Another shooting in America on the 4th of July so let's not discuss it
What's the point SW? The rest of the world can shake it's head at the obvious solution being ignored. anyone who tries is called a commie or tyrant. How has America gotten to this point that there is such worship over guns and paranoia over any changes that could reduce these kind of shootings happening? It's always "This isn't the time" or "thoughts and prayers". All bluster no action then all the anger dies down till the next time. What's the point? I am an army marksman I'm not anti gun, I'm anti them being in the hands of civilians with little to no restrictions to type the of fire arms and who can acquire them. The 2nd ammendment says a well regulated milita being necessary for the security of a free state I've seen no form of milita being well regulated just free range access to firearms andcanybtalks of regulations met with "my rights are being infringed".
The 2nd ammendment is the equivalent of the old law in the UK saying all young men pratice with a longbow, it's a relic from the revolution and the early days of American independence. you don't see on the news of a mass archery attacks in Britain because we disregarded that law as no longer relevant America you have now got a military have police,bgone are the fears of imperialist nations waiting to invade. But you hold onto the shall not be infringed part like it is gospel ignoring the previous part about being part of a well regulated miltia just the right to bear arms nothing else.
If you strongly believe in your Constitution and that it is absolute then why do so many seem ok cherry picking and ignoring parts that don't agree with your narrative?
I just get saddened by this cause it is preventable with the right changes but unfortunately America change starts with you will you just turn to thoughts and prayers rinse and repeat everytime this happens or will you decide that enough is enough? Enough parents burying children. Enough cleaners washing the blood from classroom floors. Enough empty spaces at dinner tables. Enough children asking why Mommy or Daddy isn't coming home anymore.
I know this is futile that I am no doubt going to barraged by trolls and right wingers I don't care comment whatever you want.
I have said what I wanted to say.
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Nothing in the 2nd Amendment prevents gun licensing & national gun registration. Yet NRA types pretend licensing and registration are tantamount to "TaKiNg AwAy OuR gUnS!!!"
It's interesting that the subject of the one-sentence 2nd Amendment is "a well regulated militia," yet most gun lovers have ZERO militia connection.
Constitutional originalists like to be guided by the wisdom of the late great Antonin Scalia, who opposed a "living" or "evolving" Constitution. Scalia said judges should look to what a law meant when it was adopted and not “to what society today thinks it ought to mean.” He also spoke of the meaning of the words as they were understood by average people at the time of adoption (of a legal text) AKA "original public meaning".
On that basis he opposed gay marriage, because that's not what marriage meant at the time the Constitution was adopted.
Which brings us to the question, what did it mean to "bear arms" in 1789? Well, you can't carry a cannon, so that's out. Bearable arms meant muskets and blunderbusses - muzzle loaders with a low refire rate. That's the sum total of the "original public meaning" of arms a person can bear.
Conservatives like to think of themselves as "keepers of the flame" of the "original Constitution." But in truth, they evolve it where they like, and try to prevent evolution where they don't like. Fact: you can't have it both ways; either the whole document evolves, or none of it, not even the Second Amendment, evolves.
This idea of connecting the Second Amendment (2A) with militias does not originate with me. It goes back to the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) which "requires certain types of firearms, such as fully automatic firearms and short-barrelled rifles and shotguns, to be registered with the Miscellaneous Tax Unit."
Some guys were caught transporting a sawed off shotgun, and SCOTUS (US v Miller) ruled the NFA Constitutional and said sawed off shotguns had no place in a militia, therefore were not protected by the 2A.
Fast forward to 2008 (DC v Heller) when Scalia overrules the Miller decision and says we can ignore the words about militia in the 2A. "Scalia wrote that it was essential that the operative clause be consistent with the prefatory clause, but that the prefatory clause did not limit the operative clause."
So originalist Scalia says we can ignore the clause about militia even though SCOTUS took it into account for a solid 75 years. So much for precedent, so much for stare decisis, so much for the actual text of the subject of the one-sentence 2nd A!!
