Why are gun owners so confused about 2nd amendment. ?

Question

The second amendment was written by men who were using muskets and cannons that shot 1 shot at a time then reload. Not multi shot semi automatic or automatic weapons. Their concern was that the new, and almost experimental government wouldn't become to powerful and take away rights. Like freedom of speech/ religion(which is far from enforced) right to assemble and free press. It was a way to make sure that their freedoms were protected. The new laws and bills that are in motion are to keep billy jo redneck from shooting possums out from under his trailer with an m-16 or for keeping ak-47 out of 13 year old inner city gang members. Lets push the refresh button on the constitution and wake the heck up.

Answer 1

Rant, rant, rant.

Law-abiding citizens should have the right to protect themselves.  Does this mean dumbasses should be out there with AKs and Uzis?  NO!  Get real.  The average American who is for the 2nd Amendment is for protecting their rights to own a gun, not shooting up the neighborhood and playing John Rambo.

Answer 2

I think the amendment should be change. no one should have if you are not an officer of the court.

Answer 3

Ah...I see.

So therefore it follows, if your argument is something other than half baked, sophomoric drivel, that the "press" mentioned in the first amendment should be taken as referring to hand cranked flat bed printing presses? And surely the founders had no intention to protect the internet or radio or TV as they did not exist at the time.

Answer 4

Thats the best thing about the constitution---we can't change it bone head.

Answer 5

Their concern was the government taking away our rights.  Last I checked the government is still around, so their reason for having the 2nd is still around.  

Yeah, 'refresh' our human rights, that's a good one.  Why don't you stick to something you actually understand, especially if you want to go around 'teaching' supposedly confused people about it.  Really, what's next, a blind man teaching us about colors?    

Answer 6

Guns are not the problem. They are inanimate objects. Gun control advocates talk as if guns could act on their own, as if human beings cannot control them, so the uncontrollable guns must be banished.

Let us put the responsibility where it belongs, on the owner and user of the gun. If he or she acts responsibly, without attacking others or causing injury negligently, no crime or harm has been done. Leave them in peace. But, if a person commits a crime with a gun, then impose the severest penalties for the injuries done to the victim. Similarly, hold the negligent gun user fully liable for all harm his negligence does to others.

Rather than banning guns, the politicians and the police should encourage gun ownership, as well as education and training programs. A responsible, well-armed and trained citizenry is the best protection against domestic crime and the threat of foreign invasion. America's founders knew that. It is still true today.

Answer 7

The second amendment was talking about maintaining an armed militia to protect the state.  It reads, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."  Clearly it means that the arms are needed for the militia to protect the state.  We now have the the National Guard and the army.  However, people have traditionally kept hunting rifles and will still be able to.  No one is going to go around taking weapons away from people, but there is no reason why anyone would need to purchase an assault weapon unless they wanted to kill lots of people.  Killers should not be allowed to get them and drive down the street shooting kids.  Look up what the police in the cities think about it.  They are starting to arm themselves with assault rifles, so they won't be outgunned on city streets.  We can't have anarchy on our streets with the criminals better armed than the police.

Answer 8

Banning guns worked in Chicago....with a 15%increase over last year at this time....

In order to understand the 2nd Amendment you first must define the words that were used. Arms is not defined as muskets. Arms is defined as weapons. Based on your logic we should still be using fountain pens and printing presses from the late 1700's. Computers and modern printing equipment should not be used. But I am guessing you would not agree with that... Based on your logic the ONLY religion that should be practiced is Christianity. That is what the First Amendment was based on. Any other religion would have earned the practicing group a burning stake.  But I am guessing you would not agree with that...Why is it that gun owners have to tolerate g*y rights, abortion rights, and people with no common sense speaking in public about something stupid, but gun owners always get kicked to the curb. I am not forcing you to buy, own, use, hold, look at or even think about guns yet you are forcing me out of my 2nd Amendment right...Tolerance; its killing America.

It is people like you that are giving PAID POLITICIANS the power to overwrite the rights of American Citizens...And since when did changing or making new amendments stop anything from being used, bought, sold, etc....Don't you remember Prohibition...Booze ran more freely when it was illegal than even right now...

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity ... will respect the less important and arbitrary ones ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." — Thomas Jefferson

Freedom only works for those who fight to keep it.

These phrases, "right of the People peaceably to assemble," "right of the People to be secure in their homes," "enumeration's herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the People," and "The power not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the People," all referring to individual people, but "the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms," refers to the state/government. How is that possible?

People need to stop trying to interpret the bill of rights and just READ them.

Preamble

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security."

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Answer 9

They also didn't speak their minds as much or have anywhere near as many religions to consider.  Nor did they have any wires to tap.

Should we take those concepts back to the American Revolution, as well?

13-year-old inner city gang members aren't allowed to have guns as it is.  Do you really think it will make a difference to them if we restrict the type of firearm a law abiding adult can have?

Answer 10

Not quite sure what your point is, other than citizens shouldn't be allowed to have any guns that have more than 1 shot at a time.

Well the unspoken truth of the 2nd amendment is that the right was given so that armed citizens could take back the government if a dictator or President who refused to follow the constitution (hint hint) was in power.

So why do you want to surrender your only guarantee to remain free to the government?

Answer 11

Why are you a liberal deusch bag?  Lay off the bong bro.

Answer 12

we still let you speak here and that might not have been what was meant. I keep my guns and you speak how you want.

Answer 13

the problem with gun laws is they only take guns out of the hands of  law abiding citizens

Do you think criminals are going to turn their guns in?