Reply #33: You have been sent here

[renie408]

To make my brain explode.

Or to teach me how NOT to attack someone personally when they say things that make me want to reach into the computer and kill them.

So, given that I do not want to be banned from here, I deleted the first twenty things I wrote.

First, you cannot even imagine how I feel about abortion, so don't try.

Second, if life is sacred...well, then life is sacred. You are wallowing in the same contradition that you noted in others. You are anti-abortion and pro-death penalty. That doesn't make any more 'sense' than being pro-choice and anti-death penalty and so neatly negates the apparent premise stated in your opening post.

Third, I assume that you are talking about gun control when you talk about being very careful to "protect the liberties of the people who do respect the laws and make sure that we don't infringe on their rights". Your rights, as stated in the third amendment to the constitution, are as follows:

"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."

It does not say, "to make you feel safer you have the right to stick a semi-automatic rifle in the closet" or "since there are so many times that you might need a gun when going down the road, it's ok to carry a 9 mm in the glove compartment".

It is a travesty that the NRA and gun lovers even try to pretend that the casual right to own a gun is protected by the Constitution. It is obvious to anyone with more than a third grade education that the intent of the amendment (an amendment, BTW, that was written 250 years ago when times were VERY different and we didn't have a million man standing army or the National Gaurd) is for the people of the United States to be able to defend the STATE (You know, like it says in the amendment??). Not to make themselves feel bigger or better by carrying weapons that our forefathers could not even have imagined. So you see, I do not think that you have the 'right' to own a gun in the first place. Gun ownership is a privilege allowed and protected by the state, not a right. In our society's current incarnation, gun ownership is considered by the majority to be a desirable thing. Since we have a democratic society, majority generally rules. Hopefully, we will evolve as time goes by.