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Just gotta love this time of year.......

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The people should not fear thier government,
Their government should fear the people.

Those are some interesting looking easterns.

Locality?
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.kingpinreptiles.com

congrats toby easterns rule!!! keep me in mind for some babies from that pairing,,thomas davis

that spotted male is KILLER! ... i can't wait to see what pops out of that pair!

nice stuff Toby

~Z
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Royal ReptileZ
Home of Bklyn's Finest Brooksi

Heres a picture of the male. This pair bred last year also. The babies came out about normal looking with the exception that they all had solid black bellies. Next year Ill be breeding the babies back to him and then we will see what comes from that breeding.

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The people should not fear thier government,
Their government should fear the people.

>>The people should not fear thier government,
>>Their government should fear the people.

I agree with that 200 proof.
daveb

I was thinking the same thing Dave. I saw that sig earlier and liked it.

The people should not fear thier government,
Their government should fear the people.

Thats why I belive in the 2nd amendment.

S&W M66-4 2 1/3" barrel:

Guns are the great equalizer: they give teeth to the weak. With a gun, the few may defend themselves against the many, the weak may stand against the strong, the old have a chance against the young, and the infirm and handicapped are on equal footing with the healthy.

Nine tenths of homicides in this country are committed without guns, and sanctioned yuppie sports like snowboarding cost many more fatalities every year than the misuse of handguns.

Criminals will always have guns, which is why even the most rabid gun banner will never propose disarming the police as well. The right to self-defense is meaningless without the means; responsible adults should be allowed to own and carry guns as they see fit. If you believe that it's wrong and immoral to defend yourself with the help of a lethal weapon, you have a difficult moral question to face when you rely on 911: you are summoning a man with a gun to do that work for you.

Here is a great essay on guns:

http://www.frontiernet.net/~lendringser/wwog.htm

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I don't need no spell chack.

the constitution of the united states DOES NOT guarentee a civilians right to own guns... It only guarentees the rights of the states to raise a militia...

The right for civilians to own weapons is addressed in the individual state constitutions...

Sorry... not tryin to start an argument, just the attorney to be comin out in me... lol
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"Don't condemn people for their ignorance. Use it against them."

the ENTIRE bill of rights applies to INDIVIDUALS including freedom of speech, freedom of the press, a trial by jury, the right to remain silent, and the right to bear arms.
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I don't need no spell chack.

posted by bizkit421
"the constitution of the united states DOES NOT guarentee a civilians right to own guns... It only guarentees the rights of the states to raise a militia...

The right for civilians to own weapons is addressed in the individual state constitutions...
Sorry... not tryin to start an argument, just the attorney to be comin out in me... lol"

That isn't the position of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals or the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Nor is it the position that noted Harvard Constitutional Law professor Laurence Tribe takes in his 3d edition textbook on Constitutional Law.

Here is a link supporting all of those statements:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...ZkZDM1ZDhkNzQ=

The Constitution delegates the US a power to call forth a State's Militia, and that gives the States, not just a right, but a duty to maintain at least an armed populace ... Presser v Illinois, where the SCOTUS said that no State could disarm its people because it would deprive the US of a source of militia.

If the 2nd Amendment is not a individual right, then why did a federal judge order for the "ILLEGAL" confiscation of the firearms of law abiding citizens in and around New Orleans during hurricane Katrina be stopped ? It was also ordered for the firearms to be returned to the "rightful" owners.

1)Read the states consistutions for the 13 states, then the rest of the state consistutions.
2) Read the Federalist Papers which were the arguements for the Consistution and Bill of Rights.
3)Do you understand the English used to write the Bill of Rights?

The DC court says on March 0. 2007:
DC Circut court of appeals 3/09/2007
"To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad). In addition, the right to keep and bear arms had the important and salutary civic purpose of helping to preserve the citizen militia."
U.S. Code Title 10 Section 311. Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

the right of the people. OF THE PEOPLE!

In order to interpret the 2nd amendment in this way one has to either ignore, or not know what the legal definition of the Militia is.

Militia as defined in the 1771 edition of the Encyclopedia Britanica:

"MILITIA, in general, denotes the body of soldiers, or those who make a profession of arms. In a more restrained sense, militia denotes the trained bands of a town or country, who arm themselves, upon a short warning, for their own defense. So that, in this sense, militia is opposed to regular or stated troops. For the direction and command of the militia, the king constitutes lors-lieutenants of each country."

The MILITIA at the time of the Bill of Rights, was NOT the National Guard, but was made up of the PEOPLE who "armed THEMSELVES . . . for their OWN defense.".

The DC Court hit this one right on the head. We must deal with the Bill of Rights as it was written, in the meaning at the time it was written. The National Guard argument is hogwash and completely disregards the meaning and intent of the Bill of Rights and the inalienable rights the Bill of Rights prohibits the government from taking from us.

Just last month U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia stuck a dagger in the heart of this argument. See:
http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs...03/04-7041a.pdf

They confirmed unequivocally that the "right" is a right of the people, not the state, the militia, the National Guard or any other entity.

I am no attorney, but I don't need to be.....If the 2nd Amendmant is a "collective right," then why is it the only one as the others are individual rights ? According to the writtings of Madison , Jefferson etc, the view of the day was made very clear as to the overall expression of the respect for "natural law" as it applies to the constitution.
The constitution of the United States does not grant us our liberty and rights, it acknowledges them as being as God given. The constitution is there to limit the power of a potentially oppresive or tyrannical government from infringing upon our rights and liberties.....you are under the impression that the rights are guaranteed to "the states ?" From what I gather , you are stating that the rights are guaranteed to the states by the government, which is bologna. If the government has the power to grant liberty and rights, then they have the power to them away. When did the government attain the power to grant rights ?

The 2nd Amendment , in a nutshell, is there and exists as a God given right for all of us to defend and protect ourselves. It is there for the people to stand guard against government oppression and tyranny ; to be armed and ready to overthrow it by force if the preservation of liberty, rights, and essential freedom deems it neccessary.
If the 2nd Amendment is not a individual right, then we are only as free as the government tells us we are. We would be subjects rather than citizens.

and just to stay on topic...

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I don't need no spell chack.

come on tell us how you really feel sure wish all of us were that passionate about our rights to own,keep,and breed snakes we loose those rights all the time but ohwell... but hey you'll only get my guns by prying them from my cold dead hands ahahahaha im diggin the passion,,,,,,,,,thomas davis

Someone once wrote that guns and dogs are proof that God loves us. I would have to include snakes in that as well
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I don't need no spell chack.

Email sent about that splotched e.

I get wood when I view these snakes! Glad to see ya' up and about! What's on the menu for you this year besides the easterns?
Todd Hughes