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On 1/20/2013 12:29 AM, Impeach Obama wrote:
> In article <bljvd855l9bavptq7cugmkk44q7hjl9o4j@4ax.com>
> God's Debris <heaven@dead.net> wrote:
>> You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.
>>
>> Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.
>>
>> At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your
>> way.
>>
>> With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up
>> your shotgun.
>>
>> You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open
>> it.
>>
>> In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
>>
>> One holds something that looks like a crowbar.
>>
>> When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun
>> and fire.
>>
>> The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.
>>
>> One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door
>> and lurches outside.
>>
>> As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in
>> trouble.
>>
>> In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few
>> that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make
>> them useless..
>>
>> Yours was never registered.
>>
>> Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.
>>
>> They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a
>> Firearm.
>>
>> When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities
>> will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.
>>
>> "What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.
>>
>> "Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing.
>>
>> "Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."
>>
>> The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.
>> Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men
>> you shot are represented as choirboys.
>>
>> Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about
>> them..
>>
>> Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both
>> "victims" have been arrested numerous times.
>>
>> But the next day's headline says it all: "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't
>> Deserve to Die."
>>
>> The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin
>> Hood-type pranksters..
>>
>> As the days wear on, the story takes wings.
>>
>> The national media picks it up, then the international media.
>>
>> The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.
>>
>> Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll
>> probably win.
>>
>> The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized
>> several times in the past and that you've been critical of local
>> police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects.
>>
>> After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be
>> prepared next time.
>>
>> The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait
>> for the burglars.
>>
>> A few months later, you go to trial.
>>
>> The charges haven't been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently
>> predicted.
>>
>> When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works
>> against you..
>>
>> Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man.
>>
>> It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.
>>
>> The judge sentences you to life in prison.
>>
>> This case really happened.
>>
>> On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed
>> one burglar and wounded a second.
>>
>> In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term...
>>
>> How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great
>> British Empire ?
>>
>> It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.
>>
>> This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or
>> felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to
>> those who had a license.
>>
>>
>> The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only
>> handguns but all firearms except shotguns..
>>
>> Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon
>> by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.
>>
>> Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the
>> Hungerfordmass shooting in 1987.
>>
>> Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle,
>> walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.
>>
>> When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
>>
>> The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun
>> control", demanded even tougher restrictions.
>>
>>
>> (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even
>> though Ryan used a rifle.)
>>
>> Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a
>> semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public
>> school.
>>
>> For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally
>> unstable, or worse, criminals.
>>
>> Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun
>> owners.
>>
>> Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of
>> objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.
>>
>> The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few
>> sidearms still owned by private citizens.
>>
>> During the years in which the British government incrementally took
>> away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed
>> self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
>>
>> Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were
>> threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a
>> reason to own a gun.
>>
>> Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while
>> the real criminals were released.
>>
>> Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as
>> saying, "We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."
>>
>> All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several
>> elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who
>> had no fear of the consequences.
>>
>> Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his
>> collection trashed or stolen by burglars.
>>
>> When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were
>> given three months to turn them over to local authorities.
>>
>> Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law.
>>
>> The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year
>> prison sentences if they didn't comply.
>>
>> Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from
>> private citizens.
>>
>> How did the authorities know who had handguns?
>>
>> The guns had been registered and licensed.
>>
>> Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?
>>
>> WAKE UP AMERICA; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND
>> AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
>>
>> "...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
>> tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
>> --Samuel Adams
>>
>> If you think this is important, please forward to everyone you know.
>>
>> You had better wake up, because Obama is doing this very same thing,
>> over here, if he can get it done.
>>
>> The UN Small Arms Treaty that Hilary is negotiating would take away
>> our 2nd Amendment rights.
>>
>> And there are stupid people in congress and on the street that will go
>> right along with him.
> Time to go kill some liberals.
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Come on. The president is not stopping anyone from owning guns. The big 
noise is all

    about color,  some people don't want a black president telling them 
what to do