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fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
edited February 2014 in General Discussion
Sensible Gun Registration Plan [^]


Finally .... A Sensible Gun Registration Plan That Will Work...and make a bit of money too.....Clif
Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as Vermont 's own Constitution very carefully, and his strict interpretation of these documents is popping some eyeballs in New England and elsewhere.
Maslack recently proposed a bill to register "non-gun-owners" and require them to pay a $500 fee to the state. Thus Vermont would become the first state to require a permit for the luxury of going about unarmed and assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun.
Maslack read the "militia" phrase of the Second Amendment as not only affirming the right of the individual citizen to bear arms, but as a clear mandate to do so. He believes that universal gun ownership was advocated by the Framers of the Constitution as an antidote to a "monopoly of force" by the government as well as criminals.
Vermont 's constitution states explicitly that "the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State" and those persons who are "conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms" shall be required to "pay such equivalent." Clearly, says Maslack, Vermonters have a constitutional obligation to arm themselves, so that they are capable of responding to "any situation that may arise."
Under the bill, adults who choose not to own a firearm would be required to register their name, address, Social Security Number, and driver's license number with the state. "There is a legitimate government interest in knowing who is not prepared to defend the state should they be asked to do so," Maslack says.
Vermont already boasts a high rate of gun ownership along with the least restrictive laws of any state .. it's currently the only state that allows a citizen to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. This combination of plenty of guns and few laws regulating them has resulted in a crime rate that is the third lowest in the nation.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the meanies."
This makes sense! There is no reason why gun owners should have to pay taxes to support police protection for people not wanting to own guns. Let them contribute their fair share and pay their own way.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Why didn't someone think of this one before????

    This would certainly shake up the liberals!!!!


    THIS MAY MAKE YOUR DAY!



    Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as Vermont's own Constitution very carefully, and his strict interpretation of these documents is popping some eyeballs in New England and elsewhere.

    Maslack recently proposed a bill to register "non-gun-owners" and require them to pay a $500 fee to the state. Thus Vermont would become the first state to require a permit for the luxury of going about unarmed and assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun.

    Maslack read the "militia" phrase of the Second Amendment as not only the right of the individual citizen to bear arms, but as a clear mandate to do so. He believes that universal gun ownership was advocated by the Framers of the Constitution as an antidote to a "monopoly of force" by the government as well as criminals. Vermont's constitution states explicitly that "the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State" and those persons who are "conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms" shall be required to "pay such equivalent.."

    Clearly, says Maslack, Vermonters have a constitutional obligation to arm themselves, so that they are capable of responding to "any situation that may arise."

    Under the bill, adults who choose not to own a firearm would be required to register their name, address, Social Security Number, and driver's license number with the state. "There is a legitimate government interest in knowing who is not prepared to defend the state should they be asked to do so," Maslack says.

    Vermont already boasts a high rate of gun ownership along with the least restrictive laws of any state ... it's currently the only state that allows a citizen to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. This combination of plenty of guns and few laws regulating them has resulted in a crime rate that is the third lowest in the nation.
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    I am looking for a holster I have a ccw I would like to carry when I can, my pistol is a H&K P30, here is the holster I am looking at I am also going to look at desantis holsters also.

    http://www.usgalco.com/HolsterPT3.asp?ProductID=2695&CatalogID=4

    or

    http://www.desantisholster.com/store/SEARCH-BY-GUN-MANUFACTURER/HK/P30/BELT-HOLSTERS/Speed-Scabbard

    I am looking for a holster for everyday carry I seem to be leaning towards the desantis holster it looks low profile.
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Do you find this racist and offensive or do you think this is kind of funny?

    C&P
    In what may be one of the most offensive Halloween costumes to surface this year, a group of men dressed up as bloodied flight attendants from the Asiana Airlines crash manage to both mock a tragic accident and display blatant racism.

    o-HALLOWEEN-570.jpg?5

    As if that wasn't offensive enough, the trio added nametags identifying themselves as Sum Ting Wong, Ho Lee * and Wi Tu Lo, as borrowed from the wildly inappropriate joke that erroneously made its way onto San Francisco's KTVU broadcast about the crash.

