You obviously know nothing.

You're right Redneck. Your well articulated, carefully thought out response has convinced me otherwise.

You are clearly more interested in insulting than engaging in an adult debate. You must be taking the lead from the NRA ad.

TwoNNs... We can't have an adult conversation with you because you are not ready...

What if our weapons had been taken away from us when the British came.? I don't think we would be having any of these conversations.

I guess our second amendment or our rights in general mean nothing to you. The second amendment doesn't state what weapons we can and cannot have or how many.

Laws are only obeyed by law abiding citizens, not criminals. This is why we call them criminals...

I had a license to kill people I didn't even know, but now that I am an ordinary citizen you and others wish to take away my right to own a gun to protect my family and others. This year it's that weapon, next year it will be another, and another, etc., until we will no longer be able to protect ourselves and that includes against our very own government.

We should have as much if not more power then that can be used against us.

One assailant, probably not. But more than one, absolutely.

With adrenaline and fear, it's not as easy as you think to hit a target.

If you play any type of sports, do you always hit the ball with the bat, do you always hit the hoop with the basketball?

Try typing a little slower so that at least it appears your are lucid.

Thank you

And redneck is the poster boy for lucid.

Really was pretty spot on everything they said was accurate.. Are you children protected by an armed guard??? Well Obama's are and they didn't get shot at did they.. If there would have been an armed guard there would this indvidual made it into the building probably not. There video is right on.. We pay for his children to have protection why can't we all have such because as every liberal moron out there would state if it would save one child's life isn't worth it.... I guess not according to the president tear down what you can't argue with. He is telling the American people that your CHILDREN AREN"T WORTH IT AND THE ELITES ARE. That is what this man is about, all of moron's who voted for him don't to this day get this mand.. He is so far above you that you are not even good enough to beneath his feet. Get a clue..

Where do lawyers fit in?

Do you personally know any NRA members?

Ladies and Gentlemen, witness the typical NRA member. Let me guess. Also a member of the tea party?

gravis..the NRA has millions of democrats and republicans, not to mention non offiliated voters..what is your point other then political BIAS ?

Every president, his spouse and his children are given security You are lacking in formation or you are an enemy of what is provided to these people . Shut up if you are not knowledgeable

Your point is he and his family are worth more than yours. Maybe, however not mine. Mine are worth far more than his in every single way..

me or you..more blame for this shooting rests on the killers mental health issues, his mother for showing him how to shoot, and for having any weapons in her household at all where a person under psych care and on meds is living..any peon with a f'n brain knows better.

Redneck. Say no more.

More drama and hysteria..

A mean looking German Sheperd, I'd guess, is a lot more scary from a distance than a man with a gun.

Burglar (highly trained) shoots your dog ( silencer), or maybe throws him a piece of poison meat. Then in the middle of the night comes looking for you. And don't EFFEN tell me it doesn't happen.

Obama is getting the last laugh...he just drubbed you all in the last election and we are set to do it again in 2014!

Wake up! Obama is a nasty black Hitler-man who uses a teleprompter and is destroying our country by taking all our guns. And he is the antichrist

Safe rider. You have been watching way too many stupid video games and movies. Get a life!

Total and complete cowards.

Cowards are people that protect themselves and let everyone else dangle in the wind you moron. Sound a lot like the worst president in American history president Dumbo..

Anything about his, or any other politician's family is definitely off limits.

Most people understand they are, in the parlance of the Mafia, "civilians".

Warrants are not needed to search a home (among others)?

Not sure you got those facts right.

Try goggling the Patriot Act. It is in black and white print, and the UCLA have been fighting it from day one, because it directly violates our "Bill of Rights". The law also says they don't have to even tell you they have been in your home to search. We have lost much more than people realize and that is not safety it is really scary.

Not entirely true whips. A warrant still exists prior to the search.

the racist? wtf.. when will you children grow up.

EJC-499804 What a great comment. Truthful and to the point. I would only urge caution on the race card thing. Yes it has a role here and yes there are many who want Obama to fail because of his race. The bottom line is that this is all about money to the NRA and gun manufacturers. The 2nd amendment really isn't an issue and is being abused by those who want further their cause through fear-mongering. OMG the feds are coming to take yer guns!! I'll call BS on that all day everyday.

Ft Hood~~~ Registered Democrat ~ Muslim

Columbine ~~~ Too young to vote; both families were registered
Democrats and progressive liberals

Virginia Tech ~~~ Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to his staff ~
Registered Democrat

Colorado Theater ~~~ Registered Democrat; staff worker on the Obama
campaign; Occupy Wall Street participant;
progressive liberal

Connecticut School Shooter- ~~~ Registered Democrat; hated Christians.

All of these shooters were liberal Democrats.

Considering the broad approach so far being suggested as solutions to gun violence, a more fruitful one might be one that all Democrats are banned from purchasing firearms. Any demographic study will show that the preponderance of gun violence is centered in heavily Democratic areas (e.g.: Chicago, Detroit, etc.). If Democrats are banned from all gun purchases it seems highly likely that the bulk of gun deaths a year would be markedly reduced.

This common sense measure should be instituted immediately and would certainly be much more effective than assault rifle or large capacity magazine bans presently being proposed.

People really should educate themselves before they speak.....

Right to Bear Arms : A Critical Part of Black American History

When the Supreme Court ruled favorably on the 2nd Amendment rights of individuals to keep and bear arms, thus swatting down a 28 year gun ban in the city of Chicago, Justice Clarence Thomas supported the majority opinion with a fascinating look at Civil War Reconstruction Era and the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. As Glenn Reynolds atInstapundit points out;

Very interesting to see both the majority and Justice Thomas reference the racist roots of gun control so strongly.

