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According to one report I saw on Sargent York several Germans were charging down a hill toward him. Using his 1911 .45 ACP he picked all of them off. He started with the last one in line, the others thinking he was missing kept coming to meet their death.

Much has been made about York being denied his request as a conscientious Objector. He was initially denied this & sent to boot camp. This denial was later rescinded & he was granted conscientious objector status. In the interim his Sargent had talked with him & he turned it down. He had been convinced it was his Duty as a Christian to defend his country against Evil, which he did so with Vigor. I whole heartedly agree with his final choice & am proud to claim him as a fellow Tennessean.

Miller: I visited Sergeant York�s home place in Pall Mall, TN a couple years ago while fishing at Dale Hollow Lake. He was quite a man. I enjoyed seeing his place and visiting his grave. The poor man had a stroke in old age that was very debilitating for him.

I've interviewed hundreds of infantrymen, and what impressed me most was the way they saw their duty and did it, particularly the resourceful country boys armed with strong family values, often thinking how much I'd like to meet their parents.

King
That is exactly why so many of us from the USA so highly value our 2nd amendment which guarantees us the right to keep & Bear arms. The 2nd amendment was "NOT" written for the benefit of hunters & target shooters. It was meant that we could have arms suitable for "Going to War", thus the reason for the word "Militia" which is so drastically mis-interpreted by the libral ANTI media.

I of course did not personally hear it, but have read that the Emperor of Japan during WWII made the statement he would not be foolish enough to send troops to invade the US as there would be a rifleman behind every blade of grass.

Concur, DOA, if one bothers to look, bills like this get generated about every session

That said, continued vigilance and activity on the part of gun owners remains critical

If law inforcement had did their duty in Florida we wouldn't be talking about this AR crap...

This type of duty requires CQB training along with experience. It's sort of like hunting wounded dangerous game in Africa only it's more dangerous and stressful.

If a LEO is going to be toting a gun he should be trained in what to do with it --- period. If he fails to measure up in a moment of crisis he should be held accountable.

Security guards at the nuclear power plant near me are in constant training, from what I'm told. They have sophisticated training simulators, and must make decisions on the spur of the moment whether or not to shoot.

Are our kids not are worth just as much?

SRH

Vigilance for sure, miller. But the Second or constitutions or anything else won't give us the societies we want by themselves---that is, without the blessing and spirited support of the people. Even then, because we are human, we make colossal mistakes in intelligence gathering, military planning and safety preparations for natural disasters. Nothing is safe and certain. The only gun law moving in the right direction anywhere that I remember is Canada's quiet and uncontentious removal of long gun registration, which followed the Montreal Massacre.

The US Constitution does give us the society that's perfect for the US that is a nation of laws. It is the spirit progressives who bless us with secular ideology that wreck our laws by selective enforcement and appoint activists to the bench. In other words, two of the three branches of our government have been corrupted against the laws established by the will of people through their representatives in the legislative branch. I thought you knew that?

I'm sure you're aware of it, but to save children and protect minorities and immigrants, or some such like that, the US passed the 'Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994'. There was a subsection of that law, the 'Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act' that was allowed to sunset after ten years in a quiet and uncontentious manner because an objective look at it revealed that it was a completely ineffective knee jerk emotional attachment to the law. It was clearly a move in the right direction for any law, and by luck, it sunset at a time when court activist judges weren't imposing their individual unilateral feelings on law abiding citizen in quite as bold a manner.

Today? We were a gnats eyelash away from having a hillery tilted Supreme Court upholding a lower court blocking of the sunset. I thought you knew that?