MikeK
Gold Member
I agree with the philosophical reasoning. But if you would watch a few episodes of the MSNBC series, Lockup, you would see that our prisons are in fact madhouses (in the Victorian sense of the word) in which a significant percentage of their populations are true psychopaths who should be permanently locked away in mental institutions and maintained on Thorazine sedation. However, they are committed to serve a specific period of time after which they will be released into mainstream society. To allow some of these aberrations to legally obtain firearms is analogous to releasing rabid dogs in an active school building. It should not be done.Why infringe on the rights of felons? If the Second Amendment is sacrosanct, and the words express the original intent of the founders, shouldn't any infringement, control or regulation be unconstitutional?
["Yes, I'd like a a two megaton warhead on my mortor. Do you deliever?"]
Exactly. "Shall not be infringed" means "shall not be infringed." Once you've "infringed" the rights of felons, you've started down the road to tyranny.
While the original intent of the 2nd Amendment is noble and just, consideration must, in this and other exceptional situations, be given to the fact that if the Founders could have foreseen certain developments in the Nation's social problems, and in firearms technology, it is certain they would have allowed for a 2nd Amendment exception in the case of lunatics.