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MO: Makes sense to have limits on owning combat weaponry
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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I am glad my sister owns a handgun, so that when she drives long distances she can have it, just in case. I am glad I can purchase a rifle when my boy gets a little older so we can shoot together. I am glad we have a well-managed conservation department that allows people to hunt within limits using shotguns and rifles.
But why should a citizen have the right to purchase combat weaponry if it infringes upon others’ right for self-defense? My sister’s pistol and my rifle are no match against combat weaponry. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(11/9/2017)
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Wow, a whole new term; COMBAT WEAPONRY.
Scary, ain't it?
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Comment by:
PHORTO
(11/9/2017)
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Except that the SCOTUS in U.S. v. Miller (1939) ruled just the opposite.
According to the Miller Court, only arms that have military utility are within the ambit of Second Amendment protection. |
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I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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