@maxdancona,
maxdancona wrote:An editor published a fairly innocuous opinion piece suggesting that,
although the 2nd amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, maybe
a little regulation like a waiting period before buying a gun, would be ok. . . .
A guy cud get
killed
while he is "waiting", to say nothing about countenancing
USURPATIONS of power by the government.
U fail to mention any punishment of the government
for those usurpations, as if it were OK to rape the Bill of Rights.
What punishments do u have in mind for the infliction of gun control??
Usurpations of power are much worse than relatively harmless
felonies like taking bribes (or Nixon covering up), because citizens can get killed
as a result of those un-Constitutional incursions upon their rights.
Sadly, the Founders did not include punishments in the Constitution for that.
I wish that the Authors of the Constitution had created a court
dedicated particularly to punishing holders of public office
for violating the Constitution, if personal liberty suffered for that.
Loss of all pensions, benefits and forfeiture of 65% of all their worldly possesssions
+ 5O years to 65 years at hard labor, as a penalty for the first offense woud be suitable.
Justices of that court woud have to swear to be ultra-Orthodox in their interpretations of the Constitution from the historical standpoint of the Authors.
I remember reading of 2 women in different states who were
threatened by ex-boyfriends or husbands. One legally bought a
defensive gun. Her ex-guy broke in on her thru a window
and tried to kill her with a knife; fortunately, she killed him with her gun.
The other woman got her gun license in the mail enabling her to legally buy a defensive gun.
The day before it arrived in the mail, she was killed, as promised by her ex-guy.
Gun control protects murderers. Gun control has been lethal.
David