I got into a gun control argument with a person who turned out to be a Poli Sci professor. Of course she had a high and mighty, I have a piled higher and deeper tone to her, but she still refused to logically discuss the point that gun control has no history of stopping violent crime. I wonder how she’d respond if I told her that while she was still in elementary school, I had asked Ramsey Clark a question about crime prevention that refuted his entire evening’s commentary and he refused to respond to it. Or perhaps I could point out that I got my BA in Poli Sci with a minor in history while she was still in jr high at best? Other than become attornies, exactly what use is a Poli Sci degree, especially an advanced one? It doesn’t teach anyone how to produce anything but idiotic treatises on utopian societies that are contrary to human nature. One of the best comments I ever heard from a Poli Sci Professor was ” I used to be a communist until I realized that communism just doesn’t work.” There is a reason why I can argue Constitutional law questions, I did very well in that class, despite being the youngest one in it. The professor required that we be able to make cogent logical arguments based on case law and precedence. We also had to explain the logic behind various Supreme Court decisions. I used to do this for grades, now I do it for fun. Of course being a recovering used car salesman doesn’t hurt.

There is an oversupply of them these days…

Moore had been evaluated by the Secret Service earlier in 1975, but they had decided she presented no danger to the President.[10] She had been picked up by police on an illegal handgun charge the day before the Ford incident but was released. Police kept the .44 pistol and 113 rounds of ammunition.

And Squeaky:

Assassination attempt
On the morning of September 5, 1975, she went to Sacramento’s Capitol Park (purportedly to plead with President Gerald Ford about the plight of the California redwoods) dressed as a nun and armed with a .45 Colt automatic, which she pointed at Ford. The weapon was loaded with four rounds, but none were in the firing chamber. She was immediately restrained by Secret Service agents, and while she was being further restrained and handcuffed, managed to say a few sentences to the on-scene cameras, emphasizing that the gun did not “go off”.[1] Fromme is reported to have subsequently told the Sacramento Bee that she had deliberately ejected the round in her weapon’s chamber before leaving home that morning, and a .45 ACP round was later found in her bathroom by investigators.[2]

After a lengthy trial in which she refused to cooperate with her own defense, she was convicted of the attempted assassination of the president and received a life sentence under a 1965 law (prompted by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy) which specified a maximum sentence of life in prison for attempted presidential assassinations. When U.S. Attorney Duane Keyes recommended severe punishment because she was “full of hate and violence,” Fromme threw an apple at him, hitting him between the eyes. “If you find a apple that has a little spot on it. You cut out that spot.”~ Lynette Fromme

I stand corrected. She was picked up the day before she attempted to shoot Ford carrying a 44 and over 100 rounds of ammo. She missed because a bystander saw the gun and forced her hand down when she fired. She will be eligible for parole in September of this year.

It seems that she was just another liberal crackpot who couldn’t keep a real life and blamed it on “the man”.

That’s one of the funniest things I see on tv or movies is the little 5′2″ woman running around with 2 44 Magnum Desert Eagles. They might try it once, but with the weight and size of a Desert Eagle, they are not going to do it more than once. Loaded those things are larger and heavier than some submachine guns. Personally, I’d opt for the SMG. If you’re going to prison for life without parole for attempting to kill someone, you ought to at least make sure you succeed. Who am I kidding, I’d simply sit back with a hunting rifle and shoot them from beyond the limits of the security detail cordon. Why fail and go to jail, when you can succeed and have a pretty good chance of getting away with it?

BTW Moore and Fromme are both still in prison and really pissed about Chapman’s treatment.

The two nutcases who tried to shoot Ford were Lynette (sp) “Squeeky” Fromme and Sarah Jane Moore. Neither of whom got off a shot. David Mark Chapman who was caught with a gun and planned to kill Jimmy Carter but got off on an insanity defense, and 18 months later shot and nearly killed President Reagan and James Brady (with a firearm that he had purchased illegally) is in a mental hospital, getting supervised day trips and is petitioning to get unsupervised weekend furloughs. What is wrong with that picture?