[The Urban Sombrero]

Sombrero, you need to calibrate that smoke machine a little bit. Granny has it just exactly right. The militia and the citizen are separate entities. And regulated does not mean to find ones self under a state of regulation. Regulated in this case meant organized and equipped sufficiently to fulfill their duties as enlisted soldiers. The people, are not the soldiers, those are two distinctly separate groups.

And secondly, when I grew up there were a lot of things other kids had that my siblings and I did not. But even young-uns understand that sometimes people and their families are constrained by a lack of money. Adults certainly can grasp that very concept, which understanding in turn provides the motivating force to get off of their whiny backsides and go to work. The so-called working poor are not guaranteed cell phones and the government should not be handing free phones to out them. I know mine cost this household nearly 250.00 a month, and all these special carve outs like phones that the working class is forced to donate by the bleeding hearts of the this government are wrong.


I really wonder when the taxpayers are going to wake up and realize that Democrats and admittedly some Republicans, are extorting their money to buy the very votes that keep them in office. This is the land where equality of opportunity is guaranteed, not equality of earnings, nor should there be plush welfare funding. A safety net is one thing, but when we see food stamps being spent on luxury cruise ships, it's time to call in the dogs.

I am going to restate a point: there is a difference between the working poor and the "won't work" poor. Now, whether that difference has anything to do with free cell phones others will have to decide. For 200 years, basically, the 2nd Amendment was interpreted by the SCOTUS as a collective right, not an any citizen, any gun, any time right. Again, to consider the scope of a right, as it exists in relation to other Constitutional principles, is something the Framers intended.