Occupied is not "colonized".

Your question puts the cart before the horse. You want to make a claim, you need to justify it. You are entitled to NONE of my income, or Williams's, because you had nothing to do with generating it.

This is a typical liberal argument, but the fact is the Founders knew perfectly well that weapons would be developed and continue to evolve. The militia laws of the time, in place in every State, as well as the Federal laws regulating and providing for calling the militia into service, all discuss militiamen who would arm themselves and provide a weapon similar to those in common use in armies. They were meant to be able to come already armed to serve in combat in defense of the State or Nation.

A typical liberal's argument, as if a single statistic without context can ever tell the story. The divorce rate is down because the marriage rate is down, duh. In 1960 72% of the adult population was married and 15% had never been married. In 2010 51% of the adult population were married and 28% had never been. The percentage widowed declined by a third, and the percentage who have been divorced nearly tripled. The divorce rate per 1000 population is utterly meaningless without knowing the marriage rate. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/12/14/barely-half-of-u-s-adults-are-married-a-record-low/

Many a local cop has told a bystander filming a police "engagement" the same thing, also totally illegally AFAIK.

Barone and others who argue along these lines never seem to grasp the basic fallacy of their argument; it does no good for the Party to win if federalism and first principles lose! How would it avail conservatives to have total Republican Party domination of Congress entirely with members who all agree with basic socialist premises?

Oh, please. If you wear your gay rights awareness rainbow on your shirt while eating a sandwich in a public park, does that count as a taxpayer subsidy for gay rights? BSA troops meet in all kinds of facilities including public school lunchrooms, churches, private homes, etc., etc.

If Mr. Goldberg wants to persuade the rank and file to support the republican Party more whole-heartedly he needs to answer John Hawkins's article, which itemizes the complaints of the rank and file against not the Republican Party generally, as Mr. Goldberg would have it here, but against the leadership of the party which seems to incessantly work against the principles held by the rank and file.

If there were justice in the world the plaintiffs would be required to repay the BSA-Desert Pacific Council every penny in legal fees incurred. The judge who granted standing in the initial suit should be removed for incompetence.

To reiterate the point Mr. Elder was making that removing the guns did not reduce either crime or the murder rate in Britain.