Anyone Here Planning To Attend DC Anti-gun March And Counterprotest? (drugs, highway)
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Like most on your side, you ignore the result of implementing "gun free" buildings.
The unintended consequences of this national stupidity is plain to see. Bad guys always seek the path of least resistance.
I'm not asking for "gun free". Where'd you get that idea. I'm discussing the analogy between murder by gun and deaths by obesity. One you don't have a choice in; another you do.
Yes, this is our future. Hunting is not popular as it once was.
Oh, no, no, no, sweetie...
I live on the East coast. One CANNOT get/book a contractor for home building/repair/etc. once any of the hunting or big game fishing seasons open until they close. They're gone hunting and/or fishing. And they eat what they kill.
Just had a record bluefin tuna sportfish caught out here a few weeks ago.
You know, your sacred Second Amendment contains some words which are rarely quoted by gun enthusiasts: "A well-regulated militia".
It says a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free State. It then goes on to explain that to provide for such, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
A LOT of people who don't understand that have a reading comprehension problem and a complete lack of knowledge of US history, likely due to our country's crappy public schools.
The anti-gun students should march through the bad neighborhoods of DC too. They should really be protesting ALL of the children killed as innocent bystanders of ghetto violence.
There should be marches through other bad neighborhoods like in Chicago.
They're marching (gathering, actually) on Pennsylvania Avenue rather than on the Mall, as another group had previously requested access to the Mall - a very tiny inadequately identified group, btw, look it up. The students and their supporters (teachers, parents, grandparents, other concerned adults) followed the law to the letter in requesting a permit to gather. It was the District of Columbia authorities who decided where they would gather, not the demonstrators themselves. They do not have permission to gather and march anywhere else. I'm surprised you hadn't heard about this or didn't seem to know that permits are required before demonstrating in Washington...
I agree that innocent bystanders of violence should be mourned and their deaths protested, no matter where such deaths occur. But today's activities are focused on school shootings.
Perhaps you could organize another rally to protest innocent losses to violence in other places.
You know, your sacred Second Amendment contains some words which are rarely quoted by gun enthusiasts: "A well-regulated militia".
One could term guards such as you describe as "well-regulated militias". They certainly resemble that more than they do those miserables who persist in shooting up our schools and killing our children.
Pity for you those aren't the only words it contains. It amazes me how profound people think they are being when they stop reading the amendment after those words. Maybe the founders should have put that bit at the end so people would have to read the rest of it first.
Here's the whole thing.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
It's got your wording about the militia but if you keep reading you eventually get to the underlined part.
It would seem to me, considering the nature of the rest of the bill of rights, that the amendment mentions the militia as a way of expanding on a right, not limiting it. Not only can I bear arms but I can also join a militia if I like!
I live on the East coast. One CANNOT get/book a contractor for home building/repair/etc. once any of the hunting or big game fishing seasons open until they close. They're gone hunting and/or fishing. And they eat what they kill.
Just had a record bluefin tuna sportfish caught out here a few weeks ago.
But your local example does not mean that hunting and fishing are as popular nation-wide as was once the case. Unless you conduct a survey of all American recreational hunters and fisherfolk, your example is interesting, but has no significance.
Never thought I’d see people marching to have their rights taken away.
You don't consider attending school without being in fear of losing one's life a right?
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