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Something to remember- gun control laws are “malum prohibitum” laws — meaning that their stated purpose is to prevent actual crimes by removing the ability for criminals to get their hands on something that would enable them.
On the other hand, a “malum in se” law, such as rape, is a crime because it is evil in and of itself.
Anyone giving an honest reading of the Second Amendment knows that its intent was to put the citizens on equal footing with the soldiers of the day.
“Equal footing” being the operative clause, regardless of the actual technology in use; thus keeping up with the evolution of firearms we have today and in the future.
The bottom line is that our founding fathers absolutely intended for citizens of any era to be able to overthrow any oppressive government then, now, or in the future.
The Supreme Court has interpreted this language to mean that firearms which are in common use cannot be banned.
Since nuclear weapons aren’t in common use, the straw man argument falls apart. As we have seen in Iraq and Afghanistan, even a disorganized group of insurgents with rifles can easily bloody the nose of the U.S. military (and bring the Russians to their knees), so this nullifies the argument that the Army is just too powerful to resist with commonly used firearms.
Last year approximately 15,000 people in the US died due to violence. Antis say killed by “violence.” Half of those are suicides, which no sane person would classify as a “violent crime.”
Unless you also think that masturbation is rape.
The flip side of those 15,000 deaths per year are approximately ~2.5 million crimes prevented by legal gun use every single year.
Crimes including rape, murder and felony assault. But for some reason, gun grabbers never seem to recognize that side of the equation.
Our country needs an honest and serious conversation about violence, but blaming guns is naive and closed-minded view of the world.
Something to remember- gun control laws are “malum prohibitum” laws — meaning that their stated purpose is to prevent actual crimes by removing the ability for criminals to get their hands on something that would enable them.
On the other hand, a “malum in se” law, such as rape, is a crime because it is evil in and of itself.
Anyone giving an honest reading of the Second Amendment knows that its intent was to put the citizens on equal footing with the soldiers of the day.
“Equal footing” being the operative clause, regardless of the actual technology in use; thus keeping up with the evolution of firearms we have today and in the future.
The bottom line is that our founding fathers absolutely intended for citizens of any era to be able to overthrow any oppressive government then, now, or in the future.
The Supreme Court has interpreted this language to mean that firearms which are in common use cannot be banned.
Since nuclear weapons aren’t in common use, the straw man argument falls apart. As we have seen in Iraq and Afghanistan, even a disorganized group of insurgents with rifles can easily bloody the nose of the U.S. military (and bring the Russians to their knees), so this nullifies the argument that the Army is just too powerful to resist with commonly used firearms.
Last year approximately 15,000 people in the US died due to violence. Antis say killed by “violence.” Half of those are suicides, which no sane person would classify as a “violent crime.”
Unless you also think that masturbation is rape.
The flip side of those 15,000 deaths per year are approximately ~2.5 million crimes prevented by legal gun use every single year.
Crimes including rape, murder and felony assault. But for some reason, gun grabbers never seem to recognize that side of the equation.
Our country needs an honest and serious conversation about violence, but blaming guns is naive and closed-minded view of the world.
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