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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His crappy diet is going to do him more damage than a gun.
Sure like Chicago and Washington, D.C. ...
Friday: Went to the gun range. 200 rounds through my 1911. 50 through my .380
Saturday: gun show. Then to the range. 100 rounds through my 1911. Then 10 rounds through an old warhorse m1911a1 made in 1941. Best grouping of the day out of that sweet old thing
Sunday: Went to the range. 60 rounds of .223 through my 5.56 rifle. 100 rounds through my .380
Think I’ll buy a new shotgun this weekend.
Beautiful!
Okay, this is the dumbest crap I’ve read since the last dumb leftist crap I read, maybe 2 hours ago.
Never gets old, dumb crap from leftists.
A woman?
It's all BS. They have found the right to abortion in The Constitution. They have found the right to same-sex marriage in The Constitution. But a right that is explicitly stated, the right to keep and bear arms, they want to take away by arguing that the meaning is up to interpretation. No way.
What they meant by this is well equipped.
The militia supplied their own weapons.
Correct. It's related to the term "regular" Army. It doesn't mean the "normal" army like modern parlance would suggest. It means a standing army that is provisioned by the government and prepared to fight. A well-regulated militia is one that is provisioned and ready to fight... an army of individuals who bear their own arms.
Hey, she writes for The Nation. The only reason the magazine is still published is Katrina vanden Heuvel's money.
Good luck getting 2/3rds of the states to agree to it.
CC
No. It is a nervous and idiotic woman.
Prove me wrong ;-P
If the government is going to start defining what we can have based on its definition of need, the country is finished.
Try it. That’s THE line in the sand.
And what makes this idiot think millions of Americans will just roll over and comply?
Who ever wrote this is an absolute clown. He/she can’t be serious, not even worth refuting - too easy.
He and his fellow fascists should just secede. They can create their own gun free zone nation and they can take the federal police state with them.
So THAT’S the sub-IQ moron?
Wow. I’m surprised.
Oh, he understands it ALL TOO well.
That’s why he/it/ WTF-ever it is wants it gone.
“His crappy diet is going to do him more damage than a gun.”
Sooner rather than later, I hope!
Must defend his First Amendment right to make an ass of “hisself.”
But, I will defend my Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, just in case his lunacy is taken seriously.
Don’t mess with old men, they will just as easily kill you as look at you.
MOLON LABE, Amen
“...Name one reason you need an AR-15....”
Easy.
Because it’s MY RIGHT TO DO SO.
Next question.
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