They relied on Locke quite a bit. The PURSUIT (of happiness)! […] the right to bear arms isn’t just, as Ken Womble suggests, the right to own a tool, any more than the right to a free press refers only to printing […], Why We Shouldn’t Repeal The Second Amendment, Ted Nugent’s Mouth And Madeline Albright’s Tongue | Simple Justice, Not-So-Convincing Anti-Second Amendment Arguments | AdamDick.com, Not-So-Convincing Anti-Second Amendment Arguments – ChrisInMaryville's Blog, Another Second Amendment Opinion: This One Matters, Caetano and the Right to Non-Lethal Arms (Update). The term “gun deaths” includes suicides, and that happens to be the one category that can be strongly shown to be decreased with stricter gun laws. The Evolution of the “Legal Supply Chain”. “Senator, I know one of our judicial ... It’s easy to spend a lot of time on 270ToWin.com, flipping states from red to blue and back and contemplating scenarios for the presidential election – including ones where the Electoral College margin is extremely narrow, or perhaps no margin at all. If you are a regular reader of Fault Lines, then you should know that we aren’t here to rub your tummy with constant agreement. Nearly half of all murders are gang related. We all grow up with the notions of our parents as a funnel for viewing issues. Whether arms will be a significant part or not remains a question. However, I take issue with doomsday predictions that are leveled with such certitude. Canada and the UK haven’t fallen into despotism, Newark and Mexico haven’t become safe havens. The argument that guns are necessary for personal protection is much more complex. If it were correct that massive out-performance in weapons tech saved the day and won the war, the folks in Kabul probably haven’t gotten the memo. No one was killed in the “Battle,” but it did change the political face of the county for years to come.”. “If you are a regular reader of Fault Lines, then you should know that we aren’t here to rub your tummy with constant agreement. Looking back, the gap between starting gun control measures and violent crime declining is about 90 years. Either the Constitution has the power to protect our freedoms or it doesn’t. This wish-casting is based on increasingly imaginative reading ... During their debate earlier this week, Vice President Mike Pence put California senator Kamala Harris on the spot for her attacks on the religious views of several recent judicial nominees — a topic on which, thus far, Harris has yet to receive any press questions. Access to firearms has been proven to increase the rate of suicide. Then again, doing something has not been all that successful either. They make bullet proof ones these days you know and even though they aren’t gaurenteed, they haven’t been outlawed just yet. A pitched gun battle between the G.I.s and their supporters and the McMinn County Sheriff’s Department (including many deputies who had been brought in from elsewhere) took place outside the jail until dynamite was used to set off an explosion, causing the deputies inside the jail to surrender. Meet the New Fault Lines! Reasonable people can certainly disagree on whether repealing the 2nd Amendment would cause an unraveling in the fabric of our nation. I’ve been reading your pieces for a while and you seem to have a passing familiarity with police abuses, so why the short-sighted view on the need for arms by certain members of the populace? They got a lot of things right, and even #2 was right at the time. The discussion has, by and large, been substantive and informative, […]. I find it humorous so many people think an enraged and armed populace wouldn’t stand a shot against the US Military if it came down to it.

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