With the Democrats in power again the issue of gun ownership is being taken out of context again?

ilitrt

Actually, the AK-47 not only CAN be, IT IS used for deer hunting. It has about the same power as a 30-30 Winchester which is the most popular deer rifle in the USA.

Please keep in mind that the "assault weapon" controversy is a made-up issue. Assault weapons are fully automatic military arms that can fire multiple rounds with each press of the trigger, like a machine gun. The so-called "assault weapons" that are sold to civilians are not really assault weapons at all. They are SEMI-automatic. That is, they fire only ONE round for each press of the trigger. They are functionally NO DIFFERENT than my grandfather's Browning deer rifle. They just LOOK like their military counterparts.

Diane Feinstein, one of the principal gun grabbers in Congress, admitted on the record that banning these weapons is just a stepping stone to banning all semi-autos, which make up about half of the guns owned for self-defense today. The left knows it can't win a frontal assault on gun rights. So they will try to convince you that you don't really need this class of gun. Later, it will be another class of gun, and then another, until they eventually get them all. Don't fall for it. The "assault weapons" ban is just the camel's nose under the tent.

N dimentional brontosaur

Precisely why I feel as I do. When the British were going house to house to confiscate our muskets, they were also checking the barns. Because most cannons in the colonies were privately owned and were usually kept in the barn.

Today, to have the equivalent firepower of the cannon back then, one would need to keep an F-18 or a tank in his barn. This is why I feel that we should not just have our puny guns, but we should be allowed explosives and chemical weapons, tanks, APVs, helicopters. Anything that we can purchase or produce, we should have the right to possess.

Of course, it should go without saying that we are responsible for the safe keeping of any weapon we possess - all the way down to the simple hunting knife. Which means we should be held accountable for anything that happens to or with those weapons..

Mr. PeachyÂ®

Democrats, like Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Barney Frank in particular, have this air of "I know better than you what's best for you", and I find that insulting and repressive. They even seem to think they know better than the founding fathers. I'm reasonably sure that if they were a little brighter, they might realize how dumb they are. Even my 15 year old son appreciates how appropriate the this Winston Churchill quote is: "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

Tim

Liberal wussies

Jay

You can go two ways. There is a question as to the placement of a comma in the second amendment's actual text.

One reading is: "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."

That's the one you probably subscribe to. The comma makes "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms" an individual clause.

The other reading is: "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."

That's the one you won't like, because it makes a point that the right to keep and bear arms is needed for a well regulated militia.

But there haven't been government militias since about the Civil War, when the US finally decided to keep a standing army.

Personally? I don't see the point of a handgun, because I think a shotgun or a rifle is a HELL of a lot better at scaring off an intruder.

I also don't see why a citizen would need an M-16, really... Hunting weapons are understandable, though...

darwinsfriend3 AM

Personally I see nothing wrong with people owning handguns for their personal protection but there is no reason on this earth why a law-abiding citizen should be able to own an automatic weapon.
Also I feel that people should be properly licensed and have to pass an exam before obtaining a license and that the authorities should be able to make spot checks on gun owners to ensure that the weapons are properly and safely stored.

Bubuh

I don't know whats the big fuss when I can walk to wal mart and buy a gun. Too much trouble to wait few days for background check I mean? What do we need to have gun vending machine now every corner? Restrictions on assault weapon really that horrible? Who needs AK-47 to hunt deers? Are we gona get rid of police or army and just let us defend our selves? Quoting founding fathers is just so cliche too. What is "sufficient"? Hand gun? Rocket launcher? Machine gun? Great, lets ask people who lived during colonial days to set details of gun policy for the US in 2009.

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