Can i own a fire-arm and still Be a hippie

never been to Rosewell

 

neither i have . but i heard is not better than Rio de Janario .

 

now why would they have a place named Alie-Inn in Rio?

 

Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there
She would merengue and do the cha-cha
But while she tried to be a star,
Tony always tended bar
Across the crowded floor, he worked from 8 til 4
They were young and they had each other
Who could ask for more?

At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana
Music and passion were always in fashion
At the Copa....they fell in love.

His name was Rico. He wore a diamond.
He was escorted to his chair, he saw Lola dancing there
And when she finished, he called her over,
But Rico went a bit to far,
Tony sailed across the bar
And then the punches flew and chairs were smashed in two
There was blood and a single gun shot
But just who shot who?

At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana
Music and passion were always in fashion
At the Copa....she lost her love.

Copa... Copacabana... music and passion... always the fashion...

Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl,
But that was 30 years ago, when they used to have a show.
Now it's a disco, but not for Lola,
Still in the dress she used to wear,
Faded feathers in her hair.
She sits there so refined, and drinks herself half-blind.
She lost her youth and she lost her Tony,
Now she's lost her mind!

At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana (Copacabana)
The hottest spot north of Havana (here)
At the Copa (CO!), Copacabana
Music and passion were always in fashion
At the Copa....don't fall in love.

 

The 1980s was still a lot fun of course it was more of a club scene. but still fun.

 

THE BEST COMEBACK LINE EVER!
Marine Corps General Reinwald was interviewed on the radio the other
day
and you'll love his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning
guns
and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you gotta love
this!!!! This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a
portion of National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a female
broadcaster and US Marine Corps General Reinwald who was about to
sponsor a
Boy Scout Troop visiting his military installation.


FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to
teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL REINWALD: We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing,
archery,
and shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?


GENERAL REINWALD: I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on
the
rifle range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous
activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper
rifle
discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: But you're equipping them to become violent
killers.

GENERAL REINWALD: Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but
you're not one, are you?

The radio went silent and the interview ended.

You gotta love the Marines!

AMERICA, THE HOME OF THE FREE
BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE

 

I don't think an object "makes or breaks" a hippy.

 

That depends on a lot of things . for 1 crime is much higher today than in the 1960s so you need a gun......in remote areas a hunting rifle could be both . even with all the racist in the 1960s it was a much safer world in the 1960s . while some blacks were kill from extreme racist even blacks were safer in the 60s than today . and Guns were just as popular then as it is today. only hell of a lot cheaper.

 

Crime can't be higher,there's more guns then ever out there.That was a good marine joke,shows what a joke they can be,What an ass.Once again for the illiterate you aquire guns,you're not born attached.

Police seek leads in fatal shootingPatrick Spencer, 19, was killed Sunday in Northern Liberties. Police will question friends and relatives.
By Stephanie L. Arnold
Inquirer Staff Writer
Philadelphia police said yesterday they would interview friends and relatives of a 19-year-old shooting victim as part of their investigation into his death.

Patrick Spencer, of the 1200 block of North Hancock Street, was shot in the head and arm about 9:30 p.m. Sunday in the 1100 block of Orianna Street in the Northern Liberties section of the city, police said.

Spencer was pronounced dead at 12:40 a.m. Monday at Hahnemann University Hospital.

"Right now, it's an active investigation that we don't have much on," said Capt. Benjamin Naish, a police spokesman.

Police said they responded to the scene after receiving a radio call of "a person with a gun" and found Spencer lying on the ground. Spencer had been gunned down while riding a bicycle, police said.

Neighbors heard several shots and reported that an unidentified man ran from the scene.

Police said preliminary investigations showed that Spencer was "a good kid who was living a clean life."

Community activists have gone to the neighborhood to rally around Spencer's family and to promote safer neighborhoods.

But as has been customary, witnesses have been scarce.

The city has recorded 95 homicides this year, compared with 96 for the comparable period last year. Last year's homicide rate was the highest since 1997.

