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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Planes.
Pressure Cookers.
IEDs.
Gas.
Poisons.
Cars, trucks, vans.
do leftards actually do?
Stari Decisis ... (yeah.. you know that thing you LOVE so much when it comes to abortion)
sorry libs! oh ! and good luck on the whole constitutional amendment thing ;)
How about repealing and replacing the rest of the Constitution while you’re at it. (sac)
Not just no. Hell no
I hope that 6 year old of his isn’t as fat and ugly as his old man is.
The author is illiterate regarding 18th century English.
And she is a dumb ass.
why you can’t be immediately arrested for smuggling a hand-cannon in your gym shorts
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Tell that to the transgender (fake) boys in gym class.
So idiots such as you cannot define what I need.
In response to the useful idiots who trot out "need" as an argument.
the commies and nazis of the extreme left are doing everything they can to mislead and scare the American public into some sort of gun-grabbing orgy
which will only result in blood running six feet high in the streets
they are so damned power-hungry they are pushing this great country right over the abyss
they really really don’t give a dam* about America or the American people... not one whit... other than they want to seize power, control to exploit us like in all the other dictatorships around the world/ or / in history
these commie-nazis are enemies of USA and need to be round up and sent to Guantanamo
Need. The second amendment doesn’t make me havr to justify why I “need” any firearm, it merely says you cannot atoo me from keeping and bearing. Please refer to the LA riots.and ask the Korean shop owners if they needed high powered weapons. Progecting life and property against mobs and tyrants.
“The people”. This is the ONLY amendment that the left believes doesn’t apply to we, the people.
Idiocy on this scale deserves incarceration.
Why do you post this garbage? Why?
Nope
Your move
Because otherwise we’d be an echo chamber?
Someone needs to tell this DUMBASS that in the context of the founding fathers, "well regulated" meant well armed and "militia" was every able bodied man, woman and child.
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