The shooting: How many more of these "things" are we going to put up with?

[AtheistCrusader]

75. No worries, it's been a rough week.

I've long been an advocate of our governor calling up the militia for various purpose. First that comes to mind is flood control. Why not? There are legal mechanisms in place to do it, and we have a State Guard that is not part of the state National Guard, that can provide command and control structure to direct sandbagging, door to door notifications, and such. No reason it can't be used for this purpose. After all, 'security of a free state' can be served in this way as well, right?

If nobody shows up in that circumstance, I would stand with the 'anachronistic' crowd. And it would be proven beyond a doubt at that point.

There are other mechanisms that provide or protect possession as well. Out state constitution explicitly protects RKBA for individual self defense as well as a state militia purpose. All of those levels will need to be addressed in that case.


I live in a major city, and I do carry sometimes. Permit and all. I am not generally satisfied with the idea of police protection after Gonzales vs. City of Castle Rock. However, the legislature COULD address that by hiring more police, not just for more coverage, but so the police can have more 'downtime' of low intensity work, which should facilitate lots of improvements to police-citizen relations.

I'm also going to do some camping next month, so that means a rifle. We don't have a whole lot of predators about in this area, but we do have some.


I strongly agree with you on the paranoia levels. The rhetoric from the NRA last election was absolutely awful. (and from the right in general) There's a range near my house I would love to use, but it requires membership in the NRA, and I refuse.