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Interpreting the Second Amendment with Richard Martinez
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At the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Nashville, we caught up with Richard Martinez, a spokesman with the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. The group protested the NRA show as well as pending legislation in Tennessee. But we asked him about the big ideas that govern his process — just as we did with presidential hopeful Ted Cruz.
“The Second Amendment says you have the right to bear arms —nobody interprets that to give you the right to have a tank or a machine gun or an atomic bomb. Why? Because it’s not reasonable,” Martinez said, responding to Cruz’s advocacy of loosening gun regulations.
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xqqme
(5/16/2015)
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Without the right to those "other" arms, what good would a "Letter of Marque", something specifically authorized by the Constitution as being granted to citizens, be?
"Arms" for the citizens includes each and every one of the "arms" described in various "arms control" treaties between the US Gov't and foreign nations. |
| Comment by:
laker1
(5/16/2015)
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Keep-that means I own it and you can't have it.
Bear-that means I have it right here on me and its loaded. Nothing about infringing further on this right of the people. Weapons of used by the military soldier are weapons that the civilian militia(the people) can be used to defend against an oppressive government. |
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Millwright66
(5/16/2015)
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Our Founding Fathers wisely opted not delimit "arms", leaving it to the nation's citizens to select arms most suitable to their situation and resources. In practice, in their era, rifles and edged weapons were universal to light infantry units. Even then the British complained the Colonials had 'unfair advantage' with their rifled weapons.
Today, our citizens still have weapons similar to current light infantry. And, yes Mr. Martinez, we also have machine guns and tanks - and mini-guns, and cannon and 'sniper weapons - as well. They don't threaten you.
Better to turn your talents to keeping known violent perps/gangs safely incarcerated rather than render their prospective victims helpless. |
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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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