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Does anyone remember a number of years ago there was a movie, the name of which I don't remember, but it stared James Garner as an army seargent who owned a surplus Sherman tank and kept it in his garage on base. Anyway in the movie Garner's son was locked up by an overly authoritarian local police chief so Garner showes up at the police station with the tank and makes a successful jail break. The rest of the movie is about how he and his son, with the tank struggle to make it to the county line where the chief's authority ends. Very good movie in my opinion but it illustrates, tongue-in-cheek why the second amendment exists.

I think everyone that wants one should keep a sherman tank in their garage. Heck, they get better gas milage than a Hummer and have better towing capability.

My 2c.

Gerry

Good point!! As one politician dryly observed a year or so ago when asked about the possibility of a total gun ban, " Heck, there are enough machine shops in the garrages of Texas that if the Bubbas wanted to arm a nation the size of Iraq they could in a matter of weeks."

Gerry

canvasbck wrote:

Poldark wrote:Obama aide: Gun legislation in 'near future'

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"I'm willing to bet that responsible, law-abiding gun owners agree that we should be able to keep an irresponsible, law-breaking few -- dangerous criminals and fugitives, for example -- from getting their hands on a gun in the first place."

Finally I agree with someone in the Obama administration! I have an idea of a way to keep the irresponsible, law breaking few, such as dangerous criminals and fugitives from getting their hands on a gun in the first place..........................put them in prison where it's almost impossible to purchase a firearm. Then you can quit worrying about the rest of us.

How's that for common sense gun control?

Or maybe we could find a large island somewhere mid-ocean like the French used to do only equip it with automatic track-destroy computer controled weaponry around the coast line. Nobody gets in; nobody gets out except at the entry pier, including aircraft. Access at the pier could be remotely controled from say Dept. Of Justice, in D.C. and everything else runs on auto. The inmates would have to learn to get along in a civilization of their own making or perish; their choice.

Just an idle thought.

Gerry

As a practical matter they would probably pick up all the knives, baseball bats, claw hammers, hatchets and screwdrivers / ice picks when they picked up the guns.