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After shooting our new gun for a while, I decided to join the National Rifle Association. I’m now a card-carrying member. You damn hippie unkempt youngster liberals still gonna talk to me? My friend once told me “The NRA is good to join. But don’t tell any girls at an art party that you’re a member, or you’ll never get laid again.”

That doesn’t matter, I’m married, and I’m probably gonna get the wife a membership as a present anyway.

Btw: Filmmaker Michael Moore is also an NRA  member, and George W. Bush quit his lifelong membership when the NRA called the government “jackbooted thugs.” Michael Moore was a member to spy on them. I joined because I’m curious, and also very interested in protecting Second-Amendment rights, and that’s most of what the NRA does. They are a lobbying organization for  Second-Amendment rights. They also offer members a discount on everything from life insurance to car rentals to hotels.

I like how the card kind of looks like the Stephen Colbert show (it’s the other way around, actually.)

The NRA are in favor of background checks to help keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill. They’re also in favor of stricter penalties for people who use a gun in the commission of a crime. I’m very for that. (Statistics show that legal ownership by law-abiding citizens do NOT increase crime, and often save lives when criminals use guns. It’s really true what they say “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” Another pro-gun saying I like, that’s been true in my experience is “Order a pizza and call the cops. See who gets there first.” Another gem I like is “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”

And remember: politicians who want to take away people’s guns to gain votes are still protected by armed bodyguards themselves.

And remember: over 1/3 of the adults in America own guns.

And if you think “Guns are for rednecks”, know that the counties with the highest per capita gun ownership rates in the US are  Los Angeles County and Kings County (Brooklyn). Los Angeles and Brooklyn are geographically about as UNredneck as you can get.

MEW!

By the way, I’m probably going to get on a watch list with the jackbooted thugs for saying this, but I don’t believe the Second Amendment was that much about home protection from buglers and about hunting. (Back then, it was a given that you owned a gun for hunting, and of course you’d protect your home from  criminals if they broke in through your window.) I believe that the Second Amendment was mostly about citizens protecting themselves against the possibility of the government stepping on your rights. It’s dangerous to say that out loud because almost every example of anyone doing that has been dealt with by force by the government (think Ruby Ridge or Waco.) But dig these quotes from the founding fathers:

“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
–James Madison

“The great objective is that every man be armed. . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun.”
–Patrick Henry

“To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them.”
–George Mason

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

–Thomas Jefferson

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
–Thomas Jefferson

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
–Thomas Jefferson

I am not going to take up arms against the government, I’m just going to practice shooting at the target range, and if need be, protect my home. But I am very intrigued about the above information.

No, Charlie isn’t dead. She just imitates a lump sometimes:

Peanut’s a member too!:

(P.S. - You know you live in LA when the shooting range you go to has signed framed head shots on the lobby wall of the b-list celebs who shoot there, as well as a photo from when they shot a scene there for the movie “Crash.”)

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On the subject of conspiracies and people taking up arms, Saw a great flick this week that takes place where I used to live, Northern Virginia. It’s called “Arlington Road.” It’s great, and stars two of my favorite actors, Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges.

Basic premise of the flick is that “the gov boils all conspiracies down to a single man, and when that man is dead, they spin it that the problem is solved.” (Think JFK’s killer, Sadaam, the Anthrax guy’s suicide this week, etc. etc. ad nausum.)

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