11-03-2018, 09:08 AM
(11-02-2018, 12:34 AM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote:(11-01-2018, 06:05 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(11-01-2018, 06:00 PM)Eric the Obtuse Wrote: Banning weapons of war like the AR-15 should be applied to anyone who wants to buy one. That we have not yet banned them, is due to Trump and the Republicans.
That, and a little thing called the Constitution.
And not everyone. There is no right if one is a felon or insane or if a hostile significant other lies.
No-one has a constitutional right to an AR-15, no matter what anyone says.
I suggest that you read about the history of the Militia Acts of 1792. It gives a very clear picture of exactly what the framers of the Constitution had in mind. It specified that individuals were to have, what were at the time state of the art, small arms. Looking at what the founding fathers had to say it becomes clear that they considered owning firearms to be an individual right. They regarded a large standing army as a threat to liberty.
By the way the Taliban are winning in Afganistan which has little more than infantry small arms. The situation hasn't gotten any better in the last three years. The Soviet Union faced the same problem in the eighties and how did that work out for them?
Governments always disarm target populations before genocide. You are too clueless and short sighted to figure this out. You simply can't believe that your god, known to the rest of us as the state, is capable of such evil but it is.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises