It was a clever way to find guns. They would know the logical locations of weapons, and what time the homeowners came home from work. Please remove the stickers to avoid becoming a burglary victim.

Not to go off topic, but there is something to the “greatest generation” label. Something we’ve really lost in America.

I wish we could just out law guns all together…then we could be more like DC.

Ummm, BTW…where does DC rank in the US as far as gun related homicides?

Ted Nugent summed it up the best. Out lawing guns in DC is like when a farmer has issues with coyotes sneaking into their barns and killing their cats….they simply declaw the cats.

The CMP has a very limited number of M1 Garands available and a number of M1 Carbines. Sadly 1903 Springfields and 1917s are gone.

http://www.odcmp.com/Services/Rifles/index.htm

Your Virginia Concealed Handgun Permit and a current membership in the VCDL are all you need to satisfy the training and club membership requirements. (Military or ex-Military need neither.)

…and I’d love to have the gun you had in WW2.

Thanks for your service.

Sadly, if we knew the day we’d need one I think we’d all decide to either stay home or bring friends (with rifles).

As I pointed out above it’s a matter of insurance and risk mitigation.

Nobody desires to an opportunity to use their fire extinguisher, nor does having one available for use mean that you expect to need it. (I’ve got 4 in the house and one in each car though because when I *need* one I’d better have one.)

The world we live in today is very different from the one you grew up in. Liberal judges put criminals back out on the street with little or no punishment. The state mental health system closed the mental asylums in the 60s and 70s resulting in a large number of dangerous folks left to their own devices. We’ve repeated the mistakes of Prohibition in our handling of the “War on Drugs” which has given power to gangs. Various misguided gun laws, originating in fears of the 1960s civil rights movement, and the 2 Kennedy assassinations have made gun ownership more onerous for the law abiding citizen, which only emboldens criminals. And our immigration policies and weak defense of the border, not to mention the amnesties of 1968 and 1986, have encouraged unlawful entry into our country by opportunists and criminals from a culture with little respect for the rule of law.

Thankfully trends in the late 80s, fueled by better communication technology in the 90s, have brought about sweeping changes in most states that permit citizens to carry handguns for self defense.

I hope to be able to reach your age with my firearms being used against nothing more sinister than paper targets at the range.

Actually, it’s not from the NRA…

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”
- Robert A. Heinlein

http://wc.arizona.edu/~wildcat/papers/89/104/03_1_m.html

“Don B. Kates Jr., at the St. Louis University School of Law, found that while police were successful in shooting or driving off criminals 68 percent of the time, private citizens did so 83 percent of the time. Moreover, 11 percent of the individuals involved in police shootings were later found to be innocents mistaken for criminals, while only 2 percent of those in civilian shootings were so misidentified. Private citizens in urban areas encounter and kill up to three times as many criminals as law enforcement personnel (”Gun Control and the Subway Class,” Wall Street Journal, Jan. 10, 1985.) The reasons are simple: Private citizens who carry firearms are far more likely to know who the “good guys” and the “bad guys” are, since they have generally witnessed the situation from the beginning. Police, called to the scene well after trouble has started, don’t have that advantage.”

The number of concealed carry states doesn’t sway me much. Currently, there’s a stigma against carrying guns, so there’s not gobs of people doing it. I don’t have a fundamental problem with the current situation of concealed carry laws that are exercised by rather a small number of folks. What I do have a problem with would be if a large proportion of my fellow citizens suddenly started packing. I would not want to live in such a country. Living someplace where you don’t HAVE to be armed, seems to me to be a good thing. “An armed society,” the NRA tells us, “is a polite society.” But I’m not sure that politeness that arises out of fear that angering your fellow man might result in you getting a cap popped in your ass in necessarily the greatest sort of politeness.

I hesitate to post a story from the New York times, but here it is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/weekinreview/09baker.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

The fact is that the % of shootings where a “bad shoot” takes place is lower for private citizens than it is for the police.

Likely the reason is that the police arrive at the scene after the fact and must make quick decisions regarding who is the “bad guy”. Armed citizens face fewer quandaries as most of the situations they respond to are based on the fear for their life in a situation where the attacker is easy to identify.

An armed citizen has every incentive to engage in training and to obtain an understanding of the law as it pertains to use of deadly force as the cost of failure is quite high and they lack the immunity granted to agents of the state, who will likely face nothing more than disciplinary action in the event of a wrong decision made in good faith.

In short, you’re making a “blood in the streets” argument that has been disproven 39 times (at least, that number being the number of “shall issue” states.)

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry

Pay attention to the time lapse image showing the adoption of “shall issue” by the various states.

I can’t trust my fellow citizens to drive properly, why on earth would I trust them with guns?

You may all now return to your well-regulated militias.