(June 8, 2022 at 1:30 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Read the ninth to see why it doesn't matter whether the second gives a private citizen the right to own a private weapon. The 2a stuff is theater, meant as a sop to a demographic that feels that they've lost everything, and their place in society. Further, it causes a doomed reactionary response from the other side of the aisle that serves to strengthen their bases misapprehensions and redirect whatever anger they might feel towards the engineers of their own demise onto that other side.
The constitution is not a document that tells us what an american citizen can do...more what the american government can't.
Reich wing politicians aren't doing their constituency any favors with it, and, to be honest..the centrists that pass for the left aren't doing themselves any favors dancing to that tune. I know there's the idea that they're effectively building a paramilitary force as an alternative to us forces....and that some of the nuts believe that themselves...but that's certainly not the aim of the grifters who would just as soon stand on the back of a 2a nuts neck as they would any random black mans. When they feel that the time is right for their coup, not some trial run with a deranged clown they couldn't manage..they won't be calling up bubba and cletus, they'll be calling up the actual us military to suppress bubba and cletus with all of the other human cattle...and there's not a damned thing those cosplayers can do about it with their toy guns.
Frankly and simply put, 2a theater is about stoking the racial resentments of the white working class until they demand totalitarian rule....and any of them that figure that out, even at the last moment, are going to end up in camps in the desert alongside the immigrants they armed themselves against.
But none of the gun rights crowd ever bring up the Ninth, not ever. It might go a long way toward helping their case if they did.
‘There’s no law that says I don’t have a right to guns’ is a more subtle (and probably a more effective) stance than ‘This particular law says I have a right to own guns’.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax