I'm generally pro-gun ownership, but the 2nd amendment was poorly designed, and left us with a retarded mess that we enjoy currently. It's fucking stupid, tbh.
I personally favor the Czech model of doing things - constitutional protections, without the insanity.
Oh, and anyone who's going to whine some rightoid nonsense at me better be prepared to explain why they're just fine and dandy with abridging the right to keep and bear nuclear arms.
@QuixoticSoul Noooooo - the second Amend. was crafted just right - its the interpretation that got distorted. Just like the Bible - good words but in the hands of someone that wants to read between the lines - deadly..
@QuixoticSoul Because - we are not talking about an individual citizen's rights - nuclear weapons or any weapon of huge scale destruction is something that any country has the right to keep.
How they are used it is another topic. How they think that more of these weapons can be used to coerce government actions, are again another topic.
@MarmeeMarch Now you're just interpreting the 2nd amendment willy-nilly to suit your wacky liberal ideas. What about "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand??????? Does that say "you can only own irrelevant pea-shooters like a pussy" in there? No, it does not.
The government would not dare step out of line and take away our rights if the citizens had a proper personal arsenal like the founders intended - including medium range missiles to deliver a few kilotons of FREEDOM to the nearest state capital as needed.
I’m glad to see you’re not even acknowledging the ridiculous claim that there may be some mysterious militia restriction. You are correct in that in the second the founders act as if they didn’t foresee the possibly for more powerful weapons in the future when in other areas of the Constitution and Amendments the future was considered. @QuixoticSoul
@MarmeeMarch That’s useful if you’re dealing with some pesky Jehova’s witnesses - but if you have a hippie infestation 9mm is just not going to cut it.
A hail of 30mm grenades will end a drum circle fast.
@MarmeeMarch That’s not a M134, that’s one of those MetalStorm contraptions that never went anywhere.
And dunno, that fully automatic grenade launcher is at least manportable, and will rain grenades on anyone within 2km of you, 7m kill radius on every one.