Posted on 06/21/2022 9:02:55 AM PDT by Houserino
The Second Amendment is killing us so the gun industry can rake in massive profits — we can’t keep interpreting it as an absolute right for every single citizen to own a gun.
In the week following the May 24 massacre in Uvalde, Texas, the Sioux City Bandits, a professional indoor football team from western Iowa, had planned a giveaway of an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle as a “Military Night” promotion, as they had done a year earlier. After widespread criticism, the Sioux City Journal reported that the team’s Missouri-based owner, J.R. Bond, said canceling or postponing the giveaway “didn’t even approach my radar screen.” Bond added that “some people’s ‘obsession with a piece of metal is overblown’ and that the negative comments came from East Coast residents who are ‘driving electric cars and eating wheat grass.’”
For the record: One of the main critics was the local co-owner of the State Steel Supply Company in Sioux City, who said he would end his sponsorship of the Bandits because “this promotion is beyond tone deaf and is incredibly insensitive to current affairs.” (Also, for the record: You can buy both wheat grass and electric cars in Sioux City.)
J.R. Bond was right about one thing — that some people’s “obsession with a piece of metal is overblown.” In fact, if lots of people did not have overblown obsessions with guns, he wouldn’t have been using one as a promotion, and his team would likely be named something other than “the Bandits.”
The massacre in Uvalde was horrific. An eighteen-year-old man wielding an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle on May 24 murdered twenty-one people (nineteen of them children) and wounded seventeen others. We have heard this kind of gut-punching news too many times before, and each time millions hope this time will be the event that finally changes the country’s toxic relationship with guns. When will Congress do something, anything to stop the unrelenting deaths by firearms?
There were many in Congress who were less dismissive of a national army. But they sought to curtail any excesses by keeping a firm hand on the check book.
The Civil War changed forever the way the nation looked upon standing armies.
Jacobin is a filthy commie publication. ‘nuff said.
-PJ
And was not Robespierre devoured by his own revolution?
It would be savage justice if such were to occur...
Perhaps the Jacobins need to be on the receiving end of righteous anger.
That will happen in November.
I told this “professor” that he is a phony academic cos he offered no supporting primary nor secondary archival sources for his claims or statements. A total prevaricator. These kind of people are the real misinformation nut jobs.
Well, not exactly. The meaning of the 2nd amendment has been debated loud and long and I don’t think the argument is over. What we REALLY ought to do is change the constitution ourselves, and put in a REAL 2nd amendment. That would end the debate.
I don’t know if you know this, but the Supreme Court has evidently interpreted the speedy trial right in the 6th Amendment to mean you can sit in jail a year and a half before you get a trial. The Supreme Court has interpreted the double jeopardy prohibition to mean that if the state fails to convict you on a crime, the feds can step in and try again on their own. If we want the 2nd amendment to mean every single citizen has the right to own a gun, we’ll have to write it a little more carefully.
In the War of 1812, smallpox kept the American Army sick at Burlinton VT and Sacketts Harbor. The N.Y. State Militia told the citizens in the Champlain Valley that the State Militia could not defend them. “ You will have to fend for yourselves! “ Men from Washington, Warren and Essex Counties, NY rallied and marched to Plattsburgh with their own muskets. There they found the green troops of the American Army just sitting on the south side of the Saranac River. The citizens crossed the river in a spearhead action on the British rear and routed the British Army. No militia, just my ancestors and some take-no-sht veterans of America’s Revolutionary War ...sources ... Crockett. “History of Champ!ain Valley. Watson, “3 Centuries... “
You’re too kind!
CA....
The uneasiness towards of militias really started to take steam within the last 50 years or so. In other words, about the same time the hard left began to take over our institutions.
It is ironic, but the United States has pretty much become the marxist monster that we had warned against since the 1930s, and actually fought against since the 1940s.
I despise the left.
If politicians armed ukraine because they’re allies...
What’s the implication when they ‘disarm* their own citizens?
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GOVERNMENT
It killed 250 Million people last century... but
please feel free to lecture me about owning firearms.
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The men who wrote the second amendment did not just finish a hunting trip.
They just finished liberating a nation.
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When the prey is armed.
Predators think twice.
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Once upon a time, Patriots didn’t register their firearms with tyrants
They shot them.
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The only reason why the government would want to disarm you after 243 years is because they intend to do something that you would shoot them for.
I agree. They were thinking in terms of ‘whatever it takes to keep a despotic government in check, period.’
Yes, when THEY get to decide who is ‘hate-speeching,’ ‘inciting,’ or whatever. But when push comes to shove they always fall back on the press aspect of the 1st as untouchably sacrosanct.
Anyway, I don't have anything more to add, but I didn't want you to think I was ignoring you.
-PJ
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