Posted on 01/17/2013 8:29:38 PM PST by neverdem
The public discourse suddenly swirls angrily around this issue: How big a gun should people be allowed to own, with how many bullets? Despite all the furor, the question has a very simple answer. But it's the wrong question.
Even those who routinely carry a concealed weapon, and certainly many who don't, wrestle with the question, "How much firepower does anyone need?" Perhaps those who don't own weapons think the answer should be very close to zero. Those who know that many times each year violent attacks are stopped when someone simply shows a weapon understand that self-defense tools are legitimate and necessary, but still worry about where the line should be above that level.
Legislators are hurriedly drafting a variety of bills to answer the question, phrasing them in terms of how evil a weapon looks, whether it automatically chambers the next shell for you, and how many cartridges it can feed. For those more knowledgeable about guns, the real concern is with things far beyond the personal defense category: rocket-propelled grenades, for example, the sort of things jihadists bring to a party at the U.S. embassy.
Here are some simple, foundational ideas to help sort it out.
The first principle is that the federal government has no constitutional say whatsoever in the size or quantity of weapons maintained by the people -- because that very government is the most dangerous person in the room. The Second Amendment has one purpose: to ensure that "we the people" can withstand a tyrannical government, for perhaps the first time in history. The writings of James Madison (Federalist #46), among others, make that abundantly clear...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
BTW, did anyone know there are no laws regulating or prohibiting flamethrowers? Nothing says “stopping power” like a squirt of 2,200 degree Fahrenheit flaming jellied gasoline.
At least as big as the gun being used against me.
Whether we are discussing salt, tobacco, gasoline, fountain drinks, greasy hamburgers, or guns, much wrong-headed policy today is being driven by the question, "How much does anyone need?" In Venezuela, Soviet Russia, or present-day England, it might be different, but here the correct answer is, "Whatever they want."
Not because we support greed, plundering the rest of the world, or any of the other accusations the left throws at the right, but because of sovereignty. Your sovereignty.
Congress just assumed private citizens knew where a private citizen could buy canon. No permission was needed to buy it, arm it or fire it. You only needed Congresses permission to fire it at a foreigner.
I like that. Excellent point!
The only pictures I seen of obama looking happy, he looked very creepy. There is that one on the couch with his pakistani roommate. There is also that one with him giggling like a fag during that karate match on the whitehouse lawn. There isn’t to many others of him as an adult I can recall. Usually he has a very bitter face.
The only pictures I seen of obama looking happy, he looked very creepy. There is that one on the couch with his pakistani roommate. There is also that one with him giggling like a fag during that karate match on the whitehouse lawn. There isn’t to many others of him as an adult I can recall. Usually he has a very bitter face.
Unfortunately, I could bear a RPG, but can't find one on the underground market.
5.56mm
I guess I meant the goverment owns the technology, it is considered a state secret.
He sold it when his job moved from Alaska to Germany.As far as I know,that beast is still up in Alaska waiting.
Sure, but can I assume you know what I meant ?
Letters of Marque and Reprisal simply gave the bearer legal standing so as not to be considered a pirate.
Letters of Marque and Reprisal simply gave the bearer legal standing so as not to be considered a pirate.
I’m confused...that was my point.
I don't see why not, I assumed I knew what you meant.
Ah.... mutual bliss is so wonderful.
Urban SUV?
What does need have to do with anything? It’s a choice.
When my moonbat liberal colleagues ask me the inane question I simply respond thusly: If the infantry carries it, the people must have it too, but in greater numbers! That usually sends most of them screaming from the room.
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