RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
January 28, 2017 at 6:59 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2017 at 7:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 28, 2017 at 5:20 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: There was an assault weapons ban in '94 I believe.-that didn't ban assault rifles.
Quote:I'm not going to get in an argument about what guns are more or less likely to be used in a mass shooting as I don't know too much about guns. But I hope we can agree a universal background check is only a sane minimal step to take.OFC, which is why background checks are federally mandated.
@Jesster, the .22lr (and other) shortage is/was due to manufacturers switching production to a more popular round for a more popular rifle.
@Tazzy, the US had smaller, much more professional (not necesarrily experienced) forces by 1812. This prevented us from being able to defend ourselves adequately on land, but worked out wonderfully on the water. The brits had an aversion to live fire drills, entrenched in their military code, since gunpowder cost money, lol. That conflict did show that militias, whatever their numbers, were demonstrably inadequate, but our own government had long thought this (we thought militias were shit in the revolutionary war as well), and people were already doing the 18th century version of lobbying for the armed forces with limited to middling success. Ultimately, we depended on militias at the time because we still hadn't paid the last set, and didn't feel like paying a new set. The war of 1812, however, properly began american militarization.
I think that too much attention is paid to the second amendment, as though, if the people who wrote it in weren't dead broke and reliant...with a political need to felate the "common man" who fought in militias for them, we wouldn't be in the predicament somehow...or anti-gun laws would pass easily. None of that is true. The strongest objection to broad reaching anti-gun laws isn't reliant on the 2nd amendment. It wasn't shortsighted, on their part, they had a more accurate appraisal of the political and practical necessities they faced...in spite of their own distaste for militias, than people do today when wondering why they penciled it in.
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