06-02-2022, 02:02 PM
(06-02-2022, 01:50 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(05-26-2022, 07:25 AM)David Horn Wrote: We've tried the "common sense measures" route. Maybe it's time to go for the deep seats: repeal the 2nd Amendment! It seems as likely to pass as all the less-is-less measures we've already tried, but it has the benefit of being strong and definitive. Maybe that's where we need to be, instead of asking for crumbs from the table.
The 2nd Amendment is worth fighting for, worth killing for. After the 1st Amendment, is the most important piece of legislation in our nearly 250 year history. You will start a war if you do this, and respectfully sir, I will be enlisting on the other side...
Aren't you the guy who would refuse the draft because you don't wish to fight wars? A little cynical here, aren't you? But on to the 2nd ...
Read the 27 words. It's arguable whether it was intended to foster militias to "keep them darkies in line", as some say, or to provide security in areas without a constabulary. Either way, it's damn hard to see an individual right in there. Guns have little if any place in urban society and limited use in less populated areas. The 2nd is moribund, but, like a good zombie, it just keeps moving and taking lives.
And one final note: the vast majority wants weapons under control. If they are denied, THAT will trigger anarchy and even less rationality than we hav today.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.