ROFLOL! Ahh, yes, when my wife is going to be mad at me, I have it very rough. I have to hide the gun, sai, nunchaku, swords, tonfa, bo staff, etc. That can take hours!
Hey Glitch,
It was eating away at me that you could have this really cool Dojo just around the corner from me and I wouldn’t even know it.
I read another post from you on another thread that gives some sort of indication of where you are from. I’m in NJ and it doesn’t look like you are here or in NYC, which makes me happy. 
Have you ever visited any schools in NJ?
No, I have driven through NJ, but never been to any schools there. I think the closest would be in Albany, NY.
On the Second and self defense…
During the King Riots in L.A., the L.A.P.D. withdrew from the streets, geared up, and went back out to break up the riots. Service calls to homes and busineses were suspended; there simply weren’t enough police officers to adequately protect individuals and their property and break up the riot.
This is not a new precedent; it has long been recognized in the judicial and law enforcement community that individual police officers, or the police departments they serve, are not there to serve the citizenry individually, but rather collectively by protecting the community as a whole. Individual self defense was left to ::!GASP!:: the individual.
The right of law abiding citizens to be secure in their homes and possessions against armed intrusion, be it criminal or government (if there’s a difference) takes precedent over a criminal’s right to continue to waste oxygen and pollute the gene pool.
A little while back…
The mayor of a large metropolis advocated and enacted Gun Registration, with arguments similar to: “we [the Government] need some method to track who owns what kinds of guns. This will allow law enforcement to adequately track guns used in crimes, and to help take criminals off of our streets, and make them safe once again for our citizens.”
The leading newspaper for this city editorialized that this registration law would “guarantee the rights of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms”
The local legislators promised that the $3 registration fee would never, ever, be increased.
The year was 1967.
Twenty-four years later, this city passed tougher gun control laws. The Police Commissioner for this city testified before the mayor and city council that no gun covered in the original 1967 law had been used in the commission of a crime in twenty-four years.
The new gun control law passed with overwhelming suport of the cities’legislature. The police mailed letters to these Registered Gun Owners, ordering them to turn in these weapons to the police, and planned to enect random searches of people’s homes to ensure compliance.
The registration fee is now $55, an increase of over 1700%.
The year was 1991; the city is New York.
Gun Registration doesn’t lead to gun confiscation? Anybody here kept up with what’s going on in the California legislature?
The Gun Registration=Gun Confiscation argument is beginning to look a lot less slippery sloped that gun control advocates would have us gun owners believe.
Those of you bound and determined to strip away our rights with gun control need to read “Unintended Consequences” by John Ross, and take heed of his historical warning:
Stripping motivated people of their dignity and rubbing their noses in it is a very bad idea.
<FONT COLOR=“GREEN”>ExTank</FONT>
“I treat Gun Control the same way I treat Religion and The Government: when you can prove to me it works, I’ll believe it”.