From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 18:44:24 MDT
--- Emlyn O'regan <oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au> wrote:
> Of course not; we never have been. Total safety is illusory.
>
> So the question is "how safe are we"?
>
> How about a poll...
>
> Who on the list personally knows someone affected by terrorism.
> Personal
> acquaintances as maximum distance, no friends of friends please.
>
> More subjective: would you rate yourself now (hopefully based on some
> kind of quasi-empirical guestimate, at least) as more or less
> safe than you were 10 years ago? 20 years ago? What are the major
> threats to your continued existence/lifestyle? How about 10 years
> into the future?
In 1993, gun owners were beeing assassinated and torched in their homes
for exercising their constitutional rights here in the US. Of course I
feel safer today than I did then.
In 1983, less than a dozen states in the US had 'shall issue' concealed
carry permit laws. Today 35 states have such laws or require no permit
at all to do so. Of course I feel safer today than I did then.
The major threats to my continued existence/lifestyle are:
a) liberal Democrats (not all Democrats)
b) statist Republicans (not all Republicans)
c) the two party system
d) the continued lack of liberty present in the rest of the world,
particularly the muslim and communist worlds, which continues to feed
the phobias and fears that give strength to statists of both parties
and the electoral system they hold hostage.
e) continued lack of rationality and intelligence in statist camps that
results in such stupidities as the cancelling of the Terror Futures
Market.
(not necessarily in this order)
Ten and twenty years ago, pilots could not fly armed, and air marshals
were a very minor agency with minimal staffing.
As for ten years from now, if present trends continue, I forsee:
a) shall issue CCW permit laws (or no permit required laws) in at least
43 US states).
b) federal laws mandating that CCW permits issued by one state are
valid in all states. States that refuse to recognise other states CCW
permits lose federal transportation and national guard funding. Other
states may refuse to recognise drivers licenses from non-reciprocal CCW
states, as well as refuse to recognise driverse license suspensions
from non-reciprocal states. This would all be based on the theory that
priviledges (as states claim drivers licenses are) should not be
afforded greater protection and recognition than rights.
c) the so called 'assault weapons ban' will sunset without renewal
d) the so called Gun Ownership Protection Act of 1986 will be reversed.
sale of newly manufactured class III weapons will be legalized to
civilians.
e) the courts will rule that any tax on firearms or ammunition of more
than 10% of the manufacturers recommended retail price is intended not
as a revinue measure but as a means of raising barriers to a citizens
ability to exercise their constitutional rights. As a result the NFA of
1934 will be rescinded.
f) tort reform laws that make it criminally unlawful to sue any
manufacturer of a product for the consequences of its proper use, nor
for the abuse or improper use of such a product by third parties.
g) shooting ranges will be federally protected zones where gun owners
and users can freely shoot without intereference or malfeasance by
others, including state and local governments.
h) harassment of a private citizen engaged in wildlife management will
become a federal crime.
i) Terrorists will be dealthly afraid of setting foot in the US.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
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