His skill with firearms, his sacrifice, saved many good lives. Service to others is what placed him with the PTSD veteran. Paul is a fringe lunatic. By his rationalization anyone defending himself by any means and who loses their life in the process would supposedly "deserve it." This is why rational and fully informed people never wanted to see this nutcase as President.

The elitists who despise guns in our hands are also trying to paint the Second Amendment as something only for sport or hunting firearms. They are trying to pervert the primary purpose for which the Founding Fathers wanted We, the People, to be personally armed about as well as anyone who would come to our door to attack us: we are the ultimate bulwark against tyranny.

The NICS, which is the database used to perform background checks, is woefully inaccurate when it comes to convicted druggies and metally ill folks. Despite many laws requiring submittal of the names, fewer than 1% of those required have been tendered to NICS. So the act of checking NICS becomes a joke. Straw purchases and application fraud are not uncommon; they should be punished stringently. But they are generally ignored or slap the wrist of the violators. The system as apparatchiks choose to run it is a dirty joke. The hoplophobes despise the tools of liberty in the hands of everyday citizens. We, the People, are a powerful bulwark against their egos and desired tyrannies.

Emperor REVENGE! remains in his skivvies.

The only reason this government exists is because of the ideals defended by the Foudning Fathers. We know what the Founders wrote about citizens having an innate right to be well-armed, and why they wrote it. When the government perverts the obvious word of the Founders and the Constitution they wrote, then the government loses its legitimacy, it becomes illegal.

He shoots skeet like his new SecState was some kind of hunter during the campaign in '04.

Another sucker's pitch: Because I modestly participate in shooting sports (yowzah), the lack of facts and logic in my liberty-destroying antics is, somehow, appropriate and should be accepted. Only a Jacka$$ would buy that posturing.

Note that a map of the US shaded in blue to correspond to liberal voters correlates very strongly, obviously so, with another map that is shaded in blue to reflect regions of high violence. Wanna signifciantly reduce rates of violence? BAN THE LIBERALS and their stupid policies and lame law enforcement.

The insecure control freaks, the conceited and condescending anti-Constitutionalists have never had facts and logic on their side in this matter. Citizens, not subjects, shall retain their right to defend themselves, their loved ones, and their property by the most efficient means possible. The Founding Fathers expected that citizens would be armed about as well in their personal defense as soldiers--that was the standard in those days, and in many cases their firearms were more effective. We saw after 10 years that the gun-grab rationalized to focus on "assault" arms ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING of any measurable value.

Preparing good liberals means you gotta keep 'em dumb. If they begin to learn and respect what the Constitution actually says, they will begin to question the Neo-Comm policies. History and economics are also dangerous subjects for high school minds in the process of indoctrination.

Cranking math problems is NOT the education of which we write: American history, civics, and economics are the subjects that affect the viability of the electorate more than many others.