Posted on 08/07/2019 6:53:56 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Second Amendment is why we can’t go to school, or work, or a house of worship, or a nightclub, or a movie theater, or a music festival, or pretty much any public gathering without fear of getting shot to death. The Second Amendment is why you can’t be immediately arrested for openly carrying around an assault rifle in a public place, and why you can’t be immediately arrested for smuggling a hand-cannon in your gym shorts. The Second Amendment is how law enforcement justifies the need for military-grade armaments—to match the “firepower” they meet in the streets. The Second Amendment is why we have a generation of young people that is scarred or missing from gun violence. And the Second Amendment is why I had to tell my 6-year-old last night to act like Scaredy Squirrel and “play dead” if an “active shooter” storms his classroom, thereby mangling the whole moral of the books.
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Textually, the amendment itself is almost toothless and easily amenable to regulation. Hell, “regulated” is written right into its text: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
See. You don’t have to be a constitutional scholar to conclude that this amendment is talking about the need for “militias,” not an individual’s right to own a bazooka; and you don’t have to be a historian to noodle out that the founding fathers—who revolted against a global superpower—thought that state militias were pretty cool.
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It was only in the 1970s that the National Rifle Association basically invented the new constitutional theory that the Second Amendment conferred a personal right to own military grade weapons for “self-defense.”
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“If the government is going to start defining what we can have based on its definition of need, the country is finished.”
Bullcorn!! If the government proclaims “You don’t neeeeeeeed an AR-15!”, then you arm up and say “Come and take them, bitch!”
Maybe shots will be fired and flesh will be cut. But bring it, Deep State!
As posted previously by SaveFerris:
This is why we pay $20 to $25 for buffets.
That is so funny. Where do you live? I’ll buy you a cup of coffee.
I wonder if he thinks the 14 th Amendment can just be swept away.
Re: Libertarian Redhead —
Nope.
The moron doesn’t realize that laws are already being passed against the Second Amendment. More of the Second Amendment is being ignored and violated each term, insidiously and covertly by Republicans and loudly and overtly by Democrats.
Every able-bodied man is part of the militia. Even the Illinois constitution specifies this to be true.
Nor was it a bunch of undisciplined clowns but its members held regular training sessions. Even so a militia was not an effective military force.
Today it is pretty much a useless idea given the highly advanced military forces of major nations.
Yesterday, we learned from Congressfeces Joaquin "Jokey" Castro that it's the job of a US House representative to get any constituents who didn't "vote the right way" fired from their jobs or beat up by violent Leftists.
Not to advocate for them or assist them in dealing with the Federal government. That's so yesterday.
Better get to it. Can’t wait for the mass Gun confiscations to start.
It will make the first Civil War look like a day at Disneyland.
Elie ? Electronic Lie
Bump
“Name one reason you need an AR-15”
cuz my other 50+ guns are lonely in their safe place.
It’s happy he has his buddies with him - oh look there is another one next to me how did that get out of its cabinet?
Oh there is mil-spec Springfield 1911 there on my desk how did that get that lose.
And there is one of my Glock 17s
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The 2nd Amendment is why the Democrats have not completely seized power and must resort to cheating.
Elie is why you can’t find cookies in the store.
Elie is why you need to stand in line 25 minutes for a cheeseburger.
Elie is why your kids can’t have an ice cream cone.
Elie is why Guam may tip over.
Elie is why the Earth may stop rotating and everyone will fall off.
Yes, Marxists. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
No.
That was individuals, joined together, with firearms that were in many cases superior to what the British Troops had to keep the then government from taking their weapons and ammunition, mostly the ammunition in this case since the citizens were all already armed.
1) Every politician out there would be happy to see the citizenry dis-armed
2) Without the Second, “...with the consent of the governed” means nothing.
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