One legislator stated: “Other than target shooting, the only other reason [for a semi-automic firearm] would be for self-defense… [Why would you need a] rifle that accommodates 20 rounds semi-automatic for deer hunting? … It’s only very infrequently that someone commits a crime with an assault weapon – why do you need one for self-defense?”

One purpose of the second amendment is to protect against a tyrannical government.

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached and by which the m*****a officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." --James Madison, Federalist No. 46, 1788
".... to disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to ens***e them." George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380, (http://www.madisonbrigade.com/g_mason.htm)
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.." 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.” Justice Joseph Story. (http://home.comcast.net/~dsmjd/tux/dsmjd/rkba/story.htm
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. ... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be possible." - Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (1960) (http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/arms_quotes.htm)

Let us sweeten the pot by building the UN a new HQ building in Somalia, Ethiopia or some neat country in Africa. We could use the UN bldg in US as home for the homeless or wh**ever.

Michael Lind certainly doesn't know much about taxes, or is he pruposely misleading us. Warren Buffet allegedly paid a lower tax rate then his secretary, not lower taxes. Also the 13.9% Federal Taxes Mitt Romney paid had nothing to do with the employee/employer payroll taxes. Every working dude pays the payroll taxes. That whole paragraph about taxes was Barbara Strieshand (it's the initials). It is unfortunate that low information v**ers read this BS and believe it.

Where is it legal to hunt humans?
dbleach3

Hard to believe Gov Walker puts up withthis stuff!

My daughter has been working, and paying taxes, in the heathcare profession for 25+ years and does 'feel' privelaged because she is white. She actually thinks those who pay no income tax, of which I believe minorities make up a sizeable number are the privelaged ones.
dbleach3