Another Well Meaning Legislator Chewing Away at the Bill of Rights

Before going any further in this blog, click the following link. Read it. Then come back.

http://12.43.67.2/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=4349&GAID=9&GA=95&DocTypeID=HB&LegID=34853&SessionID=51

PLEASE DON'T ASSUME HERE THAT I OWN GUNS. I DO NOT OWN A FIREARM, NOR DO I HAVE NEED TO PURCHASE AMMUNITION. To an un-thinking soul, this legislation and one like it (Illinois HR-4269) sound like a good idea. But that is as far as it goes.

Consider the following hypothetical situation. "Joe", goes to a "rifle" state once a year for a deer hunt with a few friends. He bags his deer with his carbine. Joe has a legitimate need for high-power ammo, and he has complied with all the regulations surrounding it. He even keeps the ammo locked away in the gun safe.

Joe has a break-in. All of his guns are reported stolen, along with the ammo. All of the serial numbers have been recorded. Joe is safe.

"Dyslexic Dirk", got a data entry job with the state, and recorded all of Joe's ammo serial numbers with 2 characters flipped.

Six months go by and Joe has managed to re-assemble some of his valuable collection. Nothing has been recovered though, and there has been no contact with the authorities. Except for early one morning when...

The state police knocked the door off its hinges as they came in, and Joe in self defense fired off two rounds before he hit the floor. One officer and Joe both lay injured and bleeding.

The back story is that Joe's thief used Joe's ammunition in a holdup. The state police tracked the ammunition to Joe. In the state's eyes, Joe had knocked over a convenience store, and they had their man.

Is this the State of things to come, or what?

You have to make your own conclusions about legislation like this. I and many others, think this legislation is wrong.

Keep thinking about the image at the left.

Simple lesson about inflation.

Gasoline at $4.50 a gallon.
Silver @ $20.54
Gold @ $987
Dollar?

About 3 cents in "real" money

What is real money? Well sweetie, it ain't that crap we call a dollar. Go do your own research. We have to start thinking for ourselves and quit listening to how good our economy is.... how there is no recession... how the Economic Stimulus Package will get things going again. BS. E.S.P. is what they must of used to come up with their idea about stimulus.

You don't crank up an economy by printing more money! The morrons have to quit spending, and we have to stop demanding more from government.

Lesson here:

Silver in the 50's hovered around a dollar/oz.

Gasoline hovered at .25/gallon.
So... 1 oz Silver = 4 Gallons Gasoline - more or less

Question...
How many gallons of gasoline can you get for one ounce of silver today?

Hmmmmm.
Can you say inflationproof?

Now - about the big V

Go rent the movie V for Vendetta. Now.

More on that later.

3/1/8

Wow, March First. In like a lamb and all that.

It was one of those days that give you the promise it will be warmer soon. Warm enough today to take the furnace out of the motorhome and give it a good cleaning.

All kinds of things got cleaned today around the house... reminded me of the Twain comment about diapers and politicians needing changed often. And often for the same reason.