Just had to share this email we received . . .

rifleToday I opened my front door wide open and set my Winchester Model 94 right in the doorway.   I placed 6 cartridges beside it, and noticing that it had no legs, set it on my mom’s old wheelchair to help it get around.  I then left it alone and went about my business.   While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the neighbor boy across the street mowed the yard, a girl walked her dog down the street, and quite a few cars stopped at the stop sign right in front of our house.

After a couple of hours, I checked on the gun.   It was still setting there in the wheelchair, right where I had left it.   It hadn’t rolled itself outside.   It certainly hadn’t killed anyone, even with the numerous opportunities it had been presented to do so.   In fact, it hadn’t even loaded itself.   Well you can imagine my surprise, with all the media hype about how dangerous guns are and how they kill people.

Either the media is wrong, and it’s the misuse of guns by PEOPLE that kills people, or I’m in possession of the laziest gun in the world.

Alright, well I’m off to check on my spoons.  I hear they’re making people fat.

spoon

Hot Air Balloon

balloonA woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost.

She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below.

She shouted to him,

Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago,

But I don’t know where I am.”

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon,

Approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level.

You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees,

49.09 minutes west longitude.

She rolled her eyes and said, “You must be a Republican.

“I am,” replied the man. “How did you know?”

“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct.  But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost.

Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.”

The man smiled and responded, “You must be an Obama-Democrat.”  “I am,” replied the balloonist. “How did you know?”  “Well,” said the man, “you don’t know where you are — or where you are going.  You’ve risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air.

You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem.  You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it’s my fault”

 

 

Background Investigation… Permission Denied

PI2013 #198 – Background Investigation… Permission Denied

ASK A HORSE

“Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal” ~ Janet Reno

Saturday,

March 16th, 2013

Liberty Lovers,

 

http://www.usdebtclock.org: Every American Taxpayer Now “Owes” “The (federal) State” $147,455, every citizen $52,918.

 

“I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.” ~ Barack Obama

Background Investigations Would Be a more than convenient tool for denying ‘suspicious people’ personal firearm ownership.  ‘Government’ (“State”) officials need only lace investigation criteria with caveats deemed sufficiently threatening to stop people from buying guns.

“If someone is so fearful that, that they’re going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that these people have weapons at all!”  ~ Representative Henry A. Waxman (courtesy an AAH reader)

Background Investigation Criteria Can’t be expected to favor gun buyer applicants.  Background investigations, by their very nature, would be designed to prohibit, not promote gun ownership.  People on record opposing “State” policies could be deemed ‘dangerous.’

 

“Arms are the only true badge of liberty.” ~  Andrew Fletcher

Background Investigation Information, Regardless how public officials would promise otherwise, could never be guaranteed private.  Once a matter of record, always a matter of record, no matter how public officials would promise post-purchase purging.

“If we make enough laws, we can all be criminals.” ~  Jeff Snyder

Background Investigations Would Be tantamount to registration.  Registration makes confiscation easier.  Gun control zealots are intent on control, vis-à-vis confiscation… namely, ownership obliteration.

“If you don’t have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.” ~  Yoshimi Ishikawa

People Intending To Live In Liberty do not allow legislators – or other public officials within These United States of America, to prohibit or restrict private ownership of firearms and ammunition from any citizen of good repute and responsible standing. They preserve their heritage to protect themselves from crime and tyranny.

Let Freedom Ring

See http://citizencontrolledtaxation.com

— It’s your property, not “State” property.

Best Wishes,

Len Ritchey

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