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FL: Weapons ban
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Mark A. Taff
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Automatic and semi-automatic weapons should only be sold to law enforcement agencies, and not to civilians. They are not needed for self-defense or sport. Banning them would not violate the Second Amendment, as many other guns would be legal.
The NRA claims that "bad guys" wouldn't obey the law and would acquire them anyway. However, banning them would make it that much harder on any would-be mass murderer, and over time the number of such weapons would be reduced, and we would all be much safer. |
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PHORTO
(6/30/2016)
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This letter writer is typical of the constitutionally ignorant masses.
Justice Scalia wrote plainly and unequivocally in D.C. v. Heller (2008) that "[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."
The clear intent of the Second Amendment is to guarantee the people's access to small arms suitable for defense against insurrection, invasion and domestic tyranny. At the time of the writing, there was no distinction between "military" arms and "civilian" arms - they were in PARITY.
It is this principle that is embodied in the Second Amendment. |
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Sosalty
(6/30/2016)
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| To do our civic duty as the founders of America outlined, we need the same weapons as law enforcement, at a minimum. Fewer criminals would have modern weapons if outlawed? Wasn't the Paris terrorist shooter armed by Eric Holder's 'Fast and Furious' program? No thanks, I need the defensive tool that's maximizes my security. |
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| No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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