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olde_fashionedThe US Supreme Court is hearing a case regarding our second amendment right to keep and bear arms. Those of you who are concerned at potentially losing one of our rights that should be inalienable, please, please pray that the judges will make the right decision.
"The issue has polarized judges, politicians and the public for decades: do the Second Amendment's 27 words bestow gun ownership as an individual right, or a collective one -- aimed at the civic responsibilities of state militias -- and therefore subject perhaps to strict government regulation."
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I for one believe in Original Intent -- surely the Founding Fathers did not believe that we only have a right to possess weapons if we're in a civilian militia! This is a pathetic attempt to disarm the masses, and violate our Constitutional rights! The Bible says that God answers prayer, and hopefully in this instance it will avert a potentially disastrous decision.
Note: I am screening comments on this post. If you want to comment with either an agreeing or disagreeing opinion, then that is more than fine with me, only I am tired of getting loud-mouthed trolls trying to start fires and fights. I'm not trying to suppress anyone's freedom of speech, just trying to save myself a headache.
"The issue has polarized judges, politicians and the public for decades: do the Second Amendment's 27 words bestow gun ownership as an individual right, or a collective one -- aimed at the civic responsibilities of state militias -- and therefore subject perhaps to strict government regulation."
Read the rest of the article HERE
I for one believe in Original Intent -- surely the Founding Fathers did not believe that we only have a right to possess weapons if we're in a civilian militia! This is a pathetic attempt to disarm the masses, and violate our Constitutional rights! The Bible says that God answers prayer, and hopefully in this instance it will avert a potentially disastrous decision.
Note: I am screening comments on this post. If you want to comment with either an agreeing or disagreeing opinion, then that is more than fine with me, only I am tired of getting loud-mouthed trolls trying to start fires and fights. I'm not trying to suppress anyone's freedom of speech, just trying to save myself a headache.
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Date: 2008-03-19 03:51 pm (UTC)Like drugs, guns will always be available for anyone who wants to get them (through illegal means). All this does is take away the law-abiding citizen's defense.
Argh.
(Edited because I actually have several examples. The below are all true stories.)
There was a woman, about 35/40, who went into a store with her elderly parents. She was in the habit of carrying a gun in her purse. A man came into the store and shouted at everyone to get on the floor. He proceeded to kill them off one by one. The police were either slow in coming, or no one had a chance to sneak a call. The woman reached for her purse--Only to discover she'd left it in the car. Her father kept saying, "I have to do something. I have to stop it." He rose before she could stop him and ran at the man. The man shot and killed him. The woman discovered there was a hole in the back wall, through which people were escaping. She grabbed her mother's arm and made for it. She got out, turned around--her mother had not followed her. Later she found out that her mother had gone to her father, and cradled him in her arms. The shooter turned to her, and she looked right up at him and closed her eyes. He shot and killed her. This woman could have stopped him at the first death. Instead there was something like 16 people killed, including her parents.
A man heard someone breaking in one night. He grabbed his gun from under the bed--he had a wife and two children. He ran down the stairs, and the criminal threatened him with a gun. He shot the man and injured him. When the police came, it was the houseowner who served fifteen years, because his gun license was expired. The man who broke in was out in five years.
Only a couple of months ago, there was a church shooting. An insane man was shooting down anyone. Many of the security, though they did have guns, could not shoot him. (This is what my dad is training people in right now--it is a human instinct not to shoot, so when you take people into a hostile situation, they tend to shoot too high, too low, or take a job helping their buddy instead of shooting.) A woman security guard heard the gunfire and came up the hall, praying intensely that God would give her the strength to do whatever she needed to do. She stepped out and cried, "Surrender!" And killed the man. She probably stopped hundreds of innocent lives from being taken. As it was, there were only a few injuries.
I really wonder how many people wouldn't have died at VA Tech if someone had had a gun.
(Last edit! I swear!)
Oh, and there's this fun fact: A lot of people say guns should be outlawed because many children are killed every year by a gun accident/a bad guy with a gun. But, actually, there are most cases of children drowning in the bathtub than there are of children being killed due to a gun.
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Date: 2008-03-19 04:59 pm (UTC)That's exactly the point I was going to make. The "bad guys" will always be able to acquire weapons, whether weapons are legal or not.
It's times like this that I wish we could go back in time and get our Founding Fathers to clarify several different points that modern people mangle and twist and misinterpret. (Separation of church and state, anyone? But, I'm getting off the issue at hand, and I apologize.)
This is just one more example of the government trying to take away our personal freedoms. We cannot keep giving in.
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Date: 2008-03-19 06:52 pm (UTC)To me, it is the human being's desire and willingness to kill that is the real danger, not a gun, knife or any other kind of weapon.
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-20 06:51 am (UTC)No need to apologize!! You are exactly right and it's nice to see someone else with a similar mindset. ;-)
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Date: 2008-03-20 05:37 am (UTC)Exaaaactly. People are only kidding themselves if they think this will alleviate the problem. It will only make it worse.
I'm glad you edited -- I'm grateful you shared those stories. Thank you!
Well it's like saying we should ban cars, because there are a few people who are negligent and drive them while drunk. Why punish the many for the sins of a few?