@hightor,
HCR wrote:The Second Amendment to the Constitution, on which modern-day arguments for widespread gun ownership rest, is one simple sentence: “A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” There’s not a lot to go on about what the Framers meant, although in their day, to “bear arms” meant to be part of an organized militia.
There is actually plenty to go on.
HCR wrote:Today’s insistence that the Second Amendment gives individuals a broad right to own guns comes from two places.
One is the establishment of the National Rifle Association
Wrong. It comes from the historical fact that the right to keep and bear arms has always been an individual right that includes private self defense.
Claims that the Second Amendment "gives" a right are legally ignorant. The Second Amendment protects a preexisting right from infringement.
HCR wrote:it was Steve Kerr, the coach of the Golden State Warriors basketball team, whose father was murdered by gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1984, who best expressed the outrage of the nation. At a press conference tonight, shaking, he said, “I’m not going to talk about basketball…. Any basketball questions don’t matter…. Fourteen children were killed 400 miles from here, and a teacher, and in the last ten days we’ve had elderly Black people killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we’ve had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, and now we have children murdered at school. WHEN ARE WE GONNA DO SOMETHING? I’m tired, I’m so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families…. I’m tired of the moments of silence. Enough.
He's a big phony. If any leftist virtue signalers really wanted to do something to prove to the world how much they CARE, they would start by burning down their own homes just to make a statement.
Yet, when it comes to burning down their own homes just to make a statement, suddenly these leftist cowards are no longer interested in DOING SOMETHING.
