Top Five Baseless and Subversive Arguments Against the Second Amendment (Excellent review of RKBA)

truthalert.net ^ | 01/07/08 | Michael Chapdelaine

[Copernicus]

The ridiculous objections to the 2nd Amendment have been refuted ad nauseum over the centuries.

Nevertheless, it is always helpful to post yet another refresher course.

Best regards to all,

[Citizen Tom Paine]

What are you going to do when they come for your guns? You may soon have to decide.

[Filo]

Good stuff.

Someone should submit a brief. . . ;)

[FortWorthPatriot]

"What are you going to do when they come for your guns?"

BRASS

[2nd amendment mama]

I’ll let them have the ammo first!

[Vineyard]

give them the bullets first ...one at a time.

[kennyboy509]

I hope I’m brave and smart enough to make them “earn my guns” and to get my guns they are really have to earn their money.

[Copernicus]

What are you going to do when they come for your guns? You may soon have to decide.

All of them to the guillotine let Heaven sort them out?

Wait, wrong revolution.

Best regards,

[Eagles6]

This is good.

[Lancer_N3502A]

I feel that in a short while this country will be torn asunder.

[Buffalo Head]

Wonderful post. Thank you!

[FortWorthPatriot]

"[G]ive them the bullets first ...one at a time."

I should have explained...

Breathe
Relax
Aim
Stop (breathing)
Squeeze (the trigger)

Mnemonic for steps of accurate shooting as taught by the Marine Corps.

[maine-iac7]

great post - thanks

[maine-iac7]

4.Removing or forcibly disbanding undesirable, oppressive, or irrevocably corrupt government

;o)

[Vineyard]

(I knew what you meant!! I was Navy, and I have a brother who was a Marine!)

Mike

[FortWorthPatriot]

Oh. Sorry.

[ctdonath2]

The “Puckle Gun”, invented in 1717, was essentially a detachable-magazine machinegun.
The “Girandoni Rifle”, invented in 1780, was equivalent to a 20-round .45ACP semiautomatic.
Leonardo da Vinci conceived of the tank in 1482, the submarine in 1515 (with a real one built in 1624 and deployed in US combat in 1776), the RPG, and the helicopter.

The Founding Fathers, being well-educated and well-connected Rennaisance men, were undoubtedly aware of these creations - and aware that lineal and revolutionary improvements would occur.

The 2nd Amendment isn’t about products, it’s about ideas: specifically, the idea that every free man (and group thereof) must have the right to own & wield arms equal or superior to their enemies.

[ctdonath2]

1. The Second Amendment is not an individual right; it’s a collective one only for militias.

A militia IS self-armed individuals coming together for common defense.

2. Owning a gun is a privilege that should be regulated.

Those who would take away our means of resisting enemies are not our friends.

3. The Constitution was written for flintlock muskets; they couldn’t foresee modern weapons.

See my previous post. Most "modern weapons" were conceived of around 1500, and most of those were in use by the late 1700s.

4. The Second Amendment was written in a time when people needed to hunt.

Some people still do. Don't make them beg for dinner.

5. The Second Amendment says “well regulated.”

...in a manner intended to enhance the right. The Second Amendment also says "shall not be infringed" - the two phrases work together, not in opposition.

[An Old Man]

An excellent reply. I suspect more than a few here do not understand why you wrote that!

Semper Fi
An Old Man