Exactly, John P... We did end the Vietnam War... I mean, even my Republican dad marched in the Moratorium in Washington, D.C.... Proudest day of my life...

As fir knowledge of the US Constitution, GfinS... My first degree was in History and Poli-Sci... I fully understand the Constitution... I fully understand the 2nd amendment... It is one sentence... Not two as the right would have people believe... The right to bare arms is therefor tied to the right to organized a "standing militia"... Militias, by definition, are not "individuals"... They are groups of individual with a single purpose of defending a group of citizens... The 2nd amendment, in no way, gives individuals a right to bare arms as "one man militias" or the Founding Fathers would have stated it that way... But they didn't... They tied the right to bare arms to a "militia"... The Tea Party people don't have a clue what I am saying here because the Tea Party people don't have a clue about anything that is fact based...

That's the real story...

Oh yeah... We have battery laws on the books in every state... That prevents people from using threats of violence to settle conflicts... When thug, who are paid by the Koch brothers, enter a town meeting with the intent of scaring the shit out of everyone that is supposed, and used to be, a crime...

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