That is probably a lie….I will most likely have more to say on guns as the year moves on….but for now…….

If you watched the hearings on guns then you saw Giffords and her hubby testify and then there was Graham’s rant about magazines….and a women that went on and on about the need for large capacity magazines….and finally there was Mr. French (LaPierre)….who crapped on everything and warned the Congress of the disaster that would befall the country if ANY measures were passed…….

Newser) – The NRA plans to oppose mandatory background checks on all gun purchases, its president tells USA Today , rejecting one of the most popular proposals on gun control: the closure of loopholes allowing gun-show purchases without background checks. If the measure, which polls with 85% support, can’t get through, prospects for other new rules look bleaker, the paper suggests. Would the NRA call on legislators to oppose such a requirement? “If it came up today, yes,” said president David Keene.

Keene saw a less than 50% chance the measure would pass Congress. “But it has a better chance (than an assault-weapons ban) because it sounds reasonable,” he noted. The likelihood of that ban? “Very, very small,” he said. Still, he offered a “caveat”: “When you get in a battle with the president of the United States, if he’s willing to spend political capital, you’d be foolish to … bet against him.” But with other things on his plate, President Obama isn’t likely to push as hard for the ban as Bill Clinton did, Keene said.

My feelings are well documented so I will close with a quote from H.L. Mencken…..“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

And there sports fans is the real argument on both sides….nothing but fear…..NO truth…….my grandfather use to say….”if you think of yourself as a victim, then you already are”…….enuff said!

And then there is the right to own a gun…..it is a right but should it be made mandatory?  Does the government have the right to demand that you own a gun and maintain it?

You are probably asking yourself right about now…”what the Hell am I going on about, right?”

Residents of Nelson, Ga., could soon have more than the right to bear arms—they could be legally required to, reports WSB-TV. With just one police officer in the 1,300-person town that straddles two counties, Nelson residents face long police response times, so local officials are introducing the Family Protection Act, which mandates that every head of household “maintain a firearm, together with ammunition.” Of course, there will be plenty of room for exemptions—for convicted felons and people with religious objections—and officials say they don’t intend on enforcing the statute. “Why have an ordinance if you’re not going to enforce it? What’s the point?,” says one Nelson resident. “This is big government at its worst.”

Nelson isn’t the first town in the United States to ponder a firearms requirement, notes the Week. Among the others:

• Kennesaw, Ga. The most famous example, Kennesaw has required every household to keep a firearm since 1982, though it’s an unenforceable law. Police estimate that about half the town complies.
• Sabattus, Maine. A retired cop wanted a gun requirement to make a statement against gun control talk since the Sandy Hook shootings, but the town council voted down his measure 4-0 on Tuesday. The local police chief said people “have the right not to bear arms.”
• Virgin, Utah. About 95% of the town’s residents already had a firearm when the law passed in 2000. As in other towns, the measure isn’t really enforced, though. “It’s not enforcement,” says the mayor, “it’s a statement.”

Thoughts?

Addendum:  It seems that all the panic and ranting was in vain…….the only whiners I saw were the gun nuts spreading fear and loathing………there will be NO, I repeat, NO assault weapon ban or extended magazine ban!  I believe that I told people months ago to stop the panic buying that little would change from the gun laws we have now…….looky looky!  Not much will change!