RE: Gun Control - isn't it true that no one needs a semi-automatic weapon to protect their family?
My argument brilliantly illustrated by an NYC comedian here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YduLCx34Y0
I'm all about the 2nd amendment, but who really needs more than a handgun or a hunting rifle? No one who will use a weapon legally, I don't think!
For those of you who say things like "if people want an assault rifle, they'll find a way to get one anyway," um... so that's an excuse not to deter such behavior? Why should we make it easy for domestic terrorists like the guy in Aurora (I don't want to flatter him by stating his name) to get their ammo?
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One would think so, but then again, one hasn't drunk the NRA Kool Aid.
If you had studied the origins and development of the 2nd amendment you would know its purpose is not about hunting or defending the home. It is about ensuring that We The People will always have the means to keep government in check. I've read a lot about it and to be very blunt, our Founders were not thinking about hunting Bambi but politicians In order to keep their State free from a Federal government tyranny. Also, they assumed that civilians would always have the same arms as the military. That hasn't worked out very well but we surround them ;)
Who is Number 1 says it well. I'll just add in direct response to your question that there are neighborhoods in this country where I would regard a semiautomatic as being seriously undergunned. I feel for any poor kid who is stuck in any of those neighborhoods and I question the sanity of their parents for not either getting out or cleaning up the neighborhood.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
In what way is this unclear? And if you're going to bring up the "people aren't a well regulated militia". Our founders did not go out of their way to state our army has the right to bear arms (except in Ft. Hood cough cough), our police are not a "well regulated militia" and I don't think anyone would argue police shouldn't be able to bear arms, our freedoms are individual freedoms not collective ones.