Revoke the Second Amendment (barf alert)

Milwaukee J-S ^ | 12 oct 2015 | Barry Blackwell

[rellimpank]

History, common sense and reliable data should be the three-legged stool on which legislation concerning gun ownership might be based. Instead, the debate is shaped by once-imagined and now real fear (tyranny), specious reasoning (sophistry), rigid belief systems (ideology) and politics corrupted by money (bribery).

It is a problem unique to America, impervious to change, despite recurring episodes of mass murder and deaths due to guns killing more children or adults in accidents, suicide, murder and domestic violence since 1968 than the total of lives lost in all of America's wars.

The Second Amendment of the Constitution, included in our Bill of Rights (1791) was enacted in the wake of the War of Independence from Britain fought against a mentally deranged monarch and a Parliament that extorted taxes without representation. In the shadow of such tyranny and the absence of a standing army, the amendment granted citizens the right to bear arms as part of a "well-regulated militia", should that become necessary. The sound logic underlying that edict eroded when the United States developed the largest and best equipped standing army on the globe, supported by a voluntary, well-trained and occasionally mobilized reserve.

[JimRed]

(Does someone need a functional RPG or gattling gun? That gets to what is “arms”. I think in this that the citizenry should be allowed the same arms given to authorities, namely law enforcement, otherwise the right is diluted or meaningless).

In a word, yes, when the regime starts bringing in battalions of UN troops to enforce illegal laws, or sending Homeland Security around to round up dissenters (that's you and me, folks).

[JimRed]

Should we preclude some people from arms? Of course, for mental impairment, felons, ALL non-citizens, and Democrats/RINOS for good measure :)

Refer to the final two sentences of post #60, and add this: Whoever should not be armed should not be running around loose.

[JimRed]

The Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right that belongs to all law-abiding Americans. The Constitution doesn’t create that right – it ensures that the government can’t take it away.

See the final two sentences of post #60 regarding the law-abiding part. If they shouldn't be armed, they shouldn't be running around loose.

[JimRed]

I just realized I’m trying to resurrect a day-old thread!

[M Kehoe]

History, common sense and reliable data should be the three-legged stool on which legislation concerning gun ownership might be based. Instead,..

See Barry, you negated your argument with the word, "Instead." Why, because "History, common sense and reliable data," makes the rest of your piece moot.

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