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This is good stuff at a deep level. Language creates perceptions. When you can control the language of the debate, you control the issue. "Assault Weapon" creates a frame of meaning much like the terms "pro-life, pro-choice, freedom fighter, terrorist" etc etc. Homeland Defense Rifle-- sounds great to me. I'll start using it. A few months ago I saw a short news piece on another shooting in Memphis-- they interviewed a young black mom who was living in that neighborhood-- asked her how safe she felt, etc. She pulled out an AR of some sort and said "I bought this and I am learning how to use it-- I will defend my family". Hooah! Homeland defense rifle. That young mother trying to defend her family with an AR has a homeland defense rifle. It is hard to argue with that.

If you are going to bet your life on it, spend more if you get greater reliability--- is your life worth a couple of hundred dollars more? Of course, a Lorcin POS that you can buy is usually better than no gun at all. Steal your grandmother's TV and pawn it so you can buy the better weapon. Stop cable for 2-3 months and you can afford the Glock. Drink less beer. Quit smoking. Drive less. Eat out less often. Work more.

Hi there- I used to live a few miles form Henry County up in Calloway county, KY. Nice country. Enjoy the board!

Welcome. I took the class with my wife- it was a fun "date". We went to the DMV together to pay the fees, etc, too. Tru luv.

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Ammo ammo ammo- I'll buy $600 worth of ammo (or that shot gun I have been thinking about). Ammo keeps going up, and it goes up at a rate higher than any investments I might have, so ammo is a great investment, imho.

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Red-- I'm sure Molon's interest is purely academic, purely a legal scholar's opinion, a man concerned only with libertarian free enterprise, free speech, small government, etc. I know he keeps abreast of women's issues like the right to bare breasts- (he might even be a feminist)- I hope his post doesn't create any cleavage between ya'll. If you strip this issue down to it's bare assentials, it is a human rights-civil liberties-free enterprise issue, I am sure, a lot like the second amendment, except not. So, I am sure his interest is purely intellectual.

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Great story. Congrats to the NYPD officer. But, I think that after reading that story I want to carry 3 handguns with about 90 rounds. And a helmet. And body armor... and lotsa knives... and that's just to go to the barber shop.

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Well, I guess some of ya'll might have to change your recreation patterns -- It is is a dark day for the right to bare breasts in Memphis. We can still bear arms. Is this boob control? B&B - Beer and Breasts- those are great American traditions. The good news is that if they ban beer sales, we can now carry our weapons into strip clubs since no alcohol will be sold there. We just won't want to go there as much with these new rules. Strip club rules ban beer, bare breasts City Council tables less-restrictive measure By Amos Maki Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Strip clubs will no longer be able to sell beer or show bare breasts when a Shelby County ordinance goes into effect April 29. The ordinance will regulate the clubs and other sexually oriented businesses because the Memphis City Council voted Tuesday to delay indefinitely voting on a less restrictive city ordinance. The council, on a 7-5 vote, tabled the city ordinance on its third reading, meaning seven council members can vote at any time to bring the ordinance back up for final reading. The county ordinance is already under a legal challenge after seven strip club owners sued in federal court in January. All of the county's strip clubs are in Memphis. Without revealing how he would have voted, Councilman Myron Lowery said the council was "copping out" and showed a "lack of courage and leadership" by not taking a vote. "This is a tough issue," he said. "That is what you were elected to do, make tough decisions." Councilman Shea Flinn said the council, which has nine new members, needs to proceed cautiously. "There is no shame in taking our time," he said. But Brian Stephens of the Cordova Leadership Council said the council decision and the process of regulating the businesses was "maddening and exhausting" and that citizens who want to rein in the industry must remain vigilant. "We can't not do anything. The city needs to address it." Council members were considering an ordinance that would allow beer sales and not require dancers to cover their nipples. The county ordinance also includes creating a board that will regulate the more than two dozen adult businesses, including strip clubs, escort services, massage parlors, book stores and movie theaters. Background checks of every adult-business employee and owner are also required. City Atty. Elbert Jefferson pushed hard for the city ordinance, telling council members that approving it could satisfy the club owners who filed the lawsuit. The county ordinance was based on a state law that the state attorney general has twice successfully defended against legal challenges. The county ordinance, which also requires dancers to stay six feet from customers and from one another during performances, aims "to destroy, and will destroy the market for live adult entertainment in the City of Memphis," the suit contends. Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Bill Gibbons has endorsed the county ordinance. Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin did not return repeated phone calls. Council members Flinn, Bill Boyd, Edmund Ford Jr., Janis Fullilove, Wanda Halbert, Reid Hedgepeth and Barbara Swearengen Ware voted to table the city ordinance. Council members Lowery, Harold Collins, Scott McCormick, Bill Morrison and Jim Strickland voted against tabling the city ordinance. Councilman Joe Brown abstained from the vote because the sexually oriented businesses are "sinful and wicked." Boyd said he voted to table the city ordinance because doing so would allow the more-restrictive county ordinance to govern the businesses. "I wanted to make sure my vote counted," he said. Contact reporter Amos Maki at 529-2351. To read more stories by him, click on Contact Us at commercialappeal.com and click on his name.

Have fun fly- and remember, everybody in the whole store knows you are carrying! Jus kiddin'- congrats on being legal.

And I heard somewhere that the price of lead has risen faster than the price of any other major metal, including gold. Buy now, save later. I think it works like gasoline- it ain't gonna get a whole lot cheaper very soon.

Welcome. I used to live in Murray, KY, just up the road.

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