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Yep, I keep telling you people there are no exceptions to "Shall not be infringed."
actually the SC has ruled that there are more than one exception to that clause. You can't own nuclear arms for example or assault rifles at least in some states.
Furthermore the entire right to bear arms is predicated on your position in a state militia.
Read it and weep:
Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
If you are not part of a militia, or might not be a part of a militia, then you have no constitutional right to bear arms.
For as long as Ive been alive, crosshairs and bulls-eyes have been an accepted part of the graphical lexicon when it comes to political debates. Such inflammatory words as targeting, attacking, destroying, blasting, crushing, burying, knee-capping, and others have similarly guided political thought and action. Not once have the use of these images or words tempted me or anybody else I know to kill. Ive listened to, readand even written!vicious attacks on government without reaching for my gun. Ive even gotten angry, for goodness sake, without coming close to assassinating a politician or a judge.
From what I can tell, Im not an outlier. Only the tiniest handful of peoplemost of whom are already behind bars, in psychiatric institutions, or on psycho-medscan be driven to kill by political whispers or shouts. Asking us to forever hold our tongues lest we awake their deeper demons infantilizes and neuters us and makes politicians no safer. . . .
. . . .Any call to cool inflammatory speech is a call to police all speech, and I cant think of anybody in government, politics, business, or the press that I would trust with that power. As Jonathan Rauch wrote brilliantly in Harpers in 1995, The vocabulary of hate is potentially as rich as your dictionary, and all you do by banning language used by cretins is to let them decide what the rest of us may say. Rauch added, Trap the racists and anti-Semites, and you lay a trap for me too. Hunt for them with eradication in your mind, and you have brought dissent itself within your sights.
Our spirited political discourse, complete with name-calling, vilificationand, yes, violent imageryis a good thing. Better that angry people unload their fury in public than let it fester and turn septic in private. The wicked direction the American debate often takes is not a sign of danger but of freedom. And Ill punch out the lights of anybody who tries to take it away from me. . . .
The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
Too bad someone in the crowd wasn't armed. I heard that someone did show up right after they had subdued the shooter, but didn't draw his weapon because things were under control. Imagine that, a responsible gun owner.
jeezus
McCarthy is an idiot of the first order. She introduces this legislation every single session of Congress. It promptly goes nowhere. It is a waste of everyone's time. She doesn't even know what she's talking about but wants it banned anyway.McCarthy can be excused. I can't imagine she has ever recovered from the death of her husband, or the injury of her son....I know I wouldn't. It is no surprise she is sensitized to gun violence and seeks to end it.
Too bad someone in the crowd wasn't armed. I heard that someone did show up right after they had subdued the shooter, but didn't draw his weapon because things were under control. Imagine that, a responsible gun owner.
jeezus
I'll await your self righteous indignation when Congress provides members with more armed protection.
Pot, meet kettleIs the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, an ala carte menu?
Racial Profiling? YES!
Ban Mosques? YES!
Gun Control? NO! HELL NO!
Gay rights! Yes!
Abortion rights! Yes!
Gun rights! Hell no!!!
jeezus
I'll await your self righteous indignation when Congress provides members with more armed protection.
Professional security people are somewhat different than a crowd full of fat loons with pistols.
"Discoveries at Loughner's home in southern Arizona, where he lived with his parents in a middle-class neighborhood have provided few answers to what motivated him." - Military: Ariz. shooting suspect failed drug test - Yahoo! News
Throw the parent's asses in jail too. If you let someone living under your roof own a gun with that level of mental issues, you should go to jail.
at that time, he wasnt a terroristHarboring a terrorist would result in jail, how is this different?
at that time, he wasnt a terroristHarboring a terrorist would result in jail, how is this different?
We are just encouraged not to use our brains, we are told how to act.
We is good little programmed minions.
McCarthy is an idiot of the first order. She introduces this legislation every single session of Congress. It promptly goes nowhere. It is a waste of everyone's time. She doesn't even know what she's talking about but wants it banned anyway.McCarthy can be excused. I can't imagine she has ever recovered from the death of her husband, or the injury of her son....I know I wouldn't. It is no surprise she is sensitized to gun violence and seeks to end it.
She is hardly the only person to have family gunned down by a maniac. Two women (one I am personally acquainted with) had that experience and became staunch supporters of the right to keep and bear arms for private citizens.
Is the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, an ala carte menu?
Racial Profiling? YES!
Ban Mosques? YES!
Gun Control? NO! HELL NO!
no one, that i know ofIs the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, an ala carte menu?
Racial Profiling? YES!
Ban Mosques? YES!
Gun Control? NO! HELL NO!
Whobannedamosque?
"Discoveries at Loughner's home in southern Arizona, where he lived with his parents in a middle-class neighborhood have provided few answers to what motivated him." - Military: Ariz. shooting suspect failed drug test - Yahoo! News
Throw the parent's asses in jail too. If you let someone living under your roof own a gun with that level of mental issues, you should go to jail.
Um.. no. He was an adult and is responsible for his own actions. This is not a road we want to start going down.
