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.
1911s has the defensive gun uses today:
Columbus, Ohio
Los Angeles, California
Tampa Bay, Florida
Kingsport, Tennessee
Lexington, Kentucky
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Spokane, Washington
Monroe, North Carolina
Akron, Ohio
Knoxville, Tennessee
Spartanburg, South Carolina "Shut Up -- No Crying"
Houston, Texas
Moore County, North Carolina
Forestville, Maryland
St Louis, Missouri
OMwordTHRUdaFOG found this interesting suggestion for Chicago residents:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/2445270,new-city-gun-regulations-062910.article
Chicagoans should be limited to one handgun for every eligible person living in a home — and gun dealers should be banned within the city limits — in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to shoot down the city’s handgun ban, the city’s top lawyer said today.
OMword
thats one TOTAL, not one a month
And also has this:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/39142.html
But who won the day in politics? The Democrats.
For them, the court’s groundbreaking decision couldn’t have been more beneficial to the cause in November. Now, Democratic candidates across the map figure they have one less issue to worry about on the campaign trail. And they won’t have to defend Republican attacks over gun rights and an angry, energized base of gun owners.
"It removes guns as a political issue because everyone now agrees that the Second Amendment is an individual right, and everybody agrees that it’s subject to regulation,"
Tom Seaview:
This WaPo column is worth a blurb, if not a diary in itself:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
He hardly ever speaks during oral arguments, often appearing asleep on the bench. But in his written opinion Monday supporting the right to bear arms, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas roared to life.
Referring to the disarming of blacks during the post-Reconstruction era, Thomas wrote: "It was the 'duty' of white citizen 'patrols to search negro houses and other suspected places for firearms.' If they found any firearms, the patrols were to take the offending slave or free black 'to the nearest justice of the peace' whereupon he would be 'severely punished.' " Never again, Thomas says.
In a scorcher of an opinion that reads like a mix of black history lesson and Black Panther Party manifesto, he goes on to say, "Militias such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of the White Camellia, the White Brotherhood, the Pale Faces and the '76 Association spread terror among blacks. . . . The use of firearms for self-defense was often the only way black citizens could protect themselves from mob violence."
Wrapping it up once again is TG with his Food for Thought:
I always find it interesting how so many anti-rights people feel free to declare what gun owners think and feel -- with nothing to support those declarations, apart from their own imaginations -- and will stomp their feet and hold their breath if anyone uses their own declarations to describe how they must feel.