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backlog just hit 600 with a 2 hour wait. I'll bet that CBI does another record processing today. Just checked and my suppliers have no AR-15s in stock at this time.
Originally Posted by R&S
Being a dad to two young kids and being an elementary school teacher... I cried today for the first time in a long time.
ooops site just went down
No speculation, Adam was the shooter, Ryan is his brother. There are reports that Adam had Ryan's identification.Now there are reports that the "Ryan Lanza" who is suspected of perpetrating this, is alive and well and not involved:
http://gawker.com/5968551/this-ryan-...-up-everything
They're speculating it could be his 20 year old brother Adam...
back up, 651 waiting.
CNN stated the rifle was a model 223 Bushwacker!
Dammit... The grabbers are already calling for legislation before the crime scene has even been fully canvassed:
http://app.e2ma.net/app2/campaigns/a...08084afad4033/
Here's a letter I wrote to them:
Dear Ladd Everitt,
In reference to your statement on today's tragic events, I feel, as a gun owner, veteran, and firearms instructor, that your position of knee-jerk, emotional, ignorance is one that is not conducive to the ongoing debate on how to increase safety and security around our nation. This behavior, as viewed by the gun owning public, is never acceptable. No lawful, respectable gun owners would ever condone actions like those taken this morning. We respect life, especially those of our children. Your organization, along with the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence, has this fallacious belief that somehow, someway, banning guns will solve anything. These uniformed, emotionally charged beliefs held by the anti-gun community fail to take into account that criminals have absolute zero regard for gun bans, gun control legislation, and any other law that may stand in their way. Are you aware that murder, drunk driving, rape, and assault are all illegal? But for some reason these crimes still happen daily. Contrary to whatever strange, fantasy-world beliefs you and your supporters may have, law-abiding gun owners do not commit crimes. Guns themselves do not commit crimes. Laws banning or "controlling" guns do not deter crimes, they only hinder the law-abiding people who either own guns for their protection and/or hunting/shooting sports.
Your line, and I quote: "If we’ve reached a point where our children cannot attend school without fear of being gunned down by a homicidal maniac who has obtained easy access to firearms, then the freedom we cherish as citizens of the world’s greatest democracy is at risk of extinction." This is a typical "knee-jerk" reaction. One incident happens, while tragic, horrible, and inexcusable, millions of other children will be going home safe tonight, and will return to school safely on Monday. It is groups like yours, and the Brady Campaign, that are the greatest risk to our freedom and liberty. Would you ever condone a ban on certain words just because they're hurtful or offensive? Should we limit the 1st Amendment because people don't like what others are saying or because some say things that incite violence and death? Of course not, these are rights not given by our fellow man, or governments, or legislators, these are rights endowed by our creator, whichever creator you wish to believe in- yet another unalienable right. So what is the difference between the first and the second amendment to the United States Constitution? As an American Veteran who swore an oath to protect and defend that constitution, I see no difference between the two. I see an assault on any freedoms expounded upon in our Constitution as morally, legally, and ethically wrong. In fact, any infringement, on a most basic level, is no more justified than the actions of a depraved, deranged, and cowardly murderer who goes and shoots up a school.
I hope this letter will better inform you of my personal position, and what I can say is the same position of many law abiding parents, children, brothers, sisters, and fellow Americans who just happen to own guns. I ask that you refrain from emotionally charged, irrational, reactionary rhetoric that attacks an inanimate object, and instead go after the behavior and criminals that perpetrate these horrific events.
Thank you,
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Sorry if it's so long...
"There is no news in the truth, and no truth in the news."
"The revolution will not be televised... Instead it will be filmed from multiple angles via cell phone cameras, promptly uploaded to YouTube, Tweeted about, and then shared on Facebook, pending a Wi-Fi connection."
You know, I can't help but think "Are you telling me NO ONE had the means or the will to defend themselves and these kids against this maniac??" I know what the politicians will do but we seriously need to look at what the real reason behind this violence is. We've gone far beyond blaming the availability of guns. Why does not one consider that maybe its because the adults fed these kids all kinds of drugs to control their "behaviour problems" and now their efforts are coming to fruition? Maybe its because the younger generation is drinking gallons of energy drinks and its having an effect? NOPE! Must be the guns fault. Im ALMOST frustrated enough to say go ahead and ban what you want so in a few years we can see that it affected NOTHING just like the previous AWB.
How long before this site goes down...
You'd have to shred the constitution for that to happen...
"There is no news in the truth, and no truth in the news."
"The revolution will not be televised... Instead it will be filmed from multiple angles via cell phone cameras, promptly uploaded to YouTube, Tweeted about, and then shared on Facebook, pending a Wi-Fi connection."
Bunch of angry idiots on facebook after this. One said if he had a knife then this wouldn't have happened. I then linked him to the China incident. He shut up.
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