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Comment on: ANTI-LIBERAL ZONE

On Guns and Gun Grabbers

51 Comments
Sunday, January, 06, 2008 9:17 AM Savage99 writes:

GunnyG

I haven't read it yet. Am i first? don't want to be Flagwavered.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 9:26 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Savage99

HAHA! You're first amigo. Jimmy Carter must be on vacation!
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 9:28 AM Savage99 writes:

GunnyG

You know i agree. And i just bought an L1A1 i lucked into at a decent price at a gun show. The more i fool around with it, the better i like it. Got it cheap because the barrel had been shortened to 17 inches. Nice job, good crown. And the balance and handiness is much improved. I am looking seriously at assault rifle look-alikes as investments. I cleaned up when the last ban was established, and lets face it (sob) its at least 50/50 we'll see another. The obvious fact that neither the establishment nor the expiration had the slightest effect on crime means nothing to the gun hater/grabbers.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 9:36 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Savage99

I think the Clinton gun ban actually managed to put ONE PERSON in jail. H8lluva return on the money it took to pass that trash.

Let's hope that SCOTUS does the RIGHT thing and torpedo the DC gun ban AND state what we ALREADY KNOW.

That the 2d Amendment is an INDIVIDUAL right!
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 10:10 AM BrianR writes:

Excellent!

Further, how would"banning" guns take guns away from criminals, who BY DEFINITION break the law?


As to "militia", for your use, here's the defining law:

Title 10 USC, sec 311

Section 311. Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are -
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard
and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.



So, as you can clearly see, all law-abiding legal residents of the US are, in fact, members of either the organized or unorganized militia, BY DEFINITION AND LAW.

I suppose the case can be made that people lose their status after age 45. Do they then also lose their gun rights (per liberals)? Let them make THAT case, and see how far it flies. Age discrimination, anyone?

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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 10:19 AM clyde writes:

Gunny

Well-timed piece today. In the Free Press/Fishwrap today,there is an article about how the expanded CCW law here in Mich. has....wait for it.... resulted in a NET DECREASE in murders,and NO INCREASE in accidental or otherwise shootings. The libsnark,Dawson Bell,who wrote the article was SURPRISED to see the statistics,as they were CERTAIN this "bad legislation" would result in ALL sorts of mayhem.These fools never learn,it seems.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 10:39 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Brian

As usual, spot-on.

As for age, 45 is rather young to be excluding folks from the militia. There are people on active-duty who are 45 and older! I'd say 55 and below, although a spry person at age 60? Goos enough to stand post! haha.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 10:40 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

clyde

Find the idiot's email and send him this!
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 10:41 AM Donnie writes:

Gunnyg

It appears American voters are about to give the country to the far left radicals and communists
God help us,we will never recover from this.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 10:57 AM Frigglesnitz writes:

OUT OF MY COLD, DEAD HANDS

I think that pretty much says it all. I've told my own U.S. lawmakers that I'm afraid that someday my husband and I may have to protect our own household; therefore we want to hold and keep the means to do so. Could that be clearer?
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 10:58 AM Savage99 writes:

Donnie

Never say never. We recovered from the stamp tax.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 10:58 AM BrianR writes:

Gunny, Clyde

Well, in Feb 2009 I hit the big six-oh. I can still outshoot almost anyone; if I can see it, I can hit it. So I guess I still have some militia value left in me somewhere. Even if it's only standing post... as long as I can do it in my lawn chair. Maybe one of those scooter things, with a gun mount on the handlbars.

Clyde, those press maroons are always so surprised that after their predicitions of an OK Corral result (and they use that example EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN TIME), the crime rates actually fall.

Talk about ignoring the historical lesson! And these guys get published, when they shouldn't even be allowed out of their houses without a leash so they don't run out into traffic!
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 11:11 AM clyde writes:

Gunny

Consider it sent. BrianR,yes it does always seem like they are amazed. Must be they well remember Condescending 101 from J-school. They just REFUSE to believe ANYONE who owns a gun is responsible. And they tell US we are "sloganeering" when we say when guns are outlawed,yada,yada. Nitwits. Love the scooter-mounted turret! Should work!
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 11:38 AM Buck writes:

I Once Knew A Texan...yeah, a TEXAN

Who was a devout anti-gun liberal. Nothing I could say would convince him of the necessity of private gun ownership.
Yet, when I suggested he put a, "This Home Is Gun-Free" sign in his front yard he declined...

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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 11:39 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Donnie

It ain't EVER over! Indeed, we'll NEVER quit.

Two quotes to live by.

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." WLSC 1941

"I know not what course others may take but for me, give me liberty or give me death!" P.H.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 11:40 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Frigglesnitz

Exactly. Better death than servitude.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 11:41 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Brian

I can see Maureen Dowd on a leash!

BWHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA!
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 11:43 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

clyde

"Condescending 101 from J-school."

