Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has chosen to make the gun issue personal. Okay, I'll bite.

Daley's reaction to the Supreme Court's ruling last week (D.C. v. Heller) overturning the Washington, D.C. ban on gun ownership was as predictable as it was incoherent.

Hello,
     I'm new to Blogging.  I have read the diary rules but I'm still learning the ground rules for this community.  I have no intention, at this time, of ever running for public office.  I do not want to go under that microscope.  However, I thought I would like to put together a platform, of sorts.  Perhaps someone does want to know how I feel on certain issues...

I'm a proponent of the Second Amendment (especially after seeing the Neocons try to take over our government) as was many of the founding fathers, my father started out in the streets of Albuquerque as an officer and eventually retired with the Drug Enforcement Administration.  He was a true hero trying keep drugs out of our chilren's hands his entire life.  I was brought up around guns and understand the seriousness of using a weapon.  He always emphasized to me, "once you pull a trigger on a weapon, it can never be taken back" and "never pull out a weapon on another person unless you feel you or your family's life is threatened.  As an officer the same rule applied; Never use your weapon unless you intend on killing the person in self defense.

Joe Horn witnessed his neigbors home being broke into Nov of 2007 and decided to take the law into his own hands..

I'm stunned beyond words right now.  Georgia had passed a new law to allow people to carry concealed weapons into restaurants, state parks and on public transportation.  The bill was sponsored by Rep. Tim Bearden, a republican of course.  

The City of Atlanta declared Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport a gun-free zone.  Naturally, Rep. Bearden and his merry band of gun toting republicans have decided to fight this restriction in court arguing that the airport qualifies as public transportation and there public restraurants within the airport.  The only bit of sanity displayed is that they agree no guns should be allowed in restraurants beyond the security check point.   This has been reported in the Huffingpost.   Lawsuit filed to carry guns at Atlanta Airport

Wait until you read what Rep Bearden plans to do beside just a law suit!  Read more below!

The lamentation and rending of garments in the wake of Barack Obama's repeated, ill-advised comments on several issues (Wes Clark's comments, the death penalty, gun ownership, etc.) seems to have built itself into a Jupiter's spot of neverending self-powered cyclonic fury.  Woe is us, that we have been sold out by the Great Blue Hope!!  Change is a lie!!  Our country and Constitution have been sold up the river!!

There are all kinds of well-intentioned protests arising; "I will not donate any money..."  "I will not help to register any new voters..."  "I will still vote for him, but that's all!"

Well, I'm going to tell you what to do now.

SYFPH, and just run the damn play.

I first ran this about 18 months ago. In one of the 2nd Amendment discussions this week following the SCOTUS decision on Wednesday, I'd mentioned it - and was encouraged to update and repost it.  So, here it is, updated and expanded.

Jim

We were in California at Dana Point  when we heard the news on the radio.
It wasn't clear if the people involved in the invasion and shoot out were military or Ex Mexican Military.

However the news out now is plain and simple.

The consensus of opinion from the Phoenix, Arizona police is that at least some of the six cross border raiders were ex-Mexican Army personnel involved in the home invasion homicide on Monday.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/...  

The thoughts of the Phoenix Police officers are that the drug cartels are now performing cross border home invasion raids and murders north of the border i.e. Arizona. The past few months have been difficult for the Mexican Police and some of the drug cartel members who have assumed room temperature. As a result, some members of the remaining Mexican drug cartels are moving parts of their operations into the United States.

Surprise visit yesterday from THE DUDE, the real one, not the character in The Big Lebowski....though that's who the character is based on--Jeff Dowd, the Dude. He dropped in to do KCRW's Guest DJ Project, and let me know he's a big fan of Left, Right and Center! Check the real DUDE out here: www.jeffdowd.com Meantime, today's show is: Guns and SCOTUS; North Korea and Nukes; Oil; Democratic Unity; Obamacons. Guest right is Jim Antle, Assoc. Editor of the conservative American Spectator Magazine. Here's today's show, some highlights below: KCRW's Left, Right and Centerwww.jeffdowd.com

First, I have to explain how I inadvertently made him cry, and second, how I managed to make it a little better...

Yesterday, I read a diary here at dKos h/t, beagledad

I hit the link in the diary, and read the full story, which made me terribly, terribly sad.  

A man shot and killed after entering a stranger's home and passing out on a couch had been drinking heavily that night, but was not a violent person, according to a friend who had been with him that evening...

follow me over the fold for the full story

A decision by the Supreme Court of the United States put guns back in the news.

I like guns. I like the precise workmanship of metal, the heft in my hand, and I enjoy shooting. Never at animals; at targets. In a rural environment they make sense. They don't make much sense elsewhere, or at least they didn't until recently.

Except for an uncle who is a hunter my family is not gun oriented. There was never a gun in our house when I grew up and there isn't one now that I have my own family. But I knew a lot of hunters and gun owners and a good share of gun nuts as I grew up.

What I heard from them was outrage. They regarded gun ownership as a Constitutional right and were incensed by the idea that government would ban ownership. No one seemed to be mildly for gun ownership. If you were for it you were angrily for it. At that time I was against it. No more.

The Roberts Supreme Court Decision endorsing a "personal right" to own guns is a devastating affront to decency and common sense, and yet another reason to support Obama,and not the "straight-talking" McCain, who will further  stack the Court with conservatives.

Well, I for one am glad someone finally figured out what the phrase "Shall not be infringed" actually means.  Most people have figured out that the First Amendment is talking about the rights of We the People, not government employees.

Well, after the Supreme Court’s stellar 5-4 decision today in D.C. v. Heller (PDF file), I am saving all my pennies for the day when Antonin Scalia decrees that I can legally possess a TOW missile – because, as his majority opinion makes clear, he gets to decide what weaponry I get to own.

Whereas there has been a TON of teeth gnashing about today's Supreme Court Decision of the D.C. hand gun ban, Zeke ain't seen ANYTHING about it around here.

And that is probably because it is a touchy subject in Nevada. A 600 Pound Baldwin Gorilla.(Inside Nevada Joke)

(REPUBLISHED FROM  zekesaysso.blogspt.com)

One person who certainly can be happy about Justice Scalia's Second Amendment decision is the man in Sutherlin, Oregon, who reportedly shot a man who had walked into his house and passed out drunk on the sofa.  The man's lawyer is quoted as saying it must have been "disconcerting" to find the drunk man lying there.  I have to say, the first thing I need when I'm feeling disconcerted is a gun.

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Just a short while ago, Senator Barack Obama was on the FOX Business channel for an interview. During the exchange he was asked to comment on the Supreme Court's ruling of 5-4 that struck down the Washington DC hand gun ban.

Obama voiced his opinion that the second amendment is an individual right, although he added that sensible gun laws could still be put in place. Watch the exchange below and weigh in with thoughts/opinions:

Ok, so the Court has ruled. I am pro gun control but also believe that a total ban on Guns would just keep guns in the hands of criminals and create an underground Gun black market even more dangerous than another banned substance that many people want and get despite the laws forbidding it.

But what SCOTUS did was Judicial Activism and gives progressives and liberals a nice retort to the crap heaped on Judges.

If i understand it correctly, the government cannot ban abortions or birth control since we have a right to privacy.

Would this not also provide a right to own a gun in the privacy of our own home?