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Biden: "The idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. It's just sick. It has no social redeeming values."

"Not a single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturer"


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Vin53 · M

These are the same guns.
@sunsporter1649
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Vin53 Yup, no doubt....in the eyes of a blind one like you
Vin53 · M
You can't even connect the two can you....And there are none so blind as those who refuse to see

@sunsporter1649
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Vin53 Blunderbuss

A short musket of wide bore and flaring muzzle, formerly used to scatter shot at close range.

The blunderbuss used by the British Royal Mail during the period of 1788–1816 was a flintlock with a 36 cm (14 in) long flared brass barrel, brass trigger guard, and an iron trigger and lock
@sunsporter1649 >\The late great Justice Scalia believed the Constitution should be interpreted according to the original meanings of the words at the time it was written ) AKA "original public meaning." He did NOT believe in an "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 further specified that the 2nd Amendment only covered arms one could "bear" so cannons and the like are not protected.

In the late 1780's, "arms" meant swords and knives and guns that loaded with powder, wadding, and ball. According to Scalia's strict interpretation, the right to bear arms ends with blunderbusses and muskets and pistolaires with a firing rate less than 1 shot per minute.

Many will say that as weapons evolve, the interpretation must evolve. But that kind of "living Constitution" approach would eventually lead to terrible things like gay marriage. Clearly the Founders never intended gay marriage and that is why Scalia opposed it.

BTW, the Constitution does not mention concealment of weapons one way or another, so. according to the 10th Amendment, it is left to each state to decide if you may conceal your blunderbuss or antique pistolaire.

To tell the truth, Scalia and the other conservatives use Original Intent to oppose what they disapprove of, but they allow "evolving" interpretations to allow modern guns. In other words, the whole Original Intent thing is just a conservative thumb on the scales of justice.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@ElwoodBlues Like the thumb on the scales of justice that gives the demonocrats the right to ignore The Constitution whenever the demonocrats feel it advances their obscene objectives?
@sunsporter1649 “obscene objectives like having dinner with anti semites and neo Nazis ?

Right
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Ryderbike You have my permission to have dinner with whomsoever you please, you will be made welcome by the enforcement arm of the demonocrat party.

Majorsite · 61-69, M
@sunsporter1649 Technically, That was the assault weapon of its day ! All anyone had was a flintlock, Should We ban those too ?
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Majorsite And ban assault knives, assault motor vehicles, assault airplanes, assault hammers....
@sunsporter1649 Wow, that's a strong allegation! When, specifically, did the democrats ignore the Constitution??
@Majorsite I bet your can’t say something dumber . Go ahead and try
Majorsite · 61-69, M
@Ryderbike No, You have Me beat in that department.
@Majorsite What if Trudeau was like Ron Desantis?
That would mean Trudeau would pass a law that would have made it legal to run down and kill the freedom Trucker protesters in Ottawa blocking the streets. I wonder how many would support that?

I’m glad Canadians have resisted the authoritarian nonsense that Americans are suffering from in some right wing states .….
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Ryderbike LOL, like pennsylvania, for instance?

"Biden’s FBI Sends 25-30 Agents to Home of Pro-Life Author and Father of 7 – Arrest Him for Protecting His Son from an Abortion Escort"
@sunsporter1649 is that what your QAnon rabbit hole told you?

Let me guess gateway pundit QAnon central.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Ryderbike You telling me it never happened?
@sunsporter1649 i’m telling you what you have taught me about yourself is that every story you distort . You’re a consummate liar and that reputation will follow you no matter what you type. Even a basic look at your comment it’s clear that Biden didn’t send anybody.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Ryderbike You telling me it never happened?