It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
a veritable storm of protests in the form of e-mails, letters and phone calls was being placed to members of Congress, and representatives of the DOD in charge of the military surplus sales.
On Tuesday afternoon, six days after the directive was issued, DOD rescinded the order, announcing it would once again allow the sale of unmutilated military brass to the civilian market. The threat had been averted.
Expecting the new administration to make a move against guns, everyone naturally assumed this was a back-door attempt to limit firearm use in the U.S. by the new administration. After all, remove the bullets, and the guns are useless, right?
Originally posted by sciencenewby
name one point in history where the city streets were safe to walk at night?
Originally posted by xxpigxx
ARMED REVOLUTION POSSIBLE AND NOT SO DIFFICULT
By Bill Bridgewater
The only "newsies" that I have ever met that I didn't believe wasted oxygen by breathing were Dickey Chappell and Bernie Fall, both of whom were killed in Viet Nam because they believed that you couldn't report battles in the field from a bar in Saigon.
It is not easy to admit that a newsie stopped me cold the other day in the middle of one of their silly interviews. He had asked me to enumerate the reasons that I believed to be valid to support the private ownership of firearms.
We did not disagree over personal protection; he even admitted that hunting is legal in every state. But, when I stated that I believed that the founding fathers intended that we be armed against the possibility of our own central government overstepping its bounds, he quite bluntly asked me if I thought that an armed American citizenry had a snowball's chance in hell in an uprising against our own federal government.
www.lizmichael.com...
MOD EDIT: Please do NOT copy and paste entire web pages. Quote 3 paragraphs and link.
[edit on 12-5-2009 by Byrd]
Originally posted by CharlesMartel
Originally posted by xxpigxx
ARMED REVOLUTION POSSIBLE AND NOT SO DIFFICULT
By Bill Bridgewater
The only "newsies" that I have ever met that I didn't believe wasted oxygen by breathing were Dickey Chappell and Bernie Fall, both of whom were killed in Viet Nam because they believed that you couldn't report battles in the field from a bar in Saigon.
It is not easy to admit that a newsie stopped me cold the other day in the middle of one of their silly interviews. He had asked me to enumerate the reasons that I believed to be valid to support the private ownership of firearms.
We did not disagree over personal protection; he even admitted that hunting is legal in every state. But, when I stated that I believed that the founding fathers intended that we be armed against the possibility of our own central government overstepping its bounds, he quite bluntly asked me if I thought that an armed American citizenry had a snowball's chance in hell in an uprising against our own federal government.
www.lizmichael.com...
MOD EDIT: Please do NOT copy and paste entire web pages. Quote 3 paragraphs and link.
[edit on 12-5-2009 by Byrd]
There will be no armed revolution as long as the Government abides by the Constitution and Amendments as ratified. There are enough safety valves in our system that hopefully armed revolution will never be necessary.
Montana, Utah, and Texas have recently passed laws to enforce the 10th Amendment that says that the Federal Government only has the powers explicitly given to it in the Constitution. Now, if the courts and the Government unlawfully say the 10th Amendment is outdated and no longer applies, then we might justifiably have trouble.
Originally posted by nenothtu
Originally posted by sciencenewby
name one point in history where the city streets were safe to walk at night?
20 years ago, in this very city, anyone could walk anywhere, day or night, without fear of the good guys or the bad guys.
At 16:10 this afternoon, in broad daylight, on the other side of town (the 'good' side of town) my wife and daughter were robbed. In broad daylight, during rush hours, in a Waffle House parking lot, next to the interstate. My wife just sold her pistol Tuesday, and was unarmed.
This is what things have come to. Some folks don't think they have to work, just as long as you do. They'll just get what was yours, no problem.
Now, they're calling the house with death threats if we don't drop it.
I bet they're fixing to have a problem.
nenothtu out
Edit: New info. The original post was just after I got off the phone, and details were sketchy.
[edit on 2009/5/15 by nenothtu]