WhoreMods -> RE: The original arguments FOR the second amendment (10/13/2017 10:54:54 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri Actually, if you applied logic to Jeff's solution, you'd see that there already is an acknowledgement that it's possible the regulations can't be fixed. How are you to know if they can or can't if you don't try? Really? The impression I always get is that a lot of the gun bunnies are insisting that regulation just wouldn't work, so any talk about gun control has to be talking about an outright ban and crossing out the second amendment. It's like somebody's complaining about their Doctor wanting to treat an ingrowing toenail by amputating their leg, and trying to spin it as their GP being a surgery-happy freak rather than a refusal to remove their shoe so part of the nail can be cut off and filed down making things difficult. The regulations could be fixed fairly simply and quickly, but some are claiming that the regulations can't possibly be fixed in order to insist that the other side want to take extreme measures. It's a pretty crude form of sophistry, but it seems to be working. The moment I hear someone bring up the second amendment, I know they are incapable of being rational, and any challenges to their dogma are just going to be met with mindless patriotism. The entire 'second amendment' defense against gun control relies exclusively on a completely uncritical worship of history (more accurately, what they think it means). Inevitably the same person will have paranoid visions of being attacked by unknown assailants, the government, the military, a foreign power, etc. It's like the gun nuts seriously think that people in 1791 knew so much more about how modern society should function than anyone alive today. Not to mention that your country has had a fairly respectable military set up since the end of the American rebellionwar of independence which would seem to make having an armed civilian militia redundant. (Though to be fair, that was still going on when the bill of rights was drafted...)
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