Ski and BG,What the kids do becomes beyond our contol by age of drivers license... WELL REGULATED means able to hit what you aim at.I'm a teacher, parent of a 29 year old (female) and a realistic NRA Life Member.
My next problem is her issue with guns. Though I know many on this website would disagree, I believe tighter gun laws are needed. Guns are falling into the wrong hands each and every day. When I was a kid, my parents didn't have to worry about my siblings and I heading off to school. School was a safe zone. Not now. No matter how secure you may think your school system is, there is some kid (or an adult for that matter) out there who's not playing with a full deck and unfortunately has access to guns. The gun control/law issue has always been a sore spot with me for those who argue against it not only for the above reason but I've been on the wrong end of a gun in a bank robbery. It's a very surreal feeling to look at a gun pointed at you and realize that a) you have absolutely no control over this one moment in your life and b) will this hurt and will I live?
Not as much tighter laws but tighter enforcement of the ones we have on the books. While I've not been on the wrong end of a gun nor expect to be I do agree that those not playing with a full deck should be pre-empted gun ownership.I apologize if my attempt at humor (bitter gun owner sign) was offensive; I am a life-long gun owner and shooter and expect my gov't (and elected officials, sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution) to protect my 2nd Amendment Rights along with all the others.
There has never been a successful Marxist / Communist revolution in an industrialized country (to date)… only agriculturally based societies; the redistribution of the land is the hook. Too bad it is that the land is taken from the rich and given to the new gov't… not the peasants as promised.
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-Barth?lemy in French) was a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre took place six days after the wedding of the king's sister to the Protestant Henry III of Navarre. This was an occasion for which many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris. Events began two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, a Huguenot military leader. Starting on 24 August 1572 (the feast of Bartholomew the Apostle) with the murder of Coligny, the massacres spread throughout Paris, and later to other cities and the countryside, lasting for several months. The exact number of fatalities is not known, but it has been estimated that over 2,000 Huguenots were killed in Paris and over 3,000 in the French provinces.[1] Though by no means unique, “it was the worst of the century's religious massacres.” [2] The massacres marked a turning-point in the French Wars of Religion. The Huguenot political movement was crippled by the loss of many of its prominent aristocratic leaders, and those who remained were increasingly radicalized.From my source cited in previous post....
That is a mixed blessing; not having them out there somewhere to chase will make it easier for those that dispute that the Holocaust happened. Both the survivors of the death camps and the GI's that liberated them are going away too.
Indeed and all too common, that is painting the modern US into the Roman corner. History doesn't really repeat but often similar situations surface and being humans we are apt to react in a manner not unlike the humans in the past... that is unless we see an overpowering reason to take a different course. I doubt Obama would launch a pogrom against the Jews, or anyone else, but if the nation did stand up against something he and the Dems push on the country... well who knows what the future holds, eh?
Food was being exported out of Ireland to make money
Yeah, to make money for the British, not the Irish. The Irish were basically British serfs. Their farms were no longer their own, Britain claimed ownership and stole them.
The production of the Irish farmers was rent on the small area they got to live and grow potatoes for their own use. If they had consumed what they grew for the landlord they would have been evicted....
But, in reality, the operations and the motives in both cases were, and are, something quite different ? namely, the persecution and terrorism of the unarmed population, and the attempt by economic destruction, famine, and violence, to `make an appropriate hell' in Ireland, in the hope of breaking up the organised National Government and undermining the loyalty of the people.
Michael Collins, A Path to Freedom, pg. 15LinkNow this could be taken with a grain of salt because it did come from the Irish Revolutionary leader himself who wrote these words trying to stir up Irish nationalism, but I seriously doubt Collins would make false accusations like this.
The Great Famine is worth the read and difinitive on the subject (IMHO).