Reasonable Nuts: Rikki don't lose that (serial) number...

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Reasonable Nuts of Yore:
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in the people's minds." -- Samuel Adams, one of the original Reasonable Nuts
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"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." -- Thomas Sowell
"Most people who read 'The Communist Manifesto' probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of 'the workers'." -- Thomas Sowell
"The purpose of an open mind is to close it, on particular subjects. If you never do â you've simply abdicated the responsibility to think" -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
"I would rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University". -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
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"Creating false distinctions between human rights and property rights plays into the hands of Democrat and Republican Party socialists who seek to control our lives. If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property." -- Walter E. Williams

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Monday, November 06, 2006

Rikki don't lose that (serial) number...

The NRA wants your donations, but this is still worth watching...

http://www.givethemback.com/ (note: click the tabs to the left on the website to see the various segments of the video.)

I'd like to think the gun confiscation in New Orleans is a special case, owing to the fact the "leadership" is obviously of limited mental capacities and as such prone to a fourth-grade interpretation of the Constitution. However, my guess is that the only reason we haven't seen this elsewhere is due to the relative lack of widespread and longstanding states of emergency in the United States. Such is why I prefer to live in a decidedly conservative county in a mostly conservative commonwealth. I can easier trust a police department that is run by those philosophically and politically attuned to interpretations of settled law that I share.

Re: New Orleans - I would sooner have been holed-up with one of those gun owners than otherwise unarmed. Memo to Mayor Nagin: criminals are the ones who don't obey laws. What percentage of those guns you confiscated do you think came from those who were going to use them for anything other than to protect themselves, hunt or shoot recreationally? The answer is 0.0%. Oh, I'm sure your reasoning (as it were) was that criminals would break into the homes of gun owners, steal their weapons and use them for untold numbers of other crimes. Um, no. Criminals breaking into the homes of gun owners in circumstances such as those post-Katrina would certainly have discovered whether the home contained a gun, probably in the form of a recommended lifetime allowance of lead.

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