The writers of the First Amendment were talking only about quill pens, too, Gayle - right?
The writers of the First Amendment were talking only about quill pens, too, Gayle - right?
Gayle King: Writers of 2nd Amendment ‘Were Talking about Muskets’
The Second Amendment is a human right — ignorance toward it is troublingEntire article at The Hill (https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/375511-the-second-amendment-is-a-human-right-ignorance-toward-it-is/)
by Ned Ryun, opinion contributor - 02/25/18 1:30 PM ET
The Hill
In the wake of the Parkland, Fla., shooting some people are pushing their hopes for gun control, even gun confiscation, while others are virtue signaling and offering no real solutions for actually dealing with school safety, such as raising the age to 21 to purchase a rifle when in fact the average age of a mass shooter in America is 35 years old.
If we really care about school safety, there are some viable solutions. Schools can be made “harder” targets, and with four of my own children in public school, that is my priority. We can protect our children while not infringing on basic constitutional rights.
We need to repeal the 1990 Gun-Free School Zone Act and stop advertising to madmen with guns that almost everyone on school grounds is unarmed.
The act, a brainchild of the Left and passed with the support of milquetoast Republicans in 1990, was a dangerous act of virtue signaling that actually made our schools some of the softest targets in the country. ...
The ignorance on display regarding the Second Amendment and its history is troubling and is due to the fact that no one really teaches about our rights ensconced in our Constitution.
They weren’t pulled from thin air but from the idea of natural law and the concept of human rights endowed by a Creator. ...
We were created to be free, yet with our deeply imperfect human nature there is a need for government — “If all men were angels, no government would be necessary.” As we’re no angels, we’ve a need for government to insure God-given rights and have none of them taken away.
Yet let’s never assume that government is essentially good. It is a necessary evil in an imperfect world. It is naive to trust the explosive mix of imperfect human nature combined with the awesome power of the state. And let’s be honest — as the government failed those children in Parkland so many times, why on earth would we engender more trust in government? It should do precisely the opposite. ...
Actually, the word "rifle" refers to grooves in the barrel of a rifle and the way a bullet is set to spinning as it travels down a "rifled" barrel. That whole technology did not exist in the era of the American revolution.
"well regulated Militia" is a term open to interpretation.
Muskets are a type of rifle that were around long before modern weapons. A musket was a state-of-the art "rifle" in its day. Actually, the word "rifle" refers to grooves in the barrel of a rifle and the way a bullet is set to spinning as it travels down a "rifled" barrel. That whole technology did not exist in the era of the American revolution. It came much later.Sorry, but WRONG. https://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.php?smallarms_id=363 (https://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.php?smallarms_id=363)
The modern-day weapons used in these shootings have been around for decades and decades, and gun ownership has dropped over those same decades, but school shootings only really became a "thing" in the 1980s or so. Why is that? The weapons didn't change; so what did?
Muskets, rifles, pistols, cannon, swords, bayonets,... they were talking about all then available weaponry of war. And, yes, private citizens owned cannon back in those days
Or Guttenberg Presses.
Civilians didn't own muskets. They were cheap military weapons designed for line warfare. Civilians owned rifles.
Gee Gayle, bring up ratty, old, debunked retread arguments much?
@Cyber Liberty
Probably THE most dangerous mechanical devices ever invented,if you are a government.
While both James Monroe and John Adams supported the Constitution being ratified, its most influential framer was James Madison. In Federalist No. 46, Madison wrote how a federal army could be kept in check by state militias, "a standing army ... would be opposed [by] a militia." He argued that state militias "would be able to repel the danger" of a federal army, "It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops." He contrasted the federal government of the United States to the European kingdoms, which he described as "afraid to trust the people with arms", and assured that "the existence of subordinate governments ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition".
Actually, the Second Amendment was intended to permit state militias to field forces that could resist a standing federal army
Thus, the amendment should permit the ownership of whatever weapons are necessary to resist a federal army, not simply muskets.
