Monday, January 21, 2013

Steve's barking at the privilege of gun ownership

Gun ownership in the United States is a privilege not a right.
There is no federal law in the United States that states that the citizens of the United State has the right of gun   ownership.
Now I'm looking at my handy dandy copy of the American Constitution, so I'll copy the second amendment to the Constitution. The amendment that reportedly states that a citizen has the right of gun ownership.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.   
Now reading these words, I don't see the were it is stated that any citizen who wants a firearm could have it.
It does say pretty clearly that if you are part of a well regulated that you can keep ( Not necessarily own) arms.
I looked in my dictionary to find out what is the meaning to bear arms. It stated to bear arms was to carry.
Well regulated means the same today as it did in the 1780s, like the banks are supposed to be regulated now but are not, well at least not well regulated.
Now I know that there are many of my countrymen who claim that the founding fathers of my great nation meant that a guns were a protection against the nation becoming tyrannical and guns should be used to protect the citizens from tyrants. We even have those claim the second amendment was put in place for the protection of one person and home, they do this by quoting some scholarly that was either written or purportedly said in some speech. Nonsense , if the framers of the second amendment wanted any of that verbiage in the amendment they would have put it in. Unfortunately we will never know what the real reason for the second amendment for  there is no recording of the debate. My guess the second amendment was sent to the states as an answer to Shay's rebellion were the soldiers had to break into an armory to get their weapons to put the rebellion down.
Now to make things a little more complicated, Any law that is passed now will be just a feel  good law, though it may save lives the laws will not stop massacres.

Now I'm going to write something that going to really bewilder any reader of this blog, gun violence will only decrease very little if the powers that be realize that the second amendment does not give anybody the right to own a arms. There over three hundred million guns in the US and no one in their right mind will try to take them away.
Perhaps if enough gun owners understand that gun ownership is a privileged not a right, they will help put together gun laws that will reduce gun violence in this country.

* If gun ownership stop tyrants from ruling a country how did the Taliban rule Afghanistan?
* If having a gun protects you from violence how come police are attacked?      

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