Don't you be talkin bad about the NRA!! They've helped me form my well regulated militia for years! All those pamphlets, internet guides, public regulated militia outreach programs.......They're really the only thing keeping the 2nd amendment alive in this country.Agreed. The only thing that is as effective as sex for marketing purposes is fear. And the NRA does a great job of using it to their advantage.
No, obviously it is not. But you dont find it interesting, ironic or sickening that the guy who says "You can take my assault rifle over my dead body!" weaseled out of his big chance to carry and use one? And get paid for it? If I have to explain the irony behind the chicken hawk mentality you are beyond help...and your point is? is being in the military some sort of requirement for his position?
Nice of him to admit greater sword ownership means more sword violence.
Spoken like a man who's never running for office again.
don't bet on itSpoken like a man who's never running for office again.
He ominously added: “The Violence of action will be HIGH. I am the reason TAC [tactical] alert was established. I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty. ISR [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] is my strength and your weakness. You will now live the life of the prey.”
Dorner adds that he owns a high powered Barrett .50-caliber guns and SA-7 Manpads, a portable anti-aircraft weapon. The search is still underway.
Thats what the native Americans said...and if you have a problem with the way our "cowboy ways" then by all means, immigrate to another country.
...just before the government confiscated their weapons and massacred them at Wounded KneeThats what the native Americans said...
Another good freedom loving american on teh loose.
Whos goverment? Of what?...just before the government confiscated their weapons and massacred them at Wounded Knee
The US government of, uh, the United States.Whos goverment? Of what?
do you think the natives recognized the US government as their government?The US government of, uh, the United States.
The only difference between patriotism and treason is timing.tl:dr - It's a fine line between patriot and terrorist.
Ooh you must mean these states?The US government of, uh, the United States.
Fun facts:Ooh you must mean these states?
That there is a lot of bullet holes for a case of mistaken identity.
They comin' to take yer roxx n' stixx!...just before the government confiscated their weapons and massacred them at Wounded Knee
Not enough good guys with guns?That there is a lot of bullet holes for a case of mistaken identity.
ALL Japanese brand small pickups should be armed...ALWAYS.Not enough good guys with guns?
My guess is too many guys with guns that are so ****ing terrified that they are shooting at anything that moves.Not enough good guys with guns?
Tight group too.That there is a lot of bullet holes for a case of mistaken identity.
When newspapers are outlawed, only outlaws will have newspapers.Or two women driving a nissan tacoma.
You know what all these assholes had in common? Easy access to guns. Quit trying to dig under the elephant in the room searching to find a speck of something else that may have caused it.Gun nut BS
More Americans have died just since 1960 from gun incidents suicides, accidents, and homicides than died in every war in U.S. history. The deadliest war the U.S. has ever had is the war we waged against ourselves.
Well, if you were christ, you could just snap your fingers and fix everything!The human race is doomed to implode, caused by the weight of its own hubris. I told a Christian friend of mine that if I were the Christ, there is no way I would return to this ****ed up mess of a planet and this species. I would say "Look, Dad, remember how they treated me last time? It hasnt got any better, lets just start anew..."
One of NRA's real legacies is one of the most counterproductive examples of corporate welfare. This is not an industry we should be competing with China on but thanks to the NRA, at the taxpayer's expense, we are...Don't you be talkin bad about the NRA!! They've helped me form my well regulated militia for years! All those pamphlets, internet guides, public regulated militia outreach programs.......They're really the only thing keeping the 2nd amendment alive in this country.
The number of people serving time in state or federal prisons increased 100 percent between 1990 and 2005. But California and Texas, the two states where the NRA had expended the most capital, were the most striking examples. The Golden State's three-strikes law differed from most of the other 29 in that it applied to an exceedingly broad definition of what amounted to a "strike." Under its guidelines, nonviolent crimes—including, in one famous case, the filching of a slice of pizza—were enough to put someone behind bars for life.
"There's actual real-life academics who have studied this stuff, and there's actually no evidence whatsoever it's had an impact," says Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, a criminal justice nonprofit.
But mandatory life sentences ensure that thousands of inmates will grow old behind bars, which is rather expensive. Senior-citizen inmates cost the state about twice as much per year (approximately $68,000) than their younger counterparts, due to health care expenses—even as those inmates become increasingly less likely to commit crimes should they be released.
The prisons became simultaneously more crowded and more expensive to maintain. Writing for the majority in 2011, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy noted that inmates in California were forced to live in "telephone-booth-sized cages without toilets," and often went more than a year without receiving medical attention. The state's corrections system, Kennedy argued, was "incompatible with the concept of human dignity and has no place in civilized society."
The consequence of California's reforms is that Texas now leads the nation in incarceration, with 154,000 people behind bars—more prisoners per capita than all but three countries. The construction boom addressed what criminal-justice watchdogs considered to be a serious problem: Violent felons were being released before they were even eligible for parole because there simply wasn't any room. But CrimeStrike and its allies did nothing to curb the underlying problem—a sentencing system that locked people up for the smallest of crimes, kept them there for a while, and openly mocked efforts to keep them from coming back.
All that's left of the NRA's prison-building arm 20 years later is a television show by the same name. Hosted by LaPierre, Crime Strike features weekly reenactments of gun owners defending their turf, with the mantra: "Take aim and fight back." But the program's legacy lives on in concrete ways.
Prisons "cost $3.3 billion a year in Texas alone," Deitch says. "Around the country it adds up to about $52 billion a year. It's just a phenomenal cost, and what social cost is this causing?"
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