The absolutists conveniently ignore the unintended consequences of making every kind of weapon readily and cheaply available to the millions and millions of gangstas and druggies as well as themselves, no questions asked, no restrictions or regulations of any kind whatsoever.
I don't want to live in a Mad Max movie myself. Reality forces me to support a thorough background check and the same kind of tax stamp and registration procedure for automatic weapons and destructive devices. I do not support any other gun control laws. I just cannot accept every knuckle dragging gangsta zombie being able to walk into a gun store and carry out armloads of $50 MAC-10's and Uzi's, like everyone else wants to be able to do themselves.
I'm a firm believer in Unintended Consequences, and there is no other human activity that is as totally unregulated as the 2A absolutists want gun ownership to be.
Reality sucks.
You’re acting like the Liberals now when they talk about Castle Doctrine and concealed carry laws, that the streets will run red with blood.
Do you really not trust your fellow Americans that much?
Also, the Second Amendment affirmed the God-given right of Americans to be able to bear arms, of any type they pleased, not in connection with militia duty. I think it holds true to today.
If Washington were to come back today, learn about today’s firepower, and comes to visit me, when I don’t own any firearms yet, he’d scold me for not having any, including a few M4A1s for ‘projects’ and parts.
The Second Amendment recognizes the absolute right of all free persons to keep and bear any and all such artifacts as may be useful as arms for individual and/or collective defense.
Not all persons are free persons, but a person may not be legitimately disarmed without demonstrating that they are, at least temporarily, not free persons.
Actually I do believe the 2A is absolute. It is appropriate for its timeThank you Justice Stevens.
You see, the issue is that we are ruled by a crowd of OCD jerkoffs who can prosecute law-abiding taxpayers with a bottomless well of their own money all day, every day, 24/7, 365.
The failure to deal with your gangbangers is part of the method of their control. "We're not going to clean up the mess, but if YOU try it, law-abiding citizen, the "law" will fall upon you like a ton of bricks."
You see, if there's crime and people feel unsafe, the government can keep coming back to the well for more tax dollars to "clean up" crime. Which, of course, never happens.
In my state, law enforcement, including the Department of Corrections, is 20 percent of the annual budget. The number of incarcerated is much higher than many other states.
Yet still we have crime...
It's similar to the education system always crying for more cash, yet the students keep getting less and less and less literate.
These methods are how the rubes are conned out of their tax dollars by the government types and their shills.
For me, after all these years on FR, it's like watching carny barkers at their trade. It don't fool me at all.