Critics claim there is no way I could know what the founders wanted since I was born a tad late to talk to them. So how is it that the gun adorers go on about the founders were all for all in the 21st century packing semi-automatics? Time travel, perhaps? The quotes by some founders one commentator cites do not explicitly state that individuals should be carrying heat on a regular basis for self protection, they could fall in the constitutional context of guns for the militia purposes described in the 2nd Amendment. Nor did the commentator conduct an explicitly worded survey of the founders opinions. What we do know is that the Bill of Rights does not state, like some state constitutions do, that Americans have a right to bear arms on an individual basis for self protection. It's just not in the language, and the founders could have put that there if that was what they really intended. It's called being clear and explicit. And the uberfounder, George Washington, had no qualms when president in sending the army to suppress brewing insurrections by armed citizens. You know, the Whiskey Rebellion and the like at least some of us remember learning about in grade school. Did that make him a tyrant?
And what is the hyperbolic nonsense about the citizens of nations with the common-sense gun controls that consistently suppress murder over the years being slaves? You are ranting. The Aussies, Canucks, Brits and Finns are not slaves. They are voting citizens of democracies that have chosen to do what is needed to keep their inhabitants free of the fear that stalks much of
While all of the pro-gun comments were defective, some were nothing more than adolescent, factless tirades that risk hurting the cause they represent with their primitive inanity. That sort of keyboard ideological outburst does nothing to convince objective intelligent readers. All you folks have to do to offer a plausible argument is show us an advanced democracy were civilians are as heavily armed as Americans, where the guns are as lightly controlled, and where murder is a rare as in western Europe and Canada. But you don't because you can't. The 1st world has proven that governments do a better of protecting their citizens over the long haul with intelligently crafted, preventative gun regulations than by allowing the citizens to gun up like soldiers. That's why the streets and homes of armed American are splattered with so much more blood than the rest of the west. And that's a crime.
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