They sure learn THAT well! Maybe they should be taking FACT-CHECKING 101 instead!
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 11:43 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Buck

Nice one. Way to jerk a knot in his butt.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 11:45 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Donnie

One more from "Winnie"

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 11:49 AM Buck writes:

Brian R, Gunny

Off The Subject...but;

Brian R's post about turning Six-Oh (did it long time ago) and still being able to make muster just reminded me of something my Jarhead drinking buddy and I have been discussing...

You know all ranchers on the Southern border are pretty whizzed off about the illegals tramping across their land, leaving trash, stealing whatever ain't nailed down...

I think it is time for some of us old codgers to instruct these ranchers on how to make and conceal punji stakes...I have found out that 3" drywall screws in a 1x6 makes a pretty good replica. Easily concealable on a well used trail under a couple shovelfulls of sand. Punji stakes and a few other little tricks might convince the coyotes to take a route other than through your property....
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 11:58 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Buck

NICEEEEEEEEEE. Some "tanglefoot" barbed wire and some razor wire to "channel" them INTO those punji traps would help.

A few Malayan man-catchers...

"You are only limited by your imagination!" USMC booby instr.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 12:00 PM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

HAHA!

USMC booby instr = booby TRAP instr.

Maybe I was thinking, booby INSPECTOR!
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 12:04 PM YLG writes:

GunnyG

As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord...

...and help Him weed out the trash with the help of my Bersa, our Winchester, and his Luger and Sig.

I should post a sign outside my front door that says:

"This is a gun-free zone, until you step upon our porch. Then, it's a free-for-all"
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 12:08 PM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

YLG

I'm all for allowing God to punish the scum but it takes SO D*MN LONG! Helping vermin to meet their Maker isn't murder, it's performing a community service! haha.

Or, as my buddy says, "too late for dinner, too early for breakfast...BLAM!"
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 12:24 PM Nee writes:

Guns

Make no mistake...There are two men, 60-ish who have gotten in the miltary of late. First-timers! Sons died over in Iraq. But hey, 60 is the new 40!! Are you listenin' Brian!!?
New post up.
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 12:32 PM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Nee

If they can hack the training, why not?
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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 1:09 PM BrianR writes:

Hahahaha... great stuff! Don Brianleone

responds.


Maureen Dowd belongs on a leash no matter what. Talk about a bowser! She's one "Dowdy" broad.


I like the punji stake idea. But why limit it to 3" drywall screws? 9" nails would work fine, too.

YLG, isn't it interesting that none of the libs ever want to post a "gun-free zone" sign at their houses? I wonder why? Isn't that hypocritical on their part? Talking the talk, but not walking the walk?

Nee... I already did my time! Back in the bad old days when everybody hated the military. Anyway, at almost 60, I'm too old to be an E-5 again. That would look ridiculous. Though my old uni still fits.

That is actually a weird dream I have sometimes. I look down, and I see I'm in my old uniform, at my old rank. I look up, and I'm in some 60s-era military installation, and I'm trying to convince everybody that there's been a huge mistake, I'm not supposed to be back in the Army at my age, I can't afford it, yada yada. All of a sudden, I'm back in Vietnam, and I'm looking around thinking I can't haul all this gear around anymore, what am I doing here, etc. And how come I'm still only a sergeant?!? I should at least be a SMAJ or COL or something more fitting to my age. I must be the oldest E-5 in the US military establishment.

It's all very confusing, and funny when I wake up. To me, it's all about the cut in pay!

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Sunday, January, 06, 2008 9:42 PM Peter V. Bella writes:

Gun Control

The history of gun control has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with fear of assassination of political and public officials. FDR realized this when he banned full auto weapons. Most were not used in typical crimes, but during local and national elections, especially in Chicago. Al Capone’s gang killed more people over politics than they did in the commission of crimes.

During the sixties, with the assassination of Kennedy, King, and Kennedy the gun grabbers decided that reasonable, law abiding adults, could turn into assassins. They used crime as the propaganda tool. When Reagan was shot, they got religion again.

Gun control is political control. Every tyranny started by disarming the populace. It says something about the people we elect if they fear us. What do they have to be afraid of?
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 1:17 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Peter V. Bella

If they do the right thing, following the Constitution as it IS, not the "living, breathing document," changeable like one's underwear, like Husseini oBLAHma wants, they'll be fine.

Mess with our rights and Americans, REAL Americans don't care for that too much.
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 7:29 AM Sgt Relic writes:

History repeating

High time for the left to admit that they have lost the war on guns. Banning legal guns with a wide open southern border makes it meaningless.

It seems to me that the "shot heard 'round the world" was a response to British gun and powder confiscation.

BrianR, oldsters like us have done it before. The oldest member of my 3rd g-grandfather's unit, 16th Va Inf., Pickett's Div., was 63 when they fought at Gettysburg.

In fact, I will make the case that the older types make for the perfect sniper. The patience of age, the ability, nay, desire to remain motionless for extended periods are the perfect qualifications. All the rest is just sight alignment and trigger squeeze.
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 7:38 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Sgt Relic

"The patience of age, the ability, nay, desire to remain motionless for extended periods are the perfect qualifications."

