(June 30, 2016 at 12:12 pm)Brian37 Wrote: "Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither" Benjamin Franklin. Yea I agree, but what you forget is that he set up a government himself, and that new government wrote a Constitution that was designed to PROTECT the idea of rule of law and and political pluralism. You misuse that quote to justify "no rules".
That is a misuse of that quote to avoid the other part of "rights" which is responsibility, which isn't simply "hitting a target".
You are justifying a free for all, not even close to what Ben meant by that quote. And again, it is also defied by "well regulated" which means LAWS. That is what laws are, regulations.
Just to be clear, I think the quote is stupid. I just find it funny that it was used so frequently by anti-patriot act people who have a lot of overlap with anti-gun.
I think reasonable laws are fine. But I don't see a lot of reasonable laws being proposed.
My theory, is that politically speaking, the left (in power) sees this issue as a winner, and they'd like to keep the issue in their pocket forever. And the NRA, I think wisely politically speaking, is refusing to give an inch, because if they are fighting for something they don't really care about, then they aren't risking something the do care about.
