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| Mon, 09-29-2008 - 10:33am |
How do you guys feel about Obama's ignorance about and votes against the second amendment?
| Mon, 09-29-2008 - 10:33am |
How do you guys feel about Obama's ignorance about and votes against the second amendment?
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unfortunately, the lemming theory has been debunked... it was foisted on all of us by Walt Disney...
Wow. A response which accuses another of "ignorance" while at the same time omitting, for whatever reason, to actually include the quotation on which you have based the accusation. How ironic is that!?
Given the propensity for spin in so much of politics, paraphrasing is a poor substitute for a quotation.
Gettingahandle
Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.
Gettingahandle
Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
Thanks for the clarification. Punctuation can certainly make a vast difference in how thoughts are communicated. You might consider reading "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"!
But guess what. We have institutionalized our militias. They're the state National Guard units--armed and paid for by the states. And we have standing armed forces which are (duh!) "armed". We do NOT depend on private citizens to form ad hoc militias which have standing regulations. There is a distinct shift between the second amendment as it was written and the practices of the day; as opposed to the ways in which firearms are used today and how the nation defends itself or handles civil emergencies.
I do not agree that the wording of the "well-regulated militias" is an example. There are no other "examples" in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They were very terse documents and extraneous phrases were simply not used.
With regards to developing technology, sure, there had been some changes in the "technology" of the day. But it was only the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Did the writers envision the portability and degree of destruction of today's semi-automatic weapons which are comparable to the field artillery pieces of that period? Did they imagine handguns which could be tucked into a pocket? Did they know that the nation would evolve from agrarian and rural; to industrial and suburban/urban? Maybe, maybe not.
Gettingahandle
Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.
Gettingahandle
Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
It took about two seconds to google it. Here it is, in context. The statement was even more ignorant than I remembered. Thanks for suggesting I look it up. He said it during his senatorial debate with Alan Keyes.
"Now, Mr. Keyes suggested that, somehow, because criminals break the law, that we shouldn't have laws in the first place. That defies logic. People break all sorts of laws, but we still have the laws in place.
"And the fact of the matter is, is that Mr. Keyes does not believe in any limits, that I can tell, with respect to the possession of guns, including assault weapons that have only one purpose, and that is to kill people, unless you're seeing a lot of deer out there wearing bullet-proof vests, then there is no purpose for many of the guns."
He mixed up the "assault weapon" and "armor-piercing bullet" debates because he was obviously IGNORANT of the fact that ordinary hunting ammunition can penetrate "bullet-proof vests."
The state National Guard units are reserve components of the armed forces of the United States, subject to federal control.
Oh, almost forgot.
Here is Obama's stance on guns.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/nra_targets_obama.html
Look, it's no secret that Republicans LOVE their guns and their RELIGION.
Not a Republican, but
Obama has repeatedly defended gun bans such as DC and Chicago have, which, in the case of DC, has been held to be unconstitutional.
The bottom line is that Obama is not on the side of gun owners.
I support certain limits on gun ownership BUT I understand that criminals will not follow the laws, whatever they are.
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