01-02-2017, 04:51 PM
(01-02-2017, 03:46 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Guns are not a "right" that any sane person covets or values. Guns are a technological innovation that allows people to kill other people easily and with little effort. It is not a "right" like the others. It was an 18th century measure that met the needs of that time for a militia and a check on a slave rebellion, and in the days when guns were less efficient. We should restore the original meaning of the Second, and thus go back to the long-held interpretation that "gun rights" were for the purpose of arming a well-regulated militia, and thus allow a community like DC to ban certain weapons if it wants to.
But, it will be up to the people whether they remain brainwashed by right-wing propaganda, as they so easily are today, or return to a progressive agenda. It will have to be the peoples' choice to lay down their arms or not. An armed campaign to take away peoples' guns is a contradiction and won't work.
I've gone over all of that with you before, and read everything. No need to rehash it; my comments will not change your mind.
Again, you are proclaiming those who disagree with you as not sane. This is not an argument but a vile stereotype.
Again, the right to own and carry weapons did not exist purely for militia duty. There were no police forces at the time, so the People had to protect themselves.
And, yes, rehashing is futile. You are immune to fact.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.