Doubt that it really has anything to do with war. Circle goes around--when I was a little kid buzz cuts and crew cuts were popular. When I was a bit older styles got longer (I remember when the Beatles, as they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, had scandalously long hair) and longer and longer and then shorter and shorter and shorter and now we're back to buzz cuts. In another 30 years or so it will be long again.
So presenting verifyable data points to counter raw emotionalism from my opponents is somehow a bad thing?
Gunner
It seems that the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit disagrees with your intepretation.
If there is another section that defines "the people" as "members of a well-regulated militia" then please cite it.
In any case, by law all males between the ages of 18 and 45 who are citizens of the US are members of the militia.
His suggestion that you are parroting something that was told to you is no more insulting than your suggestion that he had not read the Amendment in it entirety.
That depends on whether you like your rides bumpy. d8-)
Don't get grumpy, Gunner. I just know what's coming, and it could be a beaut. If it were me I'd list all the citations from US v Emerson, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and expect responses in November or so.
-- Ed Huntress
And you septics claim to understand English ?
So you're "gunner" in name only then ?
I don't own a gun, nor do I want to
not owning one doesn't make me feel oppressed
Hey one - nill to England against Russia
In message , Ed Huntress writes
Isn't poking rednecks fun ...
One of our political comedians offered three thousand pounds ( the proceeds from an article he wrote) to anyone who killed George Bush, and as a true patriot, you should all be leaping at the chance
In message , Gunner
Done that at 80 mph
That's for silly people
You'll like this ...
very gory - failed suicide bomber ...
Pretzel ? we wish
No, these are all things designed for things other than killing people
Sport aside, guns are there to kill
A normal level-headed person doesn't commit murder unless they're sick
- or perhaps to use an old phrase, criminally insane.
Being "mentally ill" can come about in a variety of ways, such as stress in work / being sacked (going postal), and maybe a little mentally disturbed, i.e. finding your wife in bed with the neighbour - having a gun available in these circumstances is likely to lead to a more permanent ending than, say, a good punch up.
Most gun crime against kids in the UK is not perpetrated by other kids (although the stats are getting worse) - whereas in the US it's pretty much endemic.
So you're only 3 times more likely to be murdered in the US - so much for guns keeping crime down...
Sounds like you're even more of a botcher at DIY than me, and that takes some doing !
PS: how the hell did this end up in so many groups ? - i'm restricting any further replies from myself to uk.d-i-y
If you still have any hair. ;-)
Uh, that would mean Cheney gets to be President.
We do, whe just don't get 'British'.
Certainly! If you were allowed to own guns, you might tuurn back into real men.
And distract him from the 24/7/365.25 Monty Python marathon on his TV? Do you think he'd even notice?
God, are you dense. You don't DESREVE one, either. You let women rule your country and they have done a wonderful job turning you into one, too.
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