In addition, New York’s airports are gateways to the world, and you can travel to many global locations which are even stricter than New York City in their restrictions on gun ownership. You may find Cuba, Darfur, and North Korea to be especially pleasant places. – Dave Kopel, in Guns in Parks: The Hoplophobes’ Travel Guide to the United States
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However, make no mistake about it. The government doesn’t want to be efficient. Power is not obtained by doing what is required, but by fooling the populace into believing they need everything and making it impossible to obtain. Then, the government can ‘step in’ and ‘help’. Eventually, you end up with 106 useless or less important departments to fund while cutting out those that are essential. – Robb
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If you’re going to make a political point about the RKBA or anything else, be it stem cells or swine flu or stock markets, prepare to be challenged. Welcome the challenge! It’s how you strengthen your intellectual muscles; when you go to the gym, the weights you’re lifting wouldn’t be doing you a favor if they flew off the rack and flew through the ceiling with the first press or curl or extension you attempt. Resistance is how strength is developed. – Sebastian, Pro-Gun Progressive
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Although they also got a whole bunch of GM stock certificates, which are about as worthless a medium of exchange as Confederate money these days. (Although they’ll probably be as collectible in the future, and for the same reason.) – Tam
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2010 should be a cakewalk for anyone willing to stand up to the ever expanding behemoth of a government we have now, but if you’re just going to promise to not expand it quite as fast, I’ll donate the sand you can go pound. – Robb
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Like a driver stuck in the mud, Pelosi has thrown herself into reverse, and every other gear imaginable, trying to get herself out of the ditch. Now everything she does just makes things worse and sprays a fine mist of mud and muck on everyone around her. – Jonah Goldberg
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“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” — General George S. Patton, stolen shamelessly from pdb
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In one of Ian Fleming’s novels, we learn that, “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.” I am beginning to wonder who Barack Hussein Obama really works for–because he is doing things that our enemies would do. For example, the actions of Democrats in Congress and Obama are endangering the sovereign rating of U.S. Treasury bonds. – Clayton Cramer
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But to turn around and take the worst things done in the name of a religion – to take those horrors and credit them to a DIFFERENT religion (Christianity) while AT THE SAME TIME making Islam out to be the innocent victim under the vicious regime of Christian fascist overlords – it’s an obscenity. – Lissa
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No mention of how many people each year become ill through interactions with overzealous bureaucrats. – Sebastian
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