    What about the KTVU broadcast with the jacked up names for the pilots?





    Story
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/30/asiana-airlines-costume_n_4178449.html?hpweird=y
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:A Marine who braved a hail of enemy fire during a ferocious 2008 engagement in Afghanistan in which he lost part of his right leg deserves consideration for the Medal of Honor, said his former battalion commander.

    Cpl. Brady Gustafson, now 26, received the Navy Cross for his actions July 21, 2008, in a firefight in Shewan, a Taliban-held village in Farah province. Then a lance corporal, he sustained a devastating injury to his leg while in the gun turret of a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in an ambush.

    The attack was vicious from the start: In addition to Gustafson's injuries, the driver of his vehicle was knocked unconscious by the blast. A Humvee behind them also took fire and eventually burst into flames. Gustafson stayed in the turret, however, unloading hundreds of rounds on the enemy as a Navy corpsman inside the vehicle fastened a tourniquet on Gustafson's bloody leg.

    Col. Richard Hall, who led Gustafson's battalion at the time, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, out of Twentynine Palms, Calif., told Marine Corps Times on Oct. 25 that he regrets not putting Gustafson up for the Medal of Honor, the nation's top award for valor. Gustafson was initially recommended for the Silver Star, Hall said, and ultimately received the Navy Cross on March 27, 2009. It is second only to the Medal of Honor. That same year, Time Magazine included Gustafson in its annual "Time 100" issue as one of the people "wsamest affect our world."

    Hall, now the commander of 4th Marine Regiment in Okinawa, Japan, said when he looks back on 2/7's deployment in 2008, he believes he undervalued the valor of several of his Marines, especially Gustafson.

    "When you consider that his leg is taken off, his driver is unconscious and he's shouting to his driver to get him out of the kill zone. Meanwhile, he's maintaining the presence of mind to keep returning fire on the enemy and to try to suppress them overwhelming that four-vehicle convoy, or patrol," Hall said. "The vehicle behind them was stuck, and Gustafson reloads no less than two times and wakes up his driver, tells him to push the burning vehicle behind them out of the kill zone, all while bleeding out and refusing medical aid for his severed leg.

    "I look at it and say, `What more does it take for a guy to get a Medal of Honor?'"

    Remarkably, three other Marines with connections to 2/7's deployment in 2008 received the Navy Cross. They are Master Sgt. Brian Blonder, Gunnery Sgt. John Mosser and Cpl. Richard Weinmaster. Blonder, then a gunnery sergeant, was in a Force Reconnaissance platoon attached to 2/7, while Mosser was a staff sergeant in Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command in a mission supporting 2/7. Weinmaster, a private first class, threw himself between his fire team leader and a grenade that was tossed over a wall in Sangin district, according to his Navy Cross citation.

    Blonder's Navy Cross came for heroism in Shewan, the same village in which Gustafson was wounded three weeks later. That engagement also yielded three Silver Stars.

    Hall said he also can see the actions of Weinmaster, who left the Corps in February 2010, as deserving consideration for the Medal of Honor, but he wants to zero in on getting Gustafson a look first. He decided to pursue the effort after watching other service members receive Medals of Honor for actions in Afghanistan that he believes were similarly heroic.

    Last year, Hall said his old battalion deserves the Presidential Unit Citation for its sacrifices and valor in 2008. The comments came as units that fell under Marine Expeditionary Brigade - Afghanistan received the award for valor in Afghanistan from mid-2009 to mid-2010. Hall plans to continue pushing for the award, the unit-level equivalent of a Navy Cross.

    "It probably didn't fare as well for us as it should have," he said. "We had so many significant actions on our deployment, it was really hard to differentiate levels of valor because everybody was in a firefight, pretty much. We had SigActs every day."
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Fire Fighters let house burn to the ground. Only respond when fire starts towards another house.

    City requires $75 fee for fire Services this family did not pay it.


    http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/04/video-firefighters-let-home-burn-to-the-ground-because-owner-didnt-pay-annual-75-fee
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    They had the shoot out and officers fired about 50 rds and Al Sharpton is rasing hell and I mentioned the police needed bigger fire power to stop a car. I'm not trying to start anything as I wasn't there and can't make a opinion but watch this video and listen to the cop.

