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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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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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