he NRA held its  annual convention in Houston this weekend.

I am not with you marikod. Liberals make me ill.

By the way. It's not a theory. The best armed neighborhoods of responsible citizens are the safest. When only the criminals are armed and the law abiding citizens disarmed or left defenseless by bureaucrats we can see the results, especially DC and Chicago.

So feel free to cower under a desk or hide under a bed when they come for you or your family. I will protect mine while you scramble to call 911.

and just what is a white ambulance chaser like you doing down in Bellair? You do know there used to be a bounty on people with round eyes down there, don't you?

As for the "Armed Citizen Project" I am all for it. The last time I remember a community arming all of it's law abiding citizens was in Homestead back in 1992, when hurricane Andrew came rolling through. Rather than trust their lives and property to LE and a bunch of weekend warriors AKA the national guard, none of which actually had a stake in what was going on, the community of Homestead armed itself, policed its' own streets and was not subject to anywhere near the looting and other crime that typically follows a disater like this.

Hey, if it worked in Florida, (which it did), why not Texas, Maybe some of these gang bangers will think twice before terrorizing this neighborhood when they realize that rather than going to jail where they can be united with all their gang banging hermanos, they are more likely to end up with a load of double odd buckshot in their culos. Who knows, maybe they will try to find easier pickings, like maybe the white suburban neighborhoods, where all the white wine spritzer drinking crowd don't believe in the 2nd amendment and will make for easy pickings? lmao

and please don't tell me you actually have been to Crawfish and Noodles, I know they don't serve white wine spritzers there. lol

down the street in Houston, Panthera12, just remember she has a pump action shotgun next to the milk bottle, so maybe it's best that you don't approach her.

but I am not comfortable with the idea of distributing the guns.  

Here to deal with the heat.

Palin who said that "Freedom was destroying itself," whatever that means, and Cruz who addressed the crowd as "an army." The more militant the talk from the NRA the more it takes them out of the mainstream, and viewed by more and more people as becoming radicalized. And, the more they rail against Obama taking their guns away, the more they just sound like a part of the Republican party. There are a lot of NRA members who are more moderate than what the NRA leadership is sounding.  

who was last seen warning us about death panels. But she was there along with gov perry whose marksmanship is apparently better than his knowledge of fed agencies.

who make GOP look party of stupid..

is that I fear our fully militarized police forces far more than the occasional criminally minded individual.

Looting was big problem in South Florida after Andrew

Most armed muggers and thieves have a tendency to become violent with  
  uncooperative ,  weaker ,  smaller or elderly prey  .  
History will change when the thief takes  the senior's shotgun away .
  Easily led seniors ,  not accustomed to fire arms in their life , will end  
 up dead, when they think twice .
   
    Although it will work sometime , it's a risky move .  

but I personally feel safer with a firearm in my home. Giving them out to people with little training and little firearms experience is dangerous at best. The threat that any home in america having firearms is a deturrent to home invasions and rapes though. Even the DOJ estimates firearms are used in self defense 1.6 million times yearly. If only 1 in 1000 times that they were used prevented a rape or murder thats still a large number (impossible to prove). If you factor in the fact that most firearms crimes are felons shooting fellow criminals I'm not as concerned about it as you are.  
       

The truth is they'll probably confiscate the guns and release the criminals. There are so many firearms crimes not prosecuted today its dumb to even have the laws on the books. Look into it a bit. 1 in 1000 failed federal background check results in charges, many times felons who applied to buy a gun are never even questioned about their application to purchase.

Mari, how did you find this obscure online source? Do you have it bookmarked? Also, and seriously asking, do you live in a red state or blue state? I know you're anti-gun. I know you like to be a bit sarcastic in your posts. But do you really care if this no-name neighborhood, in Texas no less, arms themselves with shotguns.

Are you worried that somehow this neighborhood arming campaign will catch on and become the norm in your liberal elitist enclave?

Personally mari, I really don't give a shit that some podunk town in Texas decided to take neighborhood watch to a steroid level.

What I'm about to say is going sound a bit strange. See mari, I  don't own a gun. I don't want one. I actually acquired a small arsenal as a result of inheritance, but immediately sold them all. But I'm OK with the NRA. Some of their rhetoric is a bit nauseating, as well as some of their members.

To me, the value of the NRA, and their conservative views neutralize the shit on the other side. Just as the left has a disdain and deep hatred for the NRA and Tea Party, there are those on the right that have that same disdain and hatred for various issues that the progressive movement champions.

