just poor genetics and chance...i've been to her district, several times, it doesn't seem that different than anywhere else, just inbred hillbillies still clinging to the 1860s, and the 1950s...which is a perfect description of every rural area in the united states and a good part of canada...
Not conditional but confusing.
But that commits a grammar gaffe. The first sentence would not have a primary clause.
I do agree it wouldn't even make sense; but just how many arms? It doesn't say how many muskets though and nobody uses them anymore. People used to hunt and protect themselves..now they hunt people with weapons that weren't around when 2A meant muskets.
Handguns were not big then. So I figure the duty musket, a squirrel rifle, a big-game rifle and a shotgun should have covered needs back then.
That happened to me on a firing range with an old 38. First time on the range after getting licensed and the guys with us had overloaded some ammo and one of them made the mistake of telling me that it was the correct ammo. Definitely not for an older firearm it wasn't. Lucky we followed the rule of standing in front of the line we were in when firing.
I squibbed a 9mm. A shot felt weak. The next printed two holes well below the group.
Lucky Luke needs to read this post.
It comes down to gun manufacturer donations to the NRA and NRA donations to weak, corruptible senators. Agreed, end filibuster specifically as a point against dark money's influence and Citizens United.
But James Madison would eventually become comma ander in chief!
A huge starting point would be mandatory training of 40 hours then testing. You need a bit of commitment to do that and it’s no longer a free for all. AND no ones talking about taking guns, only a semblance of actual responsibility in owning a firearm.
I'm torn between reading that and listening to the Mariners-Orioles ballgame. Ballgame won. Half way through, I still don't see justification for our liberal gun laws. But I'll get back to it later.Here’s what I got.
What Is a 'Well Regulated Militia,' Anyway?
The Founders liked militias, but they also liked an armed citizenry. To them, the two ideas were inseparable.reason.com
It is not cut&dry, and I acknowledge that usage, as well as the needs of a society in a way the Framers could not have anticipated, have changed and not just a little.
Add to this that the last two years have shown a cultural shift that became obvious: “a man and his musket” has transformed to groups of LARPing Klansmen with black rifles chatting up equally fascist cops. Repellent.
So I am ambivalent and a bit agonized. The Constitution was written with some glaring holes. “Every man was created equal” unless you were chattel, a pesky Native or female.
So consider me playing devil’s arvocate on the general principle of unintended consequences, but on the bottom line uncertain and capable of being convinced in the direction of less guns. The epidemiology of gun possession is sort of compelling.
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