Posted on 03/25/2021 6:15:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Wednesday on CNN’s “Tonight” that it is common sense to have a similar process for getting a driver’s license or a gun.
When asked about gun legislation, Rather said, “Poll after poll shows a rather sizable majority of Americans in favor of having, say, a delay in when you can buy a gun, a three-day delay. You buy it, you pick it up two or three days later, together with background checks. This is very popular. But year after year, decade after decade, it doesn’t get put into law. What is needed is a common-sense approach. If you can get the politicians out of this, I’m convinced Americans of goodwill on various sides of this issue would get together with some common-sense things. You have to have a driver’s license to drive a car. You have to be trained in driving an automobile.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
True the militia is of course made up of residents of the state. But it is called up and controlled by the government. Thus the check and balance of the whole population being armed to make sure that militia is not used for nefarious purposes.
If I get time I will try to find an excellent article by a grammar/sentence structure expert. Gets into the sentence structure which lays out the meaning. What do they say, sentence structure matters (SSM like BLM haha)
There is also no law prohibiting you from driving all day long with no license and no training, as long as it's on your own property. It's only driving on public roads that requires a license.
(I seem to recall that some midwestern states even had or perhaps still have laws allowing unlicensed teenagers too young to drive to drive on public roads, as long as they were driving from one of their family's fields to another.)
Or training to be a responsible reporter.
Or training to be a responsible reporter.
https://constitution.org/1-Constitution/2ll/schol/2amd_grammar.htm
Here is a good analysis showing why the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” is not dependent on the militia at all. Also lays out why, in the sentence structure, the right of the people already exists and is not granted. You have that right at birth.
The militia and the security of the state are mere byproducts of something that already exists.
I believe it is another check and balance although the author does not go into that.
Enjoy!
How about voter ID AH?
Rather should tell this in person to Chicago street thugs.
Hey, Dan me man, why not take that one step
further and say the same regarding ‘the right to vote’
Training, license, a “wating period” from the time of
registration until one enters a voting booth.
Go fly a kite!
Sorry Danny. Most of us learned about GUNS at the same place we learned to drive. From the U.S. Government’s FRIGGIN’ MILITARY. Kiss my ass Skippy. Why don’t you worry about your job of pounding sand up peoples’ asses and we’ll handle the gun stuff, MORON!
Actually, the training part is correct. The license part is not. Well-regulated back in the day meant well-trained and equipped.
Yep. Lacked common sense, and were downright stupid.
Using this “logic”, you should need a permit to vote. Or publish writings.
After all, those can each affect millions of people.
You are very welcome. Lays out pretty well what you and I already know.
Best part....the grammar expert is not exactly pro gun, but at least he is intellectually honest.
You know what else you need a license for, Dan?
You need a license for fabricating fake documents disparaging a Republican Presidential candidate just before the election.
Every time you see a leftist use the words "common sense", you can be sure that more of your freedoms will be slipping away soon.
Ironic that the libtards are screeching about "weapons of war" on America's streets. The right to own & bear "weapons of war" is exactly what the 2nd Amendment guarantees.
Ayup.
However, no individual was ever required to have training in order to purchase and own a gun, or even to belong to the militia.
Why? Because first and foremost we are a free people and that right must be respected over all others and cannot be trampled upon. We are nothing without freedom.
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