Gun control is predicated on the assumption that a woman, raped and strangled with her pantyhose, lying dead in her own blood and vomit, is somehow morally superior to that same woman standing over the rapist's dead body explaining to police how he got that bullet hole in his head.
@AARguy
The REAL basis for gun control is the desire by government to make EVERYONE totally dependent on them for protection as well as for everything else in life.
It's all about government power and has nothing to do with public safety. In FACT,the opposite is true,and is proven EVERY time an armed citizen protects themselves or someone else from a violent assault and maybe even death.
Governments are jealous of their power. ALL governments,EVERYWHERE.
:yowsa: pointing-up
Even back during the Revolution, liberals had no idea what weaponry was about. A singing group led by a British Army Officer of the era made a famous song about it. You may have heard of it... "Musket Love" by The Captain and Tenille
Even back during the Revolution, liberals had no idea what weaponry was about. A singing group led by a British Army Officer of the era made a famous song about it. You may have heard of it... "Musket Love" by The Captain and Tenille
The whole premise is fallacious, and I have little doubt that had Washington's army had AK-47 s and a supply of ammunition available, they would have enthusiastically applied them.
Or Guttenberg Presses.
But it wasn't the musket that won the war, it was the Kentucky and Pennsylvania rifles that selectively eliminated command personnel and with far greater accuracy, served to eliminate British troops as well. The musket was an area weapon when employed in large numbers by massed troops, but Americans had managed to learn the skulking way of war of the Iroquois and other tribes, and coupled with the accuracy of the rifles, did serious damage to the British command and noncommissioned officers.
The whole premise is fallacious, and I have little doubt that had Washington's army had AK-47 s and a supply of ammunition available, they would have enthusiastically applied them.
All true, of course.
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written with quill pens.
Yet, their words and their meaning were not invalidated by technological advances, nor were such advances ever assumed to be categorically excluded from their effect.
Gayle King: Writers of 2nd Amendment ‘Were Talking about Muskets’Stupid Beyotch, they were talking about he current state of the art in weaponry. They had just fought off a tyranicsl goveernment and wasnted toamke sure the people were going to be protected from the same thing happening again.
Ian Hanchett 25 May 2022
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” co-host Gayle King said that when the founders wrote the 2nd Amendment, “they were talking about muskets. I do not think if they were here today that they were thinking that people, kids, would have these assault rifles.”
Even back during the Revolution, liberals had no idea what weaponry was about. A singing group led by a British Army Officer of the era made a famous song about it. You may have heard of it... "Musket Love" by The Captain and TenilleGreat now I have an ear warm 9999hair out0000
"well regulated Militia" is a term open to interpretation.
Ok, I had to look up to see who Gayle King is -- no further explanation needed.
Muskets are a type of rifle that were around long before modern weapons. A musket was a state-of-the art "rifle" in its day. Actually, the word "rifle" refers to grooves in the barrel of a rifle and the way a bullet is set to spinning as it travels down a "rifled" barrel. That whole technology did not exist in the era of the American revolution. It came much later.
Even back during the Revolution, liberals had no idea what weaponry was about. A singing group led by a British Army Officer of the era made a famous song about it. You may have heard of it... "Musket Love" by The Captain and Tenille
The founding fathers envisioned two possible futures: (1) a federal government so small that it would be unable to garner the resources to defend itself, and (2) a federal government so large that it had a standing army large enough to defend itself. In either case, it made sense to have an armed citizenry. In the first case to defend the country, and in the second case to defend the citizenry against the possibility of the military being used against it.Thats it in a nutshell.
Oprah's long term girlfriend.
How in the living daylights does Gayle King know the founder's intent? Is she a medium?
More of a large, I think.
More of a large, I think.Beat me to it.
More of a large, I think.
She shops at Lane Bryant....Not at Ali Baba's Tent City and Emporium like Hillary?