03USMC said:
Actually I believe that 5.56 was referencing the Stringent Firearms Laws that are in place in NYC, Chicago, DC , California and Mass. That in many people's opinion infringe upon the Second Amendment . And really have done nothing to curtail Crime.Laws implemented by generally liberal State or City Goverments largely of Democratic makeup.
As far as his arguments about Cuba. Since he's Cubano and has lived it I'll take his word for it.
Yes, when I talk about places like Washington DC California, NYC, and Mass. I am refering to the firearm laws. I live and work around firearms. I make by business off firearms. I sell them and repair them. I shoot for competition. Which in turn means that I win money. I carry a firearm daily for personal protection and I believe that a armed society is a polite society. Sure, South Florida's crime rate is rising, but it's still not like NYC or Washington DC. The Country's capital is also the murder capital. And they have alws that make bullet key chain illegal. In NYC, you have to be either very well connected with the city government to have a CCP (Concealed Carry Permit) or be a cop. ANd I don't think that's how it should be. Everyone should have the right to bear arms. Either it be a single shot .22LR pistol to a full auto .50BMG Rifle.
And as for Cuba, if you've never been there. Keep your mouth shut. I've had nightmares of my childhood becuase of the things that I have seen in that Socialist/Communist Dream that some people think it is. The prisonors at Camp X-Ray live better than the people of Cuba. They get three meals a day, medical treatment for anything from a bad tooth to lung cancer, and a roof over their heads that isn't made from two by fours and a sheet of tin that we got off a old tool shed. Living in America is something that I'm proud of. I wasn't born in this country, but I'll sure as heck defend her. I enlisted in the Army to defend my adopted home country. And to defend it's way of life. Which is far better than what I've lived in other places.
My time overseas was very educating. The vaule of human life is far lower is certain parts of the world. And I've seen what causes it. People that think they're better than others. Those that think that they should think for the masses. That is what the American liberial is today. They want to take the feedom of choice and self thought away from everyone else. They want the government to do your thinking for you. It was the same thing in Cuba. When people say that i shouldn't own my Colt AR-15 or that having the bayonet lug on it is wrong. I ask why, they say that it will cause crime. But I respond with, I control the firearm, how is "IT" going to cause crime. My idea is this, if you want to take away my AR-15, I'll take your big screen TV and BMW away from you. The reasons, the TV causes stupidity and the BMW cause road rage. And at one point in time, the Democrats were actually something good. But today the party has been hijacked by the likes of Michael Moore and Ted Kennedy. If my party was hijacked by those White Power idiots. I'd leave my party and vote for someone else. Most of Cuban people in South Florida is Republican becuase of two important events.
1) JFK and the Bay of Pigs. He promised air support for those soldiers and than left them to die on the beach. My Grandfather was part of that invasion. He died on that beach because of JFK.
2) Janet Reno. With the forced removal of a child and sending him back to that bastard of a father. A situtation happened like that back in the 1970s with a ukrainian child. He wanted to stay in the USA and so did his family. His mother was the only one that wanted him to go bak to the USSR. Guess what, he stayed. She left. And that's that. The Clinton Administration sided with a communist instead of the rest of his family and didn't think of the well being of the child. Sure Elian Gonzalez is living a okay life in Cuba, but that's because Castro treats him like a prince. The rest of my friends that are still there have it a hell of a lot harder.
And the most of the other hispanic groups like the Columbians, the Venezuelans, and the rest of South America's nationalites are Rupublican becuase of the communist rebel groups. In Columbia there's the FARC, in Venezuela there's Chavez. A Fidel castro in training. And so one and so forth.