You don't think that massacre's of school children with todays modern weapons are exceptional enough to warrant change in gun laws?
No, because you've gone from fallacy of accident, to fallacy of equivocation.
The right to bear arms shall not be infringed. This is not an absolute right. The right to bear arms can be limited for exceptional circumstances IN REGARDS TO ARMS THEMSELVES. In other words, exceptional weapons (like nuclear weapons, biological weapons, chemical weapons, etc.) warrant exceptions to the general rule because
those weapons themselves are exceptional.
Guns are not exceptional. They are normal arms. The fact that crime is committed with weapons does create permissibility under the second amendment to impede the right of people to bear normal arms.
Really? You don't thing the founding fathers would have found an AR15 an "exceptional" weapon? The ability to fire dozens of rounds in seconds would not have been considered exceptional to George Washington? Are you sure?
But nice dodge on the numbers of deaths before change should be considered.
Why not just come out plainly and say; it does not matter how many innocent people are killed. I would not support any change to todays gun laws.
At least be honest that your desire for guns outweighs anyone elses concern for safety from guns.
And you know what. If the Bushmaster rifle used by Adam Luanza had not been on the rack for his mother to buy, Adam would not have had the use of such an effiecent killing weapon to use on those kids. That's the undeniable truth.
Well dumbass, let's see what the Founders thought about HOW "We the People" should be armed shall we? Seems too many of you anti-gunnut liberals haven't a clue. You mentioned George Washington, so I'll start with what he thought about the 2nd Amendment, then get to the HOW we should armed ideas.
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence ... From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that
to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . . . the very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good" (George Washington)
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword;
because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States"
(Noah Webster in `An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution', 1787, a pamphlet aimed at swaying Pennsylvania toward ratification, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at 56(New York, 1888))
"...but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude,
that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in discipline and use of arms, who stand ready to defend their rights..."
(Alexander Hamilton speaking of standing armies in Federalist 29.)
"Congress have no power to disarm the militia.
Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people"
(Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788)
Now there's more, but you get the idea. Now I know the next argument from the anti-gunnut liberals will be.........."Well they said a militia, they said a miltia we have one that means the National Guard", lol. Freaking lemmings the lot of you. Let's see what one of the two considered to be the Fathers of the Bill of Rights, George Mason, said concerning exactly who and what the militia is shall we.
"I ask, sir,
what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials." (George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426)
Another Founder added; "
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms." (Richard Henry Lee, Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer (1788) at 169)
Now run along scrote, you need to go on a ban the hammer rampage seeing that according to the FBI hammers are used to murder more people than so called "Assault Rifles".
