Grateful Dead

I really and truly think this whole issue is beyond the contents of our founding father's documents, lives and ideologies. Although I do like your cookie sharing idea johnman... only with a bit of a twist. I think we should give all citizens of the U.S.A. guns when they are newborns. After all; there's no age requirement for gun ownership (that I know of - I could be wrong of course) according to The U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. And in all those pictures of places the U.S.A. is trying to deliver from tyranny, I see children holding weapons of all kinds - so they must be good just not used correctly? In addition, we should give each of the new gun owners two bullets... Or we could do this: Chris Rock ROCKS!!!

takem mr gonzo i feel your pain brother!

But I'm willing to share a whole BAG of cookies with anyone that would like 2...or 7...

"It's got no signs or dividing line and very few rules to guide"

but there is a background check requirement, in order to buy from a federally licensed dealer, and if it comes back "do not proceed" then there IS a waiting period. Your post maybe satirical, but most firearms owners are responsible people and wouldn't do the things spelled out in your post. Haven't I said before that your neighbor is an idiot with no respect for the safety of others?....would you like to share a cookie with me?

I couldn't resist... I went to my local gun shop and bought 4 glocks with 30 bullet clips, filled out a bit of paperwork, threw them in a sack and walked out the door wih the owner who was anxious to show me how to use them. He even threw in an extra, full clip for free to do the deed. The glock has quite a kick and together, the shopkeeper and I, we obliterated a human silhouette. I feel so much better now knowing that meat will be no problem this winter. I can put 131 slugs in a moose. Road rage? - no problemo. Somebody disrespects me lke a shopkeeper who won't take an item bAck? It's legal to carry concealed, though the clip is a bit bulky. All of these situations go through my mind -- as well as my neighbor who shoots off a clip now and then. Next time he does it I'll make believe I''m assaulting the mountain in back of his house , believing it''s a Taliban ridge in Helmund Province. The one thing I won't think of doing is fending off assailants or intruders because I live in a pretty good, safe neighborhood. I feel the power surging through me and my fellow 79 of 100 compatriots veins surrounding me in the US. Can't wait till my boss fires me or I see a bumper sticker I disagree with or drive by a tea-party gathering. I'll keep all my guns loaded in case I wake up due to a damn chattering squirrel I know I feel so much safer now that I'm with the majority. (The above has been satire to demonstrate a point , though in the state I Ilve in there is no waiting period and carrying concealed is not a crime.

seems as if the spammers are getting smarter, while pretending to be conversing, when in reality they are STILL slimy spammers! We are not so unintelligent as to fall for their wily ways!!********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde

of starlings that fell to the ground and died in europe, were drunk on mash left over from wine making...

Wanting to be able to defend yourself against hateful people does not make you a hateful person... and hateful people are out there, I cannot hide from that fact. I can only hope they will leave me alone in my desire to NOT hate..

cosmic-designer-> I'm in one of my heavy Dead listening phases right now so every thing I read or hear about elicits some Dead lyric in my head, and the Arizona situation, Palin's response, and the whole discussion of gun control, for me boils down to the lyric "No time to hate" and the general ambience of UJB. Some of us want to live in an option #2 world because hate is not something we consider or ever want to deal with. This not only affects our view on gun control, but generally it influences our ideas on immigration, health care, defense spending, etc. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who have no problem and may actually look forward to MAKING time to hate, and as long as those people are out there, guns and other things will always be an issue. The goal of such folks is option #1, always. In a spiritual, metaphorical, almost allegorical way, the Dead addressed this in Uncle John's Band. Nice.