Thomas' opinion stresses that the amendment that freed the slaves provides the legal buttress for the individual's right to bear arms through Section 1 of the 14th Amendment's known as the "Privileges and Immunities Clause." Here are some selected highlights in the black justice's history lesson:

After the Civil War, Southern anxiety about an uprising among the newly freed slaves peaked. As Representative Thaddeus Stevens is reported to have said, “[w]hen it was first proposed to free the slaves, and arm the blacks, did not half the nation tremble? The prim conservatives, the snobs, and the male waiting-maids in Congress, were in hysterics.” ...

As the Court explains, this fear led to “systematic efforts” in the “old Confederacy” to disarm the more than 180,000 freedmen who had served in the Union Army, as well as other free blacks. ... Some States formally prohibited blacks from possessing firearms. ... Others enacted legislation prohibiting blacks from carrying firearms without a license, a restriction not imposed on whites. ... Additionally, “[t]hroughout the South, armed parties, often consisting of ex-Confederate soldiers serving in the state militias, forcibly took firearms from newly freed slaves.” ...

As the Court makes crystal clear, if the Fourteenth Amendment “had outlawed only those laws that discriminate on the basis of race or previous condition of servitude, African-Americans in the South would likely have remained vulnerable to attack by many of their worst abusers: the state militia and state peace officers.” ... In the years following the Civil War, a law banning firearm possession outright “would have been nondiscriminatory only in the formal sense,” for it would have “left fire-arms in the hands of the militia and local peace officers.” ...

One way in which the Federal Government responded was to issue military orders countermanding Southern arms legislation. ... [A] Jan. 17, 1866, order from Major General D. E. Sickles, ... [read] “The constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed”. The significance of these steps was not lost on those they were designed to protect. After one such order was issued, The Christian Recorder, published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church,published the following editorial:

“‘We have several times alluded to the fact that the Constitution of the United States, guaranties to every citizen the right to keep and bear arms. . . . All men, without the distinction of color, have the right to keep arms to defend their homes, families, or themselves.’

“We are glad to learn that [the] Commissioner for this State . . . has given freedmen to understand that they have as good a right to keep fire arms as any other citizens. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and we will be governed by that at present.” Right to Bear Arms, Christian Recorder (Phila.), Feb. 24, 1866, pp. 29–30.

Thus began the movement to draft and ratify the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. Section 1 of the amendment assures all citizens equal rights and prohibits the States from abridging the privileges granted.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Over the next hundred years, black Americans struggled mightily for equal footing until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's brought about a new direction for minorities. The renowned leader of that movement was, of course, Martin Luther King, Jr. but the movement was supported by many black organizations. Dymphna at Gates of Vienna remembers the Deacons for Defense and Justice.

The Deacons for Defense and Justice, a group of blacks in the South who believed in armed self-defense against an entrenched hatred that often led to killings of innocent black people, particularly black men.

The myth of Martin Luther King’s touted “non-violence” as a way to bring about justice steadfastly ignores the reality of King’s armed body guards and the arsenal of weapons kept in his home - kept there illegally, by the way. Dr. King couldn’t get a gun permit.

Given the times, King’s public image as the American Gandhi was probably good strategy; it reassured the fearful white majority and no doubt prevented much bloodshed. However, the armed “Deacons of Defense” were as vital and necessary a part of the struggle as was Dr. King’s approach.

An isolated farm surrounded by the sudden arrival of truckloads of hatred in the middle of the night could change the equation instantly with the judicious application of one shot over the heads of those hate-mongers. It didn’t solve the problem instantly, but it allowed enough time for the troublemakers to sober up. One armed black farmer lived to plow another day.

This part of black history has been neglected; I hope that the coming generations will pay the respect of close attention due these men.

Now we know that King's "non-violence" was a necessary charade. So also was the myth that M.L. King was "Moses" leading the flock. For example it was not MLK's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) that launched the "Freedom Rides" in 1961; it was the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) that did the organizing. Acceptance of King and his policy was also not universal.

Privately, King's supporters knew that non-violence was not an outlook everyone shared, and [aide Wyatt] Walker amused King by telling him of how one black Virginian had responded to a white bus driver who wanted him to enter his bus by the back door. A massive figure, the man had picked up the driver with one hand and said bluntly: 'Know two things. I can break your neck, and I ain't one of Martin Luther King's non-violent Negroes.' [Ed. note: It is hard to believe "Negroes" was the word used when this tale was told in the '60s. This is almost certainly BBC political correctness.]

The armed Deacons for Defense had 21 organizations scattered throughout the South keeping KKK counter-insurgency at bay. In 1966, King was challenged by a militant Malcom X and the "Block Power" movement.

Liberals will argue that M.L. King's leadership and nonviolence was the reason for the success of the Civil Rights Movement. They will point out that ready access to guns resulted in Rev. King's assassination in Memphis by a racist white man. That argument aside, it is clear in retrospect that without access to firearms by blacks, the establishment of racial equality in the 1960s would most likely have failed.

Ummm this has been going on for how long?? This has nothing to do with his kids and the NRA crossed the line. It is NOT a choice for the SS to protect the first family's children. No they're not more precious, it goes with the job!

Yep, if you suck that much about using 50 rounds to kill anything, find something else to do. You're a danger to yourself, your family and the civilized world. Nice comment :-)