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I’m sorry but your 2nd Amendment was not drafted with the wording needed to restrict the acquisition and accumulation of firearms by those who should not have it. Case in point: the intellectually disabled (…), the morally disadvantaged (criminals) and the clinically psychotic (this list is long).
I get that it’s fun to pop off some rounds - Pew pew pew. But guns are a curse on your society and for everyone’s sake they are best removed until they can be used responsibly.
I’m sorry you live in the state of fear that promotes concealed carry - but this is a result of my first point.
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A quick point for folks not from the U.S. of A (and maybe some from there): when the 2nd amendment was written it did not apply to states and local governments. They could and did restrict gun ownership.
The 14th amendment (1868) established primacy requiring all states to follow the previous 13. The 13th ended slavery and for brevity the 14th was required to enforce it (not the place for a fuller description). Even after the 14th established the primacy clause, no one argued for a century that the 2nd amendment prevented state and local governments from restricting guns. That individuals owning and carrying guns is a “constitutional right” is very much a new modern american insanity that has very little to do with the original intent (or wording) of the 2nd amendment
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IMHO, these psychos are simply time-displaced confederate soldiers - in other words traitors in arms against America.
They should be arrested and treated as terrorists.
Giving these nuts even one milimeter of consideration is to allow them to take yet another mile of anti-social, anti-American aggitation.
Fuck them! is too polite a response.
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Gary Wills wrote an outstanding article articulating as much in the New York Review of Books about a decafe ago. Don’t have the link at hand, but I sure google will find it fast.
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Wait… so theoretically not just the 2nd. What stopped a state from banning all religions except being Protestant or banning all public assembly? This is hurting my brain.
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Digging…
Probably not that. Digging…
Eight years, but … no.
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They did somewhat. Many states, including Texas where I now live, still have laws on the books about only Christians being allowed to hold public office. Its just that since 1868 those laws have been unenforceable
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I often forget the only place I’ve been to in Texas outside an airport was Austin…
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25 years ago maybe:
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Even if you think “well regulated militia” == “private ownership”, I think a “well regulated” militia means regulations on the unfit not having them, just like in the military I assume if you fuck up badly enough they revoke your range privs and have you scrubs toilets or whatever
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They think the world is their own personal videogame. Just march on through any fucking which way they want.
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Kent State was 50 years ago next week. My dad was there, and he was planning to go to the commemoration. Can’t now of course…
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In Michigan state law preempts all local gun regulation— no local government can have stricter gun rules than state law. So no way to keep guns out of city hall or the public library or to ban handgun sales locally. Luckily school districts got left off the list but a bunch of gun fundies sued anyway to try to force schools to allow members of the public into schools with guns (they lost). Republican legislators made this bed, and I’m happy to let them lie in it but their colleagues and staff don’t deserve to be threatened by an armed mob.
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A key point. The woman in the top photo was one of 100 BLM protesters arrested in Baton Rouge that day. How many of the Michigan protesters were arrested today?
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Even though a gun didn’t go off, people may easily have been killed— three weeks from now suffocating alone in a hospital. One Michigan legislator and at least one staffer are already dead, more have been infected. These guys are screaming indoors with no masks, which is very likely to transmit coronavirus. About 800-1000 protesters were there, and given the size of Michigan’s outbreak it’s certain some were positive. The fact that the legislative majority has not acted to protect staff is shameful. They had no problem closing the Capitol to the public to pass the massively unpopular anti union legislation a few years ago.
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Two were arrested, for getting into a fight with each other.
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Jeez, I’m older than I’m letting myself know…
Thx for digging it up.
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Because these are Americans exercising their God given rights.
It’s not complicated, you know.
Have you brought up these reasonable arguments with your fellow 2A supporters? Your argument seems strong, must have convinced some of them?
Sounds snarky, but not my attention. I’m curious to hear from reasonable sounding people on all sides of contentious issues.
