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I've never focused on all this 2nd Amendment chatter, well ...
not since I fought for stricter gun control after working for
RFK and seeing him gunned down just before his almost
certain democratic ascendancy to the White House.
And we've seen how far that got. i.e. no where. Well,
no where good anyway.
Now, I'm forced to re-examine the 2nd Amendment in the wake
of the Aurora massacre; and for the first time, those two words
"well regulated" kind of jumped out at me ... like DING! DING!
I mean, come on people. If these words "well regulated" don't
at least suggest some kind of controls, if not spelling out in bold
red letters "MUST HAVE GUN CONTROLS" .. I mean really ... I can't
help but think that the Constitutional framers had SOMETHING in
mind, other than what we have now ... which is an ongoing string
of random mass murders by guns blazing psychopaths, with increasing
frequency.
I totally fail to see ANYthing "well-regulated" about that.
And even if contemporary forms of gun controls aren't exactly
what they had in mind, it certainly seems to me to be WAY MORE than
enough of a valid constitutional basis for having some rational controls
in place, to avoid further scenarios like Aurora.
If only we have the will. Let's not blame the constitution. Let's expose
those who are either blind to certain parts they don't want to see, or who
are intentionally obscuring it's intent for personal gain and/or because
they are psychopaths intent on creating bloodshed and mayhem.