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		<title>By: efh</title>
		<link>http://www.samizdata.net/2010/06/the-second-amen/#comment-206292</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So getting back to some of the subtantive commentary, particularly on the 2nd amendment.  While it is true that the wording cannot be separated into separate sentences, the application of the modifying clause regarding well-regulated militias is all to often misconstrued.  The founders had recently overthrown a giovernment, and had a great fear of an all-powerful national army because of the potential to oppress.  The 2nd amendment was their way of preserving the citizenry&#039;s ability to defend itself by force of arms from its own government if necessary.  Well-regulated militias did not mean a state controlled force such as the national guard.  At that time, every able bodied male (ok they were still paternalistic) was in the militia and had a gun.  Well-regulated meant well-trained and disciplined. It did NOT mean controlled by trhe government.  Our right to bear arms was a right to defend ourselves not just from bad individuals, but from our government if it ever goes really bad.  That&#039;s why the Nh constitution even guarantees the right to revolution against the state and in it&#039;s language ridicules the notion that individuals must be subservient to the state.  Now practically speaking, handguns wouldn&#039;t do muh against federal tanks, but if everyoen were armed, I doubt it would ever get to that because the world would be watching, so handguns and simialr personal weapons still would do the job if it ever came to that - which I hope it never, ever, ever does.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So getting back to some of the subtantive commentary, particularly on the 2nd amendment.  While it is true that the wording cannot be separated into separate sentences, the application of the modifying clause regarding well-regulated militias is all to often misconstrued.  The founders had recently overthrown a giovernment, and had a great fear of an all-powerful national army because of the potential to oppress.  The 2nd amendment was their way of preserving the citizenry&#8217;s ability to defend itself by force of arms from its own government if necessary.  Well-regulated militias did not mean a state controlled force such as the national guard.  At that time, every able bodied male (ok they were still paternalistic) was in the militia and had a gun.  Well-regulated meant well-trained and disciplined. It did NOT mean controlled by trhe government.  Our right to bear arms was a right to defend ourselves not just from bad individuals, but from our government if it ever goes really bad.  That&#8217;s why the Nh constitution even guarantees the right to revolution against the state and in it&#8217;s language ridicules the notion that individuals must be subservient to the state.  Now practically speaking, handguns wouldn&#8217;t do muh against federal tanks, but if everyoen were armed, I doubt it would ever get to that because the world would be watching, so handguns and simialr personal weapons still would do the job if it ever came to that &#8211; which I hope it never, ever, ever does.</p>
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		<title>By: dunderheid</title>
		<link>http://www.samizdata.net/2010/06/the-second-amen/#comment-206291</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[mac:

In my deranged sociopathic obsession I don&#039;t just want any old gun nuts weapons...I want yours and yours alone.

So I repeat...post your name and address.

What have you got to be afraid of...the second amendment will protect you...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mac:</p>
<p>In my deranged sociopathic obsession I don&#8217;t just want any old gun nuts weapons&#8230;I want yours and yours alone.</p>
<p>So I repeat&#8230;post your name and address.</p>
<p>What have you got to be afraid of&#8230;the second amendment will protect you&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: dunderheid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[mac:

In my deranged sociopathic obsession I don&#039;t just want any old gun nuts weapons...I want yours and yours alone.

So I repeat...post your name and address.

What have you got to be afraid of...the second amendment will protect you...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mac:</p>
<p>In my deranged sociopathic obsession I don&#8217;t just want any old gun nuts weapons&#8230;I want yours and yours alone.</p>
<p>So I repeat&#8230;post your name and address.</p>
<p>What have you got to be afraid of&#8230;the second amendment will protect you&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: MattP</title>
		<link>http://www.samizdata.net/2010/06/the-second-amen/#comment-206289</link>
		<dc:creator>MattP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;However luckily I live in a state with particulary lax gun control laws so now I can work through these issues by taking you up on your kind offer and brutally murdering you and your family
God Bless America

Posted by dunderheid at July 5, 2010 10:28 AM

mac:

Show me how big and brave you really are...

