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emerson1248 Loc: Minnesota

Leave the Stat if you can, I applaud Beretta for standing up for the real America. Let the criminals and progressives rot and starve. Boycott the State cut off supplies to their police also. If the honest citizen can't keep their rights then the State enforcers don't need them either...

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

Beretta warned the Maryland legislature what they would do over two months ago. Taking away all that tax money will hurt the state but taking away all the wages will hurt them even more.

Legislators in Democrat controlled states don't seem to be able to understand what they are doing in this case. Look at Colorado outlawing the most common shotgun used in the state. They are having a real time going along with the national Democrat Party which is controlled completely by progressives.

emerson1248 Loc: Minnesota

The progressives think its more important to punish law abiding gun owners and dis-arm us, violating their oath and the law of the land as it stands. This to them is more important than huge tax monies that are leaving along with over 400 job's. That's just from one company, more will follow. Who do these idiots think are going to pay their over inflated salaries and benefits that the private sector doesn't get? I guess Obama's welfare gang's will all pitch in, LMAO...

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

It is a cinch that Obama's welfare gangs will have to support many of those 400 and their families.

Everything you said is so very true..

roy

its funny why everyone on this blog seems to think obama invented wefare,people its was there along time before he got there.why are people not mad about coperate welfare,if beretta leaves maryland they where probably already thinking about it anyway,and many states will give them millions in coperate welfare,to come .

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

I don't know what coperate welfare could possibly be. Do you mean to say corporate or what.

I think most people who write here know better than what you say about welfare, but they all know how many more people are on some kind of welfare now than before.

roy

then you been living under a rock,and no i may not spell to good ,but people that are perfect will let you know that.

dbleach3

One legislator stated: “Other than target shooting, the only other reason [for a semi-automic firearm] would be for self-defense… [Why would you need a] rifle that accommodates 20 rounds semi-automatic for deer hunting? … It’s only very infrequently that someone commits a crime with an assault weapon – why do you need one for self-defense?”

One purpose of the second amendment is to protect against a tyrannical government.

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." --James Madison, Federalist No. 46, 1788
".... to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380, (http://www.madisonbrigade.com/g_mason.htm)
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.." 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.” Justice Joseph Story. (http://home.comcast.net/~dsmjd/tux/dsmjd/rkba/story.htm
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. ... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be possible." - Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (1960) (http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/arms_quotes.htm)

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

I knew what you were referring to but needed to take a chance that you would be offended to use what you said to explain some things. My computer just won't let words like that get past it although it doesn't always know what I mean to say.

I keep seeing all those words about corporate welfare when they come from progressive thinkers kind of like calling Social Security what they call it now days. Very recently they went to entitlement for it and sure enough old people like me don't see it that way since I have been paying into SS since I was 12 which would be 68 years ago. I had to start working pretty young, it seems compared to these days.

Now for the apology for hurting your feelings. Please accept it.

oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)

But, but, but, but all those people have long since been dead. The part that bothers me is that they couldn't have seen into the future when progressives would be taking over the government and sure not have seen anything like Obama coming along.

Just think that the most recent of your quotes came from a good Democrat who ran for President and failed. Humphrey (1960) didn't see even 50 years into the future when he said that such tyrannical government seemed to be a remote thought in the nation of the always "copied" Constitution.

Good post, now lets see how some of our progressive thinking "friends" reply to it.

roy

my state is a master at paying bussiness to come here,and most of the time,about 95% they never could recoup,the taxpayers money. most of the time after the company moves here then they do what ever they want .by the way my state is tennessee,which has fast becoming a low wage,no workers rights,if they could they would do away with min. wage,i dont doubt they want try that in the future,anything that helps the worker they are taking away,because tennessee has become a red state,and bought by big bussiness.