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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Originally posted by kbscobravert View PostI may take you up on that minus beer since I will have to work afterwards. I haven't reloaded ammo in 20 years and need to start again."When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Originally posted by DOHCTR View PostI do not fear an international treaty, nor do I foresee a legitimate outside threat to our ability to defend ourselves with firearms.
Real threats to our current way of life exist outside of our ability to own firearms. I am much more concerned about the dollar being ditched as the world reserve currency for example. That will fuck most people over more than any legislation or treaty pertaining to guns.
I'm not going to argue that the UN initiative will strip our rights or freedoms but it is one more step towards it. I'm sure if you'd asked them in '35 do you see any problem with registration and taxation on NFA they'd argued just as you do. but then they could mail order a firearm from sears. This country still has more firearm rights than most and you can credit that to the due diligence of groups like the JPFO, NRA, TSRA and the paranoia of the concerned citizenry Just sayin
Also food for thought if we were to sign and ratify a treaty with the UN any rebellion by the citizenry would be met by UN troops not just US troops in all possibility "A billion screaming chinamen" might trump your "wolverines"Last edited by bulldog896; 07-18-2012, 04:54 PM.
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Originally posted by bulldog896 View PostAsk em in Australia how that's working out for them. Or England, Japan, ect.
None of them have a second amendment like ours, and for the record Japan has the lowest murder rate in the world and almost no firearms. Obviously not having any guns (for all intents and purposes) works pretty well for them.Originally posted by lincolnboyAfter watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.
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Originally posted by DOHCTR View PostAsk them what?
None of them have a second amendment like ours, and for the record Japan has the lowest murder rate in the world and almost no firearms. Obviously not having any guns (for all intents and purposes) works pretty well for them.
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Originally posted by CJ View PostI'll be doing 5,000rds in a few days, free beer if anyone is interested in helping.
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Originally posted by DOHCTR View PostAsk them what?
None of them have a second amendment like ours, and for the record Japan has the lowest murder rate in the world and almost no firearms. Obviously not having any guns (for all intents and purposes) works pretty well for them.
as for the rest no they did not have a second amendment but my point is these were all countries (even Japan) that had easy firearms laws that were slowly chipped away at till they were done away with
Much like the way we put a TSA in charge to confiscate every nail file and small bottle of shampoo at the airport in the name of airline safety
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Originally posted by bulldog896 View PostJapans murder rate has more to do with their educational system and society's lack of tolerance for crime than it does lack of firearms
as for the rest no they did not have a second amendment but my point is these were all countries (even Japan) that had easy firearms laws that were slowly chipped away at till they were done away with
Much like the way we put a TSA in charge to confiscate every nail file and small bottle of shampoo at the airport in the name of airline safetyZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh
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Originally posted by bulldog896 View PostJapans murder rate has more to do with their educational system and society's lack of tolerance for crime than it does lack of firearms
as for the rest no they did not have a second amendment but my point is these were all countries (even Japan) that had easy firearms laws that were slowly chipped away at till they were done away with
Much like the way we put a TSA in charge to confiscate every nail file and small bottle of shampoo at the airport in the name of airline safetyOriginally posted by lincolnboyAfter watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.
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Originally posted by DOHCTR View PostEvery point and statement you have made is wrong (aside from perhaps the importance of Japanese virtues and tradition playing a part). I have some history books you can borrow though.
which one's? Australia never had legal firearms ownership? Europe either? The TSA does not confiscate shampoo????
Tell ya what lets look at this country since it's the one in question
NFA of 34 (as a side note brought about because of prohibition gangsters)
GCA of 68 stops the mail order of firearms closes a lot of small companies due to restrictions (saturday night special laws) next major was the
86 FOPA which stopped felons from owning guns (not a bad thing) but also put a moratorium of the addition of Auto weapons to the NFA registry this also saw an importation ban on "non-sporting" arms such as H&K 91, FAL, Galil ect....
'93 brought Brady act which again is not a bad thing were it properly funded and initially asked for a "cooling off period" to stop "crimes of passion"
94 saw the Assault weapon ban which rightly went away in 04 though some states have enacted their own versions of it to keep it around
If these are not examples (some good some bad) of the removal of your rights to firearms ownership then I cannot help you. Yes the supreme court has somewhat upheld the second but to what cost. 76 DC banned handgun ownership Heller had to fight and spend how many tens of thousands of his, the NRA's, and contribution money to get back a right that is given under the secondLast edited by bulldog896; 07-20-2012, 11:32 AM.
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Originally posted by bulldog896 View Postreally
which one's?Originally posted by bulldog896 View Post
as for the rest no they did not have a second amendment but my point is these were all countries (even Japan) that had easy firearms laws that were slowly chipped away
Originally posted by bulldog896 View PostAsk em in Australia how that's working out for them.
Originally posted by bulldog896 View Post
I'm not going to argue that the UN initiative will strip our rights or freedoms but it is one more step towards it. I'm sure if you'd asked them in '35 do you see any problem with registration and taxation on NFA they'd argued just as you do.
Regardless, my point is that the UN treaty if signed will have no bearing on our right to own firearms. It would literally take an act of congress to restrict certain firearms, and it would take an additional supreme court ruling to overturn Heller.
I fear our lawmakers when it comes to restricting gun ownership, not a treaty of nations.Originally posted by lincolnboyAfter watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.
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Originally posted by DOHCTR View PostNo. Post war all guns were confiscated almost instantaneously. There was no "chipping away". Even before the war guns were not prevalent in Japan in the slightest. The island nation was incredibly isolationist and only acquired Tanegashimas from the Portuguese prior to the forced opening of the country in the 1850's by the great Commodore Perry.
Originally posted by DOHCTR View PostThey really don't care.
Originally posted by DOHCTR View PostThere were many local and state laws against fully automatic firearms prior to 1934. And need I remind you that the '34 law did not ban anything, but it did make certain firearms obtainable only by members of the gentry. It was Reagan who signed the law that banned machine guns (and the NRA told him to do so).
Originally posted by DOHCTR View PostRegardless, my point is that the UN treaty if signed will have no bearing on our right to own firearms. It would literally take an act of congress to restrict certain firearms, and it would take an additional supreme court ruling to overturn Heller.
I fear our lawmakers when it comes to restricting gun ownership, not a treaty of nations.
You may not fear a treaty but then I remember in buying every glock and 10/22 mag I could find in 94 while others sat back saying "they will never get that assault weapon ban passed" I made a couple grand selling $125 "pre ban" mags not a year later
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