Posted on 12/15/2012 8:54:23 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
It’s time to face the facts. The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution has both outlived it’s usefulness and been perverted far beyond its original intent.
Based on the English Bill of Rights (1869), as the US Supreme Court has said, the English law was to reinstate Protestant‘s rights to have arms after being disarmed by James II. The American cousin was no doubt influenced by both the English law and the conditions of occupation by the British military leading up to the American Revolution.
The intent of the law was to prevent the government from militarily taking over the nation. This was back in the days where the citizenry and the government had access to pretty much the same weaponry.
In 2012, well, let’s just say that your personal arsenal wouldn’t be much of a match for Marines with BDMs or a Naval Carrier Group with fully loaded warplanes.
Additionally, since the Civil War, there really hasn’t been much in the way of a tyrannical government to fear. Sure RWNJs and Tea Partiers like to claim that this (or really any Democratic administration in the last 50 years) are putting the US on the road to tyranny, you and I both know they’re full of s**t.
Today, in Newtown, Connecticut, was the 36th mass school shooting since Columbine in 1996. That’s 2.5x the number of school shootings during the same period in the rest of the world combined. The dots on the map at the top of the page represent every mass shooting incident in the US since 2005.
After every single one, the cycle goes:
1. Shock. 2. Now is not the time 3. Police investigations. 4. Questions about “is now the time?” shouted down 5. Half hearted follow up stories 6. Distraction and everyone forgets.
Lather.
Rinse.
Repeat.
It was said after Columbine.
It was said after Virginia Tech.
It was said after Gabby Giffords, a sitting member of Congress, was shot in the head.
It was said after Aurora.
It’s being said now.
Bob Costas was pilloried by RWNJs for daring to bring up America’s obsessive gun culture during halftime of a Monday Night Football game. They weren’t upset because he was right that Jovan Belcher and Kassandra Perkins would probably still be alive if there weren’t firearms in the house.
No. They were upset that he dared say anything at all.
To some people, it’s never the time to talk about gun violence.
The very first mass shooting incident I can remember was the McDonald’s massacre in San Ysidro, California back in 1984.
A man named James Huberty walked into a McDonald’s and opened fire, killing 21 people (including 5 children) and wounding 19 others. It would become a scene, and a story, repeated far too often over the next 28 years.
You see, Huberty was a survivalist who:
“…saw signs of what he thought was growing trouble in America, and believed that government regulations were the cause of business failures, including his own. He believed that international bankers were purposefully manipulating the Federal Reserve System and bankrupting the nation. Convinced that Soviet aggression was everywhere, he believed that the breakdown of society was near, perhaps through economic collapse or nuclear war. He committed himself to prepare to survive this coming collapse and, while in Canton, provisioned his house with thousands of dollars of non-perishable food and six guns that he intended to use to defend his home during what he believed was the coming chaos.”
Sound familiar?
That’s common talk nowadays on Right Wing Nut Job radio and the underlying theme of just about every NRA political flyer.
The power and money of the National Rifle Association have managed to pervert the 2nd Amendment into essentially a firearms free-for-all, where any regulation is vigorously opposed. They whip up their lemmings into a frenzy of fear that some all powerful government entity, national or international, is going to go door to door confiscating all their firearms.
This has led to toothless gun laws with meaningless penalties and a firearm homicide rate per 100,000 people that is higher than the West Bank and Gaza and nearly 4 times higher than the next industrialized nation.
Therefore it is time.
It is time to repeal the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution and start over.
It is time for strict licensing with mandatory training classes, liability insurance and licenses that must be renewed on regular basis.
It is time for firearm registration with 14 day waiting periods and thorough background checks.
It is time to limit, as the UK does, the maximum caliber of weapons the public can own along with the firearm’s capacity.
It is time, as Norway does, to require the purchaser to have a valid reason to own a gun.
To own a gun in Norway, one must document a use for the gun. By far the most common grounds for civilian ownership are hunting and sports shooting, in that order. Other needs can include special guard duties or self defence, but the first is rare unless the person shows identification confirming that he or she is a trained guard or member of a law-enforcement agency and the second is practically never accepted as a reason for gun ownership.
It is time, as in Norway, for mandatory gun safes and to allow law enforcement to inspect homes for compliance.
The proper response to a tragedy, like the one today, is not to do nothing, but to work and put laws in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.
