02-12-2018, 07:54 PM
(02-12-2018, 06:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: What I have predicted, is that the gun control measures that almost passed under Obama, will pass under a Democratic presidency in the 2020s, and that the bobc's of the world will likely revolt over this, and be defeated. But that would only lead to those rebels losing their weapons and probably their freedom or even their lives, and that gun control would survive, at least for a while; but the 2nd would not be affected by any of this.
I do not anticipate the red block going violent over closing loopholes or anything Obama proposed. Bobc and you are extreme partisans of opposite ilk, apt to anticipate the worst.
The Second is best read without the justification phrase. "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." It is widely read that way in the red part of the country, academia, and is the Law of the Land. You could pull the rights of felons and the insane without trouble, and close loopholes, but you had best get comfortable with the intent of the founding fathers, no matter how different your values are from theirs.
Curiously, the Wild West was low violent crime before gun control and thus gun crime took off. You won't get the genie back in the bottle. However, what is silly and futile is an attempt at prohibition. I am no fan of the Congress trying to force the people away from something they want. Both the red and blue have made that mistake freely lately, trying to make the two cultures one by law. The result has been the see saw, handing power over to the other guys. I would like to think that this crises will see them stop, somehow. I'll admit I have seen nothing to make me assume either side will give up trying to change the other. Both sides are ever so sure that they are right.
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.