Yes. A militia is by definition composed of ordinary citizens. The part of the text that gun control advocates should be focused on isn't the militia clause, but the regulation aspect. Madison's OG draft is definitely superior to the revised final product, though.
Battisti s adressing your points. Do you insist on me doing the same?I just told you why.
Look, we’ve had some unprecedented things happen in my country too.
After 220 years of being a shining example to the world of how to peacefully transfer power, we had a POTUS try and hold on to power through corrupt and criminal means, and then when that failed, through violent means.
But thank God for the patriotic gun owners!
Just kidding. Most of them didn’t give a fuck or do anything, and those that did tended to support the corrupt POTUS
They did wonderful things like try and stop vote counts, some of them sat armed next to ballot drop boxes to try and harass and intimidate voters…
We have politicians right now trying to gain power specifically so they can force everyone to live under the laws of (their interpretation of) their religion, and the pro-gun Americans largely back those politicians too.
Our Constitution begins the words “We the People.” Despite a lot of gun owners saying those words, wearing t-shirts and hats with those words, and even having those words emblazoned on their vehicles, the truth is that the people they care about are themselves and their in-groups, for the most part. They sure didn’t give a fuck when politicians tried to invalidate my lawful vote in 2020 (along with more than 13 million other Americans). They sure aren’t standing up for oppressed minorities—in fact, they generally support the candidates doing the oppressing. And there’s some small faction of them that seem to threaten civil war every 5 minutes, and unfortunately if that ever happened the sheer number and types of weapons we have here would make sure it was horrifically bloody and tragic.
I understand this delusion that if you had more guns you’d have a foothold against some tyrannical government. I understand it because a lot of people here have that same delusion. But as a lifelong resident of a country with nearly 400 million guns in circulation, I can assure you that isn’t the reality.
Thank you.Correct, I am speaking of physical injuries.
“I have officers who were not issued helmets prior to the attack who have sustained head injuries,” Gus Papathanasiou, union chairman, said in a statement Wednesday. “One officer has two cracked ribs and two smashed spinal discs and another was stabbed with a metal fence stake, to name some of the injuries.”
“About 65 D.C. police officers also suffered injuries on Jan. 6, including several concussions from head blows from various objects, including metal poles ripped from inauguration-related scaffolding and even a pole with an American flag attached, D.C. police officials have said. Other injuries included swollen ankles and wrists, bruised arms and legs, and irritated lungs from bear and pepper spray.“
Police union: Over 140 officers injured in Capitol siege
“The officers are angry, and I don’t blame them,” said the Capitol Police union chairmanwww.police1.com
In Canada its something like 0.7% of gun violence (removing suicides) is done with a legal gun and by the legal gun owner, if I remember my government mandated gun safety course correctly.
But if politicians focused on how unlikely we are to actually experience gun violence in the streets, how would they get people scared enough to vote for them?
Chicago laws are already tough.
You’re right. Strict gun laws aren’t working. Better start physically getting guns off the streets and making them harder to purchase.
Exacrly
Always my thought, seems like that can't/won't be done.
If murder rate is dominated by knives and other means, then people who have guns can protect against those types of murders, no? Murders go down and self-defense killings go up…
