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TOP 10 REASONS WHY SOME MEN FAVOR HANDGUNS OVER WOMEN

#10 – You can trade an old 44 for a new 22.
#9 – You can keep one handgun at home, and have another for when you’re on the road.
#8 – If you admire a friend’s handgun, and tell him so, he will probably let you try it out a few times.
#7 – Your Primary handgun doesn’t mind if you keep another handgun for a backup.
#6 – Your handgun will stay with you even if you run out of ammo.
#5 – A handgun doesn’t take up a lot of closet space.
#4 – Handguns function normally every day of the month.
#3 – A handgun doesn’t ask, “Do these new grips make me look fat?”
#2 – A handgun doesn’t mind if you go to sleep after you use it.
#1 – You can buy a silencer for a handgun!!


The US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision Thursday on the Second Amendment. It will be the first of many striking down unconstitutional ban on handguns, primarily in large cities.

Rights Boy has previously blogs on this subject here:
http://rightsboy.blogspot.com/2007/10/right-to-keep-and-bear-arms.html

Rights Boy's good friend Mr. Clean commented on the ruling on the Des Moines Register website.

I read this argument a couple of times that this decision 'won't change much.' That's true for this one decision in DC re: federal law only, but this will set up dominoes for NRA lawsuits in Chicago, Detroit and other cities and with unconstitutional bans.

This decision will change A LOT. No more nonsense about self-defense just being privy of militias or other civil authority (or criminals) You as a 'people' have a RIGHT to defend yourself, and the government's only interest should be to keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of felons and the gun-challenged.

In a truly free society, there is always the potential of danger lurking about. That's one of the prices of liberty. The government should NEVER infringe on constitutional rights in the name of security. The government is the one you need to be afraid of.

It never seems to get through to some people that the highest crime rates are where the strongest restrictions exist. And while Giuliani takes credit for lowering the crime rate in NY with gun bans, the fact is, violent crime went down statistically in ALL major cities in the 90s, even in cities with no restrictions, for a variety of reasons, and NY was right in the middle of the pack. There were NO extraordinary good results from the NY or DC gun restrictions. Just the opposite.

Here's another good reason to have a gun. Adrenalin-laced cops in paramilitary gear, kicking down doors in the middle of the night with no-knock raids, shooting the dog, shooting anything that moves. And then realize they are in the wrong street. Happens too frequently, and it's accelerating.

You ought to inventory the military gear showered on local police forces in the 15 years. You wouldn't recognize Barney Fife in Mayberry anymore. Dude looks like GI Joe now. And he doesn't need his one little bullet in his pocket anymore. He has an AK-47 and a bazooka.

TOP 10 REASONS WHY SOME WOMEN FAVOR HANDGUNS OVER MEN

#10 – Guns can be traded in.
#9 – You can shot the lazy lump on your couch.
#8 – If you have a rifle, the handgun won’t feel betrayed.
#7 - Handguns can actually compliment that new motorcycle.
#6 – A handgun doesn’t mind if you ask for directions.
#5 – A handgun doesn't smell of beer if you give it a night off.
#4 – No handgun would feel unloved if it had to sleep on the shelf for a week.
#3 – Handguns only cause drama when they are used on accident.
#2 – Handguns stay good looking for many years.
#1 – Handguns don’t hog the remote!!

1 in 100

There was a great report in the New York Times yesterday about how 1 out of every 100 U.S.adults is now behind bars. You can read it at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/28cnd-prison.html?hp

We incarcerate 1% of our adults now, a higher percentage than any other country in the world.

How have we possibly gotten to this point?

I'm not talking about 'prisoner's rights' here, where the government is being sued for a not serving vegetarian meals, by some bozo who doesn't have the fortitude to move his meat away from the peas. I'm talking about how they get there in the first place.

Here in central Iowa we are spending millions on a new jail because the criminal population is overflowing our capacity to incarcerate everybody.

We throw people in jail for years in this country for stunningly trivial offenses. There were originally three ways to go to jail at the federal level - now there are over 4,500.

Is it the Federal sentencing guidelines? Because they have NOT resulted in what they were intended for, and now we are stuck with them. The U.S. Supreme Court has to rule on the fairness of these over and over again.

Is it ‘three strikes you’re out?’ There are people in jail now for most of the rest of their life because they were hungry and metaphorically stole some bread three times, Sort of like Les Miserables.

Is it because people don’t take any personal responsibility anymore? A lot of people in jail were never taken to church as a child, never taught good manners, and there were never any consequences for their bad behavior as they were growing up.

Is it the lack of gun control?

Or, is it because our society is simply fed up with crime, and it’s easier to throw people in jail forever, out of sight, out of mind, and let’s just forget about rehabilitation?

Because folks, it costs you and I a lot of money; almost $24,000 per year per person behind bars. Last year, we spent $49 billion dollars nationally keeping people in jail, and it just goes up every year.

What do you think? There is a survey to the right. Please vote and let me know your opinion. If you have any other ideas, leave me a comment by clicking on that little underlined comments thingy below, and I’ll add it to the survey.

Have a great weekend! And don’t do anything bad, because your butt will get hauled to jail!

The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms

Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.


The Supreme Court is back from spring/summer vacation. Among the many interesting cases that it should review this fall is Parker v. District of Columbia, an appeal of a lower court ruling striking down Washington, D.C.’s ban on handguns.

The District of Columbia’s city council began banning handguns in 1976 and today bans ALL functional firearms. The lawsuit brought by six D.C. residents overturned the ban on appeal as a violation of the Second Amendment’s “right of the people to keep and bear arms.”

D.C., of course, is not a state. It is part of the federal government. The Constitution expressly grants to the U.S. Congress plenary legislative power over all matters whatsoever in the Nation's Capital. It is hard to see how a Second Amendment that binds the Congress would not apply to the District.

This is the first time the Supreme Court will be revisiting the Second Amendment since 1939. The Court has the opportunity to finally answer the central question: Does the right to keep and bear arms belong to us as individuals, or does the Constitution merely recognize the collective right of states to arm the members of their militias?

What do you think? Should your city council be able to restrict you from keeping a handgun, loaded or empty, in your home for the protection of yourself and loved ones?

Or do gun bans work, decrease violent crime, and this should override any consideration for individual rights?