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Posted by: IlluminatiNWO
Posted by: Sergeant omega
Posted by: IlluminatiNWO
Posted by: Sergeant omega
Posted by: IlluminatiNWO
The 1st amendment doesn't lose its core value. It can be changed/ edited. Video games were declared freedom of speech. The right to bear arms has no room to adapt to modern times and technology. I have the right to defend myself from others using lethal force. Why limit what's the easiest and most effective?
Because you're afraid of it?
Because you don't actually understand it?
Now you're just steering off topic. This is irrelevant. I understand the need to protect yourself, but when you follow laws 200 odd years ago which were only justified by the current situations is crazy. Society has advanced to where the needs of early Americans to possess guns doesn't transfer into today's world. Then explain the needs of early Americans so that I can understand what you were getting at. I want to understand your side, I really do.
Ok, so let's see here. Bill of Rights was passed in 1791, go back 8 years from then. The last battle of the Revolutionary War Yorktown. You'd of course want to let people have access to their own guns. A random person couldn't go purchase a gun. "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" That's the text from the ammendment. What shooting, or a person that owns a gun will ever use it protecting a free state? Almost no one.
The United States military is the most powerful in the world.
Therefore, there is no need of a militia, and it would be futile to fight against the government (assuming that the military personnel would kill their only people.)
Therefore, there is no reason why people should own guns.
But, like many people say, I think we should worry about mental health rather than getting rid of guns.
[Edited on 12.14.2012 7:46 PM PST]