the rampant PC that allows the Jared Loughners of the world to slip through the cracks, despite being identified as a freakin’ LOON years earlier. “More laws” is just a substitute for effective policing and realistic sentencing and incarceration. Arrest the criminals, sentence them properly, and KEEP them locked away. I’ll worry about making up for the lacking police presence, thank you.
NO, that is not your fault, BUD, they disappear b/c WordPress blog sux!
U should come and live in AZ.
I have heard about Chicago- and now ya all have that MANIAC, Rahm Emmanuel as your mayor, boy do I feel sorry for you.
I have 3 guns, and intend to use them if someone hurts me or mine in this upcoming craziness.
Hmm. Suppose you could delete the 17:07 post, and the one that’ll be coming in shortly, dear lady? The new one will just be rehash – and the neat stories are in the original post, anyway!
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Thank you, for your patience and support! (Let’s see, you’re in AZ, right? I have a reputation for coming up with royal titles for lady bloggers – I’ll have to see what I can come up with for you.
Ah, sadly I’m no longer near my beloved Windy City. I’m in financial exile in SE Ohio, about 90 minutes east of Columbus. I suffer from chronic migraines, and my health crashed about 10 years ago, costing me my job, my house, and my beloved Border Collie – my “son”, as my wife can’t have kids. One day, I hope we can get back to Indiana at least – close enough for weekends in Chi-town, far enough from the Dem BS that is the cornerstone of Chicago, and Illinois, politics!
I dont have kids either
I didnt like kids when I was a kid because the kids were already getting bad–LOL
WOW Bill, thanks for sharing with us!
I live in a craphole of a state, but I think Illinois is so anti-gun, anti-liberty, I wouldn’t live there even if you could pay me!