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Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(8/17/2019)
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Lots of semiautos are used for hunting and self defense.
It's incredible such uninformed drivel can be published. The author is living in a fairyland next door to the twilight zone. |
Comment by:
PHORTO
(8/17/2019)
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Well, *ahek*, Mr. Martin's got a couple'a problems there.
The (U.S. v. Miller, 1939) Court set the criteria for what arms are "protected" - in common use, have militia utility, could contribute to the common defense or are "any part of the ordinary military equipment."
AR-15s are textbook examples of this description.
"[T]he Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding. . . [T]he enenshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table." - D.C. v. Heller (2008)
And don't give me that 1994 ****. D.C. v. Heller wasn't decided until 2008.
Today's SCOTUS would strike it down in a heartbeat. |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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