RE: Again....But it's never the guns!
December 16, 2012 at 10:20 am
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2012 at 10:30 am by orogenicman.)
The gorilla in the room:
Despite the 2nd amendment, I have never believed that owning a gun is a natural right. As for the 2nd amendment, it was written when the most advanced weapon commonly available was a Pennsylvania long rifle, a one shot musket that typically takes between thirty seconds and a minute to load each round. I seriously doubt that our founders ever intended for or imagined that the average American would be allowed to own a Bushmaster assault rifle with a 30 round clip, and many other large caliber repeating guns. Banning hand guns alone could potentially cut the gun murder rate in half. Ban assault rifles and semi-automatics as well. Place restrictions on the number of guns an individual can own. Keep the rest if you truly feel the need to own a gun. But hey, that's just my own damned opinion.
Despite the 2nd amendment, I have never believed that owning a gun is a natural right. As for the 2nd amendment, it was written when the most advanced weapon commonly available was a Pennsylvania long rifle, a one shot musket that typically takes between thirty seconds and a minute to load each round. I seriously doubt that our founders ever intended for or imagined that the average American would be allowed to own a Bushmaster assault rifle with a 30 round clip, and many other large caliber repeating guns. Banning hand guns alone could potentially cut the gun murder rate in half. Ban assault rifles and semi-automatics as well. Place restrictions on the number of guns an individual can own. Keep the rest if you truly feel the need to own a gun. But hey, that's just my own damned opinion.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
