Bullet Points

Slate ^ | June 16 2016 | Rachael Larimore

[TroutStalker]

"...we can argue all day about what the Framers—all now dead for 200 years or so—intended with the Second Amendment. But it seems disingenuous to argue that, in crafting a document that has largely served us well for more than 220 years, they couldn’t imagine improvements in gun technology."

Freedom of the press should be restricted to hand set type on manually cranked presses, because the founders couldn't have forseen high speed presses or the internet.

[Zarro]

The mainstream media lobbies hard for gun control, but it is very, very bad at gun journalism.

Fixed it.

[2banana]

The gun control freaks are like ghouls.

Not before the bodies are even buried do they try to push thier sick agenda of disarming American citizens for the actions of muslim terrorists...

[Myrddin]

Quill and berry juice for the press. Require them to stand on a stump in the town square and speak with only the volume of their own voices. Transmittal of data only in written form with pony express and sailing ships. Carrier pigeons for select cases.

[familyop]

"Gun-control advocates and their allies in the media will attack the gun-rights crowd as cold-hearted, stubborn, and out of touch."

They should be on low incomes in isolated areas near deadly predators of various kinds. That would change their perspective.

[Red in Blue PA]

Cannons were around at the time of the founding of this nation.....pretty powerful weapons. Yet the Founding Fathers did not ban them.

So this articles argument is a fail from the word go.

[familyop]

The new, semi-literate fascists in journalism are like zombies. They need “brains...brains!”

[familyop]

They should be on low incomes in isolated areas near deadly predators of various kinds. That would change their perspective.

Come to realize it, that wouldn’t stop them. They’re the more equal animals. They would still want their less stylish, more technically inclined neighbors to be disarmed.

[Vendome]

“...and thereby ignoring statistics that show that far more people die from handguns.”

Grammar alert...

Which show that...

[piasa]

Good point

[piasa]

I was going to say that letters of marque and reprisal were issued to persons owning fully armed sailing ships. That is, people with the best of the best for the time period.

[Spktyr]

Yup. The Founders had *no* problem with people running around with the battleship-equivalent of the day - the kind of thing that could and did lay waste to coastal towns that annoyed their owners sufficiently.

[tumblindice]

It’s like calling for curtailment of freedom of speech every time a defamation suit is filed. It’s getting tired and weaker every time they do it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This attack lasted THREE! SOLID! HOURS! And claimed about 50 victims.

A blunderbuss would have sufficed.

[HiTech RedNeck]

equivalent in the context

[Inyo-Mono]

Bttt.

[Toliph]

This is actually a pretty good article.

[Big Red Badger]

Cannons were around,
We’re Not Mentioned!

[marktwain]

It was a pretty good article.

Beat them enough times, hard enough, and they learn some reality.

[Billthedrill]

The author gets the divide and does a creditable job of filling it with fact. More of this, please.

One difficulty is that this has become a form of class warfare at this point - "gun people" are characterized as ignorant, malevolent, and jealous of their prerogatives. The last, the only true point, is presented as a bad thing by people equally jealous of theirs on other issues.

Yes, firearms owners are suspicious, and we have very good reason to be. One would never place the keeping of legislation regarding automobiles in the hands of people who hate them and wish to make it so that no one owns one. That sort of legislation mirrors the stuff we're seeing from the gun prohibitionist side: proudly ignorant, thoroughly useless, totally malicious, and eventually counterproductive. It is legislation that will be overwhelmingly ignored by its targets, for targets we are, and we have no intention whatever of becoming defenseless targets.