Reply #53

In the discussion thread: D.C. doesn't want anyone to defend themselves. [View all]

Sun Oct 28, 2012, 11:29 AM

Marengo (656 posts)

53. Why should you fall into a specially licensed category?

As you are retired, you are not longer engaged in active law enforcement and no longer receiving regular firearms training. Are you currently providing protection for a celebrity or politician? If not, I see not logical reason why you should feel justified to include yourself into a special catagory superior to the avergage citizen.

You are just another citizen now, nothing special about you. Whatever status permitted you access to a "modern" arm is now in the past. Or, is it that you afraid to surrender your modern weapon and revert to a firelock?

At this point in your life, your modern firearm serves little pratical purpose other than to defend yourself, something you seem eager to deny others.

What of military veterans? Have they not been trained as well?

Oh, and I would like to see proof of your 3-star CAR (that which doesn't betry your personal identity of course), or at least some detailed descriptions of the actions for which you were awarded the CAR.

I know what this means, so pony up.

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79 replies	Author	Time	Post
D.C. doesn't want anyone to defend themselves. [View all]	PavePusher	Oct 2012	OP
Don't trust everything you read in the Washington Times	dballance	Oct 2012	#1
Please feel free to cite to evidence refuting the linked articles.	PavePusher	Oct 2012	#24
It took all of 10 minutes	sarisataka	Oct 2012	#30
I think the government wants to...	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Oct 2012	#2
The only solution is to	George Katona	Oct 2012	#3
So	rrneck	Oct 2012	#4
Yeah,	George Katona	Oct 2012	#9
A lot of people	rrneck	Oct 2012	#10
I kind of like #3s	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Oct 2012	#11
Yep. Love it or leave it.	rrneck	Oct 2012	#12
I'm not real big on love or leave it...	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Oct 2012	#18
Not to mention they bark, poop, chew, and tear shit up.	ileus	Oct 2012	#13
It makes you wonder	rrneck	Oct 2012	#14
They shoot dogs, don't they? nt	Eleanors38	Oct 2012	#55
Rottweilers are often used by the military	4th law of robotics	Nov 2012	#78
Finally a voice of reason.	ileus	Oct 2012	#6
thank god! I am a celebrity! Pretty sure everyone else is a specially licensed bodyguard	Tuesday Afternoon	Oct 2012	#7
And this is something that you personally are working on?	oneshooter	Oct 2012	#8
It is working for me fine.	George Katona	Oct 2012	#15
"allowed" to keep	Tuesday Afternoon	Oct 2012	#16
Don't know what the	George Katona	Oct 2012	#20
you should give it back to them.	Tuesday Afternoon	Oct 2012	#21
No, I will not.	George Katona	Oct 2012	#32
For better or worse, we don't have to "earn" our Constitutional Rights in the U.S.	PavePusher	Oct 2012	#62
Also,	George Katona	Oct 2012	#22
The 4473 is not a registration form. It has no information about the gun being purchased...	PavePusher	Oct 2012	#31
Sorry to say it does...	George Katona	Oct 2012	#34
The 4473 stays on file in the FFL's bound book. The identifiying info for the firearm is not	rDigital	Oct 2012	#47
Whoops, you are correct. Looks like I'm the one confused.	PavePusher	Oct 2012	#61
but I have been trained and have practical skills and knowledge far above the average cowboy joe who	gejohnston	Oct 2012	#17
gejohnston it is not my	George Katona	Oct 2012	#27
"My point still is to remove all guns from the populace that don't need them." Wow, you really...	friendly_iconoclast	Oct 2012	#33
Yes I was,	George Katona	Oct 2012	#35
Yet El Paso has the lowest murder rate in North America	gejohnston	Oct 2012	#36
While similarly-sized Houston (in gun-friendly Texas) has about 1/3 the murder rate.	friendly_iconoclast	Oct 2012	#38
All done by the peaceful, lawful, respectably disarmed non-criminal Citizens, amirite? n/t	PavePusher	Oct 2012	#63
you made my point.	gejohnston	Oct 2012	#37
you bring up a good point.	George Katona	Oct 2012	#41
of course that doesn't count whatever personal weapons they may have.	gejohnston	Oct 2012	#46
lol	former-republican	Oct 2012	#23
Hilarious isn't it?	Clames	Oct 2012	#39
Sad thing is he sounds like he really believes it.	former-republican	Oct 2012	#40
You might want to write that down	SecularMotion	Oct 2012	#51
Sounds like SecularMotion finally found a friend on this forum	former-republican	Oct 2012	#52
Ah, one of the elites, here to teach us our station in life.	PavePusher	Oct 2012	#28
Why should you fall into a specially licensed category?	Marengo	Oct 2012	#53
I would not be so sure about your special license or superior skills	ProgressiveProfessor	Oct 2012	#57
What I was referring to was this :	oneshooter	Oct 2012	#58
No answer, typical of the gun banners.	oneshooter	Oct 2012	#70
Chicago PD?	glacierbay	Oct 2012	#59
"Average Cowboy Joe"...sung, no doubt, to the tune of	dumbledork	Oct 2012	#60
good for you	YllwFvr	Nov 2012	#74
This post was hidden by jury decision.	George Katona	Oct 2012	#44
PROVE IT. nt	rDigital	Oct 2012	#48
WTF is a CAR with ribbons? And why should I care?	oneshooter	Oct 2012	#64
Combat Action Ribbon	glacierbay	Oct 2012	#65
Never heard them called that. We called them "overseas campaign bars"	oneshooter	Oct 2012	#69
It was originally a Navy/Marine Corps ribbon but Army personell could also wear it	glacierbay	Oct 2012	#71
The Greenjeans just had to change the name.	oneshooter	Oct 2012	#72
Correct.	glacierbay	Oct 2012	#73
I guess we'll have to wait for another thread for that answer. nt	rDigital	Oct 2012	#66
As a courtesy ...	holdencaufield	Oct 2012	#19
He is good- had me going until post #15...	friendly_iconoclast	Oct 2012	#25
He didn't have me going... sure he carries a gun because Chicago Badge.....right!! nt	rDigital	Oct 2012	#45
If this guy is a Chicago cop ...	holdencaufield	Oct 2012	#50
Sorry, the post was not	George Katona	Oct 2012	#43
Gee ... ya think?	holdencaufield	Oct 2012	#49
Why did you not post this on a hand-powered-press-printed broad-sheet, and travel by horse...	PavePusher	Oct 2012	#26
The only solution is to	friendly_iconoclast	Oct 2012	#29
Do you also wish to repeal	Jenoch	Oct 2012	#42
How did your wooden "press" morph into the Web?	Eleanors38	Oct 2012	#54
So "celebrities and politicians" get protection, SOL for everybody else?	EX500rider	Oct 2012	#67
Chicago PD......	glacierbay	Oct 2012	#68
Victims make better stats...	ileus	Oct 2012	#5
Anyone who has studied D.C.'s history of hostility to self-defense	Eleanors38	Oct 2012	#56
Outside of law enforcement	freedomboogie	Nov 2012	#75
Why should law enforcement be exempt?	oneshooter	Nov 2012	#76
What guarantees or compensation do you offer in return?	PavePusher	Nov 2012	#77
Why would law enforcement need to carry?	4th law of robotics	Nov 2012	#79

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