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?
No. And why give him exposure. Just another leftist doooosh(sic)
Jacobin is Communist.
As in, The Jacobins, the French Revolution Guillotine Gang, all the way through Stalin and Mao.
Yeah, I just looked on their main site. They quote Lenin.
Jacobin is a major Commie rag.
To make Democrat heads explode ?
The Jacobins are today’s democrat party.
Sure we can. That's exactly what it is. And it goes way beyond just guns.
And Christopher R. Martin is a domestic enemy of the Constitution.
The second amendment was created by men who had just fought and won an “insurrection” against their own government. The second amendment is about personal protection and protection from “bad” government.
It is NOT about hunting or sport fishing. It’s about killing bad actors of the human sort. And like with all weapons, in the hands of bad actors, they can be used against good people. That’s the risk, but it is acceptable. You can’t reduce risk to zero in ANYTHING.
It’s telling that someone who calls himself a Jacobin would say this. The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is so that we can fight back if the French Revolution comes here — and hopefully, by deterrence, prevent that from ever happening.
it is a natural right of self defense
a right to self defense from God
an inalienable right
no negotiation
no compromise
Why stop with guns? Isn’t it gunpowder that’s really to blame? And who invented gunpowder? That’s right, the Chinese. Lock them all up.
Ban it! And ban hacks like Martin, just for good measure.
Yep. I keep telling folks that whenever the constitution or bill of rights mentions “the people”, it LITERALLY means every single person, individually. So if it says “the people’s right to bear arms”, it means YOUR PERSONAL RIGHT to bear arms. If your name is Joe Blow, it might as well say “Joe Blow” instead of “the people”.
“Anyone heard of this guy or site?”
Well, the Jacobin populist ideal from revolutionary France led to “...the development of the modern leftist movements throughout the 19th and 20th century, with Jacobinism being the political foundation of almost all leftist schools of thought including anarchism, communism and socialism.”
A leading cause of the Left so says their homepage.......
Every time there is a shooting, liberals want to take the guns away from those who didn’t do it.
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