12-26-2018, 01:06 AM
(12-26-2018, 12:22 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Does your home have walls? I'm not aware of an American home that doesn't have walls or external doors that lock. How about you, does your home or apartment have walls and an active security system of some sort or a fence or wall of some sort running along the property line and so forth? I could see wear someone who has dual citizenship could take a position like yours and get away with it. However, it would be very difficult for a American citizen to be able to make such a claim and still be viewed as a loyal/trustworthy American by most other Americans. Hey blue, if you are open to loosing/surrendering your rights and Constitutional protections, I'm open to helping separate you from them and leaving you to the mercy of the world and the mercy foreign powers. I don't care if California or a portion of California ends up in a similar position as Cuba.
You seem to have a very narrow definition on what it means to be an American. There is no single American culture.
One needs locking doors simply as a defense against burglary.
The only 'right' that any of us Blues seem to be willing to take away is the questionable right to prepare for committing a gun-based massacre. Surely you did read the post I had about people, often with clean criminal records, being able to get firearms in large numbers at once.
If I am a banker I do not want someone using a credit card that I issue to be used for purchasing weapons for a mass shooting. At the least I want the cardholder to pay for his purchases, which is highly unlikely if he commits a horrific crime with those firearms.
Banks already have been regulated to ensure that credit cards do not become a means of committing fraud or money-laundering or a means of making transactions involving illegal drugs. So why is there no constraint on buying guns in a way suggesting the potential of a mass shooting?
One firearm at a time? That would be adequate for a sport hunter.
In any event, the right to keep and bear arms comes with the militia clause. Criminal use of weapons has never been a 'gun right'.
...No matter how good one's credit rating, one cannot buy a motor vehicle or real estate on a credit card, at least in Michigan. Such things would be ideal objects in money laundering.
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.