People Have A 'Fundamental Right' To Own Assault Weapons, Court Rules

Huff Post ^ | 02/04/2016 | Cristian Farias

[StAnDeliver]

"I bet the Huffpost editors almost had aneurisms over this... "

What's interesting, though, is that those first four grafs you excerpted are flawless...something about performing an onerous task well in order to complete it as fast as possible (and so it doesn't come back to haunt)...but you're right about the hidden Schadenfreude.

[itsahoot]

Another court decision to be ignored until it is adjudicated again and again just like Chicago, then there will be new legislation and new challenges and meanwhile the people’s Constitutional rights will continue to be stomped on. The left never give up the right always does.

[mylife]

Now let me widen this out a bit.

Yall know who the best spys are?
The Garbage man, the Postman, the Pastor

All the folks that you blab to without thinking

This country is not thinking

[RipSawyer]

“WTF is an assault weapon?”

Any tool chest is full of assault weapons. I recall a case some years ago when an old couple who lived not far from me were both killed by a man who knocked on the door and asked to use the phone, his “assault weapon” was a screwdriver. Quick, outlaw all screwdrivers.

[tacticalogic]

I wonder if the modern modern equivalent might be “a well trained militia”, “an organized and disciplined militia”, or “a highly ready response force” might be closer to what they meant, rather than the modern connotation of regulations as restrictions or limitations. I guess that minutemen were the model of the day.

I think "effectively deployable" might be a better analogy. The firearms of the day required much more practice and familiarity than they do today, but I think the basic idea is still relevant. The most basic requirement of an infantryman is an intimate familiarity with his rifle. If you show up carrying your own rifle that you're already practiced and familiar with, that requirement is already met.

[Robert357]

Perhaps more importantly, the judicial decision says that the government has no more right to restrict the ownership of high capacity magazines than to restrict the right to own a firing pin.

[Red Badger]

ALL weapons are ‘Assault’ weapons. That’s what ‘weapons’ are for......................

[Red Badger]

weap·on

noun
noun: weapon; plural noun: weapons

a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage.
“nuclear weapons”
a means of gaining an advantage or defending oneself in a conflict or contest.
“resignation threats had long been a weapon in his armory”

Origin

[Rusty0604]

People have been arrested for assault with burritos and pineapple.

[itsahoot]

Good Gun

Evil Gun

Same gun

[Wildbill22]

You hit the nail on the head. It is about ‘freedom’, and the freedom from someone else determining your ‘needs’.

“Why do you need a 600 hp car? Why do you need horses, Why do you need a gun, why do you need...anything”

What I ‘need’, want, possess, or desire is my business, as long as it doesn’t infringe on your constitutional rights. Maybe we should adopt the notion of “Mind your own business”.

[Carry_Okie]

One of the things that "well regulated militias" do is store more dangerous implements of war in armories for distribution to the trained citizens who belong to the militia in case of emergency. The tricky part is defining what is a more dangerous implement of war.

No disagreement there. Managing such considerations is what Federalism was for.

On a separate note, now that women have been judged eligible for every branch and twig of the armed services, there is now talk of requiring national registration of women as well as men. Any thoughts on that issue?

Women are every bit as capable of running a drone as men. While in combat, they are probably also as capable of running a tank or driving a truck, problems do arise with their mere presence in a unit. So the hazards arise at the edges where the two interact, because sex is as powerful a drive as national defense, particularly when our historic dominance has become acculturated while sexuality in child rearing has become nothing less than obsessive.

Let's face it, if this was about defense of home and hearth, you can bet there are women capable of emotionally if not physically. On the other hand, we do allow male soldiers to become obese, and they aren't worth a crap on the ground either. While we do have motivated soldiers, frankly, I think our whole k-12 educational standard built around positive reinforcement is problematic when it comes to making disciplined soldiers. Still, they can't all be SEALS, but then we don't need that. So in a sense, I think that experimentation is in order, to which the State militia model is appropriate.

So if I were king, I'd do what I could to strengthen AND integrate nationally the National Guard model, to build that regionally diversified command structure and run those experiments.

Thanks for asking. I hadn't really thought about it much.

[SVTCobra03]

Actually, it means any weapon that an infantryman might carry; not a weapon of mass destruction.

[gleeaikin]

Thanks for thinking. I have been very concerned that phys ed, which as a child 65 years ago I took 3 times a day in public school, has been eliminated in many places. Thus we have fat, unfit males and females. The fact that our streets and neighborhoods seem less safe than when I was a child means that our children have a lot less opportunity to run around and get exercise.

[Argus]

Well-regulated then meant well-equipped and capable of being effective -working properly. People talked of regulating a timepiece, that is winding and setting it to the correct hour and minute. The militia meant all adult citizens capable of bearing arms, and you can’t bear what you don’t already have.

[upchuck]

The right of self protection of yourself, your family and your property is God given.

[CPT Clay]

heads are exploding

[GeronL]

lol. They wrote in teams, taking turns in the safe room.

[dragnet2]

So these lawyers in D.C. think Americans have a right? That’s mighty nice of them.

It appears they haven’t a GD thing better to do than discuss what we’ve all known for hundreds of years.

[TexasGator]

"However, a repeating rifle is not a very good assault rifle. If it goes, trigger-bang, trigger-bang, trigger-bang, and can’t go trigger-bang,bang,bang,bang,bang,bang,..., then it’s not a military assault rifle."