RE: Can someone tell me where in the 2nd amendment it says you can carry machine guns?
May 10, 2017 at 6:02 pm
(May 10, 2017 at 5:41 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(May 10, 2017 at 5:28 pm)Nanny Wrote: So many issues with this post.
Nobody is ignoring the responsibility of firearms ownership in this thread. To use your own tricks, go find where anyone says that it should be a free-for-all?
I pointed out that AR-15s without selectable fire are by definition not machine guns. I also pointed out that there is the 2A and then there are laws like the NFA that carve out things like machine guns (>1 bang per squeeze). Then there are state laws and local ordinances. I have friends who don't want firearms in their houses and I do not carry when I visit them because their house, their rules.
Show me where I have the "right" to own a car, please. If I have the resources I can purchase a car. Owning a car is not an inalienable right.
Show me where I have the "right" to drink beer, please. If I'm under a certain magic age I clearly do not have that right.
Your drinking and driving example is telling. We already have laws that cover injury caused to other persons. Who is harmed if Tex drinks a couple of beers and then drives home safely? Where exactly is the harm? You won't find one because drink-driving is a malum prohibitum law. It's bad because we say so. If some drunk crashes into my car but does no harm, I have the legal right to restitution. The drunk is legally accountable for her actions. What if it was some fanboi street racer instead? what exactly changes if someone operates negligently, without influence of chemistry, and causes harm? Should we pass laws that say if fanboi street racers do harm they can be double-secret punished? Should we allow traffic stops on suspicion of being a fanboi?
Who chooses whether bans on some things are oppression? Who is the umpire? Be careful not to say "the majority." The rights and interests of the minority are legally protected.
So you're just mad because, in your opinion, you think there are too many guns in the USA. To that I say there's no putting the cork back in. You can either choose to own firearms or not to own them. That's your right.
It's clear that you have a passing knowledge of some firearms stuff, but you really don't understand how guns are regulated here. There are hundreds of pages of legislation at every level. So other than just wanting fewer guns, what is your point?
Here's a challenge for you. Try to reply without cursing.
Far too many are. And unfortunately it seems you are too.
36,000 gun deaths per year is not a passing knowledge, that is documented fact.
Far right gun worshipers argue like theists, "what would you know about my holy book".
98 people a DAY die from use of a firearm. If America's collective attitude about firearms were sane, we would not be seeing those numbers.
Same with economics coming from the right. If the rich always got everything right nobody would be bitching. If the rich got everything right, there would be no need for voting.
I am getting sick about "responsible gun owners", because this is about ATTITUDE not individuals, climate not individuals. And again, I cant even point to Gawdzilla, or my friend John who grew up with firearms. And you probably WONT read what the family of the inventor of the AR 15 said either.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fami...ut-n593356
All I am getting from the far right is stonewalling and excuses to shoot more and sell more without regards to the 36,000 gun deaths on average per year. 98 deaths on average per day.
You said that already.
To be clear, I'm not even close to being far right. I'm a classical liberal. I believe people are basically good and can make their own choices without doing others harm. If someone is harmed that's why we have laws. I'm not in favor of laws that are intended to protect people from themselves. It's none of my business what human beings put into their own bodies or with whom they freely choose to fall in love, etc. Government is necessary and good, particularly in protecting the minority from the majority.
I am politically "unenrolled" - which is my state's way of saying I don't support either of the two main parties. My take on the Ds and Rs is that they strive for the status quo but brand it as ideological progress. I cast my ballot for Johnson last time. I'd rather vote for a fool than a monster.