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Thread #155297   Message #3658438
Posted By: Bill D
08-Sep-14 - 11:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: Anyone defend US gun law?
Subject: RE: BS: Anyone defend US gun law?
"There's nothing in any constitution about it. The nearest is something about the right to be drafted into an army or militia to defend The USA. I believe it is called the right to bear arms"

That part of the constitution is a vague, antique formulation which made a certain sense for 150 years or so. It became obsolete as the world changed. The vagueness allows the idiots to hang on to it.

"...the democratic majority of your decent citizens want this criminal activity stopped. Take lessons from democracies and work as they do."

Do you really understand the procedures necessary to do this? The 'democratic majority' does not get to vote on such things in one National ballot! A few states have passed some laws that look like progress, but that 2nd amendment needs Congress to take the vagueness out of it. Congress has too many Republicans to pass any meaningful revision. If they were to magically pass a revision, **it would have to be ratified by 3/4 of the states**!! Half of the states would likely defeat it. If 3/4 did magically pass it, what would you have? You'd have millions of angry gun nuts who have been stockpiling guns for years, and who have vowed to resist any such attack on their 'rights'.

Now, if that the democratic majority would rise up and overwhelm the crazies by.... lessee....hmmmm.. forming posses and knocking on doors and demanding everyone turn in their guns... sure.. that would work.....................bang, bang, bang.

What we need is Peter Sellers to bring the nation of Grand Fenwick over on a little ship and ......