[looscnnn]

"You are dreaming, a nice romantic dream but still a dream. Leftists aren't terrified by the 2d amendment in any way. It is just a convenient whipping boy they use to appeal to the weak-minded terrorized by crime."

Ok, you clinched it. You are not an NRA member and you do not know what the 2nd means (or possibly the Constitution). You are clueless. The libs are terrified of the 2nd, they have been since before 9/11. Get a clue.

"There is no confrontation of the Islamaniacs through the second amendment. There is no confrontation of any of our enemies through it."

The 2nd does not say anything about confronting anyone, it is about rights. Where are you getting this stuff?


"It is a recognition of a right but there will never be a militia of military value again."

If need be, the citizens will rise up to form militias. When, if China or anyone else were to get past our military and invade the US.

[ought-six]

Why are you addressing your diatribe to me? I agreed with you!

[justshutupandtakeit]

Only in your dreams are liberals terrified of the second amendment. They honestly believe gun controls work to reduce crime even though there is massive evidence showing the contrary. No one in his right mind would fear anything called a "militia" today. It would be like a combination of the Keystone Cops and a Chinese firedrill and would be brushed aside by any capable military force. It could cause some confusion and disruption through guerilla activity but that is it.

As you indicated earlier the point of the militia and the 2d amendment was to protect the State from its enemies. Islamaniacs are that enemy. It is not just some arbitrary protection of rights but to protect a Free state otherwise the militia would not have even been mentioned.

Oh, I feel real comfrontable at the idea that a ragtag bunch of "militia" with no training and no advanced weaponry could defeat a modern army. Few things are more laughable. Ask the Taliban militia how well it fared against the US military.

[El Gato]

"There is no confrontation of the Islamaniacs through the second amendment. There is no confrontation of any of our enemies through it."

Oh yeah? If a few of "the people" whose right to bear arms had not been infringed by the FAA (a part of the federal government), had been on those airplanes on 9-11, the World Trade Center would still be standing, but there would be 19 dead or severly wounded Islamaniacs, and maybe just as many dead passengers and crew, but only because those armed members of the group known as "the people" might not have acted in time to save the aircraft, but they would have saved those in the towers and in the Pentagon. A few armed members of the militia around key infrastructure would go a long way to protecting it as well.