Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
guillaumeb
guillaumeb's Journal
guillaumeb's Journal
September 2, 2019
NRA supporters love to talk about their supposed rights and freedoms.
And this right of which they often speak is the basically unrestricted right to own any form of weapon that they desire.
And when they speak of freedom, it is the freedom to carry whatever weapon they desire.
The right rests on a misreading of the Second Amendment. A misreading "found" by a so-called originalist who had to discard 1/2 of the actual Second Amendment to support his argument.
And that freedom, it results in the majority of us feeling less free, and being less safe.
But owning a weapon leads to the illusion of safety, the dream that owning that weapon will protect the owner.
And dreams and hopes do not need any logic. They must simply appeal to the basic desire to feel safe.
Profile Information
Member since: Mon Jan 26, 2015, 06:15 PMNumber of posts: 42,641