To Keep and Bear Arms

Washington Post ^ | March 22, 2008 | Charles Lane

[neverdem]

Unlike 19th-century rural Americans, we can call on professional police.

When seconds count, the police are only minutes away, but they are doing really important work, writing summonses and raising revenue.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Common sense from the ComPost???

Are there pigs flying somewhere?

[Redcloak]

Unlike 19th-century rural Americans, we can call on professional police.

[gunnedah]

Why not go back more recent. April 19,1993!

[coloradan]

Read it again. Pigs resoundingly on terra firma.

[Red Badger]

Firearms pose threats to modern-day urban dwellers -- crime, suicide, accidents -- that may outweigh any self-defense they provide. Unlike 19th-century rural Americans, we can call on professional police.

That statement is asinine. The police cannot protect you when someone is breaking into your home at 3 am, and they will tell you so.............

[quikdrw]

Haven’t there been court cases that said that the police are NOT responsible for an individual’s safety?

[ab01]

What really needs to be studied is how this new republic reject finds a forum to spew his liberal tripe.

[Turbopilot]

How is it possible for a person to write eight paragraphs of coherent historical discussion strongly supporting the need for the government to recognize an individual’s right to keep and bear arms, and then conclude with five sentences that directly contradict every point just made?

I guess only someone with a graduate degree in journalism can be that foolish.

On a side note, many of my state’s gun laws were enacted during Reconstruction to disarm blacks. Racist Democrats supported them then, and Democrats (who may still be racists) support them today. It’s just a little surprising to see an article in a major national newspaper that supports these gun laws even while explicitly acknowledging their racist purpose.

[Turbopilot]

Check again. Although the article was common sense, the idiot author managed to force a conclusion exactly opposite of what the article stated.

[Hoffer Rand]

It all depends on how any particular government agency chooses to define “reasonable and necessary.” I’m willing to bet their definition is a lot less 2nd Amendment friendly than I would be happy with.

[eclecticEel]

Not to mention that if I wanted to commit suicide, there’s dozens of ways to do it that have nothing to do with firearms.

[pabianice]

"...An irresponsible press poses threats to modern-day urban dwellers -- crime, suicide, accidents -- that may outweigh any First Amendment protections. Unlike 19th-century rural Americans, urban dwellers are defenseless against a savage criminal class and the elite toffey-noses who, safe in their gated communities, demand that the lesser be disarmed and made into cattle..."

[beckysueb]

More racebaiting from the Compost.

[DuncanWaring]

The police cannot protect you when someone is breaking into your home at 3 am...

Nope ... for that ya gotta call Hillary!.

[Tree of Liberty]

Castle Rock v. Gonzales

[Red Badger]

The Eloi and the Morlocks..............

[FortWorthPatriot]

"On April 13, 1873, in the tiny village of Colfax, La., white paramilitaries attacked a lightly armed force of freedmen assembled in a local courthouse."

What the author fails to mention is that the "white paramilitaries" in the Colfax Massacre were led by Columbus Nash and James Hadnot. Hadnot was a Democrat and a leader of the Knights of the White Camelia, a white separists group, often allied with the KKK.

[neverdem]

Haven’t there been court cases that said that the police are NOT responsible for an individual’s safety?

Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone

I believe that is the last decision in a long line of them. To add insult to injury, felons can't be prosecuted for not registering their firearms.

Gun rights go to court

It pays to save your links.

[stainlessbanner]

Nice job of race-baiting by the Post.

Heller is about interpreting the 2nd Amendment, specifically an individual's right to own a handgun in the District of Columbia.

Nothing to do with racism, everything to do with the right to bear arms.