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MI: What should we do about guns in America after Orlando?
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We the people of America are once again in a gun fight.
With the increased frequency of mass shootings like the one in Orlando, it seems gun violence is becoming our era's Black Plague.
Mass shootings can be treated, though.
At the heart of the issue is a question of liberty and how we as a nation want to interpret the Second Amendment.
While I worry about the safety of my fellow citizens, I also worry about an emboldened government telling us exactly what we can and can't own.
In the end, reasonable people should have access to reasonable weapons.
But there's got to be a compromise to keep unreasonable weapons out of the hands of unreasonable people. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(6/23/2016)
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What is "unreasonable" with regards guns?
In 1934, full auto, and short-barreled longarms became "unreasonable." In 1968 mail-order guns became "unreasonable." In 1986 newly manufactured NFA guns became "unreasonable."
What happens tomorrow? Next year? Next decade?
"Reasonable" ... another name for "compromise" .... which in turn means (to a antigunner) "Do as I say! Surrender your weapons!!!" |
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No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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