More venting, sorry

[urbpan]

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

Comments

Re: I'll play

[gigglingwizard.livejournal.com]

Heavily enough to shoot back. That's the whole point of the Second Amendment. It's not to overthrow the government--that's just a fortunate byproduct. Unless Congress assembles an army for a declared war, we aren't supposed to have an army. And the concept of a police force, let alone a "militarized" one, didn't even exist in the 18th century. The government just flat out wasn't supposed to have armed troops policing the citizenry in peace time, period. We, the people, are supposed to be the first line of defense, as alien and uncomfortable as you apparently find that concept to be. Part of the responsibility of citizenship is supposed to be turning out to muster when called up in the event of an approaching attack.

So using the fact that we've (wrongly) delegated this public responsibility to a corps of full-time professionals as justification for stripping people of the means to fulfill their responsibility is like saying that if a tow truck is pulling your car, we should make it illegal for you to ever buy motor oil again. It's a recipe for a fatal dependency.

Re: I'll play

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

If every day ten lunatics poured motor oil into the drinking water, then it might be time to think about a motor oil ban.

If you are correct about your description of the intention of militias (and I have no reason to think you aren't) then that amendment should be considered a complete failure, and be amended to make sense to modern people--or interpreted by the judiciary to fall in line with modern life.