You either quoted the wrong person or misunderstood my posts. I am already a person who believes in and supports the right to bear arms. Also own several myself. No need to try to convince me.
That I can understand and respect. There's plenty of people who have the same feelings towards weapons. Personally, I don't subscribe to that belief but I do understand yours.
I agree on the happiness issue, guns don't make anyone more or less happy IMO. And there's definately truth to your comment about statistics.
I would only disagree about your examples of criminal behavior using guns. Yes, criminals use guns but the majority of gun owners don't use their guns for those purposes. Unfortunately, a very low percentage get the press and the episodes (especially involving schools and universities) are horrible. But those were conducted for the most part by those who obtained weapons through dubious means. Categorizing all gun owners in the same light would be like categorizing all hunters in Malta in the same light as those who recently torched 3 vehicles of people monitoring wildlife in a former hunting area. It's simply not accurate.
Pardon the intrusion but I am very familiar with the Keyoto Ttreaty and the unnecessary and unfair burden it would have placed on the USA. If Obama is saying he's going to sign America up for this thing then I really am doubtful of his ability to make good decisions. In any case, he will get overridden by the Congress or at least I would hope so.
Bill Clinton sat on it because he knew it was wrong and he could pawn it off on either Gore or Bush after the elections. Even John Kerry (Whom I don't like) had sense enough to say only a fool would sign onto this treaty.
It gives the US no say or negotiation ability until they sign on and then any changes need to be voted in by a 75% margin by all participating nations. Over 75% of those are receiving nations and I doubt they would give up the billons in funding this treaty would exact on the US. Also, China and other polluting countries are not held to the same standards. Why should we commit ourselves to something we have no control over?
In short, the Keyoto Treaty is liken to two lions and a sheep getting together to try to decide what's for dinner (The US being the sheep in this case) There are smarter ways to help the environment and allowing the UN to dictate how much we pay and what we do does not equate to smart in my opinion and the opinions of most of the congress that has already seen the protocol.
I do home restoration/improvement as well as landscaping and some minor construction (additions) as a hobby and for investment. Enjoyable work and I've gotten pretty good at it. I'm never in a rush and enjoy the process from start to finish (Most of the time)
Just don't ask me to mess with anything electric and we're good to go.
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