This was such a great post, one of those things that I can't say anything more in your comments to further enhance it. Perfectly said. Why don't you write a letter, or send this, to the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation?

I'm so used to hearing you call it that, by the way, I generally have to pause for a moment to actually remind myself what the actual name of the paper is.

"Why don't you write a letter, or send this, to the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation?"
Because more people will read it here...
Great post, although I have trouble believing that Jefferson would use the term "holy crap".

Yep! Nailed it again.

Problem with sacrificin freedoms for safety is that sooner or later some smooth-talkin despot comes along and you wind up losin both of 'em.

Human nature bein what it is, once politicians weasel themselves under the platform and start chippin away at it, the process becomes habit forming and finally the entire structure comes tumblin down.

No, I don't believe the Framers envisioned assault rifles, and I wish there were absolutely no reason for their being available. Problem is, tho, that once a weapon is developed (usually for the military), bad guys will eventually get their hands on a copy. And if the bad guys have autos with big-ass clips while all you got is a squirrel rifle or a long tom, you're lookin up a goat's ass.

Now you've done it !! Sally will rise from the ashes of the Drive by troll dung heap and sprew her antigun pro Stalinist get rid of all gun shit.
I think I did read some where that Jefferson did say Holy Crap !! He said it to Weezy. Oh sorry wrong Jefferson. Does that make me a racist?

I have the perfect solution to the energy problem. Hook our founding fathers up to generators. The way they are spinning in their graves, they could provide enough energy for the whole country.

The term "assault rifle" is really annoying to me. It's just another ridiculous choice of words that the libs pulled out of their asses to "scare" and "shock" people into believing that they are evil. Any weapon is an "assault" weapon if it's used to assault someone. I happen to use my firearms for fun; Shooting contests with good friends in the middle of the Kalifornia desert for a weekend is Heaven for me. Ill intentions? Nope!

When I sit down for dinner tonight, I think I'm going to use my assault fork, and assault steak knife. If I drank wine, I would use my assault cork screw, but since I'm a beer drinker, I'll have to settle with my assault bottle opener.

It's a silly and ridiculous term.

MICHAEL DE GIVE is a fucking idiot!

"Our forefathers never intended the Second Amendment to be abused the way the NRA and other gun proponents have used it."
-How is the NRA abusing the 2nd Amendment? Seems to me that the criminals are the ones abusing the 2nd Amendment. The NRA is promoting education, safety, and LAWFULL behavior. Why are they to blame? GMAFB! Was nappy headed Cho a member of the NRA? No! He was a raving mad lunatic, and, IF he even voted, I would bet he was another gullible liberal.

When does the insanity stop??

Erica - One of the reasons I started this blog is because the AJC would not print my letters. I think I wrote about ten and they only printed three of them. Bastards!

O, WOW!

I best Denny in something! I was published 4 times in the Letters to the Editor in the AJC!

And once in the Chicago Tribune way back around 1959!

I'm gonna go grab me a snack at a Guild Function.

:)))

DanS-
Isn't that just because your are a raging lib?

Dan - I was published in the Chicago Tribune in 1966. So you are only one up on me in the AJC. Had I continued writing letters and not started this blog, I would have passed you in the AJC by now. The nice thing is, the readers of this blog are more intelligent than the readers of the AJC.

One thing I noticed, past the Michael DeGive and other typical clownshoe reactions of the usual anti-gunners, the MSM and related henchmen haven't seemed to be to anxious to go into anti-gun overdrive as in the past. Seems like they're kinda poking around the issue this time around. On the otherhand, I've seen some outstanding defenses of the 2nd Amendment! :-) Keep up the good work, Denny.

CD:

I'm only a raging Lib because trying to be Con got the shit kicked out of me one too many times.

Den:

C'mon! Allow me this one small triumph!

FWIW, I had a blog back 'round .... '93? But it was WAAAAAAAAAAY too much like WORK! Besides, I drifted off to IRC and all of the temptations offered there.

You won't believe it, but I was hospitalized for "Internet Addiction" in '95 before it was even an official-diagnosis in the Manual (DSM?? Something like that!).

And I KNOW you & your Reader's won't believe this:

I LISTEN and READ far more than I POST.

DanS-
Come over to the "dark-side"! You'll be much more appreciated and respected on our side, and no one will kick the shit out of you!

As a visitor, a reader, and a commenter, I will continue to take you for your word, and only hope someday I can buy you a cold one and shake your hand.

Us "Cons" actually appreciate the fine service our men and women are doing for us, you included!

Dan - Are you telling me that liberals kicked the shit out of you?

Den:

No, I'm saying that I started out as a staunch conservative in a liberal Irish Chicago.

