Well, you do make moving the goalposts look exhausting. I haven't tried it myself but I think I'll opt for continuing to directly address text instead.

I can't understand it because there is no connection there. You and many others pretend that there is, but that won't make it so.

Because the gun lobby is the primary profiteer of this paranoia. There is no mention of self defense in the Second Amendment, period. You can twist it all you want and harp BS about the intent of people who died over a hundred years before you were born, but the fact of the matter is that there is no mention of self defense in the text that they wrote.

Common sense tells us that the overwhelming majority of all people in this country never, ever, have a need for a gun for self defense. Common sense tells us that more people are killed accidentally by guns every year than are protected by them. Common sense tells us that the Second Amendment does not mention self defense.

We sang about 2/3 of the hymnal, for a rough guess.
The joy is readily available.

No, it would appear that you are the one who wears blinders to the situation. We have 40 hour work weeks because of organized labor. We have worker's compensation for injuries on the job because of organized labor. We have a minimum wage and rights to file grievances because of organized labor. We have occupational safety standards because of organized labor.

You focus only on the things that your political heroes blame on organized labor, regardless of whether or not those things are rooted in reality.

So you wouldn't want someone working for the DMV for 10 years? What about police and fire? And what about disabled people who can't find work in the private sector but can hold reasonable jobs in their local government?

I don't really see what any of this has to do with unionization, though.

A higher turnover in congress I would generally endorse. The problem though is that the overwhelming opinion of the American voter follows the line of "congress is bad, buy my guy is GREAT". So good luck getting traction on and kind of term limit for them.

With you, the best advice is just give up. :-)

I saw Rutland Weekend Television open for the the Apparat Chicks at the Whiskey in '97.

It seems you have given up on the carrot and now are hoping to motivate me with only the stick. Granted, the carrot wasn't that appetizing, but it was better than this.

Well, having just returned from a prayer advance, I can pretty much tell you that it boils down to three things: Messiah, Messiah, and Messiah.

I say that we need to strike the laws that trigger discrimination. Please, by all means: continue to say that is a refusal to address the issue.

Just noticed a couple of headlines here:

"Most Americans Support Government Action On Climate Change"

and

"The NSA Is Viewed Favorably By Most Young People"

Yes, America is quite lost for at least the next two or three generations. Like I've said before, after that there's a slight chance of a generation actually stopping to think about what a shithole America had become.

So the Left's goal is to take us as far Left as they can and they hope past the point of no return, before any generation wakes up. We could argue if we're already past that point (if you engaged in presenting arguments, that is), but if we're not yet, I don't see how, all in all, their plan can possibly fail. (And apparently neither do you.)

Et tu, smitty? I knew the likes of DR and fusta would always be just wasting my time, but I wasn't expecting that from a religious Rightie. (Yes, even one who displays a real soft spot for the wicked.)

Oh well, it's not like I didn't already assume that you've got nothing when it comes to actually backing up your optimistic stance. I certainly can't come up with anything, at least not conceivably in our lifetimes.

Well, for Inkscape we at Slashdot just take a small percentage of the purchase price for every copy shipped; maybe we could work out a similar deal for your product -- what it is? This works best if your product is high-quality open-source software ;)

I'm able to agree on getting the government out of marriage. I can no more accede to the contemporary, diabolical lies about marriage that I can the Satanic falsehood of life beginning at some random point past conception.
God have mercy on the constellation of liars busily attempting to make these fish pedal a bicycle.

Um, no. Look at the context. The 2A was born in the wake of the Revolution, when the States were delegating power to a Federal government that was needful for protecting the States against the likes of King George III, without giving it so much power that it could become as tyrannical as King George III, disarming the populace, as tyrants will.
The Bill of Rights undergirds the notion that the unit of analysis in the document beginning "We the People. . ." is in fact the person.
Why you can't understand that "the security of a free State" is about the absolute right of self defense, and instead want to call it "a product manufactured by the gun lobby" (I do not even own a gun; this is a matter of common sense) is both worrisome and a pretext for some really dodgy decision making.