It's the non gun owning liberals who propose this legislation. By definition they know nothing about guns. They never owned one and don't know how they work. This is not flame bait but it truth.

I sure don't give Obama or Bush a pass. They both are cut from the same cloth. We desperately need a third party here in the U.S. One that is middle of the road and is neither (Republican) the American Taliban or the (Democrats) spending my children's and grandchildren's future giving away free Obama phones and free Obama money (no taxes for 47%) to buy votes. Some people work... some people vote.

Nancy said we had to "pass it to find out what was in it". When you are a jillionaire insider trader, like her, you don't care what it says. You can buy your own hospital if you don't like ObamaCare.

The only thing to understand before hand is limiting "Mission Creep". There have to be rules in place before hand or the technology will, without a doubt, be misused for evil.

Or when someone records their actions with a camera. This is what bothers me. If the cops can monitor our every move the reciprocal should be true also. Why do they resist being photographed?

That has become the standard government reaction to anything that happens... ban it. A fan, a five pound bag of flour and a match can blow a house up. As soon as some idiot does it you will need a Federal License to buy a pound of flour.

Sorry, but you haven't looked at the tax rolls lately. Remember the 47% who don't pay taxes. Those are the people mopping floors. I am the one of the middle class people still paying income taxes and, in my opinion, that's why the country is going broke. Everyone who earns money should be paying their fair share to support this spendthrift government. Even if it's just $20.00 a year. Everyone who votes, should have a 'dog in the race'.

I agree with your comment 100 %. The things my generation did when we were her age would have seriously depleted the population gene pool, IF, the authorities had deemed them as criminal. In the 50s we had true freedom and most of us survived it.

It's amazing they weren't arrested and tagged for the rest of their lives with felony records. That seems to be the present day, "American Way", destroy as many lives as possible and make sure they never succeed at life.

That's the problem. The Lawmakers seem to feel that passing laws will accomplish what they want. They never seem to take into account that criminals, who by definition, are 'law breakers' will ignore laws. Therefore the laws they create only really effect law abiding citizens. I swear that the Senators (American House of Lords) believe they are so powerful that they could pass a law to outlaw tornadoes and expect that tornadoes would disappear as soon as the President signed it into law. For instance, correct me if I'm wrong, I believe it is already illegal to kill people with bombs made from pressure cookers. However I expect Congress to pass a law either outlawing pressure cookers or requiring that all people who purchase pressure cookers first pass a background check. Such is the state of knee jerk legislation in the U.S.

I'm in my 70s. When my generation dies (soon), there will be no one left who really know the wonderful freedoms we experienced in this country when I was young. The problem with our dying freedoms are two fold, as I see it. Too damned many people on this earth. We have become a virus and will eventually destroy ourselves by sheer numbers. Second is that we have allowed companies to grow way, way, too large. We used to have anti trust laws which prevented one company from taking over. Now we have huge banks that are allowed to buy up all their competition except the last one. They then become too large to fail and the government protects them. When I was young banks thanked you for letting them use your money. Now they try to find ways to screw you out of it. I still have a Morgan silver dollar a bank gave me when I opened a savings account with a dollar. Net cost to me $0.00. We have shitty cell phone providers and banks who rape us because there is no competition. Capitalism works when there is competition. The disregard for anti trust has led us into these times where the corporations have become so powerful that they can, and do, buy and own our government. You and I are useful to the politicians only as a means to get into office. After that we are no longer important to them and they immediately start selling their souls to the corporations who will give them suitcases of money. Look at all the politicians who have been in government for a decade or more, all of them are wealthy. Every politician should serve two terms. One in office and one in prison. Crooks 95% of them. We are able to influence them with mass protests only because they want to retain that golden seat in government and they are afraid that if they defy too many of us they will be returned to the status of ordinary citizen... like us.

That was Charles Keating, who used his savings and loan company, Lincoln Savings as his personal piggy bank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Keating

You are so right. When I was young we did have gun safety taught in school. I brought a 22 rifle to school when I was in High School to take a NRA safety course. I traveled by city bus with the gun and this took place in Rochester N.Y. That was before the liberals got ahold of the education system.

First, I am in no way affiliated with this company. That said, I bought a Digitone 10 call blocker. a double click on the block button and the call blocker hangs up on all calls from that number henceforth. As a plus you can program it to block entire area codes, like 800, 900,& 888. Downside, it only has memory for 80 numbers. I now have two of them. I suppose I could clear all the political numbers from the first one but there is another election next year. Amazon sells a Chinese call blocker that will block 1500 numbers but not area codes. I have one of those too and it works OK.

This remark is so very true. I'm so tired of having to choose political candidates based on one of two bases, welfare state or Christian Taliban. I wish I had a real choice that didn't include either.