straightUp Loc: California

It's more often something an intelligent person says when he's learned something new.

EmilyD

Yes, I can see how you would think that. You've been caught "changing your mind" quite a few times yourself...or was it a "mistake" you made....or a "mix-up"....

American Vet

I understand. Most leftist do laugh at the Constitution and the BoR - unfortunately

I believe this one puts it quite succinctly:
Constitutional preservationist speaker and author Michael Badnarik put it bluntly: "[t]he Second Amendment is our emergency cut-off switch for a government run amok."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/why_the_second_amendment.html


When proposing the Fourteenth Amendment to Congress in 1866, Senator Jacob Howard referred to “the personal rights guaranteed and secured by the first eight amendments of the Constitution; such as freedom of speech and of the press; … the right to keep and bear arms….” He averred that “the great object” of the amendment was “to restrain the power of the States and compel them at all times to respect these great fundamental guarantees.” The design was not to change the nature of the rights, but to prevent the states from violating them.
The Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, and the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868. The Supreme Court stated in D.C. v. Heller (2008) and repeated this year in N.Y. York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen: “Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the people adopted them.” So do we look for that understanding in 1791 or in 1868? …

In short, there is only one Second Amendment. It means what it meant in 1791. Although analysis of attitudes in 1868 is relevant to determining whether the Second Amendment is incorporated, that does not change the fact that what was incorporated was the pre-existing right to keep and bear arms. Post-1868 evidence cannot be used to contradict that original understanding.
Stephen Halbrook in Did the Fourteenth Amendment Alter the Meaning of the Second Amendment?


The Second Amendment was envisioned by the framers of the Constitution, according to College of William and Mary law professor and future U.S. District Court judge St. George Tucker in 1803 in his great work Blackstone’s Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as the “true palladium of liberty.”

District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), in which the Supreme Court examined the Second Amendment in exacting detail. In a narrow 5–4 majority, delivered by Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court held that self-defense was the “central component” of the amendment and that the District of Columbia’s “prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense” to be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also affirmed previous rulings that the Second Amendment ensured the right of individuals to take part in the defending of their liberties by taking up arms in an organized militia. However, the court was clear to emphasize that an individual’s right to an “organized militia” is not “the sole institutional beneficiary of the Second Amendment’s guarantee.”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Second-Amendment

Rose42

Oh please. I’m not trying to ‘psych him out’. I’m calling him out. I could care less about how many characters this penny has. He goes overboard. Don’t follow him off the plank.

Now if I were going overboard I’d say you and Birdmam were albert’s sock puppets because you defended him. See how silly that is? Its entertaining though.

I know some of her identities here. She’s not that hard to spot.

American Vet

zillaorange

FYI Technically a slingshot is an assault weapon.

vernon

If you want to get rid of 90% of gun crimes just confiscate all guns from blacks. that is at least 90%
gun crime.I'm sure crime won't go down in among blacks but at least it will slow it down.

EmilyD

Yes, I can see how you would think it's entertaining....if you were Penny!! Isn't that a coincidence!!

You see how that goes? When you defend Penny, and you do it a lot, you look suspicious, That's all I'm saying. I don't know for sure if you ARE Penny or not, but some of the things you do and say to her and about her in her defense cause questions in the minds of us who are familiar - because we've known her for many years - to wonder why you do it so much.

EmilyD

There are quite a few people you can assault with a frying pan, too. And a baseball bat and hockey stick and motor scooter....there are so many "assault weapons" in the world, I'm surprised any of us are still alive!!

American Vet

Ooooohhhh - I never thought of using a motor scooter!!!!! Apparently it is a common thing in England!!

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Who are these Pennies?

Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

Can you shoot someone alive? If you shoot them dead isn't that the same as killing them. Such silly retoric.

EmilyD

Do bobbies ride them? If so, they carry big sticks, too....a double assault weapon! 👍😁

American Vet

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

What would you consider adequate training by Red state legislatures? I am curious because I am returning to Texas with my new wife and daughter in July. Maybe the same percentage of correct answers on the written drivers license test I think TX is 75% or better. Also is 50meters the standard military target range? (if so the last time I qualified was in AF Basic in 1974 and I did enough to pass.)