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hey man, my only problem with gun control is the fact that people with mental illnesses can buy guns, and the fact that a person can buy/own guns such as machine guns and guns that serve no purpose other than to kill humans..... I know i am starting something here and I'm sorry. I think that the original meaning of the right to bear arms in the constitution was put there so if our country is attacked we can have guns to protect ourselves and our country... don't have a problem with hunting or having a gun for self defense, but as stated above there is no reason to have a gun with that much power...
hey man, my only problem with gun control is the fact that peope with mental illnesses can buy guns, and the fact that a person can buy/own guns such as machine guns and guns that serve no purpose other than to kill humans..... I know i am starting something here and I'm sorry. I think that the original meaning of the right to bear arms in the constitution was put there so if our country is attacked we can have guns to protect ourselves and our country... don't have a problem with hunting or having a gun for self defense, but as stated above there is no reason to have a gun with that much power...
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in Government." -Thomas Jefferson
"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." -Samuel Adams
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." -Edward R. Murrow
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armedunlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." -James Madison
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." -Daniel Webster
"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." - United States Constitution
Sounds to me that the Founding Fathers wanted all citizens to have guns.... not for hunting, not for shooting intruders... but for protecting themselves from their own government.
As far as people having mental illnesses. Sure... But who gets to decide who is and who is not mentally ill? The government, of whom the guns are supposed to be used against if they get out of control?
No, that doesn't work.....
nonsense, transformer.
Look at Afghanistan, Vietnam, or any other recent conflict in which a superpower tried to take on a backwards group of villagers with small arms...
No amount of power can hold territory against an armed populace... a fact our imbecile of a president has had to re-learn in Iraq.
The US has never and will never be invaded because of its armed populace...
And... the second amendment IS the last check against tyranny.
Seeing how the Republicans have raped this country to fatten their wallets these past 8 years... I can see what Jefferson was thinking.
Governments must fear their people... not vice versa.
The problem with the US today is that half the people would willingly toss out the second amendment... and the other half would willingly toss out the first.
The only FUNCTIONAL definition of a patriot is defense of the ENTIRE constitution.
( please understand that I, personally revile guns and would never own one... but your civil rights are a separate issue)
And as to the fact that some folks get shot with guns... well... MOST of those killed are not killed by legal gun owners...
And Automobiles, which are not even designed to kill people, still kill over twice as many people as guns... every year..
The most dangerous and deadly object in the hands of the American people is the steering wheel...
And I never hear anyone demanding we outlaw cars...
mr heston's views on the civil rights of the 1960s make interesting reading.
I suppose someone will remove the gun from his cold dead hand...
You do remember his statement about that at an NRA convention?