Ronald Reagan...

[Teresa]

Ronald Reagan on the difference between Republicans and Democrats:
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15."

((personal comment))~~ I DO believe that with the Democrats running the House and the Senate..and Hitler-y scratching at the front door of the White House.. the United States will be in a deep deep deep world of poo.

It scares me to death....
Do I like everything Bush has done? No. But I kid you not....... if these people have their way in the coming years... our freedoms  will be ONLY what a one world government will allow them to be.
United NATIONS??    I don't think sooooooooooooooo...
I ..for one.... want it to stay , The United States of America.

[Teresa]

Let me go further with my worries.
You know.. I am not against change.. what I am afraid of is them taking away  my 2nd ammendment right to keep and bear arms. And believe me folks.. THAT IS what the Democrats intend to do.

They didn't even mention guns in their campaign this year... They KNEW it would mean lost votes... They stayed silent.. Well now the rattlesnake den has been opened and the snakes have a free roam on the pastures..

They want to guns to be gone.
BUT!~~~~
Only all of OUR guns. NOT the 24 hour bodygaurds' firearms that protect them around the clock.. Ohhh noooo..They WANT someone to have guns then... so that their sorry 2 faced backstabbing liberal asses will be protected.
And who will suffer??!! The criminals? No...
Us..
The law abiding citizen trying to protect his property and his life and his family's lives.
Guns alone don't kill people......people kill people.

(((Take a deep breath Teresa and start over here)))

I know that this is long.. but please read it if you are a gun owner and if you are not.. read it anyway just so you are aware.

Election 2006
Gun Owners of America
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006

What impact, if any, will the transformational 2006 Congressional Election have on Second Amendment rights?

While election 2006 may have been a referendum on many things (the President, war in Iraq, Jack Abramoff, Mark Foley for example), it does not translate into greater support for gun control at the grass roots level.

If anything, gun control was notable as a non-issue in this election. In compiling the GOA rating, researchers could hardly find a congressional candidate with any stated position on gun control on campaign websites.

That's not to say many of the newly elected will not support the anti-gun agenda; just that they recognize open support for gun control will cost them at the polls.

Unlike the newly elected members, however, the Democrat Congressional leadership is completely beholden to the far left anti-gun extreme of its party.

House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (F-rated by GOA) is a charter member of the most extreme wing of the party she now leads. As the person who controls what bills come to the floor, Pelosi will be unable to say "No" to the appeals for more gun control by the likes of Sarah Brady and her congressional allies.

The Speaker's strongest House ally in the push for more gun control is long-time Democrat anti-gun activist John Conyers, the likely Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

Almost all bills related to the Second Amendment will pass through Conyers' committee. The new Chairman, an extremist who advocates a total handgun ban, will control the schedule of the committee as well as which bills come up for committee vote.

The situation in the Senate may be worse (pending the outcome of the Virginia senate race). Should Democrat Jim Webb hang on to win, the expected new Senate Majority will be F-rated Harry Reid (NV) and the probable incoming Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee would be GOA F-rated Pat Leahy of Vermont

From there it really goes downhill.

The rest of the Democrats currently on the committee make up the Who's Who of the anti-gun movement:

    * * Ted Kennedy (MA), the mouthpiece for Sarah Brady in the Senate;
    * * Joe Biden (DE), who chaired the Judiciary Committee when the Brady bill passed in 1993, and who said at that time, famously, "The public and the Congress have spoken unequivocally, and I don't care what a minority wants;"
    * * Herb Kohl (WI), author of the "Gun Free Zones Ban;"
    * * Dianne Feinstein (CA), author of the so-called "Assault Weapons" ban;
    * * Russ Feingold (WI), democrat lead sponsor of so-called campaign finance reform;
    * * Charlie Schumer (NY), lead sponsor of the 1993 Brady law; and,
    * * Dick Durbin (IL), one of the most outspoken gun control zealots in the Senate.

Gun owners should look twice at the above list. Most or all of these members will remain on the Judiciary Committee when the new Congress convenes in January, and will help shape American gun laws for at least the next two years.

Gun Owner Victories
There were several bright spots for gun owners this election. The 210th Congress will include the following "A rated" members who had the support of Gun Owners of America's Political Action Committee: Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Bill Sali (R-ID), Vern Buchanan (R-FL) Peter Roskam (R-IL), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Adrian Smith (R-NE), and Jim Jordan (R-OH).

With the exception of Buchanan, who has not held elected office, each of these new representatives have strong, proven pro-gun records in their respective state legislatures. In addition, Reps. Roskam, Walberg, Smith and Jordan are a vast improvement over the Republicans they are replacing.

Further, many of the incumbent Republicans who were defeated were not pro-gun. For example, Nancy Johnson (CT), Jim Leach (IA), Clay Shaw (FL), Curt Weldon (PA), and Charlie Bass (NH) were not strong gun rights supporters.

In the Senate, ousted Republican Mike DeWine of Ohio was as anti-gun as Charlie Schumer. The same can be said for Lincoln Chafee (R-RI).

Democrat Senators-elect Jon Tester (MT), and Bob Casey (PA), as well as Jim Webb, claim to be pro-gun. It remains to be seen if they vote that way.

The bottom line: On a race-by-race basis, the pro-gun movement suffered a net loss of only a small handful of seats.

However, notwithstanding widespread calls for moderation within their ranks, the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate will unquestionably put gun owners on the defensive by seeking to renew the so-called assault weapons ban, close down gun shows, and drastically expand the Brady gun control law.

[Carl Harrod]

Since you started this with the topic being Ronald Regan, I will add some quotes that were attributed to him. (Sorry it doesn't have anything to do with gun owner issues)



"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
- Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
- Ronald Reagan

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
- Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
- Ronald Reagan

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."
- Ronald Reagan

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
- Ronald Reagan

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
- Ronald Reagan

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
- Ronald Reagan

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."
- Ronald Reagan

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
- Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession; I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
- Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
- Ronald Reagan

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
- Ronald Reagan

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
- Ronald Reagan

[Wilma]

I hadn't heard these quotes before, but everyone of them is true.  Reagan had a pretty good sense of humor. 

TERESA, stay on that soapbox.  This is the UNITED STATES of AMERICA and may it always be.

[Teresa]

"Government is not the solution to our problem;
government is the problem.  If no one among us is
capable of governing himself, then who among us
has the capacity to govern someone else?"

- Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, 1/20/1981