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To: Auntie Dem

But the premise was accepted long ago that the feds could regulate firearms despite the “shall not be infringed” language. You can’t own bazookas and machine guns, for instance. So we’re on the slippery slope and it’s just a matter of where the line will be drawn. Unfortunately in this mean old world of ours you can’t rely on words written on paper to hold the line. Everything is a fight.


21 posted on 02/03/2013 9:52:38 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
Why can't we own bazookas and machine guns? The 2nd Amendment was about the citizens being able to bear MILITARY arms. In the 1700’s private citizens owned cannons—a military weapon.

If we can't own machine guns then the New York Times can't print their paper on high-speed web presses, ABC, NBC, and CBS can't broadcast on radio and TV because those technologies didn't exist when the 1st Amendment was written. And when you get right down to it the media shouldn't be able to report on mass shootings because their reporting causes copy-cats to create new shootings.

I ask the rhetorical question, but I know the answer...our judiciary has become corrupted, like the rest of our government, and they can't make a constitutionally correct decision anymore because none of the justices have any moral character.

26 posted on 02/09/2013 1:11:03 AM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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