Time and time again, over many years, my talking-points were reduced by intellectuals (which I aspired to be). It should be said that Mayor Richard J. Daley was "The MAN" in those days and if one wanted to get started in life, one was, perforce, a Daley-Democrat.

That meant that one went with the "Ward-Healer" on Election Day. That's where the 'power' was and it was a generous power indeed.

What I mean to say, then, is that for 364 days of the year, life was good, happy, fat & sweet as long as one pulled the Dem-lever on election day. I fought against the Chicago 'Machine' on every opportunity.

August 1968 found me home on leave from the USMC; I was APPALLED at what I saw happening around Grant Park by what I, at that time, considered as the Nazi behavior of the Chicago Police Department.

My Mother was working then in detective Area 3 of CPD and she would bring home nightly the 'general orders of the day' that were passed around at Roll Call. People were to be smacked and shackled simply for BEING in the Park in those days.

THAT, my friend, is when I decided that I was on the 'wrong'-side.

So what does that make me?

"Sheryl Crow can use it to wipe her ass."
A "bawaahahahaa" doesn't even do that one justice!

That's f'ing hilarious Denny!

GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

"I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief.

"Do it my way."

"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."

"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"

Remember that?

Den: I know we are far off-topic, but you asked; I'm answering.

I ain't the problem.

Sally must be looking for toilet paper....

I'm only a raging Lib because trying to be Con got the shit kicked out of me one too many times.

The liberal mantra. If you can't beat them, join them. Cut and run. Surrender to the other side. Doesn't matter that their philosophies make no sense, clash with common sense and are anti-American. Just don't let me get the shit kicked out of me again. Basically reminding us that libs are chicken shits (you're previous military service aside Dan).

The point so many miss is that our founding fathers and people of their time also believed in the teachings of The Ten Commandments.
We have always had guns in our society but it only became an issue when the "enlightened" decided we only need the Constitution without the guidance of God.

It started out as the Fifth Amendment, they dropped one and it became the Fourth and when the Bill of Rights was ratified, the first two in order did not pass. So we have the Second Amendment. The first amendment that did not pass 200+ years ago was recently ratified and is now the Twenty-seventh.

Back to gun and anti-gunners. They say we don't "need" guns because they are no good for self-defense. Of course they have done all they could, between liberal media not reporting successful self-defense unless there is great loss of life and passing "gun free zone" so you won't have a gun in order to prevent successful cases of self-defense.
If everybody DIDS carry a gun, the number of lunatics and criminals carrying guns would not increase, they already do carry guns. It is only in the hands of honest law-abiding citizens that the number of guns being carried can increase. Then we'd have some statistics!
www.geocities.com/ks2ndamendmentsociety

Second Amendment.....

In my lifetime there is no other issue which upsets the Leftwing Liberals more than the second amendment. Why? because it insures the rest can be defended. Too many people forget it was a ragtag group of colonists with help from Lafayette who defeated the most powerful army on earth.

Liberals have a superior & snotty attitude to the rest of the citizens of this country.
1. They are convinced god made a mistake with giving man dominion over the animals & other creatures & are working to correct that error.
2.They feel our Forefathers made a horrendous mistake with the constitution & are working to change if not scrap it.
3. They are driven to organize & direct all aspects of every day life for the unwashed & semi- literate people who make up the underclass in this country, this world. This means all of us!
4.They believe we humans actually have the capacity to alter millions of years of normal climatic change & are a threat to this planet.
5. They believe with their self proclaimed intellect & belief they are Gods chosen , you & I have no right to challenge that which they choose to impose on this society as we are inferior.

The liberal Left will bring down this country if we ignore their agenda & let them triumph by default. they have made great progress to date with the help of the dimocratic party, the liberal halls of academia & the LSM.

The battleground today is the Second Amendment......We still hold the high ground on this issue but only if we remain vigilant.

Here is the definitive statement on the Second Amendment given by NRA president Charlton Heston to the National Press Club ten years ago. Too bad the members of the NPC didn't pass it along to their papers: http://www.save-now.com/news/archives/Charlton-Heston-Gun-Controle.htm

Oh God no! What will we do without her fat, fuzz munch ass???

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3077493&page=1

MICHAEL DE GIVE, Atlanta:, shit for brains should be considered for the AOW award. I know the left wing educational system, now totally failed education system, has quit teaching the constitutions but if shit for brains can write a letter to the editor he should be able to read the constitution.
You are right about the 'anti-gun' crowd. They lock themselves in gates communities with private security, send their children to private schools, hire body guards to excort them to work, and then have the ball to try and tell us how to protect our families.

Scrapiron - I was gonna make him AOTW last week, but Harry Reid beat him out for the coveted award.