Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The meaning of the Second Amendment (One Perspective) [View all]jimmy the one
(2,862 posts)dscntnt: Maybe one day...you'll see the light.
That's actually insulting, another slice from the 2ndAmendment Mythology Bible. I could never, ever, willingly succumb to 2ndA mythology, unless I first succumbed to alzheimers.
.. I see quite clearly & correctly, & I'm not influenced by fluorescent strobe lights which conceal history & the truth while highlighting specious 'glow in the dark' gun myths & out of context quotes & misleading pseudo facts about what was & what is & what guns are about.
.. I can imagine you're upset about wallowing in the quicksand on realization of what joseph story actually meant in full context - you're in your own company tho, scalia cited story in heller too, misrepresenting all the way with out of context excerpts like you.
The RKBA is protected by the 2A. My point has been to express the fundamental idea that of self-defense is implied by a right to life. If you accept the right to self-defense, the RKBA is just using a tool to do the work to affect one's self-defense.
Specious reasoning; As I said the right to self defense existed thousands of years prior to the 2ndA & self defense in the individual sense was not the main concern the founding fathers addressed when writing the 2ndA. They had greater concerns about foreign powers invading from canada or the seas, rather than contending James had a right to shoot John his neighbor with his musket if John was stealing his deerskin rug.
Justice Joseph Story, early 1800's: .. though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline,and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burdens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt, and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our National Bill of Rights."
Also read this: jimmy the one: May 26, 2013 joseph story on the militia
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1262&pid=3165