It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by macman
reply to post by unityemissions
I saw that a while ago.
Title is for stats between 1993 to 2001.
It is far from current.
Originally posted by rival
Originally posted by MegaMind
Originally posted by rival
Obama doesn't have to ban guns to do what he wants. He doesn't even have to regulate them.
He doesn't have to conflict with the second amendment at all...
All he has to do is ban ammunition...then ban reloading equipment and sales of gun powder
and primers to citizens...easy-peasy.
Ban the bullet and you effectively ban the gun...without running afoul of the BoR--the second
amendment is clear, "...the right to keep and bear arms...". It says nothing about bullets
Guns don't kill...guns don't protect...bullets do
Bullets are part and parcel with arms ....
go fish ...
Darn.......Arms and ammunition are not synonymous Arms refers to guns...ammunition refers to bullets....
Got any threes?
Arms
Noun
1. Weapons and ammunition; armaments: "they were subjugated by force of arms".
2. Distinctive emblems or devices, forming the heraldic insignia of families, corporations, or countries.
am·mu·ni·tion
Noun
1. A supply or quantity of bullets and shells.
2. Considerations that can be used to support one's case in debate.
Originally posted by unityemissions
Originally posted by macman
reply to post by unityemissions
I saw that a while ago.
Title is for stats between 1993 to 2001.
It is far from current.
Urghh, dude I'm trying to help ya here. Just frustrating.
I provided stats for recent years in my first link.
Because the original question was directed at the age group 16-28 I think, you asked for proof that this came from the youth. So I provided a link that shows crime is mostly under 25.
You asked for a better link. I provided.
That the date for these stats is from 93-01 is entirely irrelevant.
You're basically saying you don't believe that the youth are, historically speaking, the ones who are usually locked up as the vast majority.
There are variables, and there are constants, and the youth being "fools" who must be "corrected" by social institutions is a constant throughout our history.
edit on 10-1-2013 by unityemissions because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Jobeycool
If a tyrant ever gets elected and they take away all firearms then you will be mass murdered,simple as that.People who love government and communism will never understand it.
Originally posted by macman
reply to post by DelMar
Oh, I get it. Master of Semantics is here.
Look to his history and what his Admin/Cabinet officials are saying. Along with the morons in Congress and the Senate.
Originally posted by Truth_Hz
reply to post by MegaMind
Firstly you kindly omitted this:
Today, some prerogative powers are directly exercised by ministers without the approval of Parliament, including the powers of declaring war and of making peace, to issue passports, and to grant honours.[34] Prerogative powers are exercised nominally by the monarch, but on the advice of the prime minister (with whom the monarch meets on a weekly basis) and on the advice of the cabinet.[35] Some key functions of the British government are still executed by virtue of the Royal Prerogative, but generally the usage of the prerogative has been diminishing as functions are progressively put on a statutory basis.[36]
Nominally.. an important word here
These powers are known as Royal Prerogative and can be used for a vast number of things, such as the issue or withdrawal of passports, to the dismissal of the Prime Minister or even the Declaration of War. The powers are delegated from the Monarch personally, in the name of the Crown, and can be handed to various ministers, or other Officers of the Crown, and can purposely bypass the consent of Parliament.
Secondly The Governor Generals whilst are the representatives of the Monarch do not act upon orders of the Monarch.
A major grouping of constitutional monarchies comprises the sixteen Commonwealth realms under Elizabeth II.[7] Unlike some of their continental European counterparts, the Monarch and her Governors-General in the Commonwealth realms hold significant "reserve" or "prerogative" powers, to be wielded in times of extreme emergency or constitutional crises, usually to uphold parliamentary government. An instance of a Governor-General exercising such power occurred during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, when the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed by the Governor-General. The Australian senate had threatened to block the Government's budget by refusing to pass the necessary appropriation bills. On 11 November 1975, Whitlam intended to call a half-Senate election in an attempt to break the deadlock. When he sought the Governor-General's approval of the election, the Governor-General instead dismissed him as Prime Minister, and shortly thereafter installed leader of the opposition Malcolm Fraser in his place.
Even though the United Kingdom has no single constitution document, in October 2003, in order to increase transparency, the Government published the above list as some of the powers exercised in the name of the Monarch and which are part of the Royal Prerogative. However the full extent of Her Majesty's powers has never been fully disclosed.
The power to dismiss the Government
Legally, the Queen has the power to dismiss the Government at any time and for any reason or for none. No exercise of this power could be struck down by any court of law. This power was last exercised in the United Kingdom by William IV in 1834, but it remains in place. It was exercised with devastating effect in 1975 in Australia.
Even if some of these powers have not been exercised in the United Kingdom in many years, do not be fooled. Legally, they still exist. Several of them have been much more recently exercised by the Crown in Australia (where the Queen's appointed representative dismissed the democratically elected Government of the day in 1975) and in Canada (where the Queen's appointed representative prorogued Parliament for several weeks in late 2008, preventing it from performing its democratic and constitutional functions).
Originally posted by TheIllusiveMan
reply to post by beezzer
100% agree with you! It is time we stop simply reacting to the emotional manipulation of the government and it is time we begin to act as a united front. Those in visible power i.e. the "top" republicans and democrats are obviously united in the pillaging and perversion of the law and the constitution.
I understand this and you and everyone in this forum understands this, but how do we get the masses to understand and to stop believing in all the smoke and mirrors??
Originally posted by Spiramirabilis
Originally posted by beezzer
If the idiot who killed all those people in Sandy Hook had a knife, or a sharp stick, or a rock, or a hammer instead of a gun we'd all be discussing the deplorable state of the mental health services in America.
But we're focusing on the weapon the killer used instead of the killer.
Agenda?
you're getting warmer...
(so close!)
:-)