Message from @Eirene
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Problem is that you can clean up after a gunfight, but nukes leave the land dead for quite a while
@Eirene Yeah, you're right about that.
the beginning is often the beginning of the end.
Imagine if infringing on certain rights of others ended up having you stripped of those rights....
Not Really Bookworm. Read 2A.
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of
a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms
shall not be infringed.
What is a Militia?
"a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency."
basically like in Red Dawn
Red dawn was a documentary
In every sense a Militia is "The people" who are armed with small arms that can be called upon for defense of their local area. They are either the absoulte first or last line of mobilization.
So arguing about the Second Amendment covering Nukes is a distracting bit of hyberoly meant to distract from the core issue, the Second Amendment says the people have a right to keep firearms.
it also written was back in the day when "small arms" were almost = in firepower to what the military had (british)
to such an extent that the people overthrew the british
According to the Federalist Papers the founding fathers wanted the general public to be armed just as well if not better then the average infantry soldier and until about the Great War they were.
Firearms are protected by the 2nd amendment but thats not the end all be all
It wasn't really until the National Firearms Act that the American Citizen was probihited from being better armed than the Army
Lets stay on the average guys
>this one rich dude owns a bunch of pre 1986 machine guns
Means nothing, the hughes amendment is effectively a machine gun ban and should be found unconstitutional
A lot of people are arguing for the repeal of the entire NFA
NFA repeal is the ideal but hughes amendment is arguably worse than the NFA
(was a sad story actually, guy got screwed by the local govt and big business)
In the 1950's New York kids built pistols out of stuff from hardware stores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm
Only two murders have happened with post 1934 legal machine guns, the hughes amendment is not saving lives and is artifically increasing the value of pre 1986 machine guns, barring them from the average citizen
if people can be armed as well as the military it will bump up the cost of running police as well...
Not really. Have you read "More Guns Less Crime"? the book started out as an anti-firearms thesis that flipped when criminologest started researching. A better armed public has less crime overall
John Lott was originally anti gun?
It wasn't until he started researching that he realized he was wrong and changed his mind.
Wow thats really cool, i read his book "the war on guns" but didn't know about that
Across the board when you have apple to apple conparisons of jurisdictions with simular Demographics, economics, cultural indicators and the variable is firearms possesion, there is less crime, less murders, less violent crime,
Lott and others have been saying this for years.
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Just like the Left wants
Well I already called my Rep once this week
sickening
whew
so much reloading today