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?
"It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am."
Exactly,
A Right from God
Written in to Our
Constitution to ensure
Life,Liberty and the
Pursuit of Happiness.
Good Job!
Push back with a
Throat Punch.
Ping
-PJ
Prior to the colonies, Englishmen’s children training to be Longbowmen started training at age ten.
Do you have a LexingtonM4minutemenLG?
“Alexander Hamilton wrote extensively about what we’ll-regulated meant in Federalist #29. He also wrote about what could reasonably be expected from a civilian force preoccupied by their daily lives.”
Hamilton, as many of the Founders, were strongly opposed to a standing army. They saw a militia of the People as a bulwark against a government prone to tyranny and that government using a standing army to effect that tyranny.
-PJ
***had planned a giveaway of an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle as a “Military Night” promotion***
So? Giving away a rifle has always been a big promotion even in the large area, small population NM county I lived in. They were giving away an Ar-15 this month.
After all, it is just a rifle!
The left’s revision to the Second Amendment would go something like: “The people shall be completely disarmed, and prostrate before the unlimited power of Government Almighty.”
Convicted felons who have done their time and have no outstanding holds or warrants should not and cannot have gun ownership denied - in fact, this is a revocation of civil rights without cause.
We have let the federal government chip away at the Bill of Rights for so long without rebellion that they do it naturally nowadays.
” He also feared the states forming their own standing armies. See Federalist #8.”
He opposed professional standing armies in general. As did many of the Founders.
Ah, but they’d have to get Congress and 37 states to approve that. Currently, 26 states, if I recall correctly, have some form of Constitutional Carry. They won’t ask for revision or repeal of 2nd amendment because they might get something they don’t want, so they instead try to legislate through the courts. Too bad we haven’t insisted on justices and judges being gun owners, respecting the 2nd amendment, etc. Instead, we get justices and judges that don’t understand ‘shall not be infringed’ and recently, cannot even clearly state who is a female.
The 2nd Amendment is for whatever the people with the most guns say it’s for.
cannot even clearly state who is a female
That wretched woman is the left in a nutshell.
She fits the pattern when you consider who she’ll be joining on the court. Sotomayor and Kagan.
-PJ
” He said that those armies were the typical instruments of eventual despotism.”
Yes; he said standing armies in general were the “typical instruments” of depotism. Yet, he later embraced the idea of a strong national defense, which necessarily implied a standing professional army. He was a staunch federalist, as opposed to Jefferson, who was an anti-federalist.
Hamilton was a man of contradictions. Yet, when he believed strongly in something, he was unwavering. Which probably accounted for his decision to duel Burr, which turned out to be a fatal decision.
It was a necessary evil that they tried to check as much as possible, via state militias and regular Congressional funding approval.
-PJ
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