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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 15, 2013 at 5:25 pm
Ah.... explains much.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13890-the...ve-slavery
Quote:But Henry, Mason and others wanted southern states to preserve their slave-patrol militias independent of the federal government. So Madison changed the word "country" to the word "state," and redrafted the Second Amendment into today's form:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State [emphasis mine], the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Little did Madison realize that one day in the future weapons-manufacturing corporations, newly defined as "persons" by a Supreme Court some have called dysfunctional, would use his slave patrol militia amendment to protect their "right" to manufacture and sell assault weapons used to murder schoolchildren.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 15, 2013 at 6:09 pm
http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/31771?page=4
Scroll down to the last one titled "The Right To Bare Arms"
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 17, 2013 at 10:08 pm
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p...oting.html
1,013 dead Americans since Sandy Hook.
4 more than the Marines lost at Tarawa.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 18, 2013 at 9:13 am
Maybe, just maybe there is a gun problem?
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 18, 2013 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2013 at 3:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Think so? Lemme go check. Nope, nope, all of my guns are still where I left them, still busy not murdering anyone.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 18, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Good.
That leaves us only 99,999,999 gun nuts to worry about!
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 18, 2013 at 3:22 pm
Guess we'd better start knocking on doors, sounds like alot of work.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 19, 2013 at 7:03 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2013 at 7:30 pm by Surtr.)
Whether you think more gun control is a good idea or not, you just can't take guns away from Americans.
Contrary to popular belief, Libertarians actually don't like the NRA very much. It's people like them that make gun owners look stupid.
Also, let me put a different perspective on this issue.
737+ self defense stories are on this website, many with multiple people involved.
http://gunssavelives.net/
http://gunssavelives.net/incident-map/
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 20, 2013 at 2:02 am
Apparently what we have here are some of the "well-trained," law-abiding, responsible gun owners.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/two-peopl...ation-day/
Quote:Gun Appreciation Day hasn’t gotten off to such a great start: two people were shot in Raleigh, North Carolina after a gun accidentally discharged at a safety check point before the show. Both victims were taken to a hospital immediately and the fire department shut down the show for the rest of the day.
But, even better....
Quote:Earlier this week, a security officer left a gun unattended in the bathroom at a primary school.
Meanwhile, (and this is only through 1/17) we are up to 1,019 dead bodies thanks to the gun nut culture in this fucking country.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p...oting.html
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 21, 2013 at 2:31 pm
The trouble Min, is that if you disregard "gun nut" culture murder rates don't actually go down. Dead bodies accumulate regardless of the manner in which the perpetrators stack them up. "Gun nuts" aren't largely responsible for gun crime (nor are they responsible for crimes committed with guns) "crime nuts" are.......
There's something that needs fixing-allow me unlimited access to firearms, let me have a harrier with a tactical nuke...and I bet not a single death ensues........something other than gun-nuttery is involved. Fix that.
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