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In reply to the discussion: You can't reason with the pro gun crowd. [View all]A HERETIC I AM
(24,367 posts)because it is called an "ammendment"
"If you don't know what a Thesaurus is, start with a dictionary and work your way forward"
The Aussies didn't have the exact wording of the US 2A, but gun ownership and usage has a long history on that continent and private gun ownership is still allowed, it's just much more highly regulated than it is here. I lived there in the 70's, OK? Australia is a land mass about the size of the lower 48 but with the population of the LA/San Diego metroplex. Lots of land, 24 million people. Trust me, every single Cattle and Sheep Station owner and most of his hired hands own rifles. The outback is a BIG place.
Look, I own guns too, and I plan on buying another rifle soon, but that doesn't mean I am doing it BECAUSE of the second ammendment or for protection or anything else. I'm doing it for pretty much the exact reason he states. I like guns, but I am not a fanatic, nor am I a collector. I am going to buy a competition type long-range target rifle.
What I always find fascinating about you super pro 2A types, is when I meet one on the street and we start talking, 95% of the time, when I ask them, they can not tell me what the THIRD ammendment is. Can you? Off the top of your head, without looking it up?
If context means anything, the framers of the constitution put the third BEFORE the right to a speedy trial, the right to be secure in your papers and effects, the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, etc. etc.
"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" is not the entire ammendment.
Are you a member of a well regulated mlitia?
Again, bullshit arguments.
I at least admit why I own what I have and want another. The ideas that are promoted by the gun lovers in this country as justification for their owning weapons are simply 90% nonsense.
"We will fight tyranny with them"
Yeh.
"You realize you're bringing guns to a drone fight, right?"