Posted on 06/07/2019 7:33:23 AM PDT by rktman
If you are the sort of person who feels compelled to demand new gun control laws after a mass shooting, you have several options. You can keep your recommendations vague, letting your audience fill in the blanks; push the policies you always push, regardless of whether they have anything to do with the latest outrage; or latch onto a detail of that crime, inflating its importance to support a seemingly germane solution.
All three of those strategies were on display after a gunman murdered 12 people at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center on Friday. None of them reflected well on the persuasive powers of leading gun control advocates, who long ago abandoned logic in favor of emotional appeals and moral posturing.
"Enough is enough," said former Vice President Joe Biden. "We must act now."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
A better answer to more shootings is to have more guns. Guns in the hands of responsible citizens.
The last decade has seen many 10’s of million additional guns in the hands of the citizenry, yet our true gun crime rates have fallen. This is absolute proof more guns do not equal more crime.
Guns don’t kill people.
Boys that have been chemically castrated with SSRI’s do.
Everyone needs to bookmark this link to the 1982 Senate Report on the 2nd Amendment. Down load it to your computer before it also disappears. I have a paper copy.
Betcha can’t find the full report on line. My first link has been scrubbed from some web pages. Here is another link I have found to it.
https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html
“The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.”
And what the pre-Civil War State Courts thought of the 2nd...
19. * Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”
They want another test case to land up in the USSC.
I’m not a lawyer and I didn’t sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night and I can still comprehend “infringed” pretty dang easy.
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