Comments on: ‘The 2nd Amendment is a perilously ambiguous riddle’

By: Gary the Gun Nut

Gary the Gun Nut — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:53:36 +0000

My dear fellow Gun Nutters™: If’n you ask me, we need to totally protect our 2nd amendment rights, otherwise we will all be crushed by a teeranical fedral guvmint (but most state, county, and city guvmints as well as neighborhood block watches are okay in my book). And if’n a few in’cent people are maimed and/or killed along the way as a result (okay, maybe more than just a few, but heck, we lost count a long time ago), well tha’s jus’ the price we must pay for Freedom™ (or at least represents a sizeable down payment). And as every God™ fearin’, red, white, and blue blooded true Murcan™ knows, Freedom™ ain’t never been free no how anyways! I mean, jus’ take a look at Britain, Australia, and Canada; they all have strict gun control laws and as a result those countries are all now ruled by brutal military dictatorships…err…um…what I really want to say here is…“Live Free or Die”™. Cheers!

By: gdad

gdad — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:29:58 +0000

Gee, Rob, thanks for posting to that ignorant diatribe.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:19:30 +0000

http://non-intervention.com/1078/awash-in-hypocrisy-and-hubris-obama-and-his-party-push-toward-despotism/

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:54:41 +0000

good point Bob H.

as a lib-opinion journalist, ol’ Dano would have folks think there’s no perspective, no facts, other than those which dribble through his poison pen.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:25:55 +0000

Mentally ill is always a convenient tag when someone is dead or facing the death penalty or life in prison. Otherwise they and society fight it, ignore it, refuse to believe it exists or needs treatment (especially if that “royal we” have to pay for it).

Sometimes people just snap and give in to their anger, frustration, hate, or fantasy. They almost always manage to clean up well in time for court and sometimes they even manage to be “sorry” for their destruction. Evil exists and being sorry you performed it is just not good enough. Neither is ending your life when you are “done”.

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:18:53 +0000

It is true that our forefathers were very clear on what they felt and what they wanted:

“The Founders were republicans. No, not George Bush or John McCain Republicans; they were philosophical republicans (with a small “r”). This meant they believed that successful representative governments required the subordination of individual personal interests to the welfare of the community. They believed that the political process was all about identifying the common good. It was not about competition and disagreement; politics was a process in which rational voters and officials calmly sorted out what best served the entire community. The end result was not one camp of winners and another of losers, but the entire electorate united behind a common vision.

As good republicans, the founders believed that parties (or factions) threatened this rational, collaborative process. If the political community broke into small groups committed to their own narrow interests, the search for the common good would be compromised. Politics would disintegrate into battles between conflicting visions, and elections would generate division rather than consensus.”

http://www.shmoop.com/political-parties/founding-fathers-political-parties.html

That is about as simple as I can make it. The collective, the common good, the general welfare, the whole point of freedom is that it is for ALL and in that ALL must bend or ALL will break.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:31:05 +0000

The constitution doesn’t “apply” to citizens. It applies to the government and puts boundaries on what the government can and cannot do. Ergo, it includes anyone who happens to be here. Tourists are not at risk for being randomly frisked on the street without cause just because they’re not American.

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:27:07 +0000

The gun in Newtown didn’t shoot itself. Why aren’t we focusing on WHY the massacre took place?

By: pammala

pammala — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:26:01 +0000

“did you mean to suggest here that the constitution applies ONLY to citizens”

well it certaily doesnt apply to saudi arabia, or iran or north korea, danny, who is it supposed to apply to if not for our citizens? is it supposed to be applied to illegal aliens who come here unlawfully and why would it?

By: Sandi Saunders

Sandi Saunders — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:22:45 +0000

Our forefathers were very clear about how they felt about citizens. They did not “trust” us to even elect a President and the Senate. Come off that “respect for citizens” crap.

“Indeed, there is one enemy, who is more formidable than famine, pestilence and the sword,” John Adams wrote. “I mean the corruption which is prevalent in so many American hearts, a depravity that is more inconsistent with our republican governments than light is with darkness.””

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thaddeus-russell/11-freedoms-that-drunks-s_b_759831.html

I think their devotion to rights and citizens was in the collective not individual people.