When you take away the guns from the military and the police, who's going to take away wats guns? Lol.
The purpose of the 2A was never to facilitate rebellion. It was to facilitate a militia-based national defense system -- which is now an utterly stupid and irrelevant goal.
The purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to suppress slave rebellions. Since abolition and the creation of the National Guard, it serves no useful purpose.
They can start resisting anytime they want. What are they waiting for?
Well, that too, but mainly it was for the militia. The FFs were afraid a large regular army might be used as an instrument of domestic rule, as such typically were in Europe, and they still had ugly memories of the redcoats. The idea was that the U.S. would have a small peacetime army; when war broke out the militia would be called up, and every man would bring his own musket from home.
Never could figure out how your country managed to interpret the 2nd amendment to mean that people without knowledge of how to safely use, maintain and secure firearms should have ready access to weapons, including weapons far more powerful than, for example, the rifles carried by infantry soldiers in World War II.
It's kind of a . . . cultural thing.
The wording of the 2nd Amendment is loose enough that gun nuts have twisted it to indulge their hobby. They justify it by claiming that private gun ownership is a bulwark against tyranny, which is an argument that doesn't hold water anymore.
I occasionally see YouTube ads for concealable gun kits to "prepare for what's coming,"
Never happen. Nice pipedream though.
A despot is taking over the United States right now, and gun owners aren't doing anything to stop him.An unarmed civilian population and an armed military works every time a despot wants to take over a country. But that's what the lefties here really want.
But it's not, really, is it? Up until quite recently, your law-abiding civilians had their shotguns and deer rifles, and those were the people living out in places where people might go hunting. Pistols were for law officers or licenced civilians (bank security, etc.). Dodge City and the OK Corral were in the movies, not real life.
That's what they said about gay marriage and legalizing pot. If enough of us keep pushing hard enough, the impossible can become possible.
The words, "A well regulated Militia . . " would seem to be pretty specific, especially for those with a "conservative" or "textualist" or "originalist" view of the law.
What BSG needs to do is go into AI and research how many illegal uses of firearms are committed by people who already have an arrest record and note that they probably account for 70-80% of all gun crime. The real solution to the issue is to snuff out the criminal element, not the rights of law-abiding citizens.An unarmed civilian population and an armed military works every time a despot wants to take over a country. But that's what the lefties here really want.
Lol. Here's your chance. You guys took a few shots at him already.
The majority of states are pro 2A. There aren't enough votes.
No, my dear, a misinformed woman is trapped in delusion and cognitive dissonance.
Haven't you learned anything from Donald Trump? The Constitution means what the Supreme Court says it means, and if they can overturn Roe v. Wade (You can still hear people laughing about stare decisis and "conservatism"!) then, down the line, they can overturn NYSRPA v. Bruen.
Because of post #9.