 

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By MICHAEL WILSON
Published: April 12, 2006
As investigators sought to unravel the fatal shooting of a retired police officer in a Staten Island parking lot on Monday night, portraits emerged of the victim and the other retired police officer who was charged yesterday with the killing, and of the starkly different paths they had traveled.

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Retired Officer Is Killed in Hail of Bullets at Staten Island Mall (April 11, 2006)The victim had been hailed as a hero of the first attack on the World Trade Center and went on to the top management of a Manhattan security firm. The suspect is nine years younger but, said people who know him, lived a sedentary, lonely life, drinking alone at his home after a career marked not by valor but by pain.

Detectives spent much of the day seeking a link between the former law officers. The suspect, Allen Lau, 46, surrendered in the early morning after a four-hour standoff with police officers who promised him he would be treated "like another cop" if he gave up.

The police said Mr. Lau, a retired New York City police officer who spent most of his career working on the Upper East Side, shot Steven Vitale, 55, as the victim walked with his wife toward a Chinese restaurant at a shopping center.

Karen Vitale, the victim's wife, said the gunman had followed their vehicle for a long distance on the way to the restaurant in the New Springville section of Staten Island, suggesting road rage as a possible motive, the police said. Although investigators continued to search for a direct connection between the men, it appeared they had not worked together, the police said.

Throughout the standoff that followed the shooting, Mr. Lau spoke to police negotiators from inside his home, finally stepping onto his porch, drinking a beer and smoking a cigar, after 2 a.m. A witness who spoke with him said Mr. Lau was in a "drunken stupor."

He was to appear in a lineup at a Staten Island station house, and investigators sought a warrant to search his home, the police said. He was charged late yesterday with second-degree murder.

Meanwhile, a steady stream of mourners filed through the home of Mr. Vitale, on Forest Hill Road in Staten Island.

The two men served roughly the same length of time with their departments, Mr. Vitale retiring in 1994 after 21 years, and Mr. Lau retiring in 2005 after 20 years. But those who knew them described quite different career trajectories.

Mr. Vitale was a decorated officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who helped those fleeing the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. He worked to clear the debris even as his wife worked above in Tower One, The Staten Island Advance later quoted him as saying.

He was awarded the Medal of Valor, a Police Commendation Medal, four Police Meritorious Medals and four Exceptional Police Department Medals from the Port Authority.

Mr. Vitale went on to work as a security supervisor for New England Motor Freight and as a security specialist for Federal Express before joining GSS Security Services, a company in Midtown Manhattan. He was the director of operations of the company's canine division, helping to train dogs to sniff out explosives.

He was heavily involved with the Special Olympics program in New Jersey. He and his wife had three daughters, Stefanie, Dawn and Michelle.

Mr. Lau's career began in 1985 and was marked six years later by what many officers refer to as their worst nightmare.

As he walked to his car one night in May 1991 from the 17th Precinct station house in Midtown Manhattan, Officer Lau stumbled upon a burglary in progress at a nearby business, according to a former colleague, also retired, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he did not want to be seen as interfering with the investigation.

"When the lookout saw him, he decided to rob him," the former colleague said. "The guy pulled a gun out and demanded his money."

Officer Lau fatally shot the robber, the police said. The suspect's gun turned out to be an imitation, but the department ruled the shooting to have been justified, the police said.

Mr. Lau went on to a relatively quiet career of few arrests, averaging about one a year, the police said. At some point, he was transferred to the headquarters at 1 Police Plaza and the Management Information Systems Division, a computer office on the seventh floor.

He was described as a quiet man who, in a workplace of often crude humor, seemed to be easily offended.

The colleague described one such incident: two of Mr. Lau's co-workers photographed their buttocks with a digital camera and set up the image on his computer as the screen saver. "These guys were picking on him in the office," the colleague said. "We all have different senses of humor."

Mr. Lau filed a formal complaint and was eventually sent back to the 17th Precinct, where he manned a post near a consulate of the United Nations. The department could not confirm that sequence of events because Mr. Lau is retired, a spokesman said.

After retiring last year, Mr. Lau seemed to be, at best, in a holding pattern, and possibly descending into alcoholism, his friend and neighbors said. Mr. Lau said a month ago that he was taking medicine to try to quit drinking, his former colleague said.

