Thank GOD the Supreme Court finally got something right!!!!
Hitler identified and disarmed the Jews that he planned on killing. It worked. Do you honestly think that once word got out about the "showers" that anyone who was not in a camp, would not have instantly formed their own militias and shot anyone who tried to "arrest" them?
That is how it works. History teaches that very painful lesson.
So, while I would love to think of the perfect Utopian world in which the police and the military could always defend us, that is just pure folly.
Consider this: " This article addresses German firearms laws and Nazi policies and practices
to disarm German citizens, particularly political opponents and Jews. It begins with
an account of post-World War I chaos, which led to the enactment in 1928 by the
liberal Weimar republic of Germany's first comprehensive gun control law. Next, the
Nazi seizure of power in 1933 was consolidated by massive searches and seizures of
firearms from political opponents, who were invariably described as "communists."
After five years of repression and eradication of dissidents, Hitler signed a new gun
control law in 1938, which benefitted Nazi party members and entities, but denied
firearm ownership to enemies of the state. Later that year, in Kristallnacht (the Night
of the Broken Glass), in one fell swoop, the Nazi regime disarmed Germany's Jews.
Without any ability to defend themselves, the Jewish population could easily be sent
to concentration camps for the Final Solution. After World War II began, Nazi
authorities continued to register and mistrust civilian firearm owners, and German
resistence to the Nazi regime was unsuccessful.7"
This was taken from "NAZI FIREARMS LAW AND THE DISARMING OF THE GERMAN JEWS
17 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, No. 3, 483-535 (2000)"
Pretty sobering stuff, isn't it?
Second Amendment...........it IS our right to keep and bear arms.
Forget how the world looks at us........whether it be as gun-toting rednecks or whatever..........when the shit hits the fan, who have France and many other European countries called on to save them, multiple times? Why that would the same crazy gun-toting redneck Americans, would it not?
We need to be true to ourselves. I know that if Johnny Jihad makes it up the river inlet to one of our fine Floridian cities here, he will be met on shore with a certain and finite greeting that only Smith and Wesson and Colt can provide.
The military can not be in every part of the country at the same time and the police force would be overwhelmed by a good sized force of terrorists with heavy weapons......(kind of sobering for those who live in countries that ban firearms for their citizens, how could you defend yourself if your government became incapacitated)?
The whole issue of the Posse Comitatus Act in relation to New Orleans was the use of US Special Forces to protect citizens from those who were shooting and killing innocent people.......now, if in fact, "good" people were being disarmed, then that is not cool at all.
I live in a city in Florida where the National Guard had road blocks that would not allow anyone to enter or leave the city.........at no time did anyone go house to house and ask for our weapons. That would be suicide for the soldier or marine who attempted to do so.........this all happened due to a hurricane and it was not fun. Bush even visited our sister city to hand out ice (it was all surreal, at that time).
One neighbor had an AR-15 and GOD knows how many of the rest of us were armed. Cell phones did not work, and the police could not get through in many areas due to severe damage and flooding caused by the hurricane........simply put, WE WERE ON OUR OWN.
So while some may not like Bush, let's keep the crystal clear about this whole issue. Bush did NOT take our guns and only the bad guys were taken care of here in Southern Florida. If abuses happened elsewhere, then those need to be addressed.
Anyway, I am glad the Supreme Court GOT IT RIGHT! And I am sad to say that I have been acutely aware of what has been going on in Australia for quite a while.......I can only say that the Aussies need to ban together and say "enough"........
Hitler identified and disarmed the Jews that he planned on killing. It worked. Do you honestly think that once word got out about the "showers" that anyone who was not in a camp, would not have instantly formed their own militias and shot anyone who tried to "arrest" them?
That is how it works. History teaches that very painful lesson.
So, while I would love to think of the perfect Utopian world in which the police and the military could always defend us, that is just pure folly.
Consider this: " This article addresses German firearms laws and Nazi policies and practices
to disarm German citizens, particularly political opponents and Jews. It begins with
an account of post-World War I chaos, which led to the enactment in 1928 by the
liberal Weimar republic of Germany's first comprehensive gun control law. Next, the
Nazi seizure of power in 1933 was consolidated by massive searches and seizures of
firearms from political opponents, who were invariably described as "communists."
After five years of repression and eradication of dissidents, Hitler signed a new gun
control law in 1938, which benefitted Nazi party members and entities, but denied
firearm ownership to enemies of the state. Later that year, in Kristallnacht (the Night
of the Broken Glass), in one fell swoop, the Nazi regime disarmed Germany's Jews.
Without any ability to defend themselves, the Jewish population could easily be sent
to concentration camps for the Final Solution. After World War II began, Nazi
authorities continued to register and mistrust civilian firearm owners, and German
resistence to the Nazi regime was unsuccessful.7"
This was taken from "NAZI FIREARMS LAW AND THE DISARMING OF THE GERMAN JEWS
17 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, No. 3, 483-535 (2000)"
Pretty sobering stuff, isn't it?
Second Amendment...........it IS our right to keep and bear arms.
Forget how the world looks at us........whether it be as gun-toting rednecks or whatever..........when the shit hits the fan, who have France and many other European countries called on to save them, multiple times? Why that would the same crazy gun-toting redneck Americans, would it not?
We need to be true to ourselves. I know that if Johnny Jihad makes it up the river inlet to one of our fine Floridian cities here, he will be met on shore with a certain and finite greeting that only Smith and Wesson and Colt can provide.
The military can not be in every part of the country at the same time and the police force would be overwhelmed by a good sized force of terrorists with heavy weapons......(kind of sobering for those who live in countries that ban firearms for their citizens, how could you defend yourself if your government became incapacitated)?
The whole issue of the Posse Comitatus Act in relation to New Orleans was the use of US Special Forces to protect citizens from those who were shooting and killing innocent people.......now, if in fact, "good" people were being disarmed, then that is not cool at all.
I live in a city in Florida where the National Guard had road blocks that would not allow anyone to enter or leave the city.........at no time did anyone go house to house and ask for our weapons. That would be suicide for the soldier or marine who attempted to do so.........this all happened due to a hurricane and it was not fun. Bush even visited our sister city to hand out ice (it was all surreal, at that time).
One neighbor had an AR-15 and GOD knows how many of the rest of us were armed. Cell phones did not work, and the police could not get through in many areas due to severe damage and flooding caused by the hurricane........simply put, WE WERE ON OUR OWN.
So while some may not like Bush, let's keep the crystal clear about this whole issue. Bush did NOT take our guns and only the bad guys were taken care of here in Southern Florida. If abuses happened elsewhere, then those need to be addressed.
Anyway, I am glad the Supreme Court GOT IT RIGHT! And I am sad to say that I have been acutely aware of what has been going on in Australia for quite a while.......I can only say that the Aussies need to ban together and say "enough"........
