When that Constitution was written, people had muskets... So okay, you can have all the muskets you want.
Hey, dips***: when the Constitution was written, the musket was a state-of-the-art "assault weapon". Using your logic, Americans should be able to purchase select-fire/fully automatic M-16s and Heckler & Koch MP-5s.
Oh, and then there's Leibowitz's utterly bizarre assertion that the entire 20th century never happened.
Their paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can’t even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually in reality happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of imaginary Hitler.Within the last seven decades alone, Leftist governments -- National Socialists (Nazis), Communists, Maoists, and other Leftists -- slaughtered more than 250 million of their citizens.
Two hundred and fifty million. Two hundred and fifty million men, women and children. Rounded up by their own governments and shot, stabbed, gassed, starved and otherwise slaughtered.
250 million dead in the last century alone.
These mass-murders were carried out -- in every case -- by the ideological ancestors of the Left.
Not Tea Partiers. Not Constitutional Conservatives. But by the ideological ancestors of the Left.
Couldn't happen here, you say? Barack Obama's political mentor begs to differ.
I [an FBI informant who had infiltrated Bill Ayers' Weather Underground] asked, “Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.
And they were dead serious.
Jon Leibowitz wants to talk about an "imaginary Hitler"?
Is Bill Ayers imaginary? You know, the man who launched Barack Obama's political career and wanted to kill 25 million Americans?
25 million Americans represents roughly a million Sandy Hooks.
Their paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can’t even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually in reality happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of imaginary Hitler.
I wonder what Germany's Jews or Mao's victims would tell us about disarmament, if they could offer us counsel from the afterlife?
"Hey, dips***: when the Constitution was written, the musket was a state-of-the-art "assault weapon". Using your logic, Americans should be able to purchase select-fire/fully automatic M-16s and Heckler & Koch MP-5s."
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The idea that we should be happy with black-powder weapons is so much stupid in so little space.
To think that if fully auto weapons were available to the colonists and they wouldn't have owned them is shear insanity.
Ask the next leftie who coughs up that line about muskets if he knows what 'privateers' were. If his head doesn't shoot straight off and ricochet off the ceiling, I'll give you a refund.
Actually, the muskets argument was raised and addressed in the majority opinion in Heller. This from Scalia:
ReplyDeleteSome have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment . We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications, e.g., Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, 849 (1997) , and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27, 35–36 (2001) , the Second Amendment extends, prima facie,to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.
It's not like our government doesn't have secret kill lists which include American citizens, domestic drones, a department of Homeland Security which is buying millions of rounds of ammunition, five more years of warrantless wiretaps, a president that is blatantly ignoring the law of the land,...
ReplyDeleteNo, we don't have to worry about tyranny from our goverment.
Hey, Lebovitz. Only books and newspapers existed when he 1st Amendment was written. So, get the hell off the air and shut the hell up
ReplyDeleteWell wroten, Doug!
ReplyDeleteactually, if this only applies to muskets then why is it so hard to find black powder to go hunting during muzzleloader season?
ReplyDeleteActually, at the time of the Rvolution, man for man, the Americans had the British outgunned.
ReplyDeleteThe British regulars were issued muskets, but most of the Americans were armed with rifles.
Posted, awesome guys.......;)
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