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VA: Hunting and self-defense do not require such a high level of gun lethality
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Assume that the expected laws would limit the number of guns sold and the capacity of magazines, and require registration and add a “red-flag” law. I know some people grow up with rifles for hunting and handguns for protection. But semiautomatic weapons are not part of that way of life. That technology did not exist when the Second Amendment was adopted; indeed, rifling in the barrels of guns to improve the distance and accuracy of a shot was not widespread. Hunting and self-defense do not require that level of lethality. As for registration, the Second Amendment begins with “a well regulated militia.” If one was to be part of a militia with a gun, the authorities needed to know who owned what guns. |
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PHORTO
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| Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
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The author of this drivel has no clue about the militia, or the 2A.
No one needed registration of guns 200+ years ago. The UNIFORM MILITIA ACT OF 1792 defined the militia quite appropriatly. Many localities REQUIRED property owners to own a musket, with an appropriate amount of powder and ball.
I get sick of listening to statist gun grabbers harking back to the Founders' time to justify their tyranny! |
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