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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clearly rooted in the desire to form state militias to frustrate any perceived overreach by a stronger federal government.
That slow loading musket of 1789 was the AR 15 of its day. Americans have always possessed weapons equal or superior to its regular military. The list goes on forever but one example... drovers on a Texas to Kansas cattle drive in 1874 were better armed than a platoon of US Cavalry.
And that’s nice. But I heard too many tell me, “well the way we used to do it back east.........’
Then go back east if it’s so wonderful. Why are you here?
Why complain about the gun that can be seen, and say nothing about the gun that cannot.
-PJ
What a great response!
What a great response!
If he really wanted to understand the second amendment, he should read The Federalist Papers.
I have no use for people who tell me ‘that’s the way we do it in xxx’ either. I’ve lived all over the country during my time in the Navy and never used that.
He just told every crook in his area to come on over and rob him.
One of the dimmest bulbs in the store.
I hope he chokes on a cucumber sandwich.
Our Founders were residents of British colonies. It was their own government that was attempting to tax them without representation and followed that up by attempting to confiscate their arms.
Any attempt by our government today to repeat that tyranny should result in the same response as in 1795.
Yeh, you’d think he would at least google when the 2nd amendment was ratified in 1791 not 1789 as stated.
who cares what an Englishman thinks?
The slave mentality runs deep. Some people would prefer to live as book licking slaves rather than free men or women. This is one of them.
It embarrasses me that he is here. Send him back to England.
” I was born and raised in England,”
STOP right there. you don’t know shite about the US.
Substitute southerners for Americans and New Yorkers for foreigners and you have another very true statement
This is one of the reason’s I’m not crazy about the Brits.
Apparently this stupid git didn’t get the message.
We kicked your asses out of here twice using firearms.
Say... Whatever happened to that provision?
Seems to have somehow gotten lost somewhere down the line.
Regards,
There was a pretty good rebuttal just a few entries down from the end of the letter to the editor:
“To the editor: When it comes to chaos and anarchy, you can’t make value judgments about the different flavors. If you accept one flavor, you’re tacitly accepting all of it.
Progressive leaders and pundits who implicitly condoned wanton street violence in the name of social justice in 2020 now express outrage when the chaos pushes back.
Is it so surprising when the government fails to maintain social order that at least some private citizens will take up the mantle? This is the basic definition of anarchy: Figure it out for yourselves.
Chaos is omni-directional. It doesn’t care about your ideological or partisan priors. Embrace it all or reject it all.
Chris Romberg, El Dorado Hills, Calif.”
Just exactly why was Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, WI that night in July 2020? And exactly what and who made him feel the need to bear arms to defend himself? The protesters had not exactly shown any reluctance (either there or previously) to destroy property or attack anyone they didn’t like. So arming himself was a reasonable precaution. The rest …
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