Post your real name and address....


Posted by dunderheid at July 5, 2010 01:37 PM &lt;/blockquote&gt;

Can you believe this? 

Actually, it&#039;s very believable. Your standard liberal gun grabber is very likely to be a sociopathic murderer.

Take the Chicago gun law that the USSC overturned in the MacDonald case. It&#039;s chief proponent was Fred Roti. He was an influential alderman. He was also the son of Bruno Roti and a made member of the Chicago mob. 

What are British friends may not be aware of is just how mobbed up Chicago is. It is run by the mafia. Or as it is locally known, the Outfit. 

Since 1970 the federal government has sent 27 Chicago aldermen to prison. They have actually charged 30 with crimes, but one died before trial and 2 await trial. Over 1,000 Illinois state or local officials have been imprisoned in that same time period.

Including William Hanhardt. He was the corrupt chief of detectives installed in the Chicago police department by mobster/alderman Roti. And who pled guilty to racketeering in 1999. 

Got that? Not just convicted. Admitted to being guilty of racketeering.

These are the people who advocate disarmament. Gangsters. Now these Cook County pols are in the White House, and run the DoJ. Oh, look! They just dismissed what Bartle Bull (JFK civil rights attorney) called the most blatant case of voter intimidation he&#039;s ever witnessed.

Unlike our criminal neighbors, I am an adherent to a civil society. So I moved to one. Texas.

I was at a social function a few months back. The governor was speaking. 

There was no prescription against weapons. Anybody who was legally qualified to wear weapons could attend.

And the governor was entirely safe. Because he was not outgunned, as we playfully joked with his Texas Ranger security detail. Every gun there, whether they voted for him or non, would have been on his side. Naturally, nothing happend.

That&#039;s what civilization is. You could trust a civilized man with a howitzer.

It is an an admission of failure at that endeavour when you call for citizens to be disarmed. Or deliberate sabotage of the condition, as in the case of Chicago.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>However luckily I live in a state with particulary lax gun control laws so now I can work through these issues by taking you up on your kind offer and brutally murdering you and your family<br />
God Bless America</p>
<p>Posted by dunderheid at July 5, 2010 10:28 AM</p>
<p>mac:</p>
<p>Show me how big and brave you really are&#8230;</p>
<p>Post your real name and address&#8230;.</p>
<p>Posted by dunderheid at July 5, 2010 01:37 PM </p></blockquote>
<p>Can you believe this? </p>
<p>Actually, it&#8217;s very believable. Your standard liberal gun grabber is very likely to be a sociopathic murderer.</p>
<p>Take the Chicago gun law that the USSC overturned in the MacDonald case. It&#8217;s chief proponent was Fred Roti. He was an influential alderman. He was also the son of Bruno Roti and a made member of the Chicago mob. </p>
<p>What are British friends may not be aware of is just how mobbed up Chicago is. It is run by the mafia. Or as it is locally known, the Outfit. </p>
<p>Since 1970 the federal government has sent 27 Chicago aldermen to prison. They have actually charged 30 with crimes, but one died before trial and 2 await trial. Over 1,000 Illinois state or local officials have been imprisoned in that same time period.</p>
<p>Including William Hanhardt. He was the corrupt chief of detectives installed in the Chicago police department by mobster/alderman Roti. And who pled guilty to racketeering in 1999. </p>
<p>Got that? Not just convicted. Admitted to being guilty of racketeering.</p>
<p>These are the people who advocate disarmament. Gangsters. Now these Cook County pols are in the White House, and run the DoJ. Oh, look! They just dismissed what Bartle Bull (JFK civil rights attorney) called the most blatant case of voter intimidation he&#8217;s ever witnessed.</p>
<p>Unlike our criminal neighbors, I am an adherent to a civil society. So I moved to one. Texas.</p>
<p>I was at a social function a few months back. The governor was speaking. </p>
<p>There was no prescription against weapons. Anybody who was legally qualified to wear weapons could attend.</p>
<p>And the governor was entirely safe. Because he was not outgunned, as we playfully joked with his Texas Ranger security detail. Every gun there, whether they voted for him or non, would have been on his side. Naturally, nothing happend.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what civilization is. You could trust a civilized man with a howitzer.</p>
<p>It is an an admission of failure at that endeavour when you call for citizens to be disarmed. Or deliberate sabotage of the condition, as in the case of Chicago.</p>
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		<title>By: mac</title>
		<link>http://www.samizdata.net/2010/06/the-second-amen/#comment-206288</link>
		<dc:creator>mac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Awww... get the wee boy&#039;s goat, did I? You&#039;ve gone from defending your &quot;right not to have to spend the rest of my life in a position where I might have to kill someone&quot; to threatening brutal murder of a family. Quick shift there, wanker. Guess you don&#039;t have the courage of your convictions, do you, wimp? Not that someone like you would know what courage of any type was in the first place. Nobody&#039;s scared of anything you might threaten because you&#039;re so clearly a wimp.

