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Offline gryphon

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Domestic Disarmament, Not 'Gun Control'
« on: December 08, 2015, 03:52:40 PM »
What the US needs is domestic disarmament, not gun control, so says a George Washington University professor.  He notes that universal background checks are no good because we already own too many guns, and that "if you believe that one can tell which mental patients will resort to mass shootings, and that most of these can be stopped by therapists, there are several bridges in Brooklyn I would like to sell you."

Here's the money shot:

"Advocates of gun control frequently cite the much lower levels of gun violence in other developed nations -- such as Canada and the UK -- in support of the measures they promote. However, these very low levels of gun violence have not been achieved by gun control but -- by domestic disarmament."

He incorrectly states that "the Supreme Court, after 250 years in which the Second Amendment was read as allowing only a well-regulated militia to have guns, recently reinterpreted it to mean that there is an individualized right to own guns."

In their opinion of June 26, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court stated, “Every late-19th-century legal scholar that we have read interpreted the Second Amendment to secure an individual right unconnected with militia service.”

In 2007 the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. stated, “To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad)."

He then goes on to state that until such time as the president can stack the Supreme Court with anti-gunners, we may have to get to domestic disarmament through the back door through a ban on the sale of ammunition.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amitai-etzioni/needed-domestic-disarmame_b_8739712.html

Perhaps Marcus Tullius Cicero said it best when he wrote, “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.”
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Re: Domestic Disarmament, Not 'Gun Control'
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2015, 10:16:14 AM »
Reloads.
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Re: Domestic Disarmament, Not 'Gun Control'
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2015, 11:39:05 AM »
I'm sure they'll get around to powder/primers/bullets soon enough.
"A well balanced breakfast being necessary to the start of a healthy day, the right of the people to keep and eat food shall not be infringed "  - Who has a right to keep and eat food, The People or A Well Balanced Breakfast?

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Re: Domestic Disarmament, Not 'Gun Control'
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2015, 04:04:44 PM »

I'm sure they'll get around to powder/primers/bullets soon enough.

You can always cast your own bullets.
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Re: Domestic Disarmament, Not 'Gun Control'
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2015, 05:14:30 PM »
That or a small bench mount lathe with a feed through and set up as CNC could produce a rather nice stream of very well shaped rounds. Just have to make sure the metal(S) would handle the cutting and a means to clear off the cut ones to keep them from being damaged by swarf.

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Re: Domestic Disarmament, Not 'Gun Control'
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2015, 06:42:40 PM »
Or swage your own.
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Re: Domestic Disarmament, Not 'Gun Control'
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2015, 06:50:11 PM »
Don't throw those .22LR cases away.
You can make .224 jackets out of them if you swage your own bullets.
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Re: Domestic Disarmament, Not 'Gun Control'
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2015, 08:31:53 PM »
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And vote for a president that will add to the Supreme Court those who will read the Second Amendment as written.

LOL, the author does not understands what that means.
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. Luke 11:21

Then He said to them, “But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one."  Luke 22:36