Pro-gun advocates will never have a rational discussion about gun laws and the 2nd Amendment

[shadowmayor]

56. A well regulated militia

I posted this on another thread, but I believe this applies here as well:

My gun loving friends actually think that the first Black President is going to come and take their guns away. To me, this is insane. The 2nd Amendment folks also think they have the right to own all the firepower they can muster.

The second amendment: 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.

The first part is important - a well regulated militia. Not a group of people calling themselves a militia, but a regulated group. Regulation is the operative word here. The 2nd amendment doesn't call for every crank to own a machine-gun. Regulated militias would provide a much more substantial level of gun control than what we have today. We need a level-headed program to control guns and the nuts who get their hands on them.

It's probably way too late. When uncle Ronnie was running the show, our country had hundreds of millions of hand guns. I seriously doubt this number has dwindled.

I have often wondered why my gun-loving fellow Americans refuse to accept the idea that maybe this right has a provision specifically calling for regulation? It's right there in the first clause.

What we have today is an unregulated gun orgy, sponsored by right wing groups who use very deceptive tactics and language to justify their belief that some kind of wild wild west era is coming, and all men should leave the house with holstered weapons.

If we all carried frisbees, things might be better?

The shadow mayor