Posted on 10/06/2017 3:28:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Not so with guns. The Second Amendment, as applied in the last 30 years or so, has become so perverted, twisted and misused that you have to see it now as the second original sin in the founding of this country, after slavery.
It wasn’t meant to be the instrument for the worst kind of American exceptionalism — setting up the United States as the most violent of developed nations. But it is now. The more we stand out for random mass killings daily, the more the leading cause becomes clear: the warped interpretation of the freedom to own lethal weaponry.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Violent crime has been decreasing in America for 30+ years. The number of guns in America has been increasing for about the same amount of time.
All the youth in America, upon graduation from high school should have either taken an informative and defined course in the care, feeding, grooming and proper use of a firearm, and have successfully demonstrated these skills in a controlled environment, or if the youth is too unstable emotionally to use a firearm in the manner for which it was intended, be forever forbidden to come into the possession of any kind of firearm.
If you are going to use a side arm, at least respect it and use it CORRECTLY, just the same as with an automobile or an airplane, for the purposes for which it was designed.
Most of the deaths that are a result of a gunshot wound were because the perpetrator was either unable to handle the firearm properly, or had demonstrated no respect or the proper regard for its potential lethality.
“NYT versus Liberty.”
Maybe it’s time to think about America’s domestic enemies and start treating them accordingly.
The cancer is the low IQ, low T pervs writing for the NYT.
Journalism: when you are as dumb as a politican, but too ugly and loathsome to be elected.
But, a barrista is always a good backup job.
Dumbasses.
He quotes briefly and selectively from Heller, but apparently he failed to read the fine historical treatise that Justice Scalia included with his ruling opinion.
The cancer is actually in the lame stream media with the New York Slimes leading the way.
for revolutionaries that fought an Armed Rebellion. and the flashpoint that triggered the rebellion was the government trying to confiscate their weapons (Lexington and Concord)... it would be damned ridiculous for them to turn around and ban citizens from owning weapons
Makes you think Roe v. Wade wasn’t that bad of an idea...
New York Times is the cancer of the country.
Go to h@ll New York Times!
I’ve also read the same about Japanese Americans in that they have about the same homicide rate as those in Japan itself: basically non existent.
There is a cancer in the Constitution. It started with a single suspect spot, like real cancers. There were many founders who questioned the blank slate the Constitution provided to the Judiciary. Like cancer, this spot grew, and grew... and has involved many lympth nodes, and has metastasized all over the place.
Fake news is the cancer of the Constitution.
The lie like Trump removed the bust of MLK. Throwing gasoline on a race fire.
If you "progressives" have a problem with the 2nd Amendment,as recently defined by the Supreme Court,repeal it.
You clowns are convinced that it's universally reviled coast-to-coast so repeal should be a piece of cake.
Take out suicides and the top 25 ghettos, and then look at the numbers.
How many people died from mass shootings last year?
From car accidents?
From Roxy overdoses?
Perc overdoses?
Heart attacks from the terrible food they ate (that’s gonna be me if i dont change my ways!!)
So ban prescription pain killers, junk food, cars, hell, ban leaving the house and only allow drinking water and eating tomatoes.
And still no enforcement of gun laws in Chicago. Where massive killing of black kids goes on, and the Mayor goes on TV to lecture Trump. Or he goes fishing.
The Dems don’t give a goddam if black kids die. This is all a kabuki dance for votes.
Yeah, let’s make the NYT happy and allow dem politicians to rewrite the Constitution. They’d do a bang up job. Put Pelosi in charge, just for laughs. Assuming she can get a day pass.
These morons don’t understand—this is EXACTLY the scenario our Founding Fathers we’re trying to protect us from when they wrote the 2d Amendment.
“Liberalism is a Cancer Spreading Across America”
https://www.infowars.com/liberalism-is-a-cancer-spreading-across-america/
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