States' Gun Rights: The Next Constitutional Battlefield

From Time Magazine











The right to bear arms
is famously and specifically
referenced in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Alas, for advocates of the right, the language of the amendment gets tangled up in the regulating of militias and the interpretation of commas. Now, a multi-state movement is trying to find more robust constitutional support in another amendment, which makes no mention of weaponry at all.


The 10th Amendment declares that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." It inspired the so-called "Sagebrush Rebellion" three decades ago that swept the West, preventing the federal takeover of public lands pushed by the Carter Administration and propelling the self-proclaimed Sagebrush Rebel, Ronald Reagan, to the Presidency. Now it is being invoked by pro-gun advocates to press for state rather than federal regulation of gun manufacturers. (See pictures of America's gun culture.)
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Condi vs a fourth-grader now?

more of a challenge than debating her former boss, I suppose...

Our illustrious former Secretart of State may be adept at dodging tough questions -- but her skills were no match for fourth grader, Misha Lerner.

Looking like she'd

stuck her face in a bucket o' bees,

Rice made her first public appearance in Washington, D.C., since leaving office at a Jewish Primary Day School where she fielded students' questions that had been developed beforehand with the help of teachers but had not been screened by Rice, the Washington Post reported.

Then one student asked, "What do you think about what President Obama's administration was saying about the methods the Bush administration had used to get information from detainees?"

Apparently the question was toned down

from the student's original question.

"Let me just say that President Bush was very clear that he wanted to do everything he could to protect the country," Rice said.

"But he was also very clear that we would do nothing that was against the law or against our obligations internationally. I hope you understand that it was a very difficult time."

"I know you are but what am I?"

Seriously, there were no hard feelings, and Rice even posed for a solo photo op with the young student as they spoke about Russia, the Post reported.

I hope the children

don't have nightmares after this.

Everything is AMAzing - Louis CK

Loved Elvis, but...

Elvis Presley
was
crazy










for guns and cars.








He shot this yellow Pantera during a temperamental outburst
when the car would not start.

Bad Pantera!

The car took several hits - one in the tire, one in the driver-side door and the last bullet went through the steering wheel.

The car started immediately on the second try.

When a buyer saw this car in the collection of the owner in
Riverside, California,
the bullet holes had been repaired
- only a wound in the steering wheel remained.


Elvis was also known to punish TV sets if either Robert Goulet or Mel Torme appeared on the screen.
Here's one such TV which he his uncle Earl Pritchard removed and later sold (!)



At the time of Elvis' death in 1977 he owned 37 guns,
rifles and one machine gun.

Good thing they were in such capable hands.

It's about time !

Please take action!

At the 10th year anniversary this month of the Columbine massacre in Colorado, the Brady Campaign urges Congress to require Brady criminal background checks on all gun sales, including at gun shows.

Congress should introduce legislation to close the gun show loophole immediately.

Allowing dangerous people such as convicted felons and domestic abusers to buy guns at gun shows from unlicensed sellers without a Brady criminal background check threatens the safety of our families and communities.

The Columbine killers used two shotguns, an assault rifle, and a TEC-9 assault pistol. All four guns went through sales at gun shows. A friend of the killers bought three of the guns for them from unlicensed sellers at a gun show. After the massacre, the friend stated that had she been required to undergo a Brady background check, she would not have purchased the guns.

Our national policy should be: no background check, no gun, no excuses

Pirates or Coast Guard??

BOTH SIDES please!!