He had no job, living off his pension, the colleague said. He was divorced 10 years ago, neighbors said, and lives by himself on Travis Avenue, about a mile from the scene of the shooting.

His house stands out like a bunker with the chain-link fence that surrounds it, rising to a height of about 10 feet in the backyard. Neighbors on one side, Mohammad and Afifa Uppal, described a private man who did not entertain guests and was stern with children chasing an errant ball into his yard.

"He told the kids, 'Don't come in my backyard. I have poisonous spray and killer dogs,' " Mrs. Uppal said, "but we never saw the dogs."

On Monday night, the homey block became the scene of a dramatic standoff. After Mr. Lau surrendered, at his request a stretcher was brought to the porch, and he was carried out on his back, the police said. As he was being carried away, he shouted, "I'm sorry."

Reporting for this article was contributed by Janon Fisher, Sarah Garland, Colin Moynihan and William K. Rashbaum.

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According to police, the restaurant owner was shot in the leg and her customer in the shoulder. The owner's son, who was in the restaurant at the time but was not wounded, dialed 911.

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we need more guns = the only way to control over population of dumb people.

 

But owning a gun feels so right to me... The adrenaline rush I get from unload an automatic weapon in concentrated bursts is kinda like doing a rail...

Ok kid short answer: no
Long Answer thats not so long: Do what you want and dont bother wasting your time categorizing yourself. Its not like being a hippie is a good thing... Just look at some of those acid freaks who are fried out. Hell I used to know some old hippies... Only we called em bums because they lived under an overpass. Seriouslly dont think into to much, if you want a gun, go get a gun. I recomend if your getting a pistol you get a .45 cause the recoil isnt to bad and you've still got the stopping power to take someone down. If your going the rifle route go with a .3030

And also you people can quote MDK's all you want.... You take for granted how often a gun has saved your ass. Think Revolutionary war. We wouldn't have one that mother fucker without guns. WW2: Guns won the war, not free love (In fact Hitler used a gun to kill himself remember?) What about all the times a cop has had to take down a dangerous criminal hopped up on PCP... You cant reason with some who take three shots to the torso and keeps coming at you.

Be realistic people... Guns are not evil... People are evil. If they werent shootings they'd be stabbings or firebombings. MDKs have been around FOREVER. And I do mean FOREVER! So deal.

 

WTF? Are you people missing this point? This kid wants a gun... And your telling him he shouldnt get a gun because he wont fit into a cliche stereotype? Is that right? What the fuck is going on here?

 

i think i already mentioned that.Realize what you are and be proud of it.That said,All people are evil,but in the same sense all people are good. We all have a choice we can perpetuate the evil or we can perpetuate the good.Guns in themselves are not evil yet their intended puropse is violent.It's up to you if you want to call violence evil or not.In the end i don't think it's going to make a bit of difference,it's just something we have to deal with while we're here.When "evil people"get hold of long range(compared to a knife,bat,etc.)their power is multiplied tremendously. The freeflow of weapons on the market makes for easy access.When you support this market unfortunatly you also unwillingly support the black market and the part of the legal market that makes these guns available.

 

Judge finds man not guilty but insane in shooting of Capitol security guard

By JOHN O'CONNOR
Associated Press Writer
Published April 12, 2006, 4:34 PM CDT


SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A man described as suffering from delusions that he was being controlled by an underground eastern European society is not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting death of a state Capitol security guard in 2004, a judge ruled Wednesday.

At a fitness hearing, Sangamon County Circuit Judge Robert Eggers found that Derek Potts of Springfield was responsible for killing 51-year-old William Wozniak on Sept. 20, 2004. But Eggers agreed with two psychiatrists who determined Potts' mental illness prevented him from understanding his wrongdoing.

Public Defender Brian Otwell read into the record a statement from the state's psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph Bohlen of Springfield, who found that Potts "was actively psychotic before, during and immediately after the murder."

"He was experiencing prominent delusions of being controlled by people in an underground society in eastern Europe and was following command-type auditory hallucinations telling him to steal weapons and ammunition, drive to the state Capitol, walk into the Capitol and fire a shotgun at the security guard," Bohlen wrote.

