Read the following links and tell me if you think guns protected the rights of anybody.

Schriever man fatally shoots armed burglar | DailyComet.com | The Thibodaux Daily Comet | Thibodaux, LA

HPD: 74-year-old man shoots Houston carjacker(TX)

Elderly man kills invader dressed as ninja | 10connects.com | Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater

"I had to get my gun" said Mableton man, 83, in shoot-out with home invader | ajc.com

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What RIGHT was protected?

They protected their property and their body. Probably their own safety.
I happily admit to that.

But what RIGHT was protected?

People keep talking about guns like they are some magic amulet to help ward off the government's oppression.
They aren't.

And while I personally think that our society deserves some form of guaranteed right to firearm possession, I will not give them credit for something they haven't really done.


And getting back to the whole "threat" to gun owners from our government?
Under Bush we had a couple people who were arrested for wearing t-shirts that opposed Bush.
During the election, a black person was arrested who was holding a baton (like police officers have).
Under Obama, we had a few people openly parading around with weapons, unmolested by our government.

People that keep trying to pretend gun ownership is under attack are kidding themselves.

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"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist."
--Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara

Step into my house at 2:00am and I will educate you on the right to survival

Just remember, it will be my word against yours...

And as I posted earlier, anything that they can do to distract us from what these F--Ks are doing....

You don't think they had a right to protect themselves?

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You're changing the question.

I am asking what right OF THEIRS was protected by the firearm.

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On a separate subject, I believe they had a right to protect themselves.
But that is pointless to this thread.

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Republicans have a sweet racket because they run on "government is ineffective," and then when they **** things up, they go, "See." – Bill Maher

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist."
--Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara

That was never my intention. I have stated before that this could have to do with any party that wants to achive their agenda...

Glad it is false. But that doesn't change the fact that the items on the list have come to be. Except the last one.

Just like you assert in your second post that the NRA could have some member push for gun control to raise funds. So the same applies with this.

I will stay a member of the NRA anyway. Plus this coming OCT. Topeka is going to have a gun show and I plan to sell the few I own then. I live in a good family neighborhood and don't need them. I have owned each one sense the mid 80's. Haven't bought one sense or sold one.

I stopped hunting when I moved back here. I trust in the Lord, and at my age don't fear death.
But I do worry about my Govt. and the lack of wisdom being shown.

And about every liberal I know is against gun ownership for themselfs. So if not this year they will continue to try to dis arm others, IMO.

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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

There it is again.
The attempt to "pluralize" this issue.

You claim "what these F--Ks are doing"....

THIS BILL HAD NO CO-SPONSORS.
This bill will NEVER see the light of day of a vote.

There is NO PLURAL when you're dealing with ONE PERSON tossing this legislation out there...

I've already pointed that out, and people have IGNORED that.
YOU are the distraction.

As was the 2007 version of Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act, the current version has been referred to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, and the fact that the bill does not even have a single co-sponsor makes it unlikely that it will ever be brought to a vote before Congress, much less passed.

snopes.com: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act

That's right ladies and gentlemen.
1) It was originally brought up in 2007.
But I'm betting nobody heard about it then, huh...
Now that Obama's in office (and not Bush), it's time to incite terror of your government...

2) "the bill does not even have a single co-sponsor makes it unlikely that it will ever be brought to a vote before Congress, much less passed
Just because a bill is made present on Capitol Hill doesn't mean squat.
There are TONS of bills that are put on somebody's desk up there, that go nowhere...

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Republicans have a sweet racket because they run on "government is ineffective," and then when they **** things up, they go, "See." – Bill Maher

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist."
--Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara

Every month I get the NRA hunter magazine in it there are always several stories of gun owners protecting their homes from intruders. So yes this right does serve its purpose...

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson.. (1709 - 1784) Faith is what mine is built upon..

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Notice I said "pointless TO THIS THREAD"

I am talking about something related to the TITLE and OPENING POST of this thread...

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Republicans have a sweet racket because they run on "government is ineffective," and then when they **** things up, they go, "See." – Bill Maher

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist."
--Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara

Your original statement was "I can't think of any right that guns (in current times) have actually protected." But you say you believe they had a right to protect themselves.

That's gotta be the worst contradiction I've ever seen. Of course, I'm not real bright, so please explain to me the difference between the word "right" in your two statements.

Unless you think they should have protected themselves without using a firearm....

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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
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Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind