On 06/18/2016 10:10 AM, feste37 wrote:
As far as Iowa is concerned, I remember reading a while back that the
gun laws have been loosened. It used to be that if you wanted a
concealed carry permit, you had to say why you needed it. Now, you
just get issued with it, no questions asked, apparently.
In Fairfield, I doubt that there are many people who carry a concealed
weapon. There is no need for such a thing here.
Until there is a need for such and it is too late.
I would like to ask such people what they are frightened of.
I have a friend who had a concealed weapons permit when she lived near
Lake Merritt in Oakland. Might be a good idea there.
I read another article based on some kind of research that pointed out
that if people are in an environment where they know there are guns,
they will be more tensed up and aggressive. I think that is likely
among gun carriers too. They are ready to defend themselves, but in my
view that is more likely to attract aggression from others rather than
repel it.
Not quite seeing that here where open carry is permissible.
Perhaps the 2nd Amendment served some useful purpose at some point in
US history, but it has outlived its usefulness. I would repeal it and
put an end to the romanticization of guns and gun violence, including
the erroneous notion that you cannot be or feel safe unless you carry
a gun.
Then owning a gun will become a 1st Amendment issue. Gotta think this
through a bit more because cars kill more people per year than guns but
we aren't talking about banning cars. You can't in a country like the
US which is so spread out that only autos made sense.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
Sorry Feste, but that's the way the discussion was coming off, very
shallow and uninformed. At least someone could have posted the what
the gun laws are in the US to make for a more "informed" opinion.
Even the Wikipedia entry would be sufficient though folks could look
up the legislation for even more depth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
Such shallowness makes the denizens here look like "Eloi". I've been
to Fairfield and know there is a fairly significant part of the
population that no longer follows the TMO. They've moved on. Few of
those post here.
One of the first things I heard on local talk radio was a journalist
explain the difference between automatic and semi-automatic weapons.
Also there was some puzzlement from military folks about how the
Orlando gunman was able to kill 50 people without reloading clips
multiple times giving an opportunity to jump him. This leads to
speculation of a second gunman and a "staged event". Also Russ Baker,
an investigative reporter, raises some issues about the shooter:
http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/06/17/russ-baker-dont-rush-judgement-orlando-shooting/
The mainstream media fictionalizes a lot of the news to fulfill the
agenda of their wealthy owners.
On 06/18/2016 04:30 AM, feste37 wrote:
This post reminds me of the bad old days of FFL (actually, not too
long ago), when TMers and people who live in Fairfield were subjected
to daily, gratuitous attacks on this forum. Completely unnecessary
and also stupid.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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<mailto:noozguru@...> wrote :
Second Amendment aside, I still maintain it is healthy to let the
populace own guns as it tends to thwart any idea of complete takeover
by a coup d'etat (which some will maintain has already happened in
the US and is taking it's time for complete takeover with replacement
of the Constitution by the Patriot Act). However nothing wrong with
disallowing the ownership of automatic weapons. Most folks here
though probably don't know the difference between an automatic and
semi-automatic due to their sheltered lives as TM'ers and living in
remote Fairfield.
On 06/17/2016 08:28 AM, Mike Dixon mdixon.6569@...
<mailto:mdixon.6569@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
http://www.bearingarms.com/bob-o/2014/06/24/well-regulated/
"Well-Regulated" - Bearing Arms - Second Amendment,
Well-Regulated
We hear it constantly from droning citizen control cultists. The
argument goes something like this. “You want to...
<http://www.bearingarms.com/bob-o/2014/06/24/well-regulated/>
Here you go.
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