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America's gun-control laws owe their genesis to the post-Civil War era, when white southerners moved to disarm freed slaves. The former Confederate states' successful efforts to restrict gun ownership had disastrous long-term consequences for black Americans' life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
The Supreme Court's majority opinion recognized this historical context. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. framed the McDonald decision in terms of black Americans' struggle for equality - and survival. He highlighted the court's Cruikshank ruling after the Colfax Massacre, a genocidal slaughter perpetrated in 1873.
The Chicago handgun-licensing laws enacted just four days after the Supreme Court ruling include four hours of mandatory training and testing (at the prospective handgun owner's expense), tri-annual licensing fees and registration with the Chicago Police. (That's in addition to existing federal requirements.) The new regulations prohibit gun ranges within Chicago; applicants will have to travel outside the city for training.
While Chicago's laws will be applied equally, regardless of race, it's clear that crime-plagued, low-income black Americans will find it hardest to satisfy their requirements. By both intention and design, the city of Chicago will prevent handgun ownership by the municipality's poorest, least educated and most vulnerable inhabitants.
So where are the people advocating for free firearms since they're a 'god given right'
You always go after the easiest targets first. That's how you build momentum to tackle the harder challenges.
Gun control is an abomination wherever it is practiced and however it is implemented.
Right here. I think JROTC should be mandatory in high school and that students should be issued a rifle and sidearm at graduation.
Why on earth you'd think that's a good idea is beyond me.
A well-armed, well-trained citizens' militia is a benefit to any nation. High school graduates are adults and should be expected to exercise their responsibilities as adults. It would also go a long way to ensuring that prospective recruits are prepared for military service.
Well, I favor education and solidifying a future over requiring them to become killing machines :shrug:
But that's just me.
Being in the military labels you a killing machine?
Why don't supporters of gun control support disarming the police and military first? Government thugs are responsible for far and away more violence than street criminals. Even most of the violence by street criminals is a result of the idiotic 'War on Drugs' and other campaigns waged by the government.Why on earth you'd think that's a good idea is beyond me.
But whatever . . . I won't even debate.
Why don't supporters of gun control support disarming the police and military first? Government thugs are responsible for far and away more violence than street criminals. Even most of the violence by street criminals is a result of the idiotic 'War on Drugs' and other campaigns waged by the government.
On that note - in order to become an officer or service member of some nature you MUST go through rigorous training and prove you're capable of performing your duties before they asign you a weapon. Far more rigorous requirements and standards than that enacted upon civilians.
Now - WHEN those duties aren't performed properly . . . that's when the bureaucratic tape takes over and causes far many more problems than it solves. . . this is where the problems are and where things need to be fixed.
In this regard I think there's more rigorous control and stipulation over military than there is over the police force - the police force is widely unchecked and just out of control with no one willing to step in and regain constraint and enact policies.
Now - until someone shows me that the majority of young adults are capable of maturely handling a firearm I'll be against the notion because I firmly believe that they're not. . . just like everything else that requires self restraint, common sense and a level of maturity (driving, drinking, etc) - time and time again the young in heart and mind prove that they're incapable of handling the freedoms that come with adult-hood when they arrive there and abuse those privileges.
A well-armed, well-trained citizens' militia is a benefit to any nation. High school graduates are adults and should be expected to exercise their responsibilities as adults. It would also go a long way to ensuring that prospective recruits are prepared for military service.
What you seem to be implying is a return to a form of National Service (I believe you yanks called it the draft or draught or some such name).
To blindly issue a graduate with an armament without suitable training in it's use and upkeep is the height of irresponsibility.
Apart from that, it has long been proven that the (draft or draught) was notoriously unfair, was riddled with corruption and was economically unviable.
It has been resoned that a volunteer fighting force is better than an involuntary fighting force.
What you seem to be implying is a return to a form of National Service (I believe you yanks called it the draft or draught or some such name).
To blindly issue a graduate with an armament without suitable training in it's use and upkeep is the height of irresponsibility.
Apart from that, it has long been proven that the (draft or draught) was notoriously unfair, was riddled with corruption and was economically unviable.
It has been resoned that a volunteer fighting force is better than an involuntary fighting force.
Government thugs are responsible for far and away more violence than street criminals.
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