Obviously I don't condone the actions of those in Dallas and now Baton Rouge, but isn't this what the 2nd amendment is supposed to be used for according to advocates of the NRA and 2nd amendment rights?
You have a group of people within the black race here in America, that feel like their government has become so oppressive to their rights and so irresponsive to their needs, that their only recourse is violence. Right now they're lashing out at police. Tomorrow? It could be politicians, teachers, and other public employees.
To me, this is becoming an interesting paradox where decades of anti-government rhetoric and pro guns propaganda worshipping the founding fathers and idolizing a time when local militias armed with guns took down a government. Right? This might be the natural consequence of a populace feeling abused and being armed to the teeth.
Aren't these guys acting out in the way that the NRA and the like have suggested we act out if the government becomes oppressive?
Again, I don't condone their actions nor am I advocating for gun control. I just am trying to see through these guys' eyes and understand why they're doing what they're doing.
You two are retards.
technically 3, seeing as JimLes liked it too. I don't think Thrill is being that inflammatory.
Thrill is being dead on. This is exactly what the second amendment was added for. For people to be able to fight back against and overthrow an undemocratic, oppressive government. I mean, Obama isa communist and a Muslim. What more do you need?
two things:
i) my thoughts are with the families of these officers. I bet they were probably some of the nicest ones-- the good always die early
ii) how much longer until people start launching arguments about firearms not being safe in the hands of Black people?
two things:
i) my thoughts are with the families of these officers. I bet they were probably some of the nicest ones-- the good always die early
ii) how much longer until people start launching arguments about firearms not being safe in the hands of Black people?
Probably as long as it takes for the argument to be made that white people shouldnt have guns.
is there any history of this argument? Cuz there's a history of people wanting the 2nd Amendment to not apply to blacks.
Open carry law in Ohio likely to affect this Convention today with all the protestors likely to all be coming and potentially carrying firearms?
Something to watch out for today...
For years – for two centuries, in fact – gun control was a largely Right-wing, reactionary campaign issue, not a Left-wing one. The fact that it has now been adopted by Leftists is very revealing indeed.
Before the 1980s, Right-wingers and racists were the most vocal in demanding that the states in America should strictly circumscribe gun ownership. Where the revolutionary government of 1791 made the second amendment to the US Constitution, which insisted on the right of the citizenry to bear arms as a safeguard against tyrannical government, successive legislators and campaigners who were freaked out by the prospect of former slaves getting hold of guns