Posted on 03/19/2018 10:53:16 AM PDT by Simon Green
I’m stunned by the image above. If the grammatically-challenged protester really wanted to know why someone owns an AR-15 — someone who has no plans to murder anyone — why doesn’t she ask an AR15 owner? Preferably before revealing her ignorance on the subject. Before calling for a ban on AR ownership. Hang on . . .
The protest went down in New York, where AR-15s are banned. So she’d have to, I dunno, go online?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Gl5bj1T3vQE
Clearly, the youth’s history teacher didn’t teach her thing one about the Second Amendment. ‘Cause if he knew that, he’d know the reason why the U.S. Constitution protects AR-15 ownership. And what they’re for — aside from hunting, plinking and none of your damn business.
What did your school teach you about the Second Amendment?
In my US history classes in junior high and high school, my teachers presented the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution as a political right.
When I was in college at Troy, one of our history textbooks flat out said the 2nd amendment did not guarantee a right to keep and bear arms.
I mentioned that I thought that was wrong. Dr. Smith privately agreed with me but said he did not want to get into it in his class.
We studied the 2nd Amendment (and all the Constitution) in both American History and Civics classes in the ‘60’s...
(Southern schools)
It was a real long time ago, but I think the lesson went like this.
1. The Articles of Confederation failed.
2. Some guys met in Philadelphia to fix the Articles and wrote a whole new “Constitution.”
3. Then they wrote ten amendments called the “Bill of Rights.”
4. The states ratified everything.
5. Hey, what did you think about Super Bowl III? Wasn’t that something how the underdog AFL New York Jets defeated the NFL Baltimore Colts? Joe Namath is amazing!
AR15’s are still in NY. It was first the devilish 10 round magazines that had to go. Then the pistol grips.
Problem is, they are so darn slippery, they just keep falling into the deepest part of the lake with crocodiles, piranhas and whirlpools all about.
It’s that eveeeeeel pistol grip I tell Ya!
Carried my 22 plinker on the public bus to shoot cans as a kid. Could get a Varsity Letter for the Rifle & Target team back in the day. And that’s not as far back as one might think.
And all of NY is NOT LIKE NY City and the UNCONSTITUTIONAL Sullivan Gun Laws.
Wonderful ranges, clubs and shooting sport opportunities in The Empire State.
I guess I was lucky, I had an advanced US History class that went in depth on the Constitution and the history surrounding it.
The American Revolution and the resulting Constitution were remarkable achievements in human history.
Deterrent!
With current and ex-hippies in charge of curriculum and/or class topics, the Bill of Rights, if it was mentioned at all, was in the following contexts:
1) Freedom of speech: you can wear armbands to school! Of course, nobody wore armbands and nobody cared to wear armbands and nobody ever wore one even as a gag. But the ‘armband’ story was told repeatedly in multiple grades, apparently as proof that school wasn’t as oppressive and retrograde as we thought (even though it was).
They were also big on talking of the Skokie Nazi march. As usual, the lazy will highlight the most extreme positions as proof that the Bill of Rights is inviolate despite the fact that we see infringement on a frequent even daily basis.
2) The 5th Amendment was almost always discussed in relation to drug possession and offenses. I’m not joking. ‘Paul you hold Mike’s bag of pot’ etc. etc. Cue giggling from students, about 1/3 of whom smoked pot of course. The 5th Amendment covers a lot of ground but our so-called educators couldn’t seem to look beyond the act of getting stoned.
It came up when I was in school in the late ‘70s, and was told that the Second Amendment protected the right of the states to maintain a militia. Not being the 2A advocate I am today, I did not challenge this, but I didn’t agree with it either.
I was in high school in the mid-to-late 1960s. We had Civics classes, where the Constitution and government were prominently discussed.
Tisk, tisk, she ended her sentence with a preposition!
Essentially, that is correct.
What it DOES do is tells government what it may NOT do with regard to our God given right to defend ourselves as we see fit. Government may NOT infringe on our natural right to keep and bear arms. It is up to us, We The People, to guarantee that right. And many others.
It one 10 principals delineated by the bill of rights
no more, or less important than the others
I lucked up and went to a private school, where I learned these were God-given rights. I was also taught that we should consider the importance of the 2nd Amendment since it was the SECOND enumerated item, second only to the freedoms of speech and religion.....
I learned exactly what it says ... A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
No political opinion ... just fact of what is says and what it means. It says nothing about hunting. Nothing about the progression of firearm capability. Only that we should be able to have them in case our government gets out of control just as England did back in the day.
I don’t remember it ever coming up.
I do remember some of our teachers going out to student’s cars or pick ups to look at and admire their new rifles.
We received directions to our ROTC shooting range in the basement of our school.
Lol...can you imagine? Well you can...you were there.
One of my older brothers remembers going on a “field trip” with his first grade teacher. They were in MS. Can’t remember if it was Greenville or Biloxi at the time. Anyway, this is the same teacher that once had tied him up with a jump rope because he wouldn’t settle down.
Part of the “field trip” included taking the class to her trailer and showing them her handgun. :) This was in the early 1960s. About 1964.
Different world.
I well remember that we talked at great length about the words: “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” and how the Second Amendment was critical to preserving the rest of the Amendments and our Constitution.
Then again, that was back in the day where it was not uncommon for hunting rifles and shotguns to be sitting in the trunk of almost every car or truck in the parking lot, during any of the various hunting seasons (Pheasant, Duck, rabbits, squirrels, deer, etc.) in our rural community. Right next to “Smoker’s Hill” as a matter of fact.
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