This was NEVER what the founding fathers intended with the 2nd Amendment.
THIS is not freedom, it is insanity, an insanity that holds the rest of us hostage.
From MSNBC.com :
Gunman who shot at federal buildings pleads guilty
A Virginia man pleads guilty to shooting at several military-related buildings in 2010. NBC's Pete Williams has the video Yonathon Melaku created one of the nights he was out shooting.
The man who shot at the Pentagon in late 2010 and other military related targets in the Washington, D.C. area pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Virginia.
After the plea was entered, prosecutors released a video he made, which shows him in his car, firing shots from a handgun.
Yonathan Melaku, 23, admitted he committed five separate shootings in October and November 2010 -- twice at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, and once each at the Pentagon and at Coast Guard and Marine Corps recruiting offices in Virginia. He fired the shots late at night or early in the morning, using a 9 mm handgun. No one was hurt, but the government says that repairs will cost over $100,000.
On the tape, which Melaku made during the night he shot at the Marine Corps museum for the second time, he can be heard saying: "That's a military building, and that's the building I'm going to be targeting. ... Last time I hit them, they turned off the lights for, like, four or five days."He can be seen waving his gun at the camera. At another point in the tape, he begins firing. The shots can be heard and the muzzle flash from the gun seen.
Melaku also records himself wearing a mask and then later removes the mask, showing his face.
He was arrested last June near Arlington National Cemetery at 1:30 am. A search of his home turned up what investigators said were potential components of a homemade bomb.
dog gone said...
ReplyDelete"THIS is not freedom, it is insanity, an insanity that holds the rest of us hostage."
Thugs are gonna do what thugs are gonna do. If they want guns and can't get guns, they'll make guns. If they can't make guns, they'll make bombs, so thugs will always be armed.
If you leave the elderly alone and let them defend themselves while being attacked by a group of thugs, eventually there will be less thugs to hold you hostage.
Not only thugs, Greg, but some of you legitimate and legally qualified gun owners too. That's why we need tougher controls.
DeleteTo whom are you speaking, Mikeb? I'm not Someguy. He's got a good point, though.
Deleterighto, that was meant for someguy.
Deletesome guy blythely lies:
ReplyDeleteThugs are gonna do what thugs are gonna do.
In point of fact, in those jurisdictions where there are fewer guns, thugs DON'T 'do what they're gonna do the same way.
We're being held hostage by the nuts with guns, and that includes an awful lot of your gun lunatic fellows who buy guns legally, because it is too damned easy for them to do so, or who use a straw buyer, or who get guns from idiots who don't bother to check out the buyer in private transactions because they really don't know or care if the gun they are disposing of is going to be used criminally.
The ONLY way for us to be really free of the gun lunacy is for there to be fewer guns and a broader repudiation of the whole gun culture, which is a spectrum of people who have fetish fantasies about guns and power.
These guns are not making us any more free. They are putting us in danger.
Dog Gone, you're being histrionic. Are you able to leave your house? Are you able to travel to a store, buy groceries, go to a park, etc. without being shot? If so, you're hardly a hostage.
DeleteYou claim that we're in danger. How so? How are you in any specific danger? I'm not referring to a vague suspicion or feeling. I mean, how are you in any direct danger?
Thugs are gonna do what thugs are gonna do.
ReplyDeleteSo, I take it someguy that you don't lock your door? You leave your keys in your cars?
And your wife just can't say no.
In other words, you like to say incredibly idiotic things.
You must take some form of precaution--although I am of the opinion that most gun loons are complete cretins and wouldn't doubt the idiotic thing that you are capable of doing.
But, most intelligent people are aware that prevention is a better course of action that dealing with calamities.
In fact, your excuse for wanting to be armed is that you want to prevent incidents--in an altogether idiotic manner I should add--but prevent it nonetheless.
So, it's better to take intellligent prevetive measures than the idiotic reactive solutions your lot proposes.
I rarely lock my doors, my keys are always in the ignition, and my wife is deceased so she doesn't care one way or the other. My property is secure and it would be an awful lot of dangerous work just to get to my house.
Delete"In fact, your excuse for wanting to be armed is that you want to prevent incidents--in an altogether idiotic manner I should add--but prevent it nonetheless."
You have no idea why I am armed, I've never posted how, when or why I carry.
"So, it's better to take intellligent prevetive measures than the idiotic reactive solutions your lot proposes."
I'm not sure of what reactive solutions you're referring to.
c'mon, tell us the how and why of it, someguy. If you want I'll make it a post.
DeleteWhy would you want to know that? Trying to play the kind of gotcha game that you were complaining about elsewhere?
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