My comment wasn't a rebuttal to yours. Rather a statement, "THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD NOT BE DISREGARDED NOR REWRITTEN WILLY-NILLY"! If something I said got confused, then my gomen.
My comment wasn't a rebuttal to yours. Rather a statement, "THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD NOT BE DISREGARDED NOR REWRITTEN WILLY-NILLY"! If something I said got confused, then my gomen. no worry, i got your...back?? we on same page dude.. LOL, too funny; 2 gomers
I'll say this, Jimmie: Your posts ooze intelligence. Well thought out, coherent replies with no spelling or grammar issues whatsoever. It's almost like I'm back on the playground again! You sure do an excellent job providing a compelling argument!
There are very few firearms that use a "clip". If you are going to try to ban firearms AT LEAST TRY to understand the facts. I think what you were trying to say is guns now have magazines. I call bullshit on the founding fathers not realizing technology would improve. The earliest hand held gun known was probably this one... This gun was made in the 1400's. By the way Gunpowder was invented in the 9th century. By the time the bill of rights was written firearms had advanced to this...... Do you really think they thought technology would not improve?
Ironically, liberals have only themselves to blame for the current state of Second Amendment protection for gun rights. The Second Amendment, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights, was originally intended only as a limit on the federal government. Liberal Supreme Court justices misused the abysmally drafted language of the 14th Amendment to apply the Bill of Rights to the states through the so-called "incorporation" doctrine. In the wake of the Heller decision recognizing that the Second granted a personal rather than collective right to keep arms, the Court followed the logical step of incorporating the Second Amendment under the Fourteenth and hence made it applicable to the states.
Rahm Emanuel Announcing $250,000 for Chicago Gun Buybacks The Associated Press by AWR Hawkins19 Oct 20155,221 Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) is announcing a $250,000 city fund to support church and community sponsored gun buyback programs in Chicago. The plan comes after Chicago’s “assault weapons” ban, “violence tax” on ammunition and firearms, and stringent regulations on gun stores have not only failed to reduce gun violence but are actually correlating with a surge in firearm-related homicides. The Chicago Tribune reports there have been 2,439 shooting victims so far this year alone in Chicago. According to ABC 7, Emanuel’s buyback funding opens the door for community groups to “apply to the Chicago Police Department” (CPD) and to “be responsible for organizing and advertising the event.” CPD personnel will help the groups “recover the guns at each event and provide cash cards for the guns people turn in.” Boston has a similar buyback program, where they offer cards “valued from $100 to $200″ for every gun turned in. The Boston Herald reports that they took in over “400” guns in varying conditions in 2014, but only took in one gun between January 1 and August 14 of this year. On October 16 Breitbart News reported that Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said the national gun buyback program implemented by Australia in the 1990s is “worth looking at” as it relates to gun policy in America. Clinton did not mention that Australia’s plan was a mandatory buyback scheme that resulted in the confiscation of approximately 650,000 firearms.
So the gang bangers turn in aging, broken, inoperable guns and take the gift cards to buy iPhones. So they call up their buddies to plan their next deadly drive-by that evening. Gun buy-backs don't succeed in reducing violence and crime.
Did you read the Boston buyback thing? $100-200 per gun? WTF gun costs $200?? Christ, I have guns worth 3 or 4 thousand dollars. You think I'm turning one of those in for a $200 gift card? Clueless politicians.
Gun buybacks are feel good measures that do exactly what previous posters have indicated: They get the broken and useless guns off the streets. Want to reduce gun violence (not related to mental conditions and the related psychotropic drugs)? End the war on drugs. Prohibition regarding alcohol resulted in extreme gun violence, and it's doing the same with drugs...on a global scale...but especially in American cities. In addition, it wouldn't hurt to start working toward rebuilding family structures in those same cities, like having homes with both mothers and fathers.