"We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children"

[jmg257]

80. I found your solution - thanks! addressed elsewhere. The 'problem' I see with the Militia

and the 2nd amendment is that the protection it provided is obsolete. I am not talking about the right Scalia found in it and so the SCOTUS says we have.

We the people decided a long time ago that we much prefer federally controlled Militias and a huge standing army. WE decided the well-regulated Militias are NOT the best security, iare actually not even necessary, as they stood in the Constitutiton. Does that make the need to be wary of tyranny all the more? Possible...but it is how we wanted it.

Now - we know what & why & how the protection against tyranny the Miltias and 2nd offered were supposed to work, and yet we went and made them obsolete anyway. So - the founders never gave a timeline for tyranny, though they warned us what to look for. Are our freedoms still secure? Or is system we put in place as the Militias were destroyed placing us right on schedule? Is allowing the people to keep arms even though they no longer serve the Militia purposes of the 2nd as wise as it once was? As needed?

You seem to feel are freedoms not so safe for long. I tend to think we aren't that bad off, or more and more that the right to arms is not worth the cost.


Anyway -you are right about much, so I will dial back the rhetoric, these discussions are much more interesting!

cheers.