@oralloy,
If the founding fathers had intended to grant a right to bear a specific weapon or a specific group of weapons, they would be listed in second amendment, they are not. The right is to bear an arm and this in no way precludes the government in controlling dangerous and deadly weapons.
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If you only have “a right to bear arms” that is all you have and no more.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have seen some of the strangest court decisions. One man was pestering his wife for sex and she shoved him away. The man went to a local magistrate who ruled that the shove amounted to domestic violence and threw the woman out of her own house for a week. There have been some really strange court decisions pertaining to guns, one law in a small town made gun ownership mandatory. There is nothing in the second amendment that makes gun ownership mandatory. Many of the court decisions concerning guns do not strictly confine themselves to the second amendment as written.
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The writing of the second amendment is perfectly clear. If you are armed with a musket or an AK-47 when you are up against a tank it would not matter. If there ever is an invasion it won’t be a repeat of the Revolutionary War.
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The second amendments specifies only a right to bear an arm and nothing more.
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I was at the emergency room with my mom after she had fallen and we were put in a small waiting room with a woman and her daughter. I asked the child about the active shooter drills at her school. They are taught to hide or runaway when a mass murderer shows up at their school not much of a chance when a mass murderer has an assault weapon. Tell the 20 dead first graders at Sandy Hook they were not in danger or those at Parkland or Columbine.
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You have to market a semi-automatic AR-15 as an assault weapon because that is what it is.
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The firing mechanism is only an option just as different types of scopes are options. You would not say an AR-15 had to have a laser scope to be an assault weapon.
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The ability to fire automatically only requires changing 1% of the parts. That is simply an option.
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What law did you get your definition of an assault weapon from? It seems that most copied that 1940s assault weapon, they look similar built for the purpose of massacring large numbers of people.
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The real assault weapon problem is those on the streets and they have not been regulated since 2004.
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Did you just make that definition of assault weapons up? Assault weapons seems to be a name made up by the designer of a 1940s weapon the later models are copies of the original and entitled to that name.
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If an unpracticed hand can fire at 130 rounds per minute someone that practiced could easily get to 300. We know the assault weapons is capable of much more so the only limit is your finger. Set your stop watch and see how many times you can pull the trigger in a minute.
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The Pulse night club mass murderer killed 49 that seems like a lot. In fact, the Pulse Night Club mass murder was only surpassed by the Las Vegas mass murder who had an arsenal and a much large crowd to shoot at who had no cover.
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That is not the stance a mass murderer used he is sweeping from side to side and doing that with a gun at the shoulder would be awkward.
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When you have hundreds of rounds you do not need to aim. You can watch them fall down as they are hit.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You can look at the original assault weapon designed in 40s and tell which guns are assault weapons.
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You may have an opportunity one day to meet a mass murderer one day, you may go to Wal Mart or a rock concert. When the shooting starts just ask him if that is an assault weapon he is using?
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You will have to ask that bartender that the mass murderer showed what the typical assault weapon stance as the mass murderer demonstrated it for him.
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Those assault weapons are far from being an ordinary hunting rifle that is like saying a VW is the same as Indianapolis race car.
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The law is the law and one of the functions of law is to define the terms and those terms have been defined.
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Some one must define the terms in a law and that is the responsibility of legislatures.
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I suspect the gun manufacturers made your BS definition after assault weapons were first banned. This is elephant here but that one over there is not an elephant it just looks like the other one. Actually, the other one runs faster.
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The assault weapons are identical except the one has an optional trigger.
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The Constitution says that “you have a right to bear arms” and that is all.
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If you believe that English common law gives you that right go to England and see if you have a Constitutional right to bear arms. You right is granted by the constitution.
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The government gave you the right to bear arms but did not give up the government’s responsibility to regulate arms.
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Legal assault weapons are the ones on the street now.
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The original statement was you have “a right to bear arms” that is all that can’t be infringed and as long as you have an arm that has not been infringed.
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When you believe the second amendment gives you the right to weapons of war you are reading words that are not there.
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We make are own laws in America we did not want to live under the laws of the old country.
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That is the real definition and in our society that is how definitions are arrived at. Why do you think they passed an assault weapon ban?
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Ninety three percent of Americans want something done with the gun manufacturers. When that many people want something done it will get done. The NRA is running out of blood money to buy politicians.
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That is the politician’s responsibility to make the definitions.
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School massacres almost always involve assault weapons.
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Fear is a survival skill that helps you stay alive.
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By your definition if an automatic firing switch is set to single round then it is not an assault weapon.
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So, the legislatures can set the definition of terms for everything but assault weapons.
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That number is totally useless when they use the actual police reports and there is a solid number that will tell us something.
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It shows no such thing the only thing it shows is someone imagination. When the suicides, murders, accidental shootings and 40,000-gun deaths are taken into account guns don’t benefit to society.
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You can bear an arm but you are not entitled to keep weapons of war.
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You can keep an arm but not any arm.
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It grants you a right it does not forbid the government from doing anything.
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The word “keep” does not allow you to keep weapons of war.
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The only right that cannot be infringed is the “right to bear arms.” That in no way restricts the government responsibility to control arms.