Not only are you a gutless coward, you&#039;re truly stupid as well. If you really want to die quickly, Second Amendment supporters are all around you, fool. Any one of them would be happy to blow your head off if you came to their home attempting to take their guns away. Try your &quot;brutal murder&quot; on any one of them, wanker. Save the travel expenses for your relatives to bury you with.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awww&#8230; get the wee boy&#8217;s goat, did I? You&#8217;ve gone from defending your &#8220;right not to have to spend the rest of my life in a position where I might have to kill someone&#8221; to threatening brutal murder of a family. Quick shift there, wanker. Guess you don&#8217;t have the courage of your convictions, do you, wimp? Not that someone like you would know what courage of any type was in the first place. Nobody&#8217;s scared of anything you might threaten because you&#8217;re so clearly a wimp.</p>
<p>Not only are you a gutless coward, you&#8217;re truly stupid as well. If you really want to die quickly, Second Amendment supporters are all around you, fool. Any one of them would be happy to blow your head off if you came to their home attempting to take their guns away. Try your &#8220;brutal murder&#8221; on any one of them, wanker. Save the travel expenses for your relatives to bury you with.</p>
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		<title>By: dunderheid</title>
		<link>http://www.samizdata.net/2010/06/the-second-amen/#comment-206287</link>
		<dc:creator>dunderheid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[mac:

Show me how big and brave you really are...

Post your real name and address....]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mac:</p>
<p>Show me how big and brave you really are&#8230;</p>
<p>Post your real name and address&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: mac</title>
		<link>http://www.samizdata.net/2010/06/the-second-amen/#comment-206286</link>
		<dc:creator>mac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve seen lots of your craven ilk before. Gutless, contemptibly cowardly lefty bastards like you haven&#039;t got the balls to get out of their own way. You&#039;re a wimpy wanking fool who thinks a gun would jump up and bite him if he got close enough.

I&#039;d be more worried about Pee Wee Herman, you whelp. Now go whimper in a corner somewhere because the big bad man insulted you.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve seen lots of your craven ilk before. Gutless, contemptibly cowardly lefty bastards like you haven&#8217;t got the balls to get out of their own way. You&#8217;re a wimpy wanking fool who thinks a gun would jump up and bite him if he got close enough.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d be more worried about Pee Wee Herman, you whelp. Now go whimper in a corner somewhere because the big bad man insulted you.</p>
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		<title>By: dunderheid</title>
		<link>http://www.samizdata.net/2010/06/the-second-amen/#comment-206285</link>
		<dc:creator>dunderheid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[mac: 

Message taken and understood.

Unfortunately your message has stirred up, what were until now undiagnosed, uncontrollable psychotic urges (perhaps my tag is aptly named if understated).   

