12.14.12 Tonight! Jingleball @ Warfield in SF
Dec 14, 2012 22:18:25 GMT -5
Post by skylar on Dec 14, 2012 22:18:25 GMT -5
Dec 14, 2012 21:34:41 GMT -5 @mys*&@^#r50 said:
I honestly don't think that is the reason most people who have guns have them. I think it is for protection from other people with guns. IMHO, of course.
Exactly. We do not fear the gov't. We fear bad people with guns.
Ahh yes, but the original "individual right to bear arms" which is used to defend anyone having a gun is about keeping the power in the hands of the people.
(As it turns out all three guns were legally owned by the killer's mother and this boy does not have any history of trouble with the law.)
Wikipedia:
In no particular order, early American settlers viewed the right to arms and/or the right to bear arms and/or state militias as important for one or more of these purposes:
deterring tyrannical government;
repelling invasion;
suppressing insurrection;
facilitating a natural right of self-defense;
participating in law enforcement;
enabling the people to organize a militia system.
"As defiance and opposition to the British rule developed, a distrust of these Loyalists in the militia became widespread among the colonists, known as Patriots, who favored independence from British rule.
British and Loyalist efforts to disarm the colonial Patriot militia armories in the early phases of the American Revolution resulted in the Patriot colonists protesting by citing the Declaration of Rights, Blackstone's summary of the Declaration of Rights, their own militia laws and common law rights to self-defense.[36]"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
IMO Noone is going to take away the American right to bear arms. I think the question here is... should a mother with a child with mental issues have guns in the home?
But lets bring it back to Adam. DM me if you want to discuss anything further