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Democrats attempt to renew assault weapons ban. Truth about H.R.1022
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<blockquote data-quote="SeniorGeek" data-source="post: 175179" data-attributes="member: 4823"><p>It must be the word "assault". It makes it sound as if the only use of the weapon would be to <u>attack</u>...so that <u>must</u> make it the wrong choice for <u>defense</u>. But what is an assault weapon? There is no single, one-size-fits-all answer...until it is legislated.</p><p> </p><p>It's strange how words can bend our thoughts. When politicians talk about "exploring for oil" it's like a man talking about exploring a woman's body. You <em>know</em> they are really talking about <u>drilling</u>.</p><p> </p><p>Back to the 2nd Amendment: Caroline Kennedy enlightened me about the 2nd Amendment in one of her many books about the US Constitution. She pointed out that most everyone interprets the 2nd Amendment in one manner, and <u>all the other Amendments in the opposite manner</u>. That is, those who say it grants gun rights narrowly - to the military only - usually interpret all the other Amendments as granting rights broadly - even to non-citizens, women, non-Christians, non-whites and other groups that have not been allowed to exercise these rights at some time. Those who say the 2nd Amendment grants broad rights usually interpret the other Amendments as granting limited rights.</p><p> </p><p>She also pointed out that some ACLU officials have admitted that they <u>should</u> fight for 2nd Amendment rights, but their membership tends to be from the "narrow-interpretation-of-2nd/broad-interpretation-of-the-other-24ish" camp. [I do not recall if she pointed out that the 2nd Amendment is defended by an organization with 10 times as many members as the ACLU. I think she did not point out that the ACLU does not deal with some of the <u>other</u> Amendments that have larger organizations supporting them. For example, the 18th is defended by MADD (about 7 times as many members as ACLU) and the 21st by business interests.]</p><p> </p><p>That chapter about the 2nd Amendment made me think she had come to realize that her own stance had been flawed - that she had been reading the Amendments inconsistently. But she did not come out and say it. It was the shortest chapter in the book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeniorGeek, post: 175179, member: 4823"] It must be the word "assault". It makes it sound as if the only use of the weapon would be to [U]attack[/U]...so that [U]must[/U] make it the wrong choice for [U]defense[/U]. But what is an assault weapon? There is no single, one-size-fits-all answer...until it is legislated. It's strange how words can bend our thoughts. When politicians talk about "exploring for oil" it's like a man talking about exploring a woman's body. You [I]know[/I] they are really talking about [U]drilling[/U]. Back to the 2nd Amendment: Caroline Kennedy enlightened me about the 2nd Amendment in one of her many books about the US Constitution. She pointed out that most everyone interprets the 2nd Amendment in one manner, and [U]all the other Amendments in the opposite manner[/U]. That is, those who say it grants gun rights narrowly - to the military only - usually interpret all the other Amendments as granting rights broadly - even to non-citizens, women, non-Christians, non-whites and other groups that have not been allowed to exercise these rights at some time. Those who say the 2nd Amendment grants broad rights usually interpret the other Amendments as granting limited rights. She also pointed out that some ACLU officials have admitted that they [U]should[/U] fight for 2nd Amendment rights, but their membership tends to be from the "narrow-interpretation-of-2nd/broad-interpretation-of-the-other-24ish" camp. [I do not recall if she pointed out that the 2nd Amendment is defended by an organization with 10 times as many members as the ACLU. I think she did not point out that the ACLU does not deal with some of the [U]other[/U] Amendments that have larger organizations supporting them. For example, the 18th is defended by MADD (about 7 times as many members as ACLU) and the 21st by business interests.] That chapter about the 2nd Amendment made me think she had come to realize that her own stance had been flawed - that she had been reading the Amendments inconsistently. But she did not come out and say it. It was the shortest chapter in the book. [/QUOTE]
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