Grateful Dead

I'd've been right there with Hunter T. shooting deer guns at propane cylinders if given the chance, or getting liquored up and playing a round of skeet-golf, or unloading the belt on the 50 cal at the old junk cars full of dynamite. Kaboom. "Hunter S. Thompson probably had a lot more than Mr. Popper does." No doubt, and bigger ones too. It's that whole "secret compartments in the car" thing that's a little freaky to me, and carrying so many around at once. With night vision goggles and a taser. Whatever. I'm bored. ********************************************* I have a sigfile! --> www.kindveggieburritos.com *********************************************

legally empowered to protect you? they can only show up after the fact......so i keep myself protected........................." when seconds count, the police are minutes away "

always willing to listen, and you always have a kind word and thought for others.......think i'll go have a cookie and cake sandwich, or, samich if you prefer...................................

Can listen to any argument and perspective, so long as keep the respect that all have done so far here, with this potentially hotpoint topic.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens

we can always agree to disagree, as americans we are allowed to do that, constitution says so. we should always respect the opinions of others anyway. i do lean towards pid's point....ain't nobody's business, including the government's so i don't go for registration. that just gives the bastards a list by which they can confiscate and that's the first thing a dictatorship does is disarm the citizens. so far we are citizens and not subjects. in order to legally purchase a firearm from a licensed dealer in this country you must pass a background check which is fine with me, keeps the things out of the hands of violent criminals,(murderers, rapists, etc.)but the common criminal is not gonna buy from a gun store or a gun show because of the background check done by the fbi with their database. they buy them off the street, stolen and otherwise. restrict normals citizens and the bad guys still get their guns.....i keep them for defense.....and pls don't believe everything you hear about the n.r.a.....it's mostly a group of people that believe in their right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the constitution. man i wish i had some cake....or a cookie.....or a cookie AND some cake. i think they promote non-violent acts. and i seem to remember reading about a pistol in jerry' s bust but that can't be cuz with the amount of dope he had he would have been locked up for a long long time. part of the community service he was required to do was put on a free show for the military. garcia band did a free show on board the uss carl vinson, where i was stationed at the time....unfortunately i had to fly home on emergency leave as my mother was dying....terminal brain cancer, so not only did i miss the show, i lost my mom as well.................guess i better quit ranting now....this tangent got rather large.

I don't own any guns myself, but friends of mine do and they like to go deer and elk hunting. Gun sales have sky-rocketed since the election. I don't mind poppin off a few rounds once in a while. Hunter S. Thompson probably had a lot more than Mr. Popper does.

Coulda sworn I read that, though. ********************************************* I have a sigfile! --> www.kindveggieburritos.com *********************************************

I feel pretty much the same way about both these issues. If you're opposed to them, don't have one. If you think you need one of them, get one. Neither should be illegal. Ain't nobody's business but your own. People have an inherent right to defend themselves, and an inherent right to elect to reproduce. Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.

sorry,i have about every interview and report about jerrys bust and there is nowhere the word that there was a gun in the car."(recitation)..the officer saw that the number plate on garcias BMW was expired,he approached the car when he smelled something burning and saw that garcia had dropped a thing he tried to hide.the officer than found a briefcase on the passenger seat which,blablabla.........)this is from the original article in the chronicle,but in the RS too and others there was never the word about a gun.i think you must have fallen prey to a rumor.PEACE:-)(-:

we agree to disagree on this topic, I hope. Live and let live. Don't hold it against you that you support registered guns for private individuals, but I just cannot be pro n.r.a. Hatred of violence too deep for that.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens