More venting, sorry

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I posted to facebook saying I need to express my rage and grief but that I didn't want to pollute my friends' social media pages.



Where are these fucking "well-regulated militias" that are necessary for the security of our Free State?

How about we ban anyone who has been found guilty of a violent crime from owning a gun? How about the other states make the process as rigorous as Massachusetts (I had to get a letter STATING I WAS NOT INSANE and present it to my local police department to get my license).

I've got more but I'm at work and this isn't really helping

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Re: I'll play

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You're a free, able-bodied, gun-owning adult. It's you. You're the militia. The militia is wherever you are.
That is one horrible chaotic way to organize a militia. Since it's in the Federal Constitution, there should be Federal standards for it.


A police chief having that kind of personal discretion to choose who does or doesn't get to exercise their constitutional rights doesn't sound like the America that was advertised in my elementary school Social Studies classes.
And yet here I am in the cradle of the Republic living under that interpretation of those constitutional rights and so far the laws of the Commonwealth stand.

Say you get a chief who doesn't like gays, one who feels that homosexuality is a mental disorder and that such people ought not be trusted around guns?
That would result in FEWER people having guns, and while I don't like the idea of people having their rights restricted on such an arbitrary basis, I am not complaining about people having less access to guns.


I hope you feel better soon.
Talk to me in November.