Google "Medical Tourism Panama" or country of your choice.

There are too many Dick Cheneys out there for me to even want to hunt anymore! I do own a Rev War period musket most likely connected to the Battle of Yorktown, that's what the experts tell me anyway......I'm happy with that, I don't desire anymore guns.

Yeah right, like I'm going to waste any more time on you and your bullsh*t -- someone who never acknowledges the veracity of the many links provided on this blog by the rest of us to educate your dumb ass. So why would you think anyone would want to follow you down into your delusional far-right hell. After all, look where it got you...

Gabh transna ort fhéin!

I might just do that, Legend. Plus, never have been to Panama. Thanks for the great advice!

@23 & 25

I guess only you are entitled to an opinion. You are so easy, I would love to play cards with you, Cowboy. You have more tells than a hooker who hasn't been to confession in 30 years.

Move to Cuba, what an opportunity. I'm sure your pension is over $19.00 per month. Plus you'd have the government furnished health care that's so important to you. Take the three door knobs with you. With your writing ability you could start a newspaper. Call it La Verdad (Spanish for truth). Legend could be your fact checker. Mother Teresa of the Southern Tier could administer to the those who need it. Maybe even find something for pigeon brain to do. You would live like kings. (I guess you wouldn't want to do that though). It wouldn't be PC. I don't know why you want to stay here. You all seem so angry and hateful of most everyone else who lives in the USA.

I agree, Thom. As a Cdn., the Gov't spent $2Billion trying to get weapons registered. Cost prohibitive so they dropped it. Guns in Canada are only for target ranges. Rifles for hunting. Strict regulations kept our deaths at 200/year approximately. Most due to suicides. We have plenty of regulations & no one complains and it's worked for a very long time. Lead out of ammo helps keep critters alive, too. It's responsible and babies don't kill babies. I hope Americans decide to regulate b/c just going to a gas station around here is a risk and it shouldn't be that way. Where is peaceful enjoyment of life when everyone & everywhere you go, you see everyone armed? People want security, peace, and to know that their kids will return home safely.

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On assault rifles versus “more reasonable” firearms: This issue of whether or not it's appropriate for average citizens to own “military grade” weapons has been blown way out of proportion in my estimation. For any who care to listen, here are a couple of facts. First off, every type of firearm, regardless of configuration, can be used to kill people. Period. So let's take the 12 gauge shotgun as an example. These weapons, commonly used for bird hunting, can be loaded with 00 Buckshot, each pellet, roughly equivalent to a .38 or 9mm round (don't recall if it's 12 or 16 per round, and it doesn't really matter) can put more lead in the air per unit time, by far, than an AR-15 firing on full automatic. True, they are typically limited in magazine capacity to five or six rounds. But there are techniques to reload almost as fast as you can pump the action, available on youtube. So which is more dangerous in the hands of a lunatic? A garden variety shotgun or an AR-15?. If the guy owns a hacksaw, I claim the shotgun is a far more deadly weapon in a theater or crowded nightclub than the AR-15. But if your thing is to knock somebody off at 300 yards, would you choose an AR-15 or a garden variety bolt action .270 or 30-06 with a 10 power scope? I think Kennedy's assassin answered that question. Yet these are considered “benign” hunting implements by most people. My point here is that there is some kind of visceral response to “military assault weapons” that is both popular and unfounded. Assault rifles are good at what they were designed to do. Other weapons can be more damaging in the wrong hands. And of course, there is an entirely valid construct that could be stated here that has to do with the availability of HumVee's, nitrate fertilizer, gasoline, etc.etc. So please, let's get off this kick of villainizing assault rifles (along with anyone who happens to own one for less than homicidal purposes) and focus on the issues that are really at the center of the issue. Sensible regulation of firearms, as Thom has stated, restricting their use by those shown to be a risk factor (can't pass the test, history of violence, felony convictions, etc.) and let go of this hysteria about “assault weapons”.

Couldn’t agree more Thom on your rationale on guns. Growing up in Michigan, guns are apart of life. Most people I know follow the firearm laws perfectly as they do not want to lose the privilege of owning and using their guns.

Probably the most affective way to lower crime and reduce gun violence is a good economy. So many crimes are for money, food and basic necessities. My wife and I watched a documentary in Trenton New Jersey and a young man said the only reason he was stealing cars was for the money.

Another way to reduce gun violence is a Gun Law reform. Keep the laws that work, throw out the laws that don’t and collectively create new laws. It might sound overly simplified, but our law makers sure haven’t made any laws that have helped. Matter a fact, they haven’t helped at all!!

I would ban all firearms for Republicans. With the election of Trump, they have already proven themselves to be mentally incompetent.

Outback, If you can't spell a damn thing, like myself; do what I do. I type it out in the "TextEdit" feature of my Mac, then paste it into the box. I'm sure you have a similar program on your computer. After all, if you are a "birdbrain" like me, you have to at least put up some kinda front to make people at least think you know what the hell you are talking about.

Don't tell the trolls though! I wouldn't want to ruin my intellectual creditability.

Haha, those 45 points haven't hurt you a bit, and I bet you're a damn good shot. At least we have smokeless powder nowadays, so as not to give away our position come the revolution.

Jaysus! A moldy turd is smarter than you two focking idiots! Don't put yourselves in the "everyone else" category.

Do you ever have anything important to say?

Nice try, hotdog, but you're as thick as your buddy, granny. The little blizzard of bullsh*t you're huffing and puffing has zilch to do with what I just said. Clean the sh*t out of your ears and take the dick out of your mouth.