I will be perfectly honest… I’m done hearing the pro-gun arguments.
I’m done hearing the “responsible gun owner” argument. The weapons used in Columbine, Aurora, Kansas City, Clackamas, and Newtown were all legally purchased.
I’m done hearing the ridiculous comparisons to swimming pools and car accident fatalities.
I’m done hearing the “if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns” mindless pablum.
20 children, all between the ages of 5 and 10, were killed today in one school, in one city, with legally purchased firearms in the United States.
The time to talk about gun violence was yesterday, is today, and will be tomorrow.
Saying it isn’t time and doing nothing means those 20 children will have died in vain.
http://homebrewedtheology.com/its-time-to-repeal-the-2nd-amendment.php - original article, where comments can also be added in response
“In 2012, well, let’s just say that your personal arsenal wouldn’t be much of a match for Marines with BDMs or a Naval Carrier Group with fully loaded warplanes.”
I had a high-decibel “discussion” like this with a member of the US Armed Forces. Basically I told him:
1) You have to get out of the tank to take a dump sometime, and:
2) You got family ?
Until then, stick it where the sun don't shine.
Mexico will need to be protected from us as well so we’re going to need a wall there too.
SOme of these people are so sick. Dancing on the graves of the dead to get there agenda done.
The 2A exists to make sure the 2a is not repealed.
And we all know how well that worked out against the North Vietnamese, Al Qaeda and the Taliban don't we Skippy?
This guy is FOS and clueless about warfare. He'll make a great slave to a communist government someday.
The counterpoint is fairly obvious, get Hollywood liberals to see if they could perhaps maintain their lifestyles without selling so much gun violence in movies, television shows and what is ironically called “home entertainment” but is actually a sort of home schooling program for gun violence. Also get Hollywood conservatives (both of them) to look at this.
Coudln't stomach anymore of this garbage after reading that.
only problem is, just like drugs, when the evil in people desires something badly, it will find a black market to obtain them! Daaaa!
I'm not sure the majority voted. I sincerely think that there were millions that disliked Romney over many reasons. They were those child like voters that decided not to vote rather that support Romney and knew that they would prefer King Obama. So they just didn't vote. They have placed us in slavery and just didn't give a damn.
In what alternate reality is the writer residing? Armed people are citizens; unarmed people are subjects.
He just posted this:
Dear @freerepublictxt - If you’re going to criticize me, have the courage to do it on the blog. freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2…9 minutes ago
***Brilliant Comment Alert***
The only difference between Europe and America is that in Europe only the criminals have guns.
Rahm Emanuel Says Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste.
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yup. I live on a lake. Lost the gun collection and the boat.. Even my beer went down with her.. Sad really.. I was lucky to swim back to shore.
Tragic if you ask me.
I paid a diver to go down after them. He said the bottom of the lake is all muck. can’t see the flash light if you shined it in your eyes.
Then there's no point in trying to discuss this or reason with you, is there?
("You" in this case being the yutz who wrote the original blog post that's reprinted here, not Republican Wildcat, of course.)
But these are places the MSM doesn't go. Instead, the MSM and its talking heads and celebrities will create the appearance of an America sick of guns, even though MOST Americans, like most of the commenters on this schlub's site, understand the crucial importance of the 2nd amendment. But they -- we -- are invisible in the MSM portrait of What America is Really Thinking, and so right-thinking Americans, the majority, think wrongly that they're a minority surrounded by idiots when in truth, the idiots, through the MSM and vote fraud, look and operate bigger than they actually are and are for now getting away with it.
But when we wake up and grasp just how much the MSM has pulled the wool over our eyes, and we start realizing that indeed most Americans are good, moral, righteous people and the louses are the minority who have to cheat to win an use the MSM to look bigger than they are -- when we start believing in our country AND our fellow countrymen again, we will start getting our country back.
To own a gun in Norway, one must document a use for the gun. By far the most common grounds for civilian ownership are hunting and sports shooting, in that order. Other needs can include special guard duties or self defence, but the first is rare unless the person shows identification confirming that he or she is a trained guard or member of a law-enforcement agency and the second is practically never accepted as a reason for gun ownership.
It is time, as in Norway, for mandatory gun safes and to allow law enforcement to inspect homes for compliance.
And we all know how well that Norway thing worked out, don't we Skippy!
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