The Second Amendment makes sense just fine. You're the one not making any sense.
Posted on 09/14/2006 11:08:33 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
A lot of people have been trying to add amendments to the constitution lately. They want a ban on gay marriage, on flag burning and a few others I won't mention here because they're almost as ridiculous as a ban on flag burning. However, since we're talking so much about adding, I think we need to take one away. Here it is: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
You got it - the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Frankly, folks, I'm tired of it. We debate it all the time and get nowhere, so I say let's just remove it all together.
But no. In America, if you question the Constitution or the founders, you might as well be questioning your own status as an American citizen. The founders are treated like prophets and the Constitution like the Bible. I am so tired of it! People throw quotes from Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin into political debates with me all the time, and I want to hit them in the face. Who cares what James Madison and the rest said? They've been dead for more than 150 years! Yes, they were very smart and did an amazing job with the formation of our country. But they aren't alive today, and their views on guns, religion and - oh, yes - slaves, simply do not apply.
Let's not forget what the founders said about "all other Persons" (black people) in the Constitution. In congressional representation, each non-white was counted as three-fifths of a person. Do we hate the founders for it? No. We may despise the crime of slavery, but over time, we fixed it. Now it's time to fix the crime of the second amendment.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, there were more than 30,000 gun deaths in the United States in 2003 - all because of guns. Gun-lovers often say things such as, "Guns don't kill people. People do." Well, that's true, it is not the gun itself that kills a person. However, it certainly makes it easier.
Next you'll hear a gun-lover say that if everybody had guns, we'd be much safer. Honestly, I have no idea how that works. I suppose they think that everyone would be able to protect themselves. Man, too bad nobody with a gun was around presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan when they got shot. Oh wait, the United States Secret Service. I'd say that the Secret Service is pretty well trained, but I suppose gun-lovers think that we'd all be much faster than the bodyguards for the President of the United States.
The final argument by gun-lovers, and the one that sounds the best on the surface, is that there are plenty of other ways to kill people than guns. For example, baseball bats. So why shouldn't we outlaw baseball bats? Well, one reason is because there were 150 times more gun deaths than strike (bludgeon) deaths in the U.S. in 2003. Besides, baseball bats are made to hit baseballs. Guns are made for one reason - to kill people.
We talk about the culture of life in the United States, and I think that's good. We need to create a society that values every single life. If we do not start with that philosophy, we'll never agree on anything. I'm against abortion, the death penalty, euthanasia and most wars. I'm also against a system that allows people to carry weapons that have the extraordinary ability to kill people at a very far distance. When it comes to all of those issues, I strongly believe that everyone else should think the exact same thing. When you're talking about people's lives, protection of every single life is the only correct way to go.
Let's repeal the Second Amendment and start over with new gun laws that actually make sense. Hunters should be able to hunt, and policemen should be able to protect our communities, but there are not many other reasons for people to have guns. Wouldn't it be great to appeal one ridiculous amendment and save thousands of lives? I sure think so, and I bet if those Founding Fathers whose words we defend were alive today, they would agree.
....."You got it - the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Frankly, folks, I'm tired of it. We debate it all the time and get nowhere, so I say let's just remove it all together".....
As a great man said not to long ago:
"OVER MY COLD DEAD HANDS!"
YOu come to my house and try to disarm me and see where your going to get planted....
I thought he was a kid at UT who wrote a piece and got it published in the school paper. I got my doctorate from the UT system but I wouldn't send my kid there. Especially Austin.
What a good little dhimmi the author is! Let's disarm the sheeple so they can be more easily conquered by the Religion of Peace!
Excuse me, I have to go throw up now...
Let's just sum up this turd's feeeeeeeelings:
I don't understand guns, so they must be bad.
Chris Kellerman .......
From my cold dead hands, but not until then.
I think that the writer fails to realize that if someone or some group of people can take away my right to have a gun they can take away any of my rights.
I guarantee that in an actual discussion Kellerman will argue both that the 2nd should be repealed and that it confers no right on individuals. He will also probably mention that killing a deer is no different from killing a person.
Don't forget, along with acknowledging the second amendment, he his also the first one to be publicly honest enough to attempt to change it the correct way, buy another amendment.
Up to now all we have gotten from them is judges limiting it as a sneak around way to change things.
When Carrie Nation and her ilk went after alcohol, they did it right, it failed of course, but her solution was far more honest than anything we have seen with drugs or firearms.
Carolyn
Hang him.
The Second Amendment makes sense just fine. You're the one not making any sense.
People?
Now if we could only get the unborn to vote, the left would immediately outlaw abortion!
http://www.gunowners.org/fs9403.htm
Purely and simply, a hoplophobic.
God Bless Colonel Jeff Cooper!
There is something morally wrong with slavery and counting a black person as 3/5 of a person. That's why they changed it.
There's nothing morally wrong with the right to keep and bear arms. In fact, I'd say the opposite.
Go to this paper and read the comments to this jackleg's anti 2nd A rant....
http://www.dailytoreador.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticleComments&ustory_id=9b64c002-f055-4431-b2bb-8994ac57bf25
Remove my life from my body first.
Because you sure will need to.
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