Scraps
It is funny really when you think about things as they really are. I mean take this clown for instance. Metal is very precious, thus money has been made with it since early times. Another guy gets charged with theft of a truck because he ‘paid’ the thief $500 for the wheels off the trailer. What is our money ‘coined’ in? Shiny new green and pink paper,……ooooww pretty. Here is a guy, without a gun, discharging 100 rounds with a hammer and a vice for the brass casings. He wanted to trade the brass for paper. He ends up shooting himself for a few dollars.
Why is it that liberals hate the idea of an armed citizen so much? They can read the statistics just like we can. If they care to research the matter, they will learn that people with concealed carry permits simply do not commit gun crimes! So, the liberal opposition to citizens carrying guns simply cannot be excused over fears for general public safety. The facts simply don't bear those fears out. There has to be something else at work here, and there is. Liberals don't like armed individuals because they are .... individuals. Carrying a gun for self-defense is, as I said, a uniquely individual pursuit. It's a loud statement by an individual citizen saying "I own my life, and I have the right to take deadly action to defend it." The liberal believes that your life belongs to government, and that it is the government's job to protect it.
HPV Vaccine Update
Bowing to reality, Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) ended a bitter battle with the state legislature yesterday by allowing the bill that overrides his executive order on the HPV vaccine to become law. In a scathing press conference in Austin, the governor unleashed his fury on lawmakers who reversed his policy. How ironic. Perry didn't appreciate being forced to assent to something against his will any more than the state's parents did. The governor, who neither vetoed nor signed the proposal, faulted lawmakers for allowing women to die of a preventable disease. "I challenge legislators to look these [infected] women in the eyes and tell them, 'We could have prevented this disease...but we just didn't have the gumption to address all the misguided and misleading political rhetoric.'" His statements didn't sit well with state leaders who support the vaccine but believe Texas is overstepping its bounds by mandating it for young girls. Several officials, including Perry's own Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, put the blame on Perry's insistence on acting unilaterally. "All the governor would have had to do is talk to us, and he would have seen that we would have embraced a program where there was an opt-in instead of an opt-out."
Gun Control Bill Seeks to Close 'Terror Gap'?
It is funny really when you think about things as they really are. I mean take this clown for instance. Metal is very precious, thus money has been made with it since early times. Another guy gets charged with theft of a truck because he ‘paid’ the thief $500 for the wheels off the trailer. What is our money ‘coined’ in? Shiny new green and pink paper,……ooooww pretty. Here is a guy, without a gun, discharging 100 rounds with a hammer and a vice for the brass casings. He wanted to trade the brass for paper. He ends up shooting himself for a few dollars.
Why is it that liberals hate the idea of an armed citizen so much? They can read the statistics just like we can. If they care to research the matter, they will learn that people with concealed carry permits simply do not commit gun crimes! So, the liberal opposition to citizens carrying guns simply cannot be excused over fears for general public safety. The facts simply don't bear those fears out. There has to be something else at work here, and there is. Liberals don't like armed individuals because they are .... individuals. Carrying a gun for self-defense is, as I said, a uniquely individual pursuit. It's a loud statement by an individual citizen saying "I own my life, and I have the right to take deadly action to defend it." The liberal believes that your life belongs to government, and that it is the government's job to protect it.
HPV Vaccine Update
Bowing to reality, Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) ended a bitter battle with the state legislature yesterday by allowing the bill that overrides his executive order on the HPV vaccine to become law. In a scathing press conference in Austin, the governor unleashed his fury on lawmakers who reversed his policy. How ironic. Perry didn't appreciate being forced to assent to something against his will any more than the state's parents did. The governor, who neither vetoed nor signed the proposal, faulted lawmakers for allowing women to die of a preventable disease. "I challenge legislators to look these [infected] women in the eyes and tell them, 'We could have prevented this disease...but we just didn't have the gumption to address all the misguided and misleading political rhetoric.'" His statements didn't sit well with state leaders who support the vaccine but believe Texas is overstepping its bounds by mandating it for young girls. Several officials, including Perry's own Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, put the blame on Perry's insistence on acting unilaterally. "All the governor would have had to do is talk to us, and he would have seen that we would have embraced a program where there was an opt-in instead of an opt-out."
Gun Control Bill Seeks to Close 'Terror Gap'?
A Second Amendment group says Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should resign as the nation's highest ranking law enforcement officer, given his "troubling support" for a new gun control bill that seeks to close the "terror gap" in federal law.S. 1237 would give the attorney general, a presidential appointee, the authority to suspend or cancel someone's Second Amendment right, even if that person has never been charged with a crime, the Second Amendment Foundation warned.At the Justice Department's request, the bill was introduced last week by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), whom SAF describes as one of the most extreme anti-gunners in Congress.The "Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007" would give the attorney general discretionary authority to deny the purchase of firearms (or the issuance of firearms and explosives licenses) to "known or suspected terrorists." The bill has been referred to Judiciary Committee.The Second Amendment Foundation warned the bill would allow the attorney general to block gun sales "because of some vague suspicion that an American citizen may be up to no good."SAF founder Alan Gottlieb said the bill "raises serious concerns about how someone becomes a 'suspected terrorist.' Nobody has explained how one gets their name on such a list, and worse, nobody knows how to get one's name off such a list."There's also a larger concern, Gottlieb added: "When did we decide as a nation that it is a good idea to give a cabinet member the power to deny someone's constitutional right simply on suspicion, without a trial or anything approaching due process?"Under the federal Brady Act, licensed firearm dealers must request background checks on all would-be gun buyers. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is supposed to bar convicted felons and mentally unstable people from buying guns.But Gonzales and Sen. Lautenberg worry that there is no provision to deny "suspected terrorists" from purchasing a gun.In January 2005, the Government Accountability Office reported that during one five-month period (Feb. 3-June 30, 2004), people designated by the federal government as "known or suspected terrorists" tried to purchase a total of 44 firearms.The GAO said in 35 cases, the FBI allowed the transactions to proceed because field agents were unable to find any disqualifying information as stipulated in the Brady Act.In March 2005, Sen. Lautenberg asked Attorney General Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller to look into the matter.In response, the Justice Department created a working group that produced the recommendations on which Lautenberg's bill is based.Lautenberg's website says his bill would deny gun purchases to "known or suspected terrorists" in cases where the attorney general "reasonably believes that the person may use a firearm or explosives in connection with terrorism." Lautenberg said his bill includes "due process safeguards" that would allow people to challenge the attorney general's denial of a firearm purchase or license; and it would protect "the sensitive information upon which terrorist watch list listings are based." Many Americans have complained about the secret government "watch lists" used to screen airline passengers."We're not surprised that General Gonzales has found an agreeable sponsor in Frank Lautenberg," Gottlieb said. "The senator from New Jersey has never seen a restrictive gun control scheme he did not immediately embrace, and S. 1237 is loaded with red flags. "Attorney General Gonzales has no business asking for that kind of power over any tenet in the Bill of Rights," Gottlieb said. "He took an oath to uphold the Constitution, not trample it. Perhaps it is time for him to go."
