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Exactly who or what has led you to believe that the second amendment has anything to do with hunting?
I understand the language used in the constitution isn't exactly modern, but I still see no excuse for people to completely misconstrue the meaning of the second amendment. It says *right there* that we have the right to bear arms so that we can maintain a militia for the purpose of defending our freedoms. If you disagree with that FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT, then you can either leave the US or take legal measures to ACTUALLY CHANGE our rights as American citizens. In the mean time, quit lying and spreading LIES.
lol "wannabe mercenaries and traitors"? This country was founded by minutemen and revolutionaries, so your labels are relative. As for the NRA, they certainly aren't helping then are they? Personally I don't feel the need to affiliate myself with some kind of organization or committee just to stand up for and exercise a right that the founders of my country said I already f**king have, and I think the NRA is just serving to further divide the nation between two extremes, both of which stand on illogical platforms that don't deserve any respect.
@ knotter: You're right, a well regulated MILITIA. If you know a f**kin thing about the military you know that the national guard is a CONVENTIONAL UNIFORMED MILITARY ASSET and is DEPLOYED OVERSEAS on a regular basis. Not only are the NOT a militia, they aren't even kept within the United States, they're just another offensive DOD asset. What you're getting at is ridiculous; the point of the second amendment was not to DISarm the populace and ensure that ONLY the government-regulated military had weapons. Militia means the people, and it's about them protecting themselves from the government. As for the Aurora incident, you should be more concerned with gang bangers in our inner cities rollin strapped with illegally acquired weapons who kill people EVERY SINGLE DAY. Yesterday, millions of law-abiding citizens with all kinds of guns didn't do a F**KIN THING to hurt ANYbody, and you want to disarm the very people who could have STOPPED such a massacre. Banning gun
s and making gun free zones won't solve anything because criminals don't obey the law. And maybe the reasons these "neanderthals" want guns so badly is to PROTECT their children. *I* feel sorry that I have to share this planet and this country with people who would so willingly toss the duty of protecting one's self and one's family off to the cops and the military. Armed citizenry could have prevented every mass shooting hat has ever happened in this country and you know it.
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- jhillftpLv 58 years ago
There you have it..The NRA claims to represent hunters so the second amendment has to do with hunting. But they also say this on their website...
"While widely recognized today as a major political force and as America's foremost defender of Second Amendment rights, the NRA has, since its inception, been the premier firearms education organization in the world."
Perhaps it escapes their logical Vulcan minds that the NRA can both support hunting, and the second amendment. The two are not mutually exclusive.
As a disclaimer.. I am not a member of the NRA. I'm simply anti-stupid.
- knotterLv 58 years ago
You are deliberately misrepresenting what it says:
"A well REGULATED Militia being necessary for the security of a free State ...." etc.
What was called "Militia" in the 18th century is now called National Guard. The State of New York was the first to change the name The purpose of the amendment is to enable the State to raise and arm a military force for its own defence.
> By letter posted Paris, May 10, 1824, Lafayette, then sixty-six years of age,
> accepted the invitation of Congress to visit the United States as the Nation's
> Guest. He landed at Castle Garden on Manhattan to a tumultuous welcome on
> August 16, 1824. On this occasion, a regiment of New York militia took the name
> of the Garde Nationale, which Lafayette commanded after the storming of the Bastille.
> Subsequently, other State militias adopted the name of the National Guard in his honor
> (and are so known unto this day).
http://www.bergencountyhistory.org/Pages/lafayette...
Further, the federal Militia Act of 1903 had specifically outlawed any private Militias.
It is not any "we" that can maintain a "well regulated Militia" but a State.
The right to bear arms is reserved for the Militias (National Guards) and has NOTHING to do with any right to bust into and a crowded cinema or kindergarten with an automatic rifle with 100 round magazine and kill everybody in sight just to find out what it looks like when people die. Men women and even small children.
It disgusts me to think that I have to share the same planet with ignorant neanderthals who put their sick obsession with firearms ahead of the safety of their own relatives and children.
- 8 years ago
The entire bill of rights (first 10 amendments) protects personal liberties, not government rights. "When people fear the government there is tyranny. When government fears the people there is liberty" "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants". Thomas Jefferson. The second amendment protects our right to protect our self, our family and our property against tyranny.
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms" Adolf Hitler.
Source(s): http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasj... http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-lefti... - ?Lv 78 years ago
The NRA who has collected donations and dues for years by claiming to represent hunters.
Claiming to represent crazy wannabee mercenaries and traitors isn't as profitable.
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- ?Lv 45 years ago
understand this time-honored: all people who erodes your 2nd. modification Rights isn't a pal of the folk. I thoroughly have faith interior the 2nd modification for right here motives: before everything: Self-protection is going previous any government. that could be a God-given astounding, Divine and actual. without the 2nd. modification inspite of the undeniable fact that shall we guard ourselves from those with murderous intend? even nonetheless aspiring presidential applicants can look forward to having perpetual CIA physique guards for the triumphing candidate and his/her companion (on the tax payer's cost, of direction), the user-friendly man or woman does not have this luxurious. So what do they care? 2nd: The Founding Fathers had this as first, the 2nd. modification replaced into generally penned to guard our great united states of america from dictator wannabes. They have been uninterested in dictatorial governments and via penning the 2nd modification they have been assuring that we can possibly on no account be ruled via a dictator. Why would any baby-kisser be anti-2nd. modification? Why would desire to any government respected worry an armed populous while the folk basically have palms for self-protection? who're those politicians afraid the folk will safeguard themselves from? think of roughly it. Are they dictator wannabes, or are they only ability-mad??? be careful the way you vote. H
