Yesterday was a cold wet nasty day in the Houston area, and it is suppose to be like that pretty much the rest of the week and on into the weekend. I am really glad that I never got involved in trail riding, otherwise I might be out on the trail with those folks heading to Houston, and I would not be a happy camper. Just wanted to let ya’ll know that, not that it makes any difference in the grand scheme of things but just thought I would mention it.
Speaking of “grand schemes”, what do you think old president Trump has up his sleeve right now? Or should I say, what do his handlers have up their sleeves right now? I heard Wednesday on the radio that there is some speculation that Trump is considering some gun law changes. Did you hear those also?
For those of you who have any question on where I stand with guns and that second amendment I’ll just say that I believe all gun laws need to be repealed. The founding fathers of the United States of America knew what they were doing, and every law that gets approved and tears even a little bit at that constitution, is just paving the way to shred it to pieces. It may not be fully ripped apart in my life time, or yours, but our kids and grand kids may very well see it in theirs.
What I heard that is under consideration was changing the current gun laws from the legal purchase age of eighteen to twenty one or even twenty five. That doesn’t sound like a “big deal”, and granted there are some eighteen year old that just aren’t mature enough to own guns. The thing that we need to keep in mind though is once they make a change, let’s say to 25, how long do you think it will be before the rest of the amendments are under attack to put age as a condition before you have your rights protected by the constitution?
Right now, and as the founders intended, age is not a condition, because the constitution does not give you any rights. The constitution protects your unalienable God given rights you are born with. So if they make a change, the wording is going to very important, watch and see if they don’t try and substitute “legally purchase” with “legally own”. Right now all the talk is on buying guns, and mark my words, they do these things for a reason; they know the people don’t pay any attention.
So, what will the age be for freedom of speech? Right now as soon as you start speaking as a toddler your right to freedom of speech is protected. What will the age be for the 4th amendment concerning searches and seizures? Will that be 18, 21, or 25? We are heading down a slippery slope if we don’t start doing as we are supposed to do and protect the constitution. Our elected officials take an oath to protect it and then pass laws to go against it, and we keep electing them term after term. We need to start doing are duty, use our vote, that is what it is there for.
Midterm primary election season starts in March; if you have a vote here in the US you need to be voting. My ballot on March 6th here in Texas will not have a vote cast for an incumbent candidate for any office, and if that means crossing party lines or not casting a vote on a particular race, so be it.
On Tuesday the Daily Dose gave a prime example on how we don’t pay attention, and neither do the people in charge like president Trump, he took it upon himself to order all the Unites States flags be flown at half-staff because of the shooting in Florida last week. While it may have been a nice gesture, it was a violation of the United States Code. Don’t believe me? All the documentation is in that Daily Dose; go give a read if you missed it.
Right now the liberals and democrats have all they need in that post to oust him from office, they don’t have the majority but I can tell you there are plenty of republican senators and congressmen that would vote to impeach Trump. They are afraid that he just may expose a bunch of things that these life time politicians don’t want you to know.
We as a society have put too much faith in the people we have elected. We also put too much faith in the television and newspapers where we get our news. We know they have an agenda, plenty of times they have been caught in outright lies. Most of all, we have become lazy. We are too lazy to even read for ourselves what the laws say.
If we can’t find the time to read and be informed then we probably deserve what we get, and we surely will be too busy as well when it comes to protecting and defending the constitution.
I better stop right here, this soap box is starting to give way.
Until next time,
@sultnpapper
i am not a hunter. nor a gun collector. i dont have a desire to have a gun. though i own two. One rifle was gifted to me at 11 by my grandfather. another newer model rifle at 14. Its been quite some years since i went out shooting clay pigeons. i have never hunted an animal, though would in the right circumstance.
gun laws are a very tricky one. i firmly believe it is a right to have them. i obviously dont want schools getting shot up. i just dont think guns laws will stop it.
the issue is far deeper than a to allow a law to correct it.
want change. pay teachers better, nurses, social servants, hospice carers. fund the arts and outreach programs. provide for the lowest common denominator citizen.
we pay 40% tax or so.....give people 10% of that and let them choose where that 10% will go....a real vote....people who believe in the military can give all 10% to that....those who believe in welfare can break down there 10 % to the programs they wish. give us a taste of real say as a population.
its just all such a shit show....of-course crazies are gonna shoot up schools for attention... but it has nothing to do with gun laws.
i am not pro or anti gun. im just anti dumb. thinking gun laws will change these shootings is dumb. change doesnt come from a law.
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I own one gun and it is the one I got for my 4th birthday, a 12ga Winchester 870 shotgun. It is all I need. Laws won't stop school shootings, it is already against the law to have a gun on public school property in the US, which is why we have so many school shootings. The shooters know they will have a decent amount of time to do what they intend to do before they will be confronted in most cases by another person with a gun. Law breakers break laws, plain and simple.
Your tax idea with allowing the taxpayer to allocate 10% of their taxes is an interesting concept, worth some official consideration at least.
I for "anti dumb" when you put it like that, may need to start an anti dumb group someday. Where we just kick around all the dumb shit we come across, see who can come up with dumbest stuff they have come across.
I may have an advantage over you though, as I still live here in the USA.
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Yeah, Der Drumpf hath spoketh: fight guns with guns.
Give teachers guns and there will be less shootings. And then he compared it to pilots carrying concealed guns, not mentioning though that the cabine of planes is locked and not publicly accessible.
I wonder how it would go in ghetto schools if teachers had concealed weapons, with 20-30 (wannabe) tugs in class.
Because as we can see from stats in (peaceful) nations with stricter gun laws, guns ARE absolutely required to control the threat and oppose the danger.
There is something to be said about the Second Amendment, and its base found in the English Bill of Rights (especially to protect citizens from rulers to disarm everyone just because they could), but those were written in respectively 18th and 17th Century.
That said... I would love it, absolutely love it, if Der Drumpf would go off track that much that it were the 2A people, and the NRA, who would eventually defeat him. That would be bittersweet irony.
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Yes. like the old saying says, "be careful what you ask for, you just might get it." is worth consideration for sure when it comes to the subject of gun control. I like the accent by the way, Der Mayhem, gun control wurz part dur plan of Der werks as well.
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