Why The Second Amendment?

Agreed! Now how do you keep them out of the hands of nut jobs?

 

I could not agree more.

 

Don't allow them within a hundred yards of a pecan tree in the fall.

 

You don't. Nut jobs will always find a means, a mode, and make an opportunity. I am by any account a firearms expert. Master SWAT certified, SWAT instructor, L.E. Sniper, and competitive shooter with a few regional titles. Having said that, if I wanted to kill masses, a firearm would be way down the list. I am not giving anyone any ideas, but killing 95% of that 22,000 would have been easy. I am glad the nut jobs are not thinking bigger.

 

An effort can, and is, being made. But it will never be 100% successful. The human mind is far too complicated.

Maybe England should be trying to keep crazies from driving. Killers will find the means to kill.

The best defense against the nut jobs is an armed citizenry.

 

What about psychological testing?

 

The Govt. will call all non conformists mentally unstable. All us pro life, anti gay marriage people.

 

Wounded Knee is an example of how the U.S. government took the lands of American Indians given to them under treaty and they relentlessly tried to kill as many of them as possible. Here, you're arguing that the U.S. should have given these Indians the right to bear arms because of America's oppression. That's an intersecting perspective that raises questions all the way back to the Pilgrims. What right did we have to take Indian land in the new world away from the Indians at all?

 

Then the fix is obviously to place more restrictions on law abiding citizens.

 

Yep. That always makes things better.

 

This is far more complicated than you are trying to make it to be. Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

Congress Granted Citizenship to All Native Americans Born in the U.S.
June 2, 1924
Native Americans have long struggled to retain their culture. Until 1924, Native Americans were not citizens of the United States. Many Native Americans had, and still have, separate nations within the U.S. on designated reservation land. But on June 2, 1924, Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. Yet even after the Indian Citizenship Act, some Native Americans weren't allowed to vote because the right to vote was governed by state law. Until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/jazz/jb_jazz_citizens_1.html

 

Really!?! I am amazed it hasn’t been addressed as of yet.

 

Yea I know...the guns and bible people.

 

Indians never owned any land and hated the idea that anyone would claim ownership. The Indians fought among themselves on a regular basis over hunting rights in different areas. Most tribes but a few were actually nomadic. They killed and slaughtered each other over "land" or hunting areas. Let's not act like they were just some innocent group minding their own business and the big bad white man came a long and took every thing from them. Its just not reality.

 

Is anyone going to do anything about truck control?

Is anyone going to do anything about the high murder rate in Indianapolis? In Indianapolis 58 people are murdered every 122 days according to police statistics. We are little Chicago.

 

Are Indians better or worse off since we took their hunting lands and put them on reservations? They are human beings loved by God.