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Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:44 pm
by The Annoyed Man
Jumping Frog wrote:When Democrats like Obama, Lautenberg, Feinstein, etc. talk about how much they respect the 2nd Amendment, and then just can't seem to keep from going after more gun control anyway, it simply reminds me of the old "
The Frog and the Scorpion" story.
It is as old as human nature, with a version of that story going back to Aesop's Fables called "
The Farmer and the Viper". "It has the moral that kindness to the evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom 'to nourish a viper in one's bosom'." Alternatively, "you knew I was a scorpion; it is in my nature".
RACIST!!
OK....I think I've got it out of my system now.
Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:47 pm
by Texas Dan Mosby
/sigh
Some folks just never learn.
Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:46 pm
by Poldark
Dem lawmakers to announce bill limiting online ammo sales
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Is this a case of Dem and us ?
Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:35 am
by Scott in Houston
surprise_i'm_armed wrote:Boy - If I had a time machine, I'd go back to the Second Amendment writers and have
them rephrase the 2A much more clearly to state that it is an indidvidual's right.
Strike out all that "militia" part that anti's hang their hat on when they think American citizens should not keep and bear arms.
Sheesh. Rant off.
SIA
You see, in their view it was clear. The issue is "militia" and the average person's view of what that means. In the 1700's the militia was everybody able to fight! It wasn't some formal group that you had to join, then train with like the army. It was every, able bodied person who could fight. Given that context, it's very clear that they're talking about an individual's right and then they qualified it with the main reason, the militia.
Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:17 am
by OldCannon
Jumping Frog wrote:When Democrats like Obama, Lautenberg, Feinstein, etc. talk about how much they respect the 2nd Amendment, and then just can't seem to keep from going after more gun control anyway, it simply reminds me of the old "
The Frog and the Scorpion" story.
It is as old as human nature, with a version of that story going back to Aesop's Fables called "
The Farmer and the Viper". "It has the moral that kindness to the evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom 'to nourish a viper in one's bosom'." Alternatively, "you knew I was a scorpion; it is in my nature".
Curse your inevitable betrayal! (Sorry, can't help but make the Firefly connection
)
[youtube]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=znxFrgql5dc[/youtube]
Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:27 pm
by LikesShinyThings
OldCannon wrote:Jumping Frog wrote:When Democrats like Obama, Lautenberg, Feinstein, etc. talk about how much they respect the 2nd Amendment, and then just can't seem to keep from going after more gun control anyway, it simply reminds me of the old "
The Frog and the Scorpion" story.
It is as old as human nature, with a version of that story going back to Aesop's Fables called "
The Farmer and the Viper". "It has the moral that kindness to the evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom 'to nourish a viper in one's bosom'." Alternatively, "you knew I was a scorpion; it is in my nature".
Curse your inevitable betrayal! (Sorry, can't help but make the Firefly connection
)
[youtube]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=znxFrgql5dc[/youtube]
Someone else who knows Firefly! Love that show!
Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:35 pm
by OldCannon
Im a bit fuzzy on how an SR moves thru the senate, but this cybersecurity bill passed to some additional level of consideration by an 84-11 vote. I am CERTAIN there arent that many senators that are eager to end their political careers, so why did this fly through on such a strong vote?
Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:37 pm
by 74novaman
LikesShinyThings wrote:
Someone else who knows Firefly! Love that show!
Yep, great show. "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:59 am
by Charles L. Cotton
Poldark wrote:Is this a case of Dem [or] us ?
Oh, this is good, very very good! I'm going to have to use this just slightly modified.
Thanks,
Chas.
Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:09 pm
by ajwakeboarder
I just ordered 10 new Pmags from Brownells. My dad and my Granddad both want me to build them an AR-15 in the next couple of weeks. Sometimes I wonder if i should thank the Dems for proposing gun control legislation.
Re: Dems offer gun-control amendment to cybersecurity bill
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:12 pm
by Jaguar
AEA wrote:He's living the role of the stupid idiot he played on Seinfeld.
He obviously is unaware that the SCOTUS has put this argument to bed long ago.
Don't get in too much of a hurry, according to Antonin Scalia, (a Reagan appointee) the door is still open for gun-control legislation.
See more at:
SCALIA WARNS: GUNS MAY BE REGULATED...