However luckily I live in a state with particulary lax gun control laws so now I can work through these issues by taking you up on your kind offer and brutally murdering you and your family

God Bless America]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mac: </p>
<p>Message taken and understood.</p>
<p>Unfortunately your message has stirred up, what were until now undiagnosed, uncontrollable psychotic urges (perhaps my tag is aptly named if understated).   </p>
<p>However luckily I live in a state with particulary lax gun control laws so now I can work through these issues by taking you up on your kind offer and brutally murdering you and your family</p>
<p>God Bless America</p>
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		<title>By: mac</title>
		<link>http://www.samizdata.net/2010/06/the-second-amen/#comment-206284</link>
		<dc:creator>mac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;em&gt;I don&#039;t want to deny anyone their rights or opportunities and in fact I am genuinely troubled by the gun control argument. &lt;/em&gt;

&lt;em&gt;However if you are given the right to protect yourself buy possessing guns then everyone has to be given that right. That would include people who wish to use those guns for nefarious purposes. Then in order not to be left behind in this miniature arms race I have to get a gun to protect me and my family. Suddenly I&#039;m in the position that because of other peoples desire to exercise their right, my right &quot;not to spend the rest of my life in a position where i might have to kill someone&quot; is removed.&lt;/em&gt;

What you&#039;re saying is that you want to take away everyone&#039;s rights because some people misuse them.  In your infinite wisdom you&#039;ll collectively punish everyone and make all other law-abiding citizens much more vulnerable. Your justification for this will be the misdeeds of criminals whose actions law-abiding citizens neither approved nor could control. The righteous will be forced to pay the same price as the criminals, the fact that the criminals won&#039;t obey this law notwithstanding. 

Right. You&#039;re completely and thoroughly understood. Let me make sure you get a completely unambiguous response as well:

 GO FUCK YOURSELF! 

You want my guns, you gutless, cowardly, aptly-tagged bastard, come get them. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I don&#8217;t want to deny anyone their rights or opportunities and in fact I am genuinely troubled by the gun control argument. </em></p>
<p><em>However if you are given the right to protect yourself buy possessing guns then everyone has to be given that right. That would include people who wish to use those guns for nefarious purposes. Then in order not to be left behind in this miniature arms race I have to get a gun to protect me and my family. Suddenly I&#8217;m in the position that because of other peoples desire to exercise their right, my right &#8220;not to spend the rest of my life in a position where i might have to kill someone&#8221; is removed.</em></p>
<p>What you&#8217;re saying is that you want to take away everyone&#8217;s rights because some people misuse them.  In your infinite wisdom you&#8217;ll collectively punish everyone and make all other law-abiding citizens much more vulnerable. Your justification for this will be the misdeeds of criminals whose actions law-abiding citizens neither approved nor could control. The righteous will be forced to pay the same price as the criminals, the fact that the criminals won&#8217;t obey this law notwithstanding. </p>
<p>Right. You&#8217;re completely and thoroughly understood. Let me make sure you get a completely unambiguous response as well:</p>
<p> GO FUCK YOURSELF! </p>
<p>You want my guns, you gutless, cowardly, aptly-tagged bastard, come get them. </p>
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		<title>By: Mike Lorrey</title>
		<link>http://www.samizdata.net/2010/06/the-second-amen/#comment-206283</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lorrey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dunderhead dunders, 
&quot;Then in order not to be left behind in this miniature arms race I have to get a gun to protect me and my family. Suddenly I&#039;m in the position that because of other peoples desire to exercise their right, my right &quot;not to spend the rest of my life in a position where i might have to kill someone&quot; is removed.&quot;

Not at all, dunderhead. The very fact that you and your neighbors have the freedom to get a gun and use it in self defense means that criminals have no expectation that you are NOT armed and thus are less likely to attempt to commit crimes against you and your neighbors. Lefties like yourself should understand this sort of &quot;penumbra defense&quot; concept.

I live in New Hampshire, which is quite liberal in its firearms laws, or rather the lack thereof. I can carry a gun anywhere other than a courtroom, and am guaranteed a concealed weapons permit, and can own machine guns, silencers, etc. South of NH is Massachusetts, which is significantly more fascist in its gun laws and as a result has significantly higher crime rates since criminals there know that most people there are not armed.

