there you go again....I"m trying to be nice but I'm not sure whether you took any debate classes or not cause you know are extrapolating to other areas that don't even relate....doing that we could chat for the next decade about "exceptions" to rules......sorry you had to relocate, you have different priorities than I....but throwing this 5% exception thing in now makes you look silly and indignent. There are alot of things in nature and politics and whatever that suffer the 3rd standard deviation of the bell shaped curve and get curtailed....Since you are just looking to argue, this is now a mundane issue....I notice that when people bash Calif that many of them are Texans. Well I don't know what this superior than others vein is but it is not attractive....You many know more about firearms than I, I'll give you that, but I have an advanced degree in Psychology and usually this kind of riduculing or sometimes bashing is a classic bullying type syndrome and most of the time it is caused by subconcious jealousy or insecurity.......I'm sure that statement will piss you off but in this case, I really do know what I"m talking about....In fact, it is exactly the non compartmentalized and random badgering that proves my point.......just have a nice day and know that you won the arguement and you now are better and smarter and than I.........OK?
It is not "random badgering" to ask someone to clarify what they are saying. Such clarification revealed that you approve the infringement of the right to keep and bear arms in the case of full-auto weapons and so-called Saturday Night Specials.
I further asked you whether you would consider it reasonable to infringe other rights protected by the Bill of Rights or whether the Second Amendment for some reason is deserving of less protection. Does your three-sigma argument apply to firearms but not newspapers? Why are you unwilling to explain why you think there should be exceptions to some rights and not others? How do you decide?
The federal government had virtually NO firearms laws prior to 1934. Even the National Firearms Act of 1934 was passed as a revenue act to avoid the obvious challenge that would have been expected at that time because it infringes the right to keep and bear arms.
The battles of Lexington and Concord, which initiated the warfare which eventually resulted in the establishment of our union, were a response to confiscation of arms. The resulting Constitution and Bill of Rights were to prevent the government from once again tyrannizing the people. The enemy during the American Revolution was not "the British", it was "the government".