Thor’s Hall

Over at The Sandgram Taco has one of those, “This is what we are about” posts that gives you a little bit of a different viewpoint, from those that are leading our Marines in the Global War on Terror.  Go give it a read.

The wonderful thing about America’s Armed Forces is that none of us are born killers.  On the contrary we are good and decent Americans mostly from the neighborhoods of America’s cities, and small towns.  Almost all come from “salt of the earth” working class homes, and more often than not are the sons and daughters of cops and firemen, factory and service workers, and farmers.  Most of us delivered papers, stocked shelves in the grocery store, played Little League baseball and pickup hockey in the local rink, and served Mass on Sunday morning.  Some are former athletes, and many “couch potatoes” who drove our cars and motorcycles too fast, and blasted our music louder than perhaps we should have…”

Ok – this is the last one that I am going to put up here. The team over at Flopping Aces is responsible for this one, and a fine job they did.

Ok I think we all recognize that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is guaranteed by the second ammendment to The Constitution.  That is pretty clear cut.  Shortly, the Supreme Court will rule on the Heller case and is expected to confirm that the 2nd ammendment confirms that these rights are the rights of the individual.

Where does that leave us on kinfe rights.  Recently we have seen criminals in the UK resort to swords, knives, and clubs (as well as outlawed guns) as the weapon of choice in criminal acts.  Further we have seen movements in the UK to outlaw these weapons too. 

Over at Joe Huffman’s blog, he has two interesting posts up on this very topic (here and here) and movements within the US to try and protect our Knife Rights.  Now in my opinion the seconf ammendment should not be necessary but it apparently is.  We do not have the equivilent legal protection for bladed weapons, and we should not need it.  However, with the growing movement to turn the US into the UK / Euro clone how will we fight this battle?

There are some folks that have the time to put together some fantastic visuals as tributes for Memorial Day. I wish that I had the time, and the talent to do half as well. Since I don’t enjoy these and let the power of some of these images drive home the meaning of what this day is about.