Posted on 07/14/2016 8:41:52 AM PDT by C19fan
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.C.) joined other Democrats to call for the reinstatement of the federal assault weapons ban, arguing that the Second Amendment only applies to muskets.
“This is something as a non-lawyer that I have had trouble with from the very beginning. When the framers of our Constitution considered the Second Amendment, they were talking about muskets,” Coleman said during a news conference outside of the Capitol Building on Tuesday.
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Flaming deranged commie dingbat alert! This is not a drill. It is BAFFLING how a person this stupid would figure out how to apply for candidacy, let alone get elected. Her votor base must have a negative IQ.
The 2nd Amendment is for the citizens to protect our rights against vermin like Coleman, Obuggery and Hildebeast.
As long as Ms. Coleman is willing to limit free speech to that which is hand written, or duplicated on a manual printing press, or shouted in the town square.
No Internet, TV, radio, modern newspapers, etc.
If this is true every cop and soldier cant have “assault rifles” or modern firearms of any kind either. Bye bye flash bangs and tasers too.
Turn in the nukes and tanks boys. You cant have them either.
Yeah. And yet they still claim abortion is somehow mentioned in the 1st amendment.
Talk about lib pretzel logic.
I am surmising by their interpretation they want to be consistent in their reading of the document, and go back to slavery.
The only kind of "press" whose "freedom" is guaranteed by the First Amendment, according to Bonnie Coleman.
i think i will apply for letters of marque and hoist the sails of my privateer and give them a broadside...
we need an IQ test for politicians nothing too difficult say 70 points...
Hmmmmm. ,,,,to keep and bear arms could also mean having cannons which would then include keeping mortars,etc.
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!! Live with it, idiots.You will NEVER strip Americans of their right to self defense. Where were you when brains were handed out? Stupid women are the bane of Freedom Loving Americans.
and “well regulated” means well supplied and trained.
And Magna Carta was in times of swords. So what is his point? Other than insisting that the Constitution is a living breathing document except on this point?
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, seems they must have had a little more than just muskets.
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When the framers of our Constitution considered the Second Amendment, they were talking about muskets
I actually agree with her. Muskets were military grade weapons in their day. So we should follow the Founder’s logic and be allowed to own military-grade weapons.
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This is *exactly* why we lose the debate before it’s begun...
We needn’t be ‘allowed’ ANYTHING.
Govt suppresses our inalienable Rights. Get rid of the illegal infringements and one if *free* to purchase whatever arms they wish.
Exactly. Something that we often ignore today. Many of us are competent as individuals with marksmanship skills, but we don't train as "militia" to work as coordinated teams. That limits our effectiveness if called up to repel a foreign invasion as originally envisioned in the concept of a militia.
>And regulated at that time meant equipped and trained not controlled by a central government.
One cannot be ‘regulated’ and ‘not infringed’ at the same time.
Unfortunately, the ‘Right’ does not know how to string thoughts together to counter the Leftist, as they are masters at perverting the English language.
I was wondering when someone would catch that I messed up and used “allowed.” Too bad FR doesn’t have the ability to edit posts.
Firearms ignorance on parade. This is the favorite argument of gun-grabbers - that such weapons have only one use, killing persons. They refuse to educate themselves on the weapon's suitability to task for home defense, and how the vast majority of defensive uses of firearms do not involve firing the weapon.
Ignorance is curable. Deliberate ignorance is not.
>I was wondering when someone would catch that I messed up and used “allowed.” Too bad FR doesn’t have the ability to edit posts.
Sadder still, you had multiple replies prior that DIDN’T.
Least you owned up /s
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