How About Banning Bullets? The Constitution Doesn't Say Anything About Those...

TBI ^ | 12-24-2012 | Henry Blodget

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How About Banning Bullets? The Constitution Doesn't Say Anything About Those...

Henry Blodget
December 24, 2012, 1:56 PM

It's Time We Saw The Idea That Everyone Should Carry An Assault Weapon For What It Is: Nuts One of the arguments invoked by those who think we should keep assault weapons freely available in this country is that the Constitution says we have a right to own and buy them.

The Constitution actually doesn't say anything of the sort.

All the Constitution says is that we have the right to "bear arms."

And that "right to bear arms" is actually supposed to support the existence of a "well-regulated militia," an important qualifying clause in the Second Amendment that those in favor of free access to assault weapons usually ignore.

But even leaving aside the "well-regulated militia" clause, the Constitution doesn't specify what "arms" we're allowed to bear.

And we have long set limits on the type of arms we are allowed to bear, thus establishing clearly that we have the Constitutional right to do that.

For example, we're not (individually) allowed to own aircraft carriers, tanks, ballistic nuclear missiles, fighter aircraft, or attack submarines.

We're not even allowed to own fully automatic machine guns.

All of those are "arms."

And yet we have established that, despite the Second Amendment, we're not individually allowed to bear them.

So if we decided to establish that we are not individually allowed to bear semi-automatic assault rifles and pistols while still being allowed to own single-shot hunting guns, this would be perfectly in keeping with how we have interpreted our Second Amendment rights under the Constitution.

But it will still make lots of people scream that we have tromped all over the Constitution, even if we haven't.

So, how about if we limit

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I'm not sure I can bear any more of your humor, it's become unbearable.

[wildbill]

2nd Amendment, baby! Yeah!

When you’re dealing with media people who talk about semi-automatic AR15s as machine guns with 100 round clips full of high-caliber armor-piercing bullets that can spray their victims, you know there is no point to discussing it, but I do wish that the defenders of the 2nd Amendment would at least call them on their misinformation every time.

It’s seems the defenders are scared to call them out on stupidity and we will lose the conversation if they continue to let the left say anything they like without correction.