Court officials sealed the rest of the psychiatrists' reports.

Eggers could have ruled there wasn't enough evidence to hold Potts responsible or allowed the state up to five years to treat Potts and make him fit for trial.

State's Attorney John Schmidt earlier had argued for more time to make Potts well enough to stand trial. He did not return a phone call seeking comment Wednesday.

Wozniak, a Capitol security guard for 18 years who left his native Detroit to escape violence, died from a single shotgun blast to the chest. A call to his Petersburg home Wednesday afternoon was answered by his son, who declined to comment.

The 25-year-old Potts will continue to be held in a locked state mental-health facility in Chester, county Public Defender Brian Otwell said. A hearing is scheduled for June to determine whether Potts should continue to receive treatment.

"We certainly expect, based on evaluations that we've received and the records of his treatment at Chester Mental Health Center, that they will find that he is need of inpatient treatment in a secure setting," Otwell said.

Potts was charged with first-degree murder, burglary, aggravated discharge of a firearm and other crimes. Officials accused him of attempting to rob a military surplus store earlier the day of the shooting, when he entered and demanded a high-powered rifle. The owner identified him as the man he suspected of stealing a shotgun a week earlier and Potts fled.

After the shooting, witnesses said, Potts calmly left the scene, drove away and turned himself in the next day.

 

DEA Agent Who Shot Self In Foot Sues U.S.
APRIL 11--A Drug Enforcement Administration agent who stars in a popular online video that shows him shooting himself in the foot during a weapons demonstration for Florida children is suing over the tape's release, claiming that his career has been crippled and he's become a laughingstock due to the embarrassing clip's distribution. Lee Paige, 45, blames the video's release on DEA officials in an April 7 federal lawsuit filed against the U.S. government. A copy of the pro se complaint by Paige, a DEA agent since 1990, can be found below. According to the lawsuit, Paige was making a "drug education presentation" in April 2004 to a Florida youth group when his firearm (a Glock .40) accidentally discharged. The shooting occurred moments after Paige told the children that he was the only person in the room professional enough to carry the weapon. The accident was filmed by an audience member, and the tape, Paige claims, was turned over to the DEA. The drug agency subsequently "improperly, illegally, willfully and/or intentionally" allowed the tape to be disseminated. As a result, Paige--pictured above in a still from the video--has been the "target of jokes, derision, ridicule, and disparaging comments" directed at him in restaurants, grocery stores, and airports. Paige, who writes that he was "once regarded as one of the best undercover agents, if not the best, in the DEA," points to the clip's recent airing on popular television shows and via the Internet as the reason he can no longer work undercover. He also notes that he is no longer "permitted or able to give educational motivational speeches and presentations." (5 pages)

 

Good morning,you know i gotta keep this up.i love getting those reds riled.(LOL)The question of the day is:Where do these illegal guns come from?They are made for the legitimate market yet end up on the street.The system is failing.

 

WTF? Manufacturing Marijuana? ROTFLMFAO! I wonder if, when you manufacture marijuana instead of growing or cultivating it, you can get a SBA loan to buy the machinery for your factory where you manufacture it.

"Whoa dude, I don't smoke Thai stick. That shit is made in sweat shops by little kids, like Nike. Not cool!" <G>

Side note. I wonder, if you aren't a druggie, and they find beer, would you get charged with simultaneous possesssion of alcohol and firearms? Or is that even a crime?

Gate 68 "In 2000, in homicides where the weapon was known, 50 percent (1,342 of 2,701) of female homicide victims were killed with a firearm. Of those female firearm homicides, 1,009 women (75 percent) were killed with a handgun.http://www.vpc.org/fact_sht/domviofs.htm

The other half were not killed with firearms so maybe we need a slogan like "fists don't kill people, people kill people"? I get the improession that you are trying to murder this thread with spam, from posting all those articles. How about a few non firearm homicides

 

i guess 50% isn't a big enough number for you.There are plenty of non firearm homicides,but that doesn't negate the fact that firearms are a problem and the only tool used in homocides made specifically for that purpose.