Comments on: Fewer Guns, More Crime

By: Johnson

Johnson — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:49:02 +0000

Cool.

By: es_la_ley

es_la_ley — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:59:41 +0000

# Johnson said on 18 Dec 2008 at 11:06 am:

Would it be considered entrapment…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe ‘entrapment’ only applies to the government.

By: es_la_ley

es_la_ley — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:55:52 +0000

# Johnson said on 18 Dec 2008 at 11:06 am:

Greg-
Would it be considered entrapment if I put that sign on my door? I guess I could hide it, once the smoke cleared….

I like this sign….

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/119846362_f103007a64.jpg

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:07:10 +0000

I had my cwp returned by the clerks office because i left the “distinguishing marks, tatoos, scars” part blank since I don’t have any of those. I’m mailing it back today with “none” written in, I’m sure they will find another technicality.

By: Wolverine

Wolverine — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:39:03 +0000

Non-Euroweenie —

Interesting comment about your experience at Oxford. The last time I was there was in 1975, and I don’t remember seeing walls like that. Is this something new specifically in response to the crime increase after passage of the anti-gun law?

I have seen that sort of protective measure all over Africa for many decades, including the former British, French, and Belgian colonies. Only it wasn’t ground glass. It was actually very nasty shards of broken glass mixed in with and poking upward from the cement tops of the walls. It worked pretty well, although not well enough to avoid having to hire a night watchman to patrol your compound. Now I’m wondering if the idea used in Africa came from Brit practices at home or whether the Brits have adopted an idea from their “African experience.”

By: Johnson

Johnson — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:06:30 +0000

Greg-

Would it be considered entrapment if I put that sign on my door? I guess I could hide it, once the smoke cleared….

By: Greg L

Greg L — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:06:16 +0000

From a friend…

By: Citizen12

Citizen12 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:31:15 +0000

Johnson,
Agree with you 100%. It seems a truly bad hand has been delta to many in the creation and execution of “Bush’s Brainchild”, Homeland Security. With many good people trying to do their job right, all the while being undermined by budget issues, performance restraints and blatant political interference and manipulation, it is no wonder why moral and turnover are in their present state.
Citizens should be more appreciative of the dedication of all our civil servants, Federal, State and Local, who see their work as more than a just a paycheck, and make a positive contribution to our lives every day.

By: Johnson

Johnson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:33:27 +0000

P.S.

Merry Christmas to all and Happy Holidays to the Liberal posters. Let us pray that 2009 brings us peace and prosperity.

By: Johnson

Johnson — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:30:23 +0000

Thank you, Citizen 12, for the correction on the UAW’s hourly wage. I think that we can all agree that some labor unions have taken things way too far. I belong to one of the largest Federal worker unions. We can’t strike, nor would we. Our union protects us from management abuses and allows us to negotiate working hours, conditions and assignments. The Bush administration is particularly abusive to Federal labor representation and has just signed an executive order that basically bans them. Illegal? Not really. Just another slap in the face for the folks who protect all of us. Homeland Security ranked second to last in the last two biannual surveys of federal employee job ratings. No morale at all. One particular agency is enjoying a 50% turnover rate nationally. The Bush administration has lost virtually every grievance, mediation and lawsuit it has defended from it’s own employees, particularly the attempt to change the GS scale to pay-for-performance, which is failing miserably where it was implemented because the affected employees had no say in the matter.
Anon says it all when (s)he won’t even post a name. Aren’t you proud of your opinion? The rest of your reply is name-calling and whining. Seems like that’s all you have left after facing logic and common sense.

Apologies to all who are offended.

By: Rocky

Rocky — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:04:48 +0000

During WWII, the NRA sent 120,000 firearms to the U. K. that
had been donated by its members. Its seems they didnt have
nearly enough personal firearms to arm its citizens for a land
invasion by the Germans. Here is the full story:

(scroll down to WWII)

http://www.nraila.org/media/misc/lostrts.html

I hope they (collectively) wise up someday.

By: Chicko

Chicko — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:52:47 +0000

here’s another one of those sicko illegals:

http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/crime/article/man_charged_with_raping_disabled_woman/26343/

wanna bet this doesnt show up on the harpies website?

we’re batting a 1000 this season with illegal immigrants raping and killing our citizens.

By: citizenofmanassas

citizenofmanassas — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:36:41 +0000

Anon,

If it weren’t for conservatives, there would be no America.

Liberals love to say they support freedom of speech and ideas and are “open minded” care to explain why liberals do not practice what they preach? Why is it that colleges are not open to conservative ideas and speakers? Care to explaIf it weren’t for conservatives, there would be no America.

