RE: Firearms
April 2, 2013 at 3:36 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2013 at 3:39 pm by RonaldReagansGhost666.)
(April 2, 2013 at 6:57 am)thesummerqueen Wrote:(April 2, 2013 at 5:31 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Oh dear. Someone's PMSing...
I told everyone not to judge me for eating that cream cheese chocolate cake!
Seriously though, I seem to have forgotten the original point of this bitch fest. The Constitution isn't a sacred document. It was written by long dead white guys in another era. It just so happens that those guys were rather brilliant and gave us a document that has seen us through these past couple centuries. But if we find out that we as a country no longer wish to embody some of those values, we amend it and change our laws. Who cares wtf it originally said if we agree it's better now? (Other than for historicity's sake.)
I'm fearful that if one section of the United States constitution is disrespected and disobeyed, then the United States government will have no problem trampling upon other human rights.
Alongside that, I feel as if a standing army large as our current one is unnecessary for the security of our state, as effective diplomacy could be a much less bloody and expensive method of finding solutions to the conflicts of the world.