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On Gun Control and the Second Amendment
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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I am not going to concern myself with the pragmatic implications of gun regulation given that there are so many weapons in circulation in the US at the present time. Nor am I going to talk about the data concerning gun violence. I will briefly mention that this should include accidental injuries and death, as well as suicide. The only other two things I will mention before my main piece are the banning of CDC research as a result of the Dickey Amendment back in 1996, and lobbying. |
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Two things:
1) The CDC has only been prohibited from using research as political advocacy, nothing more.
2) The assertion that the right to keep and bear arms is endowed on the militia is a calculated, vicious lie. Groups don't have unalienable rights, people do, and the sentence clearly establishes that the people have a preexisting right to arms, and that the government shall not infringe it because an armed populace is essential to the existence of the militia.
Rarely have I read a more misguided treatise than yours.
Perhaps you shouldn't tipple so much.... |
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| Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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