Liberals love to say they support freedom of speech and ideas and are “open minded” care to explain why liberals do not practice what they preach? Why is it that colleges are not open to conservative ideas and speakers? Care to explain why the most liberal Governments are some of the most repressive and restrictive?

Care to explain why people move to conservative areas and leave liberal areas?

The libs will screw things up and you will then see the GOP voted back in. The libs have shown in the last two years running Congress they are not ready to lead.

Harry, if the students train and take safety classes, I see no problems with them having guns on campus.

By: Love the USA

Love the USA — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:07:46 +0000

Billy Bob, it’s on line now.
http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/crime/article/manassas_man_arrested_in_distributing_child_pornography/26337/

By: cargosquid

cargosquid — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:26:31 +0000

If you want to see the future of a liberal USA dominated by the Democratic Party, look to England and the PC nanny state that they have developed. One doesn’t need to learn from history. Just look at England and see America’s possible future.

By: Non-Euroweenie

Non-Euroweenie — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:27:19 +0000

I was in a study abroad program at Oxford. Our college had ground glass mixed in the mortar at the top of its old stone wall and the gates were locked a half hour after the pubs closed. I am not a big fan of walling myself in to hide from the bad people “out there.” It was a bit of a culture shock.

At the time, there was a crazy wandering around a couple towns at night, assaulting people, sometimes at gunpoint. I don’t think he’d have done so well in the American countryside. He went pretty much unchallenged in England.

I had a couple people in pubs (some of them French, which totally galled - or should I say “gauled?” - me) opine that Americans seem too rough around the edges, that we tend to run around with ‘coonskin caps and guns too much. As I told them, colonists are almost always tougher and edgier than the people they broke off from. Much as some people may wish it upon us, we Americans are not euroweenies and we cannot be held to euroweenie standards. We don’t run like a Frenchman from a popgun.

I don’t agree with the definition of “conservative” above. A “conservative” seeks to preserve rights and liberties. I admit we have some kooks (so do liberals), but many good movements that some scholars would incorrectly term as liberals, were actually born out conservative philosophy. Like the civil rights movement.

By: Billy Bob

Billy Bob — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:49:23 +0000

Off topic, so excuse me for hi-jacking this thread. Just wondering if
any of you posters happened to see channel 4 news last night, reporting
on the arrest of the PWC Deputy, 65 year old pervert, for child porn.
The FBI says it is one of the worst cases they’ve encountered. My
concern is the fact that MJM has reported NOTHING about this case.
This is amazing…uh, probably not, since the folks at MJM have a glowing
record of protecting the sheriff and the goings on in his department.

By: Citizen12

Citizen12 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:33:27 +0000

Johnson said on 16 Dec 2008 at 9:04 am: Flag comment
Does anyone really believe that an assembly line worker deserves $75 an hour?
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Does anyone really beleive they make $75 an hour?

It is time to put to bed the urban legend of the $73 per hour wage for the UAW worker. This was a reckless statement made by a writer at the Heritage foundation, who led you to believe it was a wage and not what it was, the labor cost per hour.

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/do_auto_workers_really_make_more_than.html

In 2006 Chrysler had app 42,000 hourly employees and 84,000 retirees. For the typical Chrysler hourly worker earnings profile see page 40. Not a bad wage, but a far cry from the $150,000 inferred.

http://chryslerlabortalks07.com/Media_Briefing_Book.pdf

All told, the truth is while the average hourly wage of a UAW worker is a few dollars more per hour than their non-union counterpart, the actual yearly earnings of the non-union worker exceeded the union worker.

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:40:22 +0000

I own numerous guns, have been hunting for 52 years, but have mixed feelings about guns in schools. When I attended college in PA I took my shotgun to college and it was stored in the ROTC building gun area, when I wanted to go hunting I went and checked out my gun. The college had a policy concerning guns in student housing, frankly i saw nothing wrong with that policy, given the number of drunken “kids” running around, particularly on weekends. Of course in the 196′2 we didn’t seem to have too many nuts running around killing students, although I do remeber the Texas Tower incident. I don’t disagree with prohibiting guns on campus, but don’t know how it can be effectively enforced by those who will break policy/law/regulation, on the otherhand I don’t feel comfortable with 18-22 years olds carrying in a college setting… my thoughts

By: Arlington Minority

Arlington Minority — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:31:32 +0000

Gun control is one of those urban myths like global warming that never loses its simplistic grip on the most gullible among us.