Mass shooting at KC Chiefs victory parade
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Anonymous
The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms. It was ratified on December 15, 1791, along with nine other articles of the Bill of Rights. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution |
Anonymous
The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824 |
Anonymous
So there are less guns which equals less opportunity to use them to kill people. Less guns = less opportunity to use one to kill people. Simple. It's so simple. My question to you is why do you think you need a gun? What are you so afraid of? |
Anonymous
It doesn't say anything about unfettered access. |
Anonymous
Again, the requirement for a driver's license is an undue burden for many people. It would be inequitable to require this for driving, let alone a gun. |
Anonymous
The gun cost quite a bit more. It has its own special drawer. |
Anonymous
Most Europeans aren't afraid that they're risking their lives by going to school, church, the grocery store, a race, the movies, or a parade. New Zealand had the decency to tighten gun laws after mass shootings because they saw it a health issue and not a political one. |
Anonymous
| So should we allow mentally ill individuals to own guns? How do we restrict their access to guns under the second amendment? Or do you think they should be able to have them, no questions asked? |
Anonymous
| Did you see the footage of the gun loving Missouri governor running away like a little girl? |
Anonymous
Regulation is right there in the Amendment. |
Anonymous
Democrats will try to put President Trump on trial for that too! |
Anonymous
| Gun ownership is a right. It’s there to empower fascists, communists and control freaks. Driving is a privilege. |
Anonymous
Fascists and control freaks are the first ones to load up on guns. |
Anonymous
"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776 The reason why gun control will never happen is stated above. Every law abiding gun owner knows they are judged as criminal because our founders gave America the 2nd Amendment, and we dare exercise our constitutional right to own guns. We know that the powerful politicians who want to enact gun control upon us are protected by men armed with fully automatic weapons and those men are specifically and extensively trained to use those fully automatic weapons with violence against a person who would hurt that powerful politician and their family. Those powerful politicians will not give up their right to be protected by guns, but we must give up our right to protect ourselves with guns? I don’t ever see posters attack and malign actual criminals who have committed crimes with guns and killed innocent people with guns as viciously as they attack and malign American citizens who are legally armed and responsibly armed and merely exercising their rights guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment. That’s because the problem isn’t really about gun crime and the death of innocent people. The problem is democrats (a majority) don’t like guns, don’t want Americans to own guns, and want to take away the ability of American citizens to own guns. How about this: if you use a gun in a rape, theft, or murder, you are executed the same day you are convicted of the rape, theft, or murder. If you steal a gun, and you are convicted of the theft of that gun, the gun owner or the court will execute you with that gun. You want to actually change human behavior and criminal behavior, give criminals a reason to be terrified to be convicted of using a gun to commit a crime or to steal a gun. Instead of fantasizing about using Bradleys and “attack” helicopters on normal Americans, use capital punishment on criminals who are engaging in gun crime. Don’t say it’s cruel or unusual punishment to do so, because you openly admit to wanting the American military to kill law abiding citizens just because they own guns. |
Anonymous
Were our founders fascists and control freaks? “A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785 To disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them." - George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788 "I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers." - George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788 "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in 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 band of regular troops." - Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787 |