Gun Control

[Thumpalumpacus]

I wonder how many gun-rights supporters on this board have ever been present when a fellow human being was shot to death.

Boru

I wasn't present at the time, but I lost a friend to gunfire ... he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I've seen death, both violent and gentle, though.

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The funny thing about this argument is that people have been saying that from pretty much a generation after the constitution was written. Does free speech not matter because it was concieved hundreds of years ago? Or Freedom of the press, or rights against search and seizure? You could use that argument as a blanket argument to strip us of all our rights. Also I think that the thing about the soldiers is actually an important right. It's a protection of the citizens against the military, the same as the second amendment. Of course we don't have a problem with it, because we made a law against it.

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Was not the 'Bill of Rights' written during the fight to extricate themselves from the government rule present at the time?

It was written after the Revolutionary War ended.

However, the contextual argument concerning the Bill of Rights is pretty slippery. For instance, freedom of the speech and press mentions two modes of freedom of expression, but ignores stuff like computers, telegraph, etc; this fact is never mentioned when folks argue that the 2A was written with muskets in mind, not semi-auto pistols.