Lewis and Clark carried an air rifle that held 22 bullets. They really did not need 22 bullets did they?
“Hunters know that high-capacity magazines and semi-automatic rifles are unnecessary for our sport.”
I am tired of this whole notion that the 2nd Amendment:
a) has anything to do with hunting, any other sport, or even protection from street criminals; and
b) gives us the right to keep and bear arms.
The 2nd Amendment exists to ensure that the people have the means in their hands to do exactly what the Founding Generation did - overthrow a tyrannical government, should one ever arise here. It is the final guarantor if Liberty. Further, it created NOTHING - it merely recognizes the reason for this pre-existing right (to have a well-regulated, i.e. well-disciplined and -trained, militia), and to make certain that this right (to keep and bear arms) was kept outside of the power of the government to infringe upon (states as well as the federal government - notice that there is no Congress shall not” clause, as there is in the 1st Amendment).
The “you don’t need this for hunting” argument is old, tired and long since disproven. Let’s get rid of this sport-related justification for owning arms...which was brought into our law almost word-for-word from Nazi law in 1968 by then-Senator Thomas Dodd, who was a lawyer in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. It is an alien concept in American law, and should be stricken from our codes.
I remember back in the 1970s when all the gun magazines ripped into the AR-15 as being a “mouse gun, Mattel toy”, whippy and innacurate, plastic, too light for deer, not a real hunting rifle, blah blah blah.”
Then Mel Tappan wrote his book on SURVIVAL GUNS, soon had a survival column in GUNS AND AMMO magazine, and sales, and prices of the Ar-15 began to take off.
Of course, back then the MSM considered RIFLES good, Handguns were bad.
Then around 1985, the MSM realized the rifle was a “Target of opportunity” to be banned so they went for it.
Is that Richard Dreyfuss? /s
Dan, Dan, Dan! The second amendment isn’t about hunting.
it’s time for leftists, who claim they believe in democracy and equality, and who claim to be against oligarchy, to acknowledge that semi-automatic sporting rifles are a tool in the toolbox vs tyranny.
Not holding my breath.
Upcoming 2nd Amendment attacks - bump for later....
I am not a Hunter, however I will become a Hunter if the need arises.
I fear Socialist Democrats 1000 times more than I fear Bears.
Why do I own Guns? It’s very simple, it is my Birthright as an American Citizen who does not need permission from Government to exercise my God Given Natural Rights.
Indeed they are designed to kill human beings. Tyrants, specifically. This guy needs to read RJ Rummel's "Death by Government", or "The Black Book of Communism". Anybody who's ever picked up a history book and read about Joe Stalin or Mao Tse Tung, or paying attention to what Antif and the Democrat Party is up to, would never make such a stupid statement again.
Studies have shown that bear spray is more effective, anyway, and there’s a good deal less collateral damage likely to be caused.
He's right. I'll buy as much bear spray as he wants to take with him, so that he can recreate the research in the wild.
Forget bears. That idiot needs to fear squirrels because he’s clearly nuts.
That’ll motivate them! Good going, lib weenie!
Well, shades of Dick Metcalf.
Anyone remember that journalistic debacle?
I don't think anyone is going to come to this fools aid in quite the manner some noted firearms gurus tried to in Metcalf's case.
The backlash that Nugent got for defending Metcalf still stings him.
He recently admitted that he would never do so again.
These people are ignorant.
Nothing in the 2nd Amendment is about hunting.
Nothing in the 2nd Amendment draws a comparison between what is needed for hunting versus what is needed for self-defense versus what is needed to dispose of a tyrannical government.
Period.
These damned apologists and word twisters need to eat fecal manner and expire.
The second amendment has nothing to do with hunting.
It has everything to do with bearing arms against an oppressive government or invading armies and self defense.
So our weapons should be of the same lethality and effectiveness as that of our own government.
Does bear spray work on oppressive governments?
What will they say when the antigunners try to outlaw his “sniper rifle” and “street sweeper” shotgun?
Bear spray is more effective? LOL... You can use bear spray and I’ll use my gun and let’s see who will survive a bear attack...ok?
The Right to Bear Arms has little to do with hunting or self defense. Pat attention to history.