We have our mags and select guns because Bush let the assault weapons ban expire.

I did not vote for Obama, but I am praying for him. I did buy a gun last week, but it was because I am afraid that the bikers will take away my runner’s only path.

biker’s beware…

If the issue is free speech, I am for it. There was a time when all one had to fear by offensive speech was a punch in the mouth by the offended party. Today the entire force of government can descend on the poor slob who dares to speak his mind.

That is not freedom or our tradition. I don’t like what these folk are saying, but they have a 200 year tradition of freedom supporting their right to say it.

Let’s all not forget six years of the Bubba’s Administration was controlled by a REPUBLICAN CONGRESS!! And we have had the Constitution of this great country trampled on by the NEO-CONS!

I just find it hard to believe that these people were ready to have another 4 years of Bush.
Where oh where has the intelligence of this country gone.
We needed a change. Now lets get behind him and see if its not to late to turn this country around.

I grew up in this state. I know how bigoted it can be. One of my clearest memories was my grandfather criticizing my choice of college as being a haven for niggers, wops, chinks, and races of variety of other colors. He was talking about Idaho State University in Pocatello. And, yes, it was (is?) the most racially, and internationally, diverse of Idaho’s universities (but still very very white by non-Idaho standards).

I learned that color does make a difference. The color is grey. The color of brain tissue.

20 years of Reagan/Bush policies have this country drowning in a sea of ink colored red.

Obama’s grey matter seems much more functional than his opponents.

Sure there are sick twisted ignorant people everywhere, BUT WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF THEM IN IDAHO? When I travel and say I’m from Idaho, people look at me as if I said I was from Mars. It gets tiring.

Iaccus, for what it is worth I managed to purchase a Smith and Wesson Model 915 with three 15 round magazines during the ban at a local gun dealer legally. The ban did very little to stem the sale of anything if you really wanted to find something you desired to purchase.

By the way, it does a great job of puching holes in paper but at a significant cost for each hole.

I always get a good belly laugh when I think of people running out and buying pistols and assault rifles to protect themselves from the feds. The money would be better spent on LSD. But then, these guys don’t need drugs to hallucinate.

The Freemen up in Montana, Weaver on Ruby Ridge, and the Davidians in Waco, had plenty of pistols and rifles. Lot of good it did them.

If you are serious about manning a militia with half a chance of success, you need to be stocking up on RPGs Strellas, some tanks and a few tons of C4. When Puff circles your enclave, or when an Apache triggers a laser guided missile at your garage, your assault rifles won’t count for diddley.

“I always get a good belly laugh when I think of people running out and buying pistols and assault rifles to protect themselves from the feds.”

You miss the point. I was in LA right after the Rodney King Riots. People were not buying guns to overthrow the government or to take on the feds BUT to protect themselves and their property when those FEDS refused to for PC reasons or simple ineptness. Look at New Orleans and Katrina for a perfect example.

People want guns in unstable times because they do not trust government to protect them, a VERY wise opinion.

Cyclops-

I resent the implication that New York City has a meager 3 to 4 Million Wackos!

Brooklyn and Staten Island alone are residence to at least 4 Million whom are Coo-Coo-For-Cocoa-Puffs!

And… Uh… Naznarreb. WTF?!?

Y’all seem to forget that there are other reasons to have guns besides to shoot feds or suchlike.

As you mention, Idahoans are pretty spread out across a large area. If you live 50 (or even 15) miles out of town and hear someone breaking into your house, 911 ain’t gonna get anybody out there in time to save your, uh, whatever.

But another reason is simply the economy: As jobs (and homes and cars and IRAs and 401-K’s) disappear, people worry about how to continue some of their habits, such as eating.

Where I live, I see several deer, small rabbits, lots of quail and other assorted critters almost every day. While I dislike killing, and try to obey laws, if I get hungry enough, some of those critters are going to become dinner. Does that make me a conservative?

And, yes, I voted for Obama. Does that make me a liberal?

Yep, I believe in equal rights for all people — black, white, brown, yellow, in between, straight, gay, mixed … heck, even women! (How’s that for defying Idaho tradition?) Does that make me a liberal?

I believe the federal government should be kept as small as practicable, and should do its job, which the Constitution delineates and then says everything else is up to the states. Does that make me a conservative?

I believe the government should stay out of people’s bedrooms and pregnant women’s bodies — a definite conservative stance that so-called conservatives fight against and so-called liberals support.

And, to confuse the issue further, I believe in supporting all 10 of the Bill of Rights amendements, rather than just the First Amendment like the so-called liberals or just the Second Amendment like the so-called conservatives.

So, I have guns and support free speech. Where the heck does that leave me?

Oh, I know: in some strange place where a person thinks for himself and makes his own decisions, rather than just accepting whatever someone with an R or a D printed after his or her name says to think and decide.

How un-American of me!!!

“AN UPSIDE DOWN FLAG IS APPROPRIATE TODAY. The constitution is being challenged. Unless the Supreme Court properly and professionally settles the Berg Suit, the Constitution is not rock solid. I also have my flag at half mast and upside down. The December deadline in the Supreme Court is important to Americans.

It is well established that yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater is not protected speech.

Calling for the assassination or hanging of the president, or displaying the flag upside down as a “political statement” are not protected speech, either. And, in fact those actions are treason.

How bout next time we turn our country over to constitutional scholars like Ponder.
Ladies, hide your shoes.

“EDITOR NOTE– We edited out a link to a site soliciting money for OBAMA CRIMES.”

Unless the internet ate my post your also ‘edited out’ my entire well reasoned and respectful post on the issue….

Obama would be well served by producing the proper documents or this issue WILL linger like the “Bush AWOL’ canard for years. Unlike the Bush lie, Obama can stop the issue cold by simply producing a single document.

It is in the countries interest to stop this argument cold now and not let it linger.