Why there is a second amendment

[JohnR]

I don't dispute what you say, but I think I'd prefer this system to a mafia type system where you do what they say or face physical harm. That's the reality in much of the world, particularly the areas now dominated by Muslims, or Communists.

[downtownv]

Google Newark NJ riots of '67 the largest City in NJ- took 40 years to come back and the dept. stores and Lifelong merchant/residents NEVER came back.
Lot's of take out chinese, fried chicken joints, liquor stores and check cashing businesses, though.
Also National Guard and NJ State Troopers ordered shoot to Kill looters, on sight. It stop within 24 hours......

[tv_racin_fan]

"I'm not certain it's all about money."
hehehehehe, it all and always about the money. why do you think Walgreens was planning to move the corp. hq to Ireland, better beer or tax break?
pick a news story, any story, follow the money trail and you'll get to the truth first. the political blame game, religion, alleged constitution, that's all secondary to money and mostly used to keep you off of the trail. don't worry about one party or the other, they all work for the same masters. when one family has more money than the bottom 50% of this country, who has a louder voice, you or the Waltons? (I buy guns and ammo at a gun store, not Walmart.)

Everything is all about the money to some on some level. While you point out Wal Mart and the Waltons you better look at your fellow consumers who shop where they shop to get the most for the dollar. I can recall back in the day when I told people to shop at Wal Mart because it was mostly US made goods but they preferred shopping elsewhere that was cheaper.

I buy what I buy where it is most convenient to me. Price does figure in but I aint drving far to get the better price when the savings goes up in smoke. Lucky for me the local gun shops have good prices on most things. Even the ammo aint that far over Wal Mart.

[marcinstl]

ok, that was me sneaking into a box store to buy a "loss leader" at a giveaway price. generally, I try to shop local and support small business. my local gunstore is owned by a guy I went to highschool with 50 yrs. ago. if I spend some money there and that helps him put some bread and a porkchop on his plate, it's a good thing. there's always a cup of coffee for me there and if I hide out there for an hour bs'ing about guns, it's a good thing. there's still some of these small businesses around, most of them seem to remember the concept of service, that's a very good thing.

[muggsy]

What do you call an 18 year old who's 6'2" tall, weighs over 200 pounds, and on a rampage? You call him "SIR" and get some back-up.
My question is, is his middle name Leroy?

Bottom line, if Michael Brown had paid for the cigars he'd be alive today. Brown set in motion a series of events that lead to his demise. Sometimes people make very poor life decisions. Michael Brown made his last. He won't do that again.

[marshal kane]

I believe one day, perhaps when Michael Brown was about six, he realized that he was a head taller than other boys and that he could push them around easily. That seemed to work fine for him until he became eighteen and a statistic. Muscle is not a substitute for brains. I apologize if someone can come up with Michael Browns high school grades and they're all passing.

[marcinstl]

many of the people in Ferguson(and STL metro) are not homeowners or have full time jobs, they migrate from apartment to apartment and "jus be stayin'". their below poverty level income is from welfare, hustling and maybe part time work- it's the ghetto economy. there experience with education was more like being warehoused than instructed. there experience with parenting is just a cruel joke. while the Brown case makes news, there's been 30-40 other shootings in metro STL, that got a line or two in the paper. the school dist. that neighbors Ferguson-Florissant dist. is the Riverview Gardens dist. as the demographics changed the RGSD was taken over by black board members, the $12million surplus disappeared in 3 yrs. and the superintendent went to jail, the dist. is now unaccredited and under state control. graduates from Riverview HS can be found at fast food restaurants, flipping burgers or working the squawk box-- "ah, ah, did you wan de mufukin fry wid dat?" or they can be found dead.

[JohnR]

Down here, the ghetto economy is a car wash tent at the gas station, or a crab shack. I don't know how much you can make at that, or if they're fronts for undocumented pharmacies.