Fodaoson Loc: South Texas

"A well regulated M*****a, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Fodaoson Loc: South Texas

in·fringe
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actively break the terms of (a law, agreement, etc.).
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karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

Gun control

Keeping It In The 10 Ring

PeterS

In 1776 a well-regulated m*****a was like the Minute Men who drilled regularly and reported to a chain of command. Today a well-regulated m*****a is any yahoo with a gun--not quite what the founders had in mind...

And welcome to the board...

Kevyn

regulate verb

reg·​u·​late | \ ˈre-gyə-ˌlāt also ˈrā- \
regulated; regulating
Definition of regulate
t***sitive verb
1a : to govern or direct according to rule
b(1) : to bring under the control of law or constituted authority
(2) : to make regulations for or concerning

rjoeholl

That little "comma" after the word m*****a tends to throw a big ol' wrench into your cogs, doesn't it.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Why?

Big dog

Speak for yourself.

RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia

Guns are dumbfounded but had a place in what people adhered too, bright people too, but now society is not really run by m*****as, colonies maybe, even that's becoming questionable, Bolivia well see this week guns migh be on the way out, social movements are better, but their not very smart in Bolivia so maybe not.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

A valid point...

When does a tool become obsolete?

And does obseletion require removal from the public domain?

RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia

It's all down to possibility, we make it, it makes us. Gunhild Carling all thimgs are possible, it's Blues Dixie Jazz.

gaconservative74

It has been explained to you 500 times on here what the founding fathers meant by the second amendment so no reason to hash this out again. The founding fathers knew the nature of men and knew that given power they would want more and more and more. The every yahoo with a gun is a deterrent to complete despotism whether you will admit it or not. Now you might argue that the military would wipe the floor with all the yahoos and you might would be right, but judging by our experiences in Vietnam, I don’t know about that. Plus you gotta get the military to work totally against the poeople and I don’t think that’ll happen either. It would be disastrous and bloody and that is what makes it a deterrent. Now if y’all would quit confusing kids about morality and start raising your children to have respect for other people and the law and start practicing the tolerance y’all talk so much about but rarely act it out, I bet you would see many of the mass k*****gs and gun related crimes decrease.......

But you keep telling yourself that our guberment gives one rats ass about you and they have the intelligence and moral compass to herd us all they way we need to go........

gaconservative74

The nature of man has NOT changed!!!! The people must have the ability to resist. Holding hands and singing kumbyya is great but, really, in the end, freedom is obtained and kept at the end of a gun.......

greenmountaineer Loc: Vermont

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and as standing armies are a danger to liberty, in time of peace they ought not to be kept up, but if maintained must be kept in strict subordination and obedience to the civil power." Constitution of the Republic of Vermont, adopted June, 1777. Readopted, March, 1791 on the occasion of the Republic joining the United States as the 14th state.
And how does the civil power keep armed organizations in strict subordination and obedience? The people must be armed too. And that's how we manage to have one of the lowest crime rates in the US.

RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia

No doubt about it, i never said differently, freedom with responsibility is civil order, equal opportunity fairness in work and sport, family rights and individual rights in family relationships all have to be sought after and protected once established by political arrangements based on agreement.

Fundamentally though you say man's nature implying long ago before our present rules applied, I think myself was never us, the reason why we aspire to empathise as groups and not as individuals is because of the privations of nature.

Man's nature set course with nature as the enemy.

Maybe it was romanticism which justified us becoming t*****rs of nature, if so, the point of a gun must be romantic, girls don't like nice boys so why are knights chivalrous?.

Obviously the nature of man when getting started was different, once started the club was superseded by the sword which was replaced by a gun nice boys don't carry guns or clubs or swords and nice boys suffered greatly down through the ages, always missing out.

Until fortune smiled on nice boys when Cupid came along with a bow and arrow and nice boy's took up archery with an index of chivalry to fool the girl's who now respond to stupid romantic stories.

Man's nature didn't change woman's did.