Freedum, their eyes are wide open, but fear distorts and blinds them to reality. The majority of dumb asses who own a gun are most often its victim, or a family member. It was also a statutes symbol for a long time, only white people were allowed to have guns. It's still that way as the cops tend to kill any armed black motorist and bow scrape and return the gun, if they even touch it in the first place, for armed white motorists. I don't hear the NRA complaining about their 2nd amendment rights, they never do, white domestic terrorists are another matter.
I was asking about ineffective gun laws. Not race or racial profiling.
I appreciated that when the security guard was interviewed he said something along the lines of “I’m not going to share publicly how he got in I don’t want to give anyone else any ideas”
Most legal gun owners are civilized Americans though; so it gets very difficult to convince them they are inherently bad because another group of mostly civilized Americans who choose not to arm themselves says so
The two are intimately related unfortunately
It's also related to Political appeasement of normal gun owners who actually follow the law re: their guns. Crux of the issue is piss poor, weak assed gun laws in general. Way too many details to suss out in a simple thread on a weed forum though.
the thing is...Americans are brainwashed to believe the word "rights" is some kind of magical god granted thing...the founding fathers clearly never meant for anything like the present situation to occur, they had no idea of the technological OR sociological changes that would occur since they wrote the constitution. the phrasing of the second amendment also clearly states that gun ownership should require the owner to participate in a national guard type "militia" which would be well regulated BY THE STATE...
Imo a component of the crux of the issue is a double standard for different kinds of civilian.
The year the U.S. Constitution was ratified was also the year the French Revolution broke out and Thomas Jefferson was there to witness it. In this letter to James Madison, Jefferson asks whether or not “one generation of men has a right to bind another,” either in the form of a financial debt or a political obligation to obey a constitution of laws not contracted by that individual. He comes to the surprising conclusion that any constitution (the American included) has to lapse roughly after every generation (actually, based on his calculations, every 19 years) since it was first signed and ratified. Thus, the American Constitution should lapse and become null and void in 1808. Jefferson believed in the principle that “the earth belongs to the living and not to the dead” which meant that previous generations could not bind the current generation to pay their debts, or require them to work in their father’s occupation, or to accept the laws and constitution drawn up by their ancestors. In his mind, “no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law”. The only “umpire” between the generations was the law of nature.”
good sentiments, and a lot of it is workable, but some of it isn't...a nation accumulates debt, and it must be paid.
I hear you and I agree. Guess the crux of it is WHICH rights must be guaranteed (in perpetuity) and who decides. It's an I say potato/my neighbor says bump stock 30 round magazine argument.
It is worth remembering that very many Americans are trained into this primacy and immutability of text by their churches. Evangelical doctrine states plainly that the Bible is the only and entire authority. To get past the obvious limitations of a limited text, the doctrine of “the living word” has been put into play. Naturally (!), this does not mean adapting the text to our evolving perception of physical and human nature. It means distorting observations of reality to fit the dogmatic container of the text.
So “terrorists shoot 12 innocent bystanders in Philly” should be the headlines today and all over the news cycle for a week right?At Least 12 People Shot at Outside Bar in Philadelphia in US: Report - News18
Gunshot victims were being rushed to a number of hospitals based on the severity of their injuries. Details about the victims were not known immediatelywww.news18.com
That depends