We occasionally get the random Massachusetts gang banger coming north of the border trying to start something, usually only to find out that most of us are armed and usually better armed than the typical gang banger, much to the gang bangers detriment. Most gang bangers are smart enough to stay south of the border where the prey is much easier to come by.

An armed populace does more than deter crime, they exercise evolution in action. At some point you&#039;ve weeded out 99.99% of the bad seeds and life is far more safe than living in an unarmed state.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dunderhead dunders,<br />
&#8220;Then in order not to be left behind in this miniature arms race I have to get a gun to protect me and my family. Suddenly I&#8217;m in the position that because of other peoples desire to exercise their right, my right &#8220;not to spend the rest of my life in a position where i might have to kill someone&#8221; is removed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Not at all, dunderhead. The very fact that you and your neighbors have the freedom to get a gun and use it in self defense means that criminals have no expectation that you are NOT armed and thus are less likely to attempt to commit crimes against you and your neighbors. Lefties like yourself should understand this sort of &#8220;penumbra defense&#8221; concept.</p>
<p>I live in New Hampshire, which is quite liberal in its firearms laws, or rather the lack thereof. I can carry a gun anywhere other than a courtroom, and am guaranteed a concealed weapons permit, and can own machine guns, silencers, etc. South of NH is Massachusetts, which is significantly more fascist in its gun laws and as a result has significantly higher crime rates since criminals there know that most people there are not armed.</p>
<p>We occasionally get the random Massachusetts gang banger coming north of the border trying to start something, usually only to find out that most of us are armed and usually better armed than the typical gang banger, much to the gang bangers detriment. Most gang bangers are smart enough to stay south of the border where the prey is much easier to come by.</p>
<p>An armed populace does more than deter crime, they exercise evolution in action. At some point you&#8217;ve weeded out 99.99% of the bad seeds and life is far more safe than living in an unarmed state.</p>
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		<title>By: Sunfish</title>
		<link>http://www.samizdata.net/2010/06/the-second-amen/#comment-206282</link>
		<dc:creator>Sunfish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;&#039;If you have an LLC or a trust buy the firearm, you do not need a Sheriff&#039;s signature.&#039;
This is another one. Go ahead and try it. I&#039;ve already been told that by class III dealers, if you have a full auto ( or destructive device to you nitpickers ) don&#039;t go into you own backyard without the paperwork. Is it legal to go into your own backyard without the paperwork ? Sure. That DOES NOT mean you&#039;re not in for a possible load of grief - ie time consuming and possibly expensive.

&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Why are you such an evangelist for the cause of cowering in the corner for fear of what someone else MIGHT do? Has anybody ever ended up in FPMITA prison for going outside and leaving their Form 1 in the safe? And are you seriously suggesting that a reasonable response to NOPD&#039;s illegal gun seizure is to not own guns in the first place?

Dunderhead:

Contracting defensive use of force out to &#039;professionals&#039; is a recipe for problems.

I&#039;m one of those &#039;professionals,&#039; western US version. I like to think that I&#039;m no lazier nor less-competent than the average. And I still can&#039;t be everywhere at once (and am too fat for you to carry under your jacket.)

And when seconds count, I&#039;m only minutes away.

Paul:
Some of the worst border incursions have been people armed with Heckler and Koch G-3 or G-36 rifles: the two models which have been issued to the Mexican Army in the last decade. And carried by people wearing Mexican army uniforms, and driving trucks painted in Mexican army patterrns.

There was at least one raid on a gang&#039;s weapons cache that resulted in a photo op. It was deliberately set up so that weapons not of US manufacture (a dozen or so AK-47&#039;s, a few of the goofy looking FN bullpup rifles, and at least one Russian-made RPK crew-served machine gun) were not shown.

There are a few very small scale US makers of Kalashnikov-pattern rifles. They tend to be expensive boutique items, not something likely to be exported from the US in any real quantity, not when the same thing can be bought from Romania for a tenth the price. But the narrative is that &#039;loose&#039; US gun laws are all that stands between Mexico-as-it-is-today and Mexico-as-an-Edenic-paradise, and the average reporter probably doesn&#039;t know the difference anyway.[1]

I&#039;m not sayin&#039;, I&#039;m just sayin.&#039; I have my own misgivings about Arizona&#039;s new law[2] but it was passed in response to a real problem.

