Gun
Control
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The 2d Amendment to the US
Constitution states: "A well regulated
Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State, the right of the people to keep and bear
Arms, shall not be infringed"
It is clear from the text and the
history that the intent of the amendment was to
assure that State militias were armed to defend the
country from invasion and to prevent the Central
Government from subjugating the states. There
is NOTHING in the text or history leading to it that
supports:
- Automatic weapons for hunting
- Weapon availability to
children
- Weapon availability to
mentally unstable people
- Weapon availability in
offices, schools, theaters, clubs, etc.
- Weapon availability to anyone
other than those IN A MILITIA!!!
Imagine:
- The loss of life at Columbine
if Dylan and Eric had been armed with baseball
bats rather than a 9-mm semi-automatic handgun,
a rifle and a couple of sawed-off shotguns.
- The damage that Seung-Hui Cho
could have done with a pair of knives rather
than 2 semi-automatic pistols at Virginia Tech.
There is absolutely
NO REASON to allow the continued sale of automatic
and semi-automatic weapons to the public other than
paranoia! |