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All Hail the Second Amendment
RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
Yes, 5,500 militiamen crushed 1,500 drunken, surprised and sleeping Hessian soldiers.  But war is not supposed to be fair so we took the victory.  It was desperately needed.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
Back on track...lol, I think that there's a certain allure and definitely a convenience in imagining that the founding fathers (or subsequent amenders) had Something Better™ or Not Quite as Shitty™ in mind...when penning the second amendment.  That..somehow, the deficiency was not their own..but a failure on our part, today, to properly understand their wise and noble intent.  
 
Guns are covered in and of themselves in the second, as property in the fifth, and as other unmentioned in the ninth.  It's a tight box.  The founders got it wrong, if it's wrong.   The bill of rights, is wrong...if it's wrong.

(lol, you know that drunken hessian thing is propaganda- but yes, a surprise attack with overwhelming force in tight quarters under urban terrain favors non-conventional forces. That was as true then as it is now. I was referring, specifically, to their engagement at the bridge. They held their ground and returned fire, a temporary reversal of fate for both parties)
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
(June 14, 2017 at 5:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Cowpens was fought in 1781.  At that battle General Daniel Morgan implored his militia to give him just two fires before they ran away.  That meant the one they started with and one re-load.

I'd say that even then expectations were fairly low.
But cheap!
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
Quote:In 2016, the FBI allowed 300,000 gun sales before completing a background check

https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-the-...380d53aa1d
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
It's almost as if there's an issue with inadequate funding and staff for completing background checks at the federal level.  Just got done opining (in another thread) on a similar backlog at the atf, and the issue of default proceed sales.

Small government for the lose?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
Small government to get around laws so as to make more profit.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
Thanks again, gun nuts.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/guns-now...-children/

Quote:Guns now third leading cause of death for US children

Quote:A study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics showed that an average of 5,790 children in the United States receive emergency room treatment for gun-related injuries each year, and around 21 percent of those injuries are unintentional. The study also found that an average of 1,297 children die annually from gun-related injuries, making guns the third-leading cause of death for children in America (behind illnesses and unintentional injuries like drownings or car crashes). The number is based on data taken from 2012–2014 for children up to the age of 17.


Ah, yes.... well fuck 'em.  Children are expendable in the cause of gun nut freedom.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
This is why the NRA and the gun manufacturers that own it don't like hard numbers.
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
(June 19, 2017 at 5:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:A study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics showed that an average of 5,790 children in the United States receive emergency room treatment for gun-related injuries each year, and around 21 percent of those injuries are unintentional. The study also found that an average of 1,297 children die annually from gun-related injuries, making guns the third-leading cause of death for children in America (behind illnesses and unintentional injuries like drownings or car crashes). The number is based on data taken from 2012–2014 for children up to the age of 17.

-that leaves 79%............... Maybe we should do something about these people shooting their kids, and the kids shooting each other..what with it being super illegal and all. The gun nutters approval isn't required to curb intentional shootings.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
How are guns or the second amendment the problem? It's a stupid guy with a gun. No different from radicals using vans or fertilizer and diesel fuel to kill people. The tool used is most definitely miles away from the root cause of why it got used to begin with.
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