saltwind 78 wrote:
While the second amendment does give people the right to own firearms, it does not give anybody the right to enter a school and murder children. As Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, " the constitution is not a suicide pact ". I own two pistols to protect my home, a 9mm Springfield, and a 357 cal S&W revolver. While I wouldn't necessarily shoot anybody entering my house without my knowledge and/or permission, anybody trying to enter my bedroom would see nothing but bullets heading toward them. I believe that weapons like AR 15 assault assault rifles are unnecessary . They were not designed for this purpose. They were meant to be combat weapons in the hands of soldiers. They are now being used by murderers to k**l as many innocent kids as possible in the shortest time.
Nobody really needs them. Lets make sure that they can not be sold to civilians, especially felons and disturbed people.
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The Second Amendment intentionally does not exclude any weaponry of an American citizen's right of ownership...
Your scenario, while a valid one for the ownership of your weapons specific to your limited needs, does not provide for our obligation as citizens to have ready a m*****a armed sufficiently to defend our Constitution and very way of life against ALL threats both foreign and domestic...
This is the scenario specific to the second Amendment, all other scenarios provided by law abiding citizens for use for self protection, while important are not Germaine to the intent our founding fathers had in mind...
Scenario for you to consider; A sizeable group of foreign bad actors have decided to invade the US MAINLAND by crossing our Southern border...
You pull your 9mm and 357 SM revolver to defend your family of five, 3 of them females... You see five armed men whose intent is to k**l and rape US citizens...
You then notice that each carry, along with a side arm, AK-47 Russian weapons... What will you do? A scenario we hope and pray doesn't happen but without doubt could and just may happen...
The point being that an attack of this nature would depend solely on US citizens to defend against because the cavalry's coming to your rescue, although a romantic consent, just isn't reality in this scenario..
Now imagine an invading force over one million well armed and battle hardened who h**e America and Americans due to long term war in their nation opposing US forces who are responsible for the deaths of their close family members to nearly the entire invasion force hell bent on our destruction....
This is in part the intent if the Second Amendment..
Hunting, sport shooting, and home defense are benefits to our inalienable right guaranteed by the second Amendment...
God gives us the right to defend ourselves the second Amendment merely guarantees that no laws be passed to limit the ability to do so...
No one condones criminal behavior using any weapon in the commission of any crime, especially those against children..
Wonder how surviving members feel about the loss of innocence in Afghanistan.. No such thing as oops it was an accident only negligence on the part of leadership and military for not verifying the target... Now to those who have lost and their neighbors they just might be saying F__k America!!!
Feel safe with your 9mm and 357 now? Cause their coming loaded for bear and your defense is now sheepish in comparison.
Of course this is simply a comparison of potential scenarios, which may never happen . Or could it?