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Thread #143962   Message #3326545
Posted By: John P
21-Mar-12 - 03:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Guns & laws in the US
Subject: RE: BS: Guns & laws in the US
"the right of the people...shall not be infringed" seems pretty unambiguous.

Did you know that in the Constitution, every time the word "people" is used it is referring to the citizenry as a whole, and every time a specific individual right is being given the word is "person"? Why should the 2md amendment be any different?

Is requiring a background check, trigger locks, and getting rid of hand guns really infringement? These things don't stop anyone from owning a gun. Does infringement refer to the basic right, or to any rules we might make up to make ourselves safer? Seems quite ambiguous to me.

On a different subject, I read in the paper last week that a gun in the home is four times more likely to be used on a friend or family member that to be used defending the home against invasion. People who think that gun control laws are infringement need to convince me that they have a plan for dealing with this statistic. Given these numbers, anyone who keeps a gun in the house is saying that every home invader is worth four family members.