It's the discipline that comes with age that gives us those perfect qualifications.
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 10:02 AM Buck writes:

Brian R

2 1/2" or 3" Drywall screws are ideal. They are long enough to penetrate most any shoe leather plus a good ways into the foot. That and the small dab of feces lovingly applied to each dw screw makes for a very sore, infected foot. Out in the middle of the desert and the coyotes will probably do the victim in themselves saving us tax dollars deporting the mf.
Also in mind is a spring tensioned snagline tripwire using Eagle Claw snelled hooks.

Like the Gunny says, "You are only limited by your imagination".

I just wonder when the landowners on the border will get imaginative??
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 10:07 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Buck

feces dabbed on the tip...heh heh.

One of my favorites is something neat for someone to pick up with a wee charge underneath.

Gets em every time.

You know, it's a D*MN good thing I'm a law-abiding citizen considering the classes I've been to in and out of the service!
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 10:35 AM The Crawfish writes:

as for plinking

My neighborhood rejoiced when the Christmas wish lists came out one year and 3 of us (ages 9 to 11) were asking for BB/pellet guns. Our neighborhood had a problem with squirrels that ate through roofs and inhabited the attics, running around and occaisionally up and down the insides of the walls, messing up wiring, tearing holes in the roofs and eaves..... The homeowners put a bounty on squirrels and set up a firing range in my backyard. Squirrel population was basically eliminated by summertime.

Dang, when I retire from the Navy, I'll only have a month left to be in the militia (turned 25 during boot camp). Think I'll put in an age-waiver request.......
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 10:55 AM Buck writes:

Good Idea Gunny

But my list of supplies can all be purchased at Home Depot, Walmart or Dollar General...and they are quite nasty, too...
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 11:46 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

The Crawfish

Once in never out!
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 11:50 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

The Crawfish

My son and I practice our sniping skills on the squirrels in the yard!
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 11:52 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Buck

Gotta love a free society and it's patriots.
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Monday, January, 07, 2008 3:01 PM Apollyon67 writes:

Again

the Libs can't see the forest for the trees. I would love to be able to force them to put a sign in their yard stating they had no firearms on the premises if they were unarmed. How long do you reckon it would take to repeal That law? Stupid People shouldn't Breed.
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Tuesday, January, 08, 2008 1:51 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Apollyon67

If stupid people did not breed, teh DNC would be gone in a generation!
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Wednesday, January, 09, 2008 12:02 PM Donnie writes:

Local Yokels and The 2nd Ammendment

Where do these local and state governments(California) get the power to deny their
residents their rights under the Constitution,where are the lawsuits?
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Thursday, January, 10, 2008 2:47 AM soulsamurai writes:

Best Presidential Candidate 4 Gun Lovers

Is Gov Huckabee:

http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_i d=18


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Thursday, January, 10, 2008 3:43 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Donnie

They get it from the people who don't challenge them!
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Saturday, March, 01, 2008 11:48 PM of mice n glen writes:

French armament in US Airforce Fleet?

Can it be that American dollars will help France turn to the right by fostering an agreement to build several dozen USAF refueling jets? Capitalism may not be completely frowned upon there. There may still be hope for California!
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Sunday, March, 02, 2008 7:19 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

of mice n glen

Maybe the French saw the dead-end of Socialism before it was too late.
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Saturday, March, 08, 2008 9:21 PM mhu cao writes:

GunnyG, I'll Say It Again ...

I will never surrender my weapons. I will never stand down.

I once took an Oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; [and] that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ..."

As far as I know, I'm still bound by that Oath. If the personal right to bear arms is eliminated, the Government will be faced with a very difficult situation. Such an abridgement of the Bill of Rights is per se unconstitutional, and we would not be bound to obey those identify themselves as enemies of the Constitution.
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Sunday, March, 09, 2008 8:24 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

mhu cao

I agree. Those who seek to destroy the Constitution by perverting it are indeed, our enemies.
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Wednesday, March, 12, 2008 2:46 PM Joe writes:

The only ambiguity...

The only ambiguity in the Second Amendment is that it forgot to mention cowardly sneaky politicians who are too afraid to to get down from their high horse and co to a crime ridden city like LA without body guards,

It is those same linguini spined politicians who would have us unarm to the delight of criminals all over.

Thank you again for pointing to the need to defent our Constitutional rights.

Joe
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Thursday, March, 13, 2008 4:36 AM Gunny "knuckles" G© writes:

Joe

My pleasure. The more WE educate OURSELVES, the stronger our stance.

Knowledge IS Power!
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Tuesday, May, 13, 2008 2:36 PM Bill_H writes:

guns

Autralia has banned guns for some time. The use of guns, since banning them, has given rise to an increase in crimes with guns.

OK, here's the deal. If you ban guns, according to the libs, we will all be safe, and there will be no guns. If that is the case, are we then prepared to remove guns from the Police, on a nationwide scale? I mean, if there are no guns in the US, why would the police need them?
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