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"Gimme Shelter"
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
Originally posted by TDawgRex
reply to post by nenothtu
You forgot Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City and St. Louis. All cities in the supposed fly over states that are steadily circling the drain as well. All with strict gun control laws but yet have rampant crime rates.
Originally posted by Spookycolt
reply to post by Libertygal
I don't think so. DC banned handguns before and there were not massive protests. The Court reversed it and actually applied the second amendment to the States in that pivotal case.
We will see if someone takes NY to court over this and what the judges say. I haven't read what they are trying but there really isn't enough people who care about this for it to become a large issue.
Too much apathy in the country for people to revolt. Especially over something like a little gun ban.
Originally posted by Libertygal
reply to post by nenothtu
I absolutely agree with you about Occupy, but I suppose I was more inner reflecting on how they were treated as opposed to thier stance. They, as a movement in general, were stifled, and many had their rights violated. Many also did things no one would be proud of, but because of Occupy, they did make a new law about anti-protest.
Why? Because for the simple question I have already seen a hundred times. "Where were you when... NDA, SOPA, ..." etc.
My answer? I was here, others were here, but not enough of us had a big enough voice. That is not so anymore. But, careful what we do with that voice, and we can grow to handle those things along with our other rights. They all mattered, all along. It just took one thing, one straw to break the camels back, as you so eloquently stated.
Originally posted by Spookycolt
reply to post by nenothtu
Your assuming that the second amendment prevents regulation of firearms.
It does not, just that they cannot all be taken away.
"The right to bear arms" is quite different then "The right to bear any and all arms."