You replied The United States Government borrowed military equipment, including cannons, from civilians during the Revolution.
Well, civilians can still own and operate those old cannon.
You wrote: US civilians sent rifles and shotguns to England during WWII (later dumped in the north sea).
What prevents you from disassembling an old shotgun, packaging it up and shipping it to someone in England?
You wrote: Yeah.. every terrible instrument of war belongs to the individual.
So you are just fine knowing that your hard partying neighbors who heat their home with space heaters are allowed to purchase and store any type munition in their townhouse next to you?
You wrote:As far as your first point... You explain to God how aborting a baby is a GoodThing(tm).
My understanding is that most pregnancies naturally abort. Of the problem pregnancies such as a deformed child that are brought to term, the bible doesn't directly address the topic but it's safe to say that in biblical times, they didn't live very long.
You wrote: You really reached.
Such reaching is necessary given the chasm that separates us.
You wrote: I suppose you think abortion is ok, the 2nd amendment is negotiable, socialized medicine is fine, and government should control everything...
Assuming you are being honest and forthright, you've never voted, not even for Reagan.
/johnny
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American...[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
/johnny