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Letters to the Editor: We're letting the 2nd Amendment destroy us. The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict proves it
LA Times ^ | Nov 22, 2022

Posted on 11/22/2021 7:12:56 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

To the editor: I was born and raised in England, and after many years in the U.S. I am still bewildered by how the 2nd Amendment has been manipulated by a powerful minority. ("Will Rittenhouse acquittal lead to more armed confrontations at protests?" Nov. 19)

The origins of this amendment, ratified in 1789, are clearly rooted in the desire to form state militias to frustrate any perceived overreach by a stronger federal government. The progenitor was the English Bill of Rights Act of 1689, which had a provision allowing the people to bear arms and possibly protect a newly formed Parliament against a misbehaving monarchy.

But somehow this original intent has morphed from allowing you to keep a slow-loading musket in your closet just in case a quickly formed militia is needed, to permitting a 17-year-old with an assault rifle slung around his neck to strut about a volatile riot area and shoot people he perceives as a threat.

I feel many in this country are so obsessed with guns and the 2nd Amendment that they cannot step back and see the mayhem they are causing.

Graham Martin, Woodland Hills

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: California
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Graham Martin of Woodland Hills, please KYS. Actually, this fool needs to just stay there or go back to the U.K. There (CA) needs to be in a separate country. CA, NY, and a handful of other places are lost. Smart and serious people need to be working towards splitting this thing up as peacefully as possible. The alternative is not peaceful at all. It’s far more divided now than it was in 1860 and for a lot of the same reasons.


21 posted on 11/22/2021 7:25:54 PM PST by cdcdawg (Let's Go, Brandon!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The origins of this amendment, ratified in 1789, are clearly rooted in the desire to form state militias to frustrate any perceived overreach by a stronger federal government. The progenitor was the English Bill of Rights Act of 1689, which had a provision allowing the people to bear arms and possibly protect a newly formed Parliament against a misbehaving monarchy.


I suspect the write has the words but not the music that goes with it..............................


22 posted on 11/22/2021 7:26:00 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Parley Baer
> What an ignorant POS Graham Martin is. <

To be fair, some important people do agree with him.


23 posted on 11/22/2021 7:27:28 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: JamesP81

And one reason was their smarminess ... but our Founders were too dignified to put that one in writing. :)


24 posted on 11/22/2021 7:27:39 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It’s a good thing the early Americans had guns, so they could kick the stupid Brits out.


25 posted on 11/22/2021 7:28:16 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
The origins of this amendment, ratified in 1789, are clearly rooted in the desire to form state militias to frustrate any perceived overreach by a stronger federal government.

If the Left would have had one more vote on the Supreme Court in 2008, this would have been the holding in District of Columbia v. Heller.

26 posted on 11/22/2021 7:28:27 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Dear Graham:

Perhaps your bloodsucking British relatives never told you how, during WWI, when all your limey friends were off fighting for ‘King & Country’, your government emptied the mental institutions and conscripted the former patients. Your government sent these armed idiots to Ireland to put down the Easter uprising. They had orders to kill every male child over age 14, and they murdered thousands.

Are you still wondering why we won’t let go of our God-given right to keep and bear arms? It’s because of people like you and your disgusting ancestors. Come and Take Them Pussy.


27 posted on 11/22/2021 7:29:00 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor (LGBTQ - Let's Get Brandon To Quit)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Oh, Graham in Woodland Hills, you’re embarrassing yourself.


28 posted on 11/22/2021 7:29:01 PM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Failure to adhere to The Constitution and love of Marxism are at the root of our problems. [Though fewer limeys might help]


29 posted on 11/22/2021 7:29:04 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The leftists who are destroying the United States with feral riots and looting and it is encouraged by the leftists like this idiot Brit. He needs to go home and embrace the suck of his own destroyed nation.


30 posted on 11/22/2021 7:30:12 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

hey, Graham, American guns kept you Brits from being eaten by the Germans ... twice ...


31 posted on 11/22/2021 7:31:18 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

GTFO, Graham. We kicked your ass to stop doing it England’s way.


32 posted on 11/22/2021 7:33:11 PM PST by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

More crap from the ‘Slimes’

Move on

Nothing to see here.


33 posted on 11/22/2021 7:34:02 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
I was born and raised in England

Then stick it in your fish and chips hole, you limey wanker.

34 posted on 11/22/2021 7:34:08 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Leaning Right
"beg the Queen for protection"

The Britts begged the US for personal arms prior to our entry into WWII.

US citizens loaned them arms and then they dumped them into the Channel when the war ended.

35 posted on 11/22/2021 7:35:20 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

A stupider proposition would be impossible, especially in Californication

The author must work for the LA Times.


36 posted on 11/22/2021 7:35:56 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The first 6 words were all that was needed. Swim back nancyboy.


37 posted on 11/22/2021 7:38:04 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: DJ MacWoW

This guy wins the Internet


38 posted on 11/22/2021 7:40:37 PM PST by Marko413
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Graham and Woodland will gladly take a beating

good news, brain damage wont be an issue


39 posted on 11/22/2021 7:41:07 PM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I was born and raised in England
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Well , that’s a good thing since you will know what I mean by

Sod off.


40 posted on 11/22/2021 7:41:47 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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