NSR: A gun on Every Corner: Discuss the NRA, Gun Ownership and All Those Non-Mass Shootings..

“Well-regulated milita”

 

Thing is, contrary to the FF hopes and expectations, a "well regulated militia" is no longer "necessary to the security of a free state." Contrary to their expectations and fears, we have a very powerful and usually highly professional and usually highly ethical military for that security. Though there have been some periods of shakiness on the ethics part.

But now, really within the last 30--40 years or so, we have developed really ill-regulated militias which are among the greatest threats to that security. So now it all hangs on the legal definition of "infringed..."

 

This judge thinks an AR-15 is a home defense weapon....SMH.

 

I think you'll find that Section 8 of the Constitution, although not specifically mentioning the Swiss, implies that their knives are very similar to our blunderbuss'.

 

I think it's the libs among us that should be thinking of joining a well regulated militia given the current clampdown on democracy.

 

Kingston NY had a gun amnesty.

Locals took advantage to get rid of their rusty and inoperable weapons.

The 47 weapons surrendered included 1 semi-automatic weapon and 15 handguns, which I guess is better than nothing. The rest were rifles and rust.

 

Isn't that a Joan Baez song?
"We both know what memories can bring/ they bring rifles and rust..."

 

I wouldn't know, I'm only 59.

 

Second Amendment is not about guns -- it's about anti-Blackness, a new book argues - CNN

Very interesting and worth the read.

 

10-year-old killed in New York City after multiple shots fired at a Queens home, NYPD says.

 

The youngest survivors of the Parkland massacre are now graduating, CNN’s @KateBolduan spoke to two students as they reflect on life after the deadly shooting. pic.twitter.com/znNmdU2Cbp

— CNN (@CNN) June 7, 2021

 

Interesting tweet thread on just how bonkers that California judge’s decision to overturn the assault weapons is.

Benitez insists that "citizen militias are not irrelevant," citing the experiences of ... Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, and the Taliban. https://t.co/e7ArsDmeim pic.twitter.com/dwMD0JoOQi

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 7, 2021

 

I suppose it depends on what one is trying to defend against. If you're trying to defend against MAGA brownshirts, it's a reasonable choice.

I do think people should be able to privately own daisy cutters though...as part of the well regulated militia. To own one, it'd have to be well regulated - which would mean being a member of our well regulated militia in the National Guard. From there, actually operating it would have to come under the guidance and regulation of the NG.

 

Using a weapon for home defense that will shoot through your house, your neighbors house, and probably through a couple of houses down the street isn’t a reasonable choice.

 

Use frangible ammo. The platform doesn't dictate the caliber either - most of them use fairly light rounds that don't have any special penetration.

 

I somehow tuned in to a KC news bulletin which reported 4 dead in 4 separate shootings and 2 dead in separate shootings.

Not sure if the second was a subset of, or addition to, the first.

Also, a bad person driving a car killed a good person driving a car and someone was shot dead over a video game.

 

Lulz...

Rep Madison Cawthorn: "If anybody ever wants to say 'oh, well you know what, citizens with a few small arms fire would never be able to stop the federal government' - I absolutely disagree. Ask the Viet Cong how they handled the Marines and the Army in Vietnam" pic.twitter.com/BPqn3d9Rsx

— Jason S. Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) June 16, 2021

 

I have heard that talking point from a number of right wingers.

It must be on the official post-its. Up there with "'critical race theory' is Marxism" and "cancel culture..."

 

The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a federal judge's controversial ruling that overturned California's longtime ban on assault weapons, in which he likened the AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife. https://t.co/CoocplJRsk

— CNN (@CNN) June 22, 2021

 

But it was such a rational and well-reasoned ruling!

"Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment," Benitez said in the ruling.

Who can argue with such peerless logic?

 

That being said.. The loopholes in the CA law are large enough to drive an armored car through.

 

...with dudes carrying AR-15s!

 

pretty much. As an example, these are all legal in CA:



Virtually identical to any other AR, they just have a flange appended to the back of their pistol grip, thus making them "rifles" instead of "assault rifles".