Miami-Dade County wants to ban assault weapons

[MikeBjerum]

Relax, ...

I don't want to relax!  Relaxing is what got us into this mess, and now we need to stand up and scream!  I'm not saying Mr. Heston's quote, as much as I love it, but rather the Founding Fathers' words.  How about we stay on top of the word "infringe?"  Permits, licenses, waiting periods, bans and special taxes or regulations that cause drastic increases in cost or limited availability are all infringements on the purpose of the Second Amendment!

[tombogan03884]

I don't want to relax!  Relaxing is what got us into this mess, and now we need to stand up and scream!  I'm not saying Mr. Heston's quote, as much as I love it, but rather the Founding Fathers' words.  How about we stay on top of the word "infringe?"  Permits, licenses, waiting periods, bans and special taxes or regulations that cause drastic increases in cost or limited availability are all infringements on the purpose of the Second Amendment!

No, SLEEPING, is what got us in this spot. Sitting back thinking our NRA dues were enough sacrifice helped get us here.
Planning, or plotting, should be done with a relaxed informed mind. If part of the plan is to stand up and scream, then it must be done in a calculated manner. Being outraged clouds your judgment and limits your effectiveness, that does not preclude EXPRESSING outrage.
But all tactics should be executed with a clear mind and attention to detail.

[alfsauve]

The socialists in America are still looking for their catch phrase.

I think it's  "Change you can believe in"

[tt11758]

Enough of this crap!!!  

WARNING, I AM ON MY SOAPBOX !!!


Websters Ninth New Collegiante Dictionary

as-sault n  1:  a violent physical or verbal attack  2a:  an apparently violent attemp or a willful offer with force or violence to do hurt to another without the actual doing of the hurt threatened (as by lifting the fist in a threatening manner) b:  rape

assault vt  1:  to make an assault on

Assault is an action!  Assault is not a thing!  

My health has been harmed by McDonalds Assault-Big Macs, Burger King Assault-Whoppers, Jack-in-the-Box Assault-Super Sized Meals, ...  Sound stupid?  No more stupid that putting the word "assault" infront of a gun, knife, stick or any other item you are afraid of.

All these gun haters need to go for counseling to get over their fear of inatimate objects.  How do we get them to understand that it is not the knife, club or gun that they are afraid of?  How do we get them to understand that it is the person they need to fear?  Take away this gun or that, and there will just be another tool to ban.  Slowly work your way through every gun ever built, and you will find yourself going after swords, knives, clubs, chains, diesel fuel, fertilizer, gasoline, laundry detergent, strike anywhere matches ...

The real problem is the action and not the tool.  We have thousands of laws regulating the action, but no one wants to deal with enforcing those ... unless of course we can determine that the threat was to some protected special race, sex or sect - then you will not only go to jail until you are dead but until you are dead two or three times.

Oh, by the way, To our Founding Fathers the most threatening weapon used in warfare was a rifled musket with a three and a half foot barrel, and I don't recall any where in the early records that it is written that only the Governement or a select few with special certificates can own those.  Remeber all that if you not only read the Second Amendment, but also the writings that the Framers coresponded with you will find that they wanted us to have all the weapons of war at our immediate disposal as legal citizens.

Try not to hold back, m58, tell us how you REALLY feel.  It's not good to hold things inside, dude.   

[Pathfinder]

Then ours can be " Like hell you will", .
Here's some more
"Heat the tar and pluck the chickens".
"You get the rope, I'll find a tree".
"Over my (or your) dead body"

That is too funny, Tom, I have been wondering lately how modern pols would react to a good tar and feathering. Do we have that much tar?

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[tombogan03884]

I don't know about the tar, but there would be a LOT of naked chickens running around 

[twyacht]

Even scarier, (yes that's possible), down here, is the efforts will not stop by the Miami-Dade lefty's. They kinda know that a renewal of the AWB probably won't happen, keyword: YET. Sooooooo,

They are also going to attempt to get individual states the power to decide on what "types" of firearms should be banned. Kinda like Kalifornia.  OBTW, corruption in the Miami-Dade political spectrum, rivals Chicago. That's why I live in the Republic of Broward County, just to the North.

Murder rate rises in Miami-Dade, mayor pushes to ban assault rifles
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MIAMI (WSVN) -- The Miami-Dade County mayor is using the county's statistics to push for one of his crime fighting initiatives.

Robberies in the county in 2008 were down by 4 percent from the year before. Burglaries were also down by 5 percent. However, the homicide rate is up drastically by 23 percent.

Mayor Carlos Alvarez said the increase shows that the ban on assault weapons in the county should be reinstated. "We all see what happens when guns fall into the wrong hands. As I said in my state of the county address last week, I dont think that our founding fathers had AK-47's in mind when they drafted the constitution. There's absolutely no reason I can see having assault weapons out on the streets," said Alvarez.

In January, nine people were shot, and two people were killed, in Liberty City when a gunman opened fire into a crowd with an AK-47.

No arrests have been made in the shooting.

[Hazcat]

He may want to but the fact is he can't.  The State occupies the whole field of gun regulation, period.  Cities, counties can not make law on this subject in Florida.

[Ulmus]

Thanks Haz.  I thought that was the rule here.

[Ping]

I think tar and feathering would constitute cruel and unusual punishment but I think "we" gun lovers could come up with more ingenious ways to harm someone who wants to take away our pride and joy weapons. I don't know about you but I am sick of the term "assault weapons". When are the anti-gun zealots going to realize that they are actually "defense" weapons? Hope this does not start a bandwagon to come after our rifles again.