DaGaffer
Down With That Sorta Thing
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2003
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No. I'm not defending the US legal system at all - I'm simply pointing out that the US consitution *does* have gun-ownership enshrined in it. And provided evidence.
No-one said it didn't. However, a modern interpretation has been spun on it so that instead of a right (and duty) to bear arms for the purposes of a well-regulated militia, the whole militia side of it is conveniently ignored. The Framers obviously had really poor grammar and forgot to put a full stop in the middle of the sentence.
And to reiterate, it still doesn't say that right to bear arms is for the purpose of rising up if the government does something you don't like. In fact, that little theory was tested to destruction in 1861-65, and The Feds won it.
Perhaps it's because freedom from oppression is something worth fighting for? All the US "Founding Fathers" did was give the Americans a fair chance in that fight, should it ever be needed.
No, they didn't; that wasn't intention, which like so many things American, was actually about money. A militia is an army on the cheap.
Besides, its a fantasy. Macho wish fulfillment from dickheads who think they're in "The End Times".