06-14-2016, 05:03 PM
(06-14-2016, 04:47 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(06-14-2016, 12:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Trump's appeal is to attack scapegoats. Now he wants to ban immigrants from any country "with ties to terrorism." Mateen was not an immigrant, but he was a Muslim. Therefore, ban all Muslim immigrants. Maybe he'll hone his target. I would think his next call would be to ban all Muslims and ban Islam in America, since Mateen was a Muslim and an American citizen.
If he becomes President then Fuhrer, the military might be sent into places like California to come and overturn a number of things.
This is why we have the 2nd Amendment.
With my current legally allowed armaments I will be a mere nuisance in the eyes of forces with actual military grade arms. I do not ask for much. I don't even need full auto like the military have. All I need is typical civilian grade semi-auto, but with no silly restrictions on magazine capacity, etc. I'm a good enough shot I don't need full auto, plus it wastes ammo.
True. I read the Second Amendment to read as a protection of States' rights. The state militias were the Continental armies, and the states needed those militias as defenses against piracy, Indian attacks, invasions, and any possible usurpation of federal power.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.