[1] journalistic SOP: if it can be fired one-handed, it&#039;s a Glock. If it takes two hands, it&#039;s an AK-47. 

[2] Not really germane to the thread]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8216;If you have an LLC or a trust buy the firearm, you do not need a Sheriff&#8217;s signature.&#8217;<br />
This is another one. Go ahead and try it. I&#8217;ve already been told that by class III dealers, if you have a full auto ( or destructive device to you nitpickers ) don&#8217;t go into you own backyard without the paperwork. Is it legal to go into your own backyard without the paperwork ? Sure. That DOES NOT mean you&#8217;re not in for a possible load of grief &#8211; ie time consuming and possibly expensive.</p>
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<p>Why are you such an evangelist for the cause of cowering in the corner for fear of what someone else MIGHT do? Has anybody ever ended up in FPMITA prison for going outside and leaving their Form 1 in the safe? And are you seriously suggesting that a reasonable response to NOPD&#8217;s illegal gun seizure is to not own guns in the first place?</p>
<p>Dunderhead:</p>
<p>Contracting defensive use of force out to &#8216;professionals&#8217; is a recipe for problems.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m one of those &#8216;professionals,&#8217; western US version. I like to think that I&#8217;m no lazier nor less-competent than the average. And I still can&#8217;t be everywhere at once (and am too fat for you to carry under your jacket.)</p>
<p>And when seconds count, I&#8217;m only minutes away.</p>
<p>Paul:<br />
Some of the worst border incursions have been people armed with Heckler and Koch G-3 or G-36 rifles: the two models which have been issued to the Mexican Army in the last decade. And carried by people wearing Mexican army uniforms, and driving trucks painted in Mexican army patterrns.</p>
<p>There was at least one raid on a gang&#8217;s weapons cache that resulted in a photo op. It was deliberately set up so that weapons not of US manufacture (a dozen or so AK-47&#8242;s, a few of the goofy looking FN bullpup rifles, and at least one Russian-made RPK crew-served machine gun) were not shown.</p>
<p>There are a few very small scale US makers of Kalashnikov-pattern rifles. They tend to be expensive boutique items, not something likely to be exported from the US in any real quantity, not when the same thing can be bought from Romania for a tenth the price. But the narrative is that &#8216;loose&#8217; US gun laws are all that stands between Mexico-as-it-is-today and Mexico-as-an-Edenic-paradise, and the average reporter probably doesn&#8217;t know the difference anyway.[1]</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sayin&#8217;, I&#8217;m just sayin.&#8217; I have my own misgivings about Arizona&#8217;s new law[2] but it was passed in response to a real problem.</p>
<p>[1] journalistic SOP: if it can be fired one-handed, it&#8217;s a Glock. If it takes two hands, it&#8217;s an AK-47. </p>
<p>[2] Not really germane to the thread</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, the penis-gun comparison isn&#039;t unreasonable, but not for the reason cocktail-party Freudians claim. It&#039;s very generally the case among primates that the deliberate display of an erect penis expresses hostility, so for some disturbed individuals guns - or any other protrusive weapon - may well be a substitute penis. But for most of us, no.

(This may also explain why straight men react to gay ones so badly.) 

The main thing to keep in mind is that the Much Derided Object has not two functions, but three.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, the penis-gun comparison isn&#8217;t unreasonable, but not for the reason cocktail-party Freudians claim. It&#8217;s very generally the case among primates that the deliberate display of an erect penis expresses hostility, so for some disturbed individuals guns &#8211; or any other protrusive weapon &#8211; may well be a substitute penis. But for most of us, no.</p>
<p>(This may also explain why straight men react to gay ones so badly.) </p>
<p>The main thing to keep in mind is that the Much Derided Object has not two functions, but three.</p>
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