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Brilliant legal analysis.
What a dangerous putz. Look at the Second Amendment you swine behind
Well no crap. Handgun vs ANY rifle at 1000 feet and the rifle is gonna be more accurate.
Well, slight error here. Why is it that Liberals feel they have a right to their own set of facts? /rhet.
...here comes the "but"...
...but added, "Let's apply some common sense to the Second Amendment and modern technology.
In other words, "Let's 'interpret' it as we wish.
Why not a bazooka? Why not a tank?
Indeed, why not.
It doesn't make sense."
It makes perfect sense to anyone who does not believe that government "elites" should rule us "unenlightened common folk".
They are statists, every one of them.
Even our president signed off on CFR and agreed to sign the assault weapons ban.
Everyone says that Americans are different than Europeans, that we'll get angry and stand up to Islamic terror. I hope we hurry up and do it, because we are surely heading down the road to sheepdom.
"Let's apply some common sense to the Second Amendment and modern technology. Why not a bazooka? Why not a tank? It doesn't make sense."
Absolutely right, Mr. Mayor, why not?
What he want's to legislate is the "possiblity of misuse".
Eventually people like him would apply this to printing presses and computers too.
--here we go again---
The cops were outgunned. WHY? No TAC teams?...don't have the proper equipment?...no training? WHY? No money for training and equipment...in Taxachussets the lib paradise..something smells about this utterance. A PR move for sure.
if the gun killed 2 employees and himself, how can he give a statement?
I'd like to see Massachusetts outlawed, towed out to sea, and sunk! Take New York with it!
Yup. We decided that a year or so ago when the "assault weapons" ban was not renewed. Next question?
The AR-15 "has firepower that police do not have available to them, except in extraordinary circumstances," Mayor Lang said.
What, you mean extraordinary circumstances like opening up the trunk of the patrol car and taking one out? If your police force is "undergunned", that's your fault, Mayor. What do you tell their widows, that you denied them the ability to protect themselves because they couldn't be trusted with a small, civilian semi-automatic rifle?
Chief Teachman said police are not typically trained to deal with a weapon such as the AR-15.
Really Chief? Are you admitting to negligence in training your officers? Are you saying that your police officers are about as prepared to deal with a serious situation as Barney Fife, and you are as much at fault here as the Mayor?
"Let's apply some common sense to the Second Amendment and modern technology. Why not a bazooka? Why not a tank? It doesn't make sense."
Well, a bazooka is already banned as an "implement of destruction". You can buy a used tank if you have the money, but most people don't. At any rate, the gunnery on the tank would have to be disabled (de-milled) before you could use it. Unless you went through the proper channels and got ATF permission. As far as I know, that's never happened, making it a straw argument.
The AR-15 shoots the same kind of ammunition that small-game hunters use for woodchucks. It is NOT a high-powered rifle. If the mayor and the chief don't know the difference, stop by and see me some weekend when I'm not busy, I'll show you.
We do if those in elected positions are violating the Constitution.
Interesting. IIRC, Miller held that it was "militia style" weapons that were protected by the Second Amendment. Be fun to see the Liberals go to court to get Miller overturned after all these years of their citing it.
The second amendment isn't about collecting, and only about target shooting in so far as it helps keep the militia "well-regulated".
Under the Supreme Court's "Miller" decision, if anything is protected by the second amendment, it's the keeping and bearing, by the people, of military type arms.
The same could be said of any common deer rifle. Gonna ban them too? Call 'em sniper rifles. Such an action could have "Unintended Consequences", but give it a try anyway.