I'll give you one example. I had a conversation with a couple of liberal feminist women. I told them I was generally supportive of Planned Parenthood, but I also told them of my stance that the govt should not be funding them to the tune of 1/3 of their annual operating budget. Mari, they started foaming at the mouth. For a second I thought Ron Jeremy jacked off from across the room and it hit them in the mouth. They went ballistic. I can't describe the anger and hatred they had for me at that moment. It was white hot hatred.

To me it's an equalizer. I want both extremes to have the same firepower, preferably aimed at each other. Civility and moderation exists, but unfortunately it's been drowned out by the extremes on both sides. So as a result, nothing gets done, which is acceptable to me.

So to answer your question mari, no I'm not with you on this. You'll have to have one less pitchfork.



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of NRA rhetoric. And, yes, we should be concerned that this moronic "solution" to too many guns on the street - more guns on the street - is catching on- in fact, it is moving your way. Tucson is the next city to be armed.

Why even argue about shotguns?  They are legal and they should be and there is no way they should be regulated in any way.  Not to mention this entire project is going nowhere anyway.  So thanks, mari, for wasting the tiny amount of oxygen on this board.

I believe that I stated once before that most people who have these permits have been handling weapons long before these programs started. Most of the programs are essentially useless anyhow. It's like the safe driving courses. Most of it is common sense.

I wouldn't expect you to understand marikod. You are infatuated more with Dirty Harry movies then facts and reality.

So what exactly would marikod advocate?  8 hours? 24 hours? A month?

It was a big problem when the victims were relying on the weekend warrior national guard to keep them safe, but once they armed themselves, looting no longer was a problem in those areas.

and I ask again, WTF are you doing down in Bellaire? That area is for "Chinks and Dinks" not gimpy old white boys. lol

and if you think their food is hot, you definitely don't want to try my crawfish, I used a paste I make out of Habenero peppers iwth Tabasco sauce as the liquid. It makes cayenne pepper taste like a a sweet bell pepper in comparison.

As for arming in Houston, the fifth ward has looked like a hurricane disaster area for decades. Damn right the citizens should arm themselves to fight back.

I feel like I have been slimed just listening to Rick Perry speak.

Having Palin on your side of an argument is like having TrannyBoy back you up in a debate, the very fact he agrees with you makes you want to reconsider your position.

He reminded me of the great food to be had in Bellaire, I still don't know how a white wine spritzer drinking, round eyed, white boy ever found his way down to that part of town, but the food is great down there, and there are plenty of Vietnamese hotties down there as well.

was steaming but I don't think she was on the menu. And frankly I don't even remember them having a wine list at that place.

The local P4P talent in the area are mainly a mix of Thai and Korean ladies, some of them quite hot I might add, and very reasonable anywhere from $160 in the parlors to $250 in the regular incalls

There are however a slew of Vietnamese night clubs up the street going towards outer loop 8. There are loads of Vietnamese hotties, but you have to get them the old fashioned way, probably unlikely for a gimpy old white guy. and to tell the truth much too much work even for me. I could probably score a different forty year old every night of the week, but that's why I am a whore monger, I don't want to fuck women old enough to be a "first wife"

I don't remember for sure, but I think the wine list at Crawfish and Noodles was "Red or White" and that was about it. Sorry no Krug to be found there.

If you like "real" Chinese food, Bellaire is the place in Houston, there are dozens of good ones all up and down the street. Don't try the Korean food there though, it's a strictly Chinese and Vietnamese part of town, what little Korean food you'll find, sucks from what I have heard.

Only 1.54 million on the scovil scale. We ordered a bottle one time and I swear it was like someone had tossed a tear gas grenade into the house.

I actually eat and enjoy the spices that I am talking about, can you honestly say the same?

The only people that I don't have to tone my boil down for so far have been mexicans and Thais. All of the Thai girls I have dated are amazed that I can eat their food without gasping for air.

Keep in mind, I grew up with beaners, so I have had a lifetime to get used to spicy foods. Now are you sure that you want to throw any more chips into the pot?

Areas with high gun ownership and especially carry zones are more crime free than those with restrictive fun laws.

Have discussed many times. Too many factors bear on the issue and you cannot prove causation between low crime and high carry or vice versa.

Hell, the numbers are real easy to interpret. To try to claim there are "outside" factors just because the results go against PC reasoning is just a blatant lie.

Low income and gun crime do follow, as well as unemployment...
         Following last year’s dismal Economic Freedom Report, the CATO Institute’s Richard W. Rahn pointed out that the President is characteristically ignoring the facts and Republicans are also not saying or doing much about reversing the downward trend.  The results here aren’t just about slower economic growth and less freedom.  There are other consequences to consider like gun violence.

That their website cites "studies" showing crime violence is reduced where more citizens are armed.