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FutureTheLeftWant wrote on May 23 rd, 2022 at 3:02pm: Panther wrote on May 23 rd, 2022 at 10:01am: [quote author=FutureTheLeftWant link=1630545846/126#126 date=1653263424] Only dickheads like yourself would believe that the US Constitution would authorize, protect, or defend criminal activity like you seem to be suggesting.
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution affirms, defends, & protects an American Citizen's Right to Keep & Bear Arms to use in Self-Defense.....of himself/herself, their loved ones, & friends.
* In America Murder is illegal.
* Attempting to murder is illegal.
* A criminal felon possessing, attempting to purchase, or in any way owning a firearm is illegal.
* It is illegal for a person with a diagnosed violent form of mental illness to possess, attempt to purchase, or in any way own a firearm.
* Shooting & killing people indiscriminately is illegal.
* Using firearms in any criminal manner is illegal.
Criminals do not go through background checks when buying or otherwise illegally obtaining firearms.
So please explain in detail to us all:
What new "Common Sense Gun Control" laws do you propose that will both keep firearms out of the hands of criminals, making America safer, & at the same time continue to reserve the Right of Law-Abiding American Citizens to keep their firearms.......as affirmed, protec.........nabeling American Citizens to lawfully defend themselves & their loved ones?
If you can not square these two, how are you planning to convince gun owning & law-abiding American Citizens that it would be to their best interests to give up their Natural Rights that they have always freely exercised....their Right to protect & defend themselves & their loved ones, after successfully embarking upon a lengthily, divisive, but necessary task of changing their cherished document, their US Constitution, effectively repealing their most precious Right to Keep & Bear Arms for Self-Defense?
Please explain in detail how criminals will suddenly going to follow these 'new' laws, when for centuries they have ignored & defied all previous law?
Please explain in detail how these 'new' laws will make American Society safer? It's too late. America is awash with guns and will always be buggered My American friends have a metal cage to hide in if their home is invaded, it's specifically bullet proof. They know invaders would have guns. In australia if someone tried to break into my home I'd grab my block buster and open up their heads. Quote:United States Constitution affirms, defends, & protects an American Citizen's Right to Keep & Bear Arms to use in Self-Defense The Second Amendment: Quote: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. Can you point me to the place in the second amendment that talks about self defence ? This bit was made up by the supreme court in 2008 with NRA Lobbying and funding republican and democrat politicians. The NRA give scholarships in support of the second amendment. Quote:“A fraud on the American public.” That’s how former Chief Justice Warren Burger described the idea that the Second Amendment gives an unfettered individual right to a gun. When he spoke these words to PBS in 1990, the rock-ribbed conservative appointed by Richard Nixon was expressing the long-time consensus of historians and judges across the political spectrum..... Many are startled to learn that the U.S. Supreme Court didn’t rule that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual’s right to own a gun until 2008, when District of Columbia v. Heller struck down the capital’s law effectively banning handguns in the home. In fact, every other time the court had ruled previously, it had ruled otherwise. Why such a head-snapping turnaround? Don’t look for answers in dusty law books or the arcane reaches of theory...... There is not a single word about an individual’s right to a gun for self-defense or recreation in Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention...... The NRA’s new leadership was dramatic, dogmatic and overtly ideological (1970's). For the first time, the organization formally embraced the idea that the sacred Second Amendment was at the heart of its concerns...... Politicians adjusted in turn. The 1972 Republican platform had supported gun control, with a focus on restricting the sale of “cheap handguns.. Just three years later in 1975,.... Reagan wrote in Guns & Ammo magazine, “The Second Amendment is clear, or ought to be. It appears to leave little if any leeway for the gun control advocate.”... From 1888, when law review articles first were indexed, through 1959, every single one on the Second Amendment concluded it did not guarantee an individual right to a gun.https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-nra-rewrote-second-a...
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