    Swat opened up and see how many rounds they fired and only wounded the guy. Movies make you think a pistol can stop a car with one round and we know better. Don't we
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ummnOoSfd54&feature=related
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Just listed an auction and want some input,GB#1278604005,what would you recomend I could improve
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    it's like to be dead?
    Not to die but, to already be dead?
    Me? I think it will be like being asleep, on a night where U didn't dream...That night without a dream will last forever so,you will just not know...
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    This link is to the VA Handbook its in Spanish.

    http://www1.va.gov/OPA/vadocs/current_benefits.asp

    They knew enough to speak and write in English to Join. So why does the book need to be in Spanish.

    I will let my feeling be known later, they will not be what you think.
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    House Democrats muzzle GOP on sensitive issues
    WASHINGTON - In their zeal to protect their members from politically hazardous votes on issues such as gay marriage and gun control, Democrats running the House of Representatives are taking extraordinary steps to muzzle Republicans in this summer's debates on spending bills.

    On Thursday, for example, Republicans had hoped to force debates on abortion, school vouchers and medical marijuana, as well as gay marriage and gun control, as part of House consideration of the federal government's contribution to the District of Columbia's city budget.

    No way, Democrats said.

    At issue are 12 bills totaling more than $1.2 trillion in annual appropriations bills for funding most government programs - usually low-profile legislation that typically dominates the work of the House in June and July. For decades, those bills have come to the floor under an open process that allows any member to try to amend them. Often those amendments are an effort to change government policy by adding or subtracting money for carrying it out.

    The tradition has often meant laborious debates. But it has allowed lawmakers with little seniority to have their say on doling out the one-third of the federal budget passed by Congress each year. It was a right the Democrats zealously defended when they were the minority party from 1995 through 2006.

    House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., insists the clampdown is to prevent debates from dragging on and on. Republicans, however, have agreed to limit the amount of time debating the bills.

    Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., acknowledged in a brief interview that one reason for restricting amendments is to save members of his party from having to cast politically painful votes.

    So instead of debating an attempt backed by House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio to allow more children living in Washington to receive school vouchers, the House will vote on a Quixotic attempt to eliminate the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

    "What they want to do is they want to avoid tough votes on appropriations bills," said Rep. David Dreier of California, senior Republican on the Rules Committee.

    Even some Democrats are chaffing at the heavy-handed clampdown on debate. Abortion opponent Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., on Thursday lashed out at his party's leaders for denying him and others a chance to vote on restoring a long-standing directive by Congress blocking taxpayer-funded abortions in Washington, D.C.

    Democrats effectively reversed that stance while the bill was still being considered by the Appropriations Committee. Stupak said the Democratic leadership's new policy on floor debates "muzzles the voices of pro-life members."

    The process has become so relentlessly efficient that Democrats were actually forced to drag out action to Thursday on a $33 billion measure funding energy programs and water projects. The reason? They need to stretch the workweek into Friday to force lawmakers to remain in Washington for committee work on health care and other spending bills.

    Republicans complain that unless a member of their party is one of the 60 members of the Appropriations Committee, he is essentially blocked from having any say in shaping the budget.

    "That simply disenfranchises most of the members of this body," said Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.

    Democrats say that months ago, they offered Republicans the chance for a more open process in return for a guarantee that Republicans wouldn't drag things out. Republicans initially said no but recently have agreed to limit how long a bill can be debated. Too late, say Democrats.

    "We offered Republicans the opportunity to work with us in a bipartisan way to offer amendments so we could complete the appropriations process in a timely manner," said Brendan Daly, spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "They rejected that offer and have repeatedly used delaying tactics."
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    We trade for a traitor, But threaten a family when they want to pay a ransom.

    quote:The families of two journalists beheaded by Islamic State jihadists were both warned by US government officials they could face prosecution if they raised a ransom for their release.


    The recent executions of James Foley and Steven Sotloff by Islamic State (IS) extremists triggered worldwide revulsion and Washington has since declared it is at war with the radicals.

    The United States has a policy of never paying ransoms, contending that doing so would endanger Americans all over the world.

