I get that. I don;t give a shit about the 2nd Amendment (which can be preserved without people owning assault rifles . . . do they really think they can defeat the government with rifles?). I'm just not backing anyone who promotes gun-nuttery among his base and dog whistles violence to them; he really did try to foment a violent insurrection. It was idiotic, but the fact is, he tried. My last sentence stands. I've seen where it goes, and I don't want to live there.
There's no such thing as Antifa . . . its a slogan with no institutional endoskeleton. Likewise, BLM began as a slogan, which has now been co-opted by the nonprofit-industrial complex. Before that co-optation, BLM was very strictly nonviolent. Then a bunch of white anarchopunks, who show up at street actions uninvited, started doing vandalism under that banner (and no consultation with actual black activists). Also cops. There were undercover cops involved in a lot of this. As a former revolutionary (and not the adolescent adventurist kind), I've tried to warn young "activists" that any time someone joins your group and starts hectoring you to commit violent crimes, there's a better than 50-50 chance that person is a cop. I don't advocate violence of any kind form any quarter.
I have to disagree with you here that (1) it's all of a piece (the Constitution has been changed and amended more than once), and (2) that it's some kind of sacred document. That's a whole nuther thread. On weapons, this article was written was written for the mobilization of defense militias at a time when standing armies were viewed with profound suspicion, and the weapons in question were muskets, bayonets, and swords. We now have a (far too large and expensive) standing military, and the weapons are far more lethally likely to result in (a) collateral damage and (b) drunken/accidental/etc violence.
I went to eight conflict areas, and the first and only time I got shot was in Hot Springs, Arkansas after an altercation at a bar.
Plenty of countries have far stricter gun laws than we do, and they've not lost either their right (see below for my thoughts on "rights") to say what they want or their privacy.
Does the 2nd A mean I can own a .50 caliber machine gun? Hand grenades? Claymore mines? Artillery? Backpack nukes? I have a couple of guns, light rifle (22) and my dad's old shotguns. But an AR-15 is not a hunting or sporting gun. It's designed to kill human beings, and it has a muzzle velocity of 3K ft per second. And no one needs to be strapped when they're shopping for dinner at Meijers.
then of course you will get what you deserve. more violence
You make my point. You scary guy. Ooooooo!
I get that. I don;t give a shit about the 2nd Amendment (which can be preserved without people owning assault rifles . . . do they really think they can defeat the government with rifles?). I'm just not backing anyone who promotes gun-nuttery among his base and dog whistles violence to them; he really did try to foment a violent insurrection. It was idiotic, but the fact is, he tried. My last sentence stands. I've seen where it goes, and I don't want to live there.
There's no such thing as Antifa . . . its a slogan with no institutional endoskeleton. Likewise, BLM began as a slogan, which has now been co-opted by the nonprofit-industrial complex. Before that co-optation, BLM was very strictly nonviolent. Then a bunch of white anarchopunks, who show up at street actions uninvited, started doing vandalism under that banner (and no consultation with actual black activists). Also cops. There were undercover cops involved in a lot of this. As a former revolutionary (and not the adolescent adventurist kind), I've tried to warn young "activists" that any time someone joins your group and starts hectoring you to commit violent crimes, there's a better than 50-50 chance that person is a cop. I don't advocate violence of any kind form any quarter.
I have to disagree with you here that (1) it's all of a piece (the Constitution has been changed and amended more than once), and (2) that it's some kind of sacred document. That's a whole nuther thread. On weapons, this article was written was written for the mobilization of defense militias at a time when standing armies were viewed with profound suspicion, and the weapons in question were muskets, bayonets, and swords. We now have a (far too large and expensive) standing military, and the weapons are far more lethally likely to result in (a) collateral damage and (b) drunken/accidental/etc violence.
I went to eight conflict areas, and the first and only time I got shot was in Hot Springs, Arkansas after an altercation at a bar.
Plenty of countries have far stricter gun laws than we do, and they've not lost either their right (see below for my thoughts on "rights") to say what they want or their privacy.
Does the 2nd A mean I can own a .50 caliber machine gun? Hand grenades? Claymore mines? Artillery? Backpack nukes? I have a couple of guns, light rifle (22) and my dad's old shotguns. But an AR-15 is not a hunting or sporting gun. It's designed to kill human beings, and it has a muzzle velocity of 3K ft per second. And no one needs to be strapped when they're shopping for dinner at Meijers.
https://stanleyabner1951gmailcom.substack.com/p/the-runaway-horizon-of-rights
Here's my piece on fishing, just so we can remember what we might agree upon (peace).
https://stanleyabner1951gmailcom.substack.com/p/fishing-fam