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The NRA's leadership embraces an insurrectionist ideology that asserts that the intent of the second amendment is to permit American citizens to shoot and kill federal agents and law enforcement officers in the event that they believe those agents are attempting to facilitate or impose some form of government tyranny. This dangerous doctrine, that flirts with committing treason, is the cornerstone of the gun lobby's opposition to any and all forms of gun control. This ideology is explicitly expressed by many of the NRA's congressional supporters. For example, freshman Republican Congressman Ted Yoho of Florida, an NRA endorsed candidate in 2012, refusing to yield any concessions on gun control, recently told a reporter that it was the birthright of every American to have "the same equipment as the military."
I think we can agree that "arms" in the context of the Second Amendment refers to weapons which are intended to carried upon the person or by the strength of a single individual.
ReplyDeleteThe word "arms" refers to (but is not limited to) rifles, shotguns, handguns, and swords, as opposed to armored personnel carriers, heavy artillery, surface to air missiles, and conventional or unconventional explosives.
The view that the second amendment protections apply to military materials is equally perverse as the position held by many (statists) that civilians are afforded no rights under the Second Amendment at all.
Thanks for copying what I've said before. We're not talking about tanks here, although those are legal to own. The current debate is over semiautomatic rifles with X number of rounds in the magazine.
DeleteNo one has argued that Examiner hires only good, intelligent writers. You found one of the morally bankrupt idiots--good for you.
ReplyDeleteThe source article yammers about insurrectionists in the NRA and Congress, then goes on to say that we should trust the government. When the debate is put that way, I'm going with the NRA. The fact that things are a whole lot more complex is lost on gun control freaks because all they want is to ban this and restrict that. The practical effect of their proposals and the consequences to basic rights are too difficult for them to comprehend.
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