RKBA is a DKos group of second amendment supporters who also have progressive and liberal values. We don't think that being a liberal means one has to be anti-gun. Some of us are extreme in our second amendment views (no licensing, no restrictions on small arms) and some of us are more moderate (licensing, restrictions on small arms.) Moderate or extreme, we hold one common belief: more gun control equals lost elections. We don't want a repeat of 1994. We are an inclusive group: if you see the Second Amendment as safeguarding our right to keep and bear arms individually, then come join us in our conversation. If you are against the right to keep and bear arms, come join our conversation. We look forward to seeing you, as long as you engage in a civil discussion. RKBA stands for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Maxomai has this regarding Oregon, RKBA, and medical marijuana:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/oregon_gun_ruling_a_victory_fo.html
First two paragraphs below:
Oregon's 32,929 medical marijuana users can't be denied concealed
handgun licenses, despite the efforts of at least two sheriffs who
want to keep concealed weapons out of those hands.
The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled this week that Washington County
Sheriff Rob Gordon and Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters were
mistaken in their interpretation of the federal Gun Control Act. The
act states that "an unlawful user ... of any controlled substance"
can't own a gun, and the sheriffs contended the federal act trumps
Oregon's medical marijuana law. Though federal law prohibits
marijuana, Oregon's 12-year-old law legalizes pot possession for
patients with qualifying ailments and a doctor's approval.
Firing squad executions? OMwordTHRUdaFOG has this for us:
executed by firing squad
http://www.statesman.com/...
A condemned Utah inmate's decision to die in a barrage of bullets fired by five unnamed marksmen has been vilified by many as an archaic form of Old West-style justice. But some experts argue it is more humane than all other execution methods.... "Lethal injection, which has the veneer of medical acceptability, has far greater risks of cruelty to a condemned person," said Fordham University Law School professor Deborah Denno..... the condemned was to be strapped into a chair, have a target pinned over his heart and be shot by five people armed with .30-caliber rifles firing from behind a ported wall.......Of the 49 executions held in Utah since the 1850s, 40 were by firing squad. The method has also been widely used around the globe and was long the primary method of execution employed by the U.S. military.......lethal injection has become the primary method used by most of the 35 states........42 cases that went wrong between 1982 and September 2009. Of those executions, 30 were lethal injection, 10 were electrocution and two were from asphyxiation after exposure to lethal gas........A court challenge of lethal injection in Kentucky essentially halted executions nationwide in 2007 as the Supreme Court grappled with whether a three-drug cocktail was more painful than just a single barbiturate. At the time, Kentucky had only one execution by lethal injection — with no complications — but executions in Ohio and Florida had taken longer than usual and produced evidence that inmates had suffered severe pain in the process. The high court finally upheld Kentucky's use of the three drugs in 2008
He also has this:
Undercover NYPD cop 'Stevie Gunz' tells story of life taking guns off streets http://www.nydailynews.com/...
In the NYPD's never-ending war to get thousands of illegal guns off the streets, undercover cops are the front-line soldiers.They pose as hardened criminals, risk their lives and produce amazing results: Last year, the NYPD recovered 5,135 guns in the five boroughs.
Before turning in his shield two years back, the native New Yorker earned his nickname by helping take nearly 500 guns off the street, testifying at 55 trials - and never firing his gun once.This is Stevie's story, in his own words.
It was suggested by Otteray Scribe that a full RKBA diary go out about the blockquote below. Since we have a couple scheduled, I figured I'd throw it up in here now and we can come back to it in an 'special' RKBA diary at a later date if need be. -KV
link
David Morales, 8, thought that he had put together a cool hat to honor American troops when his class was asked to make special hats for a meeting with another second-grade class from another school. Officials at Tiogue School in Coventry, Rhode Island, however, quickly banned the hat. The reason? He placed a few small plastic soldiers on the rim and the tiny soldiers had tiny guns . . . and the school has a zero tolerance for guns.
TG's Food for Thought closes us out for the week.
Cognitive dissonance.
Many anti-gun people support the idea of registering all firearms -- dismissing the fact that such registration has been used to later confiscate such registered firearms. Apparently, it's not very likely to happen again.
However, the very same people often use the argument that people shouldn't have guns because, even though it's not very likely, someone might sometime go crazy and shoot someone.
So, one thing that is unlikely (but has happened) can be ignored, but another thing that is unlikely (but has happened) is a good enough reason to ignore Constitutionally-protected Rights.