Posted on 01/02/2007 8:26:21 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
AR-15 rifles are not needed to hunt deer
Anyone needing an AR-15 or a Kalashnikov to hunt deer or elk probably needs a new pair of glasses first. Anyone needing an automatic shotgun to hunt pheasants, rabbits or partridge probably needs a prescription from a neurologist to reduce finger tremors or fight off tension.
I do not wish to change the constitutional amendment giving an organized militia the rights to bear arms, withdrawn from a carefully tended armory. The National Rifle Association has abandoned the parts of the amendment relating to "organized militia" and "tended armory." The NRA is NOT an organized militia, according to its charter.
I believe we should remember that the arms of 1789 were smoothbore Kentucky rifles and that discharge was accomplished by a flint-lock striking a steel, and sending a spark into some gunpowder that ignited the propellant and sent the bullet (or buckshot) on its wiggly way. This was a single shot device (or two shot, with two flint-locks and two barrels). Not even the "six-shooter" was invented at that time. My point is that single-shot weapons, with a long time to re-load, remove school and office massacres that can be caused by automatic weapons.
While it may take another few years to bring sanity to all of our states, I am sure that sanity can prevail in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and possibly even Rhode Island Plantations. If Nantucket does not approve, let them secede and we will cut off ferry service to them from our shores, and fill the sound with windmills.
All local deer will hold us dear.
BERNARD ROTH Dartmouth
It figures that this twit is from Massachusetts.
I seem to be missing the words "organized militia" and "tended armory" in my copy of the Constitution.
One more pinhead trying to beat the long-dead horse of the meaning of "militia" in the 2nd Amendment.
Good grief, man. Even liberal judges have long since conceded that the 2nd Amendment really does mean that ordinary citizens have the right to their guns.
Find a more closely contested issue upon which to pontificate.
Beat me to it. This guy really re-interprets the Constitution, doesn't he?
This guy hasn't spent much time in East LA, or Chicago's south side, or many other inner-city neighborhoods.
He's the kind of guy who would recommend taking a knife to a gunfight, I guess.
Non-criminals should all be dis-armed, in his estimation.
This guy is majoring in minors and minoring in majors.
I'm sure he is referring to the "well-regulated militia". But you're right, this guy is just spouting off on a subject he knows nothing about.
Liberalism 101: fit the facts to the agenda even if you have to make them up.
This idiot (okay, to be fair, I'll call him misinformed) is confusing hunting wild game with the real purpose of the 2nd Amendment. Plus, he has the militia thing all wrong.
Hunting with AR-15s is exactly what the 2A is about, and the prey are not deer and elk, but tyrants.
The definition of "rifle" precludes it from being a smoothbore.
I have read that "well-regulated" meant properly outfitted at the time the amendment was written.
So did Bernie write his letter with a 1789-style quill, on 1789-style parchment, and mail it to the paper via horseback??
Just another liberal twit alert!
No, but here in Florida, they work great on wild pigs. I've used an old SP1 with 55gr soft points on hogs around here for thirty years now with great results. Plus there's no bluing to go all rusty in the first hour afield.
AR-15s are also good for shooting lots of other things. What those things are, I leave up to the reader to surmise.
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"Automatic shotgun?" Does anyone know where I can purchase one?
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