rifty@tpg.com.au (Rifty) wrote in news:1icj206.vpktbq2ernywN%
rifty@tpg.com.au:
> Mr. Travel wrote:
>
>> Rifty wrote:
>>
>> > Mr. Travel wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>I thought the NIU guy had a shotgun.
>> >
>> >
>> > Correct - plus another gun. How does that relate to my comment? The
>> > point wasn't about what this demented bloke had, but why someone
like
>> > him could walk into a gunshop and take one off the shelf and go kill
>> > people with it - with no regulations apart from proving they have a
>> > driver's licence.
>>
>> I must have missed the part in the Constitution where it says you have
>> the right to bear arms as long as you follow the rules of the
government
>> and register them, so the government knows all about them. What part
of
>> the 2nd Ammendment says this?
>
> I have studied your Constitution in some detail on this matter for many
> years and it is quite subtle, and open to a variety of interpretations.
> I am not interested in debating them again because the Constitution
> always has to be interpreted in regard to its intention and throughout
> history that has always been the case. As should be obvious from what I
> said, I am not talking about what the Constitution allows, but whether
> or not what exists now cannot be improved upon to better preserve the
> safety of your citizens.
If you have studied our US Constitution as much as you claim, then you
should know that it is written as a limit on the federal government not
the citizenry. For the citizens it is not what the Constitution allows
them to do, it is what powers the government has to govern them.
--
RD (The Sandman)
War is absolute hell.....but to give in
to terrorism is much, much worse |