So the Supreme Court ruled that the gun ban in Washington DC was unconstitutional. That is great, but…aside from the tight majority (5 to 4), there seemed to be a lot of things left open, or down right closed.

I’m glad they defined it as individuals rights, that we as a person have the right to own (keep) and bear arms. I’m not happy with the end of the statement used “self defense in our homes”, to me that sounds too much like opening a door to rid people of the ability to carry them outside the home.

They are also very vague on what guns are open for ban, and actually say that if the congress gets to a gun early enough before it becomes “common use” they can ban it. Which brings up another contradictory remark, that “common use” weapons are ok, but those that are used by the military are not - exactly how is that defined? Common use today would include a lot of military type clones the AR for example. There is also a flood of military surplus weapons out there too. You can even argue, that for a militia to have any sort of effect, they would need weapons on some level to that of the military.

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I knew this would happen, there’s no way it couldn’t. So here’s the follow up to the Clinton story yesterday.

Here’s the article

‘Now let me tell you what I can remember, OK — because what I was told was that we had to land a certain way and move quickly because of the threat of sniper fire. So I misspoke — I didn’t say that in my book or other times but if I said something that made it seem as though there was actual fire — that’s not what I was told. I was told we had to land a certain way, we had to have our bulletproof stuff on because of the threat of sniper fire. I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this 8-year-old girl and, I can’t, I can’t rush by her, I’ve got to at least greet her — so I greeted her, I took her stuff and then I left, Now that’s my memory of it’

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As a kid, and I’m sure this happened to a lot of us you lied. I know I did, in fact I can remember lying about my Dad’s military position to secure a place in a group of kids. But heck, how were they ever going to find out my Dad wasn’t a super secret spy/code cracker? They would actually have to ask him, after knowing full well that he would have to kill them if they did. It was a total win on my side.

Then there were the lies that had the potential to blow up in your face. The ones that could be verified and found to be completely false. I don’t remember any of my own off the top of my head, but I’m sure I’m guilty of it. Just like my own kids who will occasionally lie about something only for me to bust them about it later - it usually involves the room clean up, and goes something like this:

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