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A feminist mindset that is becoming increasingly common all across the West, let alone America, and anti-ethical in most respects to the values that most of us here cherish.

Sort of ironic; as Camille Paglia (herself a lesbian) points out, these women can only exist in a world created for them by the labors of men.

Birdwatcher

Sadly true.

noticed you still didn't say where you live.

....and without looking for John W's post in all of this....

...for the record Sam Houston personally profited greatly from the Mexicans: Nominally in command of a disorganized body of men fleeing before the Mexican army in the spring of 1836, Santa Anna obliged Houston by placing himself within range accompanied by only a minor part of his own army.

Claim Divine Providence if ya want in that a comedy of errors and conflict on the Texian side postponed any attack the next day until afternoon, at a time when the Mexican force, having been awaiting an attack since the night before, had stood down for the day.

It is a measure of the disregard with which most on the field held him that a severely wounded Houston was nearly left on the field in the aftermath, however the same political cunning that had caused many of his peers to despise him did serve us well in that he immediately saw the value in preserving the life of Santa Anna.

Kudos too to Deaf Smith, the middle aged scout, longtime resident of Texas and one of the minority on the field that actually liked Houston for a) capturing the fugitive Santa Anna and b) actually bringing him before Houston.

Not likely otherwise that a man singlehandedly responsible for the execution of 342 unarmed Americans just a month earlier at Goliad would long have survived capture.

But I digress.....

The Mexicans did not succeed in doing anything to Houston despite their best efforts, so long as one discounts the lifelong effects of a shattered ankle. And fortunately for Houston, the original Texians present in Texas were soon outnumbered by the waves of subsequent immigrants rapidly pouring into Texas, most of whom credited Houston with the victory at San Jacinto.

Else Houston woulda had a hard time being elected as dogcatcher, let alone President of the Republic, Senator, and Governor.

The real surprise however is how Houston, an outspoken pro-Union man, escaped persecution upon the secession of Texas.

Santa Anna outlived everyone of course, and in the course of his life would go on to be the one individual most responsible for giving us Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Nevada. Culminating in the Gasden purchase of 1854, most of the 15 million dollars at that time pretty much going directly to Santa Anna.

Fifteen years after that, Santa Anna brung chewing gum with him when he moved to NYC, and his personal secretary then took that Mexican product and teamed up with a guy named Wrigley. Santa Anna reportedly always felt ripped off that he wasn't cut in for a share of those particular profits, dying in poverty back in Mexico a full forty years after the Fall of the Alamo, and leaving not much at all to his estimated forty-two (??) children.

Birdwatcher

well that makes it simple.
How many times have I heard about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals?

Seems like you NRA drumbeaters would be so behind this effort.

Can someone answer me this:

Since the letters seem to be targeted towards specific people, with either restricted rifles or high cap magazines, HOW did the CSP get the list of whom to send letters to?

What list were they already on?

Ditto.. I had read that book about 50 years ago. I need to read it again.

I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich about a year ago, written by Solzhenitsyn.

Grim

(serious question) Do you (have the Constitution on your side)? Seems to me there have been tons of laws passed that flatly go against the Constitution, yet are allowed to stand. Court after court decides one way, then other courts reverse those rulings. So just where are we, really? The Constitution now just seems to be a piece of paper that this regime, and a few states such as CT, uses to wipe their azzes with. You really just wanna rely on that at this time?

As I and mucho others have said - ya better get to organizing your local CT citizens and mass up enough to scare the livin' chit outta those idiots, and the Governor, who signed that law..

So...he WAS a liberal.

And I guess I did...

It's been a long time since I was at the Alamo, but didn't we also lose something there?
I always thought San Jacinto was what brought Houston's victory.

It was, but that was after the Alamo. Sam Houston had a habit of showing up after the smoke had cleared.

My understanding is the state already has a separate form for registration and has for years.

So they are going through the archives and finding who purchased one in the past.


Travis

The only thing better than a gun, is a gun without paperwork.

Excuse me for stating the obvious, but is this Conn law not an obvious "infringement" on the 2nd Amendment, which was written to protect us from a tyrannical government and now evidenced by the "massive" non-compliance of this states gun owning citizenry�?
Further... has not this line been crossed again (now at the state level)�?
e.g. Chicago with its UnConstitutional restriction on gun ownership at the municipal level? (and we know how well that worked - if you criminalize gun ownership then only "criminals" will have guns) both those outside the law and above it (politicians & the priviledged)
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Another thought... If you take a "liberal" interpretation of the 2nd Amendment would you as citizen/militiaman be entitled to own every type of weapon that is available to law enforcement? Or the flip side of that coin, why not "restrict" local law
enforcement to weapons EQUAL to what a citizen can own? After all we are not living in Capone's era where bootleggers and bank robbers had Tommy guns and cops had to defend themselves with .32's.
An aside, back in the days of Tammany Hall they passed laws against gun ownership because citizens (law-abiding and not) were getting "shaken" down by cops working for crooked politicians (legal gangsters) and were "using" guns to protect themselves from these "authorities�, so these "autborities" passed laws,
making it illegal for a citizen to protect himself. (I see nothing has changed since then)
So what's the purpose of all these specialized police units, SWAT etc., in a domestic city/town situation if not to intimidate the populace, as they did when they were looking for that Boston Marathon bomber? Hey, they were looking for one wounded guy. Local P.D. Should have handled it with aid from the citizenry instead of having our "rights" infinged - can you say Posse Comitatus?

Phuc them, they crossed the line, they know they crossed the line; we know they crossed the line! First unchallenged move, they passed a dumb law. Second unchallenged move, they are making a meek attempt at enforcing it. Third unchallenged move will be where they make publicized enforcement against one or two individuals , to spur compliance/surrender.

I say one thing we can do to help Conn gun owners is a letter/phone campaign to those sniveling authorities and the lame axxe media in Conn.

Define "they".

And prostitutes. You forgot to mention prostitutes.



Travis

Prostitute with papers is a wife.

That's sexist.



Travis

If it was carbon paper, it would be racist as well.