No they are not. You're obviously too stupid to realize the criminals are just going to grab the guns anyway. So no you're not 100% preventable Gilly thing you're preventing have a law-abiding citizens ability to defend himself |
Actually you're incorrect. Well-known and well documented the framers physicians on firearm ownership, they believe everyone has a right to own one |
The sad thing is that you got the "bad guys will get them anyway" argument from our actual elected lawmakers. What a sorry state this country is in when our elected lawmakers are saying "why make laws. The bad guys will break 'em anyway." Guess what. Not every would-be criminal has the connections and resources to acquire a gun illegally. If they attempt to, there's at least a chance they will be caught in the process. That's how laws work. And enough with the "it only punishes the law abiding citizens" argument too. How many times do we need to point out that law abiding citizens would get to keep their gun! Nobody is talking about a gun ban or confiscation. Yawn. I wish you guys would come up with some new arguments. These are getting so old. Next are you guys going to say "if guns kill, then spoons make us fat?" Because that's another compelling and insightful point that you all seem so proud of. |
Please stop acting so oblivious to the whole militia thing. Good grief. Did you know that our founding fathers also thought the constitution should be rewritten every 20 years because they did not want the dead to rule the living? Not saying we should do that. Just acknowledging that it is our decision, not theirs, to keep it. So let's stop using them as a scapegoat. The blood is on our hands. Not theirs. |
You are aware there is no federal registry of car owners, right? Many states also does not require vehicle registration if the vehicle is only operated on private land. The title itself is most often a bearer document: it's not rendered invalid when transferred. So one private individual could sign the title over to another private individual without ever being required to let the state know of the transfer. Yet we don't have a call on a federal car owner registry as a way to combat car accidents or vehicular crimes. |
So drugs are illegal, criminals don't get a hold of drugs. The only people who don't want the ability to protect their families and themselves are cowards. Plain and simple. You want someone else to do it for you because you're scared of an inanimate object. |
So you have no arguments. And you're talking of one guy, TJ who said something along those lines. The militia argument is old and tired: "I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason Co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia's Convention The other founding fathers expressed similar sentiment. The milita argument has been disproven multiple times. |
Its really to bad you did not look above the headline and read this story from the same source, today: http://www.wxyz.com/news/2-year-old-shot-on-detroits-east-side Really demonstrates a need for gun control, thanks. |
Can someone please show me the passage in the 2nd Amendment that defines anecdote as data? It has to be there, because supporters of the 2nd Amendment constantly treat anecdotes as data, but I've looked and looked and can't find it anywhere!
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What George Mason actually said: "I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day." |
And those of us arguing for registration, training and licensing also agree that everyone is entitled to the right to bear arms, but that they need to be registered and trained. Registration, licensing and mandatory classes do not prevent you from owning a gun unless you fail the gun course, in which case you are welcome to take it again, just like a driver's license test. The founders did not have to worry about this because in that day and age, everyone learned to fire arms when they were young and so the idea of an untrained gun owner was unimaginable. Not so today. |
And the Congress authorized a standing Army and Navy thus obviating the need for a well-regulated militia. |
I forgot to add that the only reason that the NRA is refusing is that they believe that you cannot have any compromise because of the slippery slope argument. But this childish resistance to even discuss any compromises is endangering a significant number of the public every year because you have so many untrained gun owners who have no idea how to use or store their weapons setting the stage for hundreds of gun accidents annually. |
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Go ahead and tell my former military husband what a coward he is for not wanting or needing a gun to defend himself.
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| Pretty sure this is the same poster who started the thread a couple weeks back about the chick who shot her abusive ex boyfriend |