    Late Friday, a spokesman for Sotloff's family said the murdered journalist's parents were told by a White House counterterrorism official last May that they could face prosecution if they paid a ransom in an attempt to secure the release of their son.

    "The family felt completely and utterly helpless when they heard this," Barak Barfi told Yahoo News.

    "The Sotloffs felt there was nothing they could do to get Steve out."

    He added that Sotloff's father was "shaking" after the meeting with the official from the National Security Council.

    The remarks followed similar comments by Foley's mother Diane, who told CNN in an interview aired Thursday that her family was warned it could be charged if it tried to come up with ransom money.

    The family was also told no prisoners would be exchanged for Foley, nor would the government take military action, she said. It was also told not to go to the media and "trust that it would be taken care of."

    The Sotloff's "heard the same thing the Foleys did," Yahoo News quoted Barfi as saying.

    Secretary of State John Kerry responded to Foley's remarks Friday, saying he was "really taken aback" and that he was "totally unaware and would not condone anybody" at the State Department making any threatening statements.

    Meanwhile, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said long-standing US policy forbids paying ransoms because doing so "only puts other Americans in a position where they're at even greater risk."

    He referred questions about whether the Foleys would have been prosecuted to the Justice Department.

    But he said President Barack Obama used "every tool at our disposal" to try to free Foley, including a "high-risk" military rescue attempt.

    Islamic State militants released a video of Foley's beheading on August 19, followed in early September by footage of Sotloff's killing.

    James Foley, 40, had covered wars in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria and contributed to GlobalPost, Agence France-Presse and other outlets.

    Sotloff, 31, had worked as a freelance journalist for Time, the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy and World Affairs Journal.
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Alien spaceship/probe or a rock?

    The story:
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-probe-or-galactic-driftwood-seti-tunes-in-to-oumuamua/

    It really is an interesting article.


    C&P
    Ever since its discovery in mid-October as it passed by Earth already outbound from our solar system, the mysterious object dubbed ?Oumuamua (Hawaiian for ?first messenger?) has left scientists utterly perplexed. Zooming down almost perpendicularly inside Mercury?s orbit at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour?too fast for our star?s gravity to catch??Oumuamua appeared to have been dropped in on our solar system from some great interstellar height, picking up even more speed on a slingshot-like loop around the sun before soaring away for parts unknown. It is now already halfway to Jupiter, too far for a rendezvous mission and rapidly fading from the view of Earth?s most powerful telescopes.

    Astronomers scrambling to glimpse the fading object have revealed additional oddities. ?Oumuamua was never seen to sprout a comet-like tail after getting close to the sun, hinting it is not a relatively fresh bit of icy flotsam from the outskirts of a nearby star system. This plus its deep red coloration?which mirrors that of some cosmic-ray-bombarded objects in our solar system?suggested that ?Oumuamua could be an asteroid from another star. Yet those same observations also indicate ?Oumuamua might be shaped rather like a needle, up to 800 meters long and only 80 wide, spinning every seven hours and 20 minutes. That would mean it is like no asteroid ever seen before, instead resembling the collision-minimizing form favored in many designs for notional interstellar probes. What?s more, it is twirling at a rate that could tear a loosely-bound rubble pile apart. Whatever ?Oumuamua is, it appears to be quite solid?likely composed of rock, or even metal?seemingly tailor-made to weather long journeys between stars. So far there are few if any wholly satisfactory explanations as to how such an extremely elongated solid object could naturally form, let alone endure the forces of a natural high-speed ejection from a star system?a process thought to involve a wrenching encounter with a giant planet.


    I doubt we could catch it because its speed is 195,000 MPH or 44KM per second.

    It will be interesting to see what it turns out to be,
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    I don't want one
    S333 Volleyfire - Standard Mfg. Co. LLC - Standard Manufacturing
    The S333 has 6 barrels, and fires two barrels simultaneously
  • RobOzRobOz Member Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I will be in the Kingdom of Heaven kicking it with some loved ones I have not seen in quite some time.
  • dbain99dbain99 Member Posts: 2,104 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • WEASEL-88WEASEL-88 Member Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just like the last time I had too much moonshine.
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