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These Countries Restricted Assault Weapons After Just One Mass Shooting

rahl said:
The 2nd amendment has never at any time, been about militias. Every court has told you this for almost 200 years.
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Sorry that you seem to not have read the 2A which was only about the state militias that existed in the 18thC:

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Second Amendment Explained


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.
 
JacksinPA said:
Sorry that you seem to not have read the 2A which was only about the state militias that existed in the 18thC:
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Never at any time was militia membership a requirement. Every court for 200 years has told you this.
JacksinPA said:

Second Amendment​

Second Amendment Explained


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.
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Basic 6th grade grammar. The operative clause is not dependent on the predatory clause.

So as I correctly pointed out, militia membership has never, at any time, been a requirement for the right to keep and bear arms. Every court for 200 years has told you that.
 
JacksinPA said:
Sorry that you seem to not have read the 2A which was only about the state militias that existed in the 18thC:

Second Amendment​

Second Amendment Explained


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.
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Bullshit
Learn to read English.
 
rahl said:
Never at any time was militia membership a requirement. Every court for 200 years has told you this.

Basic 6th grade grammar. The operative clause is not dependent on the predatory clause.

So as I correctly pointed out, militia membership has never, at any time, been a requirement for the right to keep and bear arms. Every court for 200 years has told you that.
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Membership requirement in state militias is not the question in the 2A. You're just making that up to deflect from the original meaning of the 2A.
 
JacksinPA said:
Membership requirement in state militias is not the question in the 2A. You're just making that up to deflect from the original meaning of the 2A.
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The meaning of the 2nd has remained the same since its inception as I have shown you. Militia membership is and has always been irrelevant to the right to keep and bear arms.
 
rahl said:
The meaning of the 2nd has remained the same since its inception as I have shown you. Militia membership is and has always been irrelevant to the right to keep and bear arms.
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Membership in militias is something you just brought up & is not the issue. And you have shown me nothing other than the fact that you don't understand the intent of the 2A. It was not membership in militias. The only thing you've shown me is your lack of understanding about the 2A.
 
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JacksinPA said:
Membership in militias is something you just brought up & is not the issue. And you have shown me nothing other than the fact that you don't understand the intent of the 2A. It was not membership in militias.
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Then explain what you think is the issue?
 
rahl said:
It’s ok. We both know why you are scared too.
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The only thing that scares me is the fact that there are more guns in the U.S. than there are people. And mass shootings seem to have become routine. But you folks keep hugging your pet interpretation of the 2A to explain it all away.
 
JacksinPA said:
The military version that led to the AR-15 was designed as an assault weapon for the Vietnam War craziness.
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That does not change the fact that the semi-auto version is not an assault weapon.


JacksinPA said:
BTW, the U.S. lost that war.
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No we didn't. We won, and then the Democrats stabbed our ally in the back and cut off their aid when they needed it.


JacksinPA said:
Where was the 'good man with a gun' in the bar & bowling alley? Lots of guns in ME but the 'good man with a gun' must have been on vacation.
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We need to have a lot more people start carrying concealed handguns when they go about in public.


JacksinPA said:
Sorry that you seem to not have read the 2A which was only about the state militias that existed in the 18thC:
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The Second Amendment says otherwise. It mentions something about a right of the people.
 
watsup said:
NRA propaganda will be in full force today all across the country, just like in the immediate aftermath of every AR-15 mass slaughter
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NRA propaganda is merely people telling the truth.
 
Just like the USA enacted travel restrictions, the TSA and banned knives/box cutters from the passenger cabin of commercial aircraft after just ONE terrorist attack.
 
Rich2018 said:
Just like the USA enacted travel restrictions, the TSA and banned knives/box cutters from the passenger cabin of commercial aircraft after just ONE terrorist attack.
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The TSA tried to allow small knives back on planes in 2013. Too late. They had already convinced people of their deadly nature.
 
Rich2018 said:
Just like the USA enacted travel restrictions, the TSA and banned knives/box cutters from the passenger cabin of commercial aircraft after just ONE terrorist attack.
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And just one terrorist had a bomb in his shoe. So from now to eternity the TSA makes you take your shoes off.
 
maybe other countries just value life more than us.
 
CaughtInThe said:
maybe other countries just value life more than us.
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The people who got voted into office are afraid of the repurcussions if they restrict gun ownership like the rational countries I posted. Then they might have to get real jobs.
 
JacksinPA said:
The people who got voted into office are afraid of the repurcussions if they restrict gun ownership like the rational countries I posted. Then they might have to get real jobs.
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They are not able to restrict gun ownership like other countries, because the constitution precludes them from doing so.
 
JacksinPA said:
And just one terrorist had a bomb in his shoe. So from now to eternity the TSA makes you take your shoes off.
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Yep
What if the TSA no longer demanded this, and the next day a terrorist made a commercial airplane crash by detonating a bomb, hidden in his shoe ?
 
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