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[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

Re: Roe v. Wade being OVERTURNED by SCOTUS

 

[johaninsc]

 

[rareboy]

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine [MERGED]

It isn't Ukraine that is trying to starve the world.

 

[rareboy]

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine [MERGED]

 

[KaraBulut]

Through the video, focus on the aging effects of Lindsey's choices.

 

[belamyi]

Re: Uvalde School Shooting

It is rather appalling how little it has been said, about that case, something like "where is Kyle Rittenhouse when you need him".

 

[TX-Beau]

Re: Uvalde School Shooting

It is rather appalling how little it has been said, about that case, something like "where is Kyle Rittenhouse when you need him".

It's been everywhere you look since it happened.

 

[belamyi]

Re: Uvalde School Shooting

It's been everywhere you look since it happened.

Not "everywhere" enough, that what I was saying: if the case for weapon access restrictions had been more on the Fox side and Kyle had been a demon to them, you bet the Uvalde case would have been spun into 'Rittenhouse Case part II'.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Through the video, focus on the aging effects of Lindsey's choices.

Dishonesty and hate politics ages a person like milk at room temperature. Never seen a youthful bigot or gun enthusiast. Them dudes be 20 looking all of 40.

Since Belamo brought him up, watch how many years Kyle Shittenhouse ages in the next 5. He already looks worked over.

 

[KaraBulut]

Dishonesty and hate politics ages a person ...

Copious amounts of whiskey doesn't help, either.

He's looking more and more like Angela Lansbury.

 

[KaraBulut]

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

 

[KaraBulut]

 

[Kulindahr]

That's totally faulty logic. The attack just indicates that Congress has totally neglected to make any efforts to get the militia anywhere close to well-regulated. The image stats with a lie in order to support another lie.

Misusing a weapon to harm others should be a crime against the militia, since the militia is supposed to exist for "the security of a free state", not to harm people in it.

 

[TX-Beau]

That's totally faulty logic. The attack just indicates that Congress has totally neglected to make any efforts to get the militia anywhere close to well-regulated. The image stats with a lie in order to support another lie.

Misusing a weapon to harm others should be a crime against the militia, since the militia is supposed to exist for "the security of a free state", not to harm people in it.

What? This is disjointed and contorted, and willfully refusing to see the crisis created by no regulation using the expedience of pretending something really bizarre.

Please, where is this "militia?"

It doesn't exist just because you need it as a rhetorical excuse.

WHERE IS IT?

Now you will attempt to assert that somehow, we are ALL "militia."

That's bogus too.

 

[belamyi]

That's totally faulty logic. The attack just indicates that Congress has totally neglected to make any efforts to get the militia anywhere close to well-regulated. The image stats with a lie in order to support another lie.

Misusing a weapon to harm others should be a crime against the militia, since the militia is supposed to exist for "the security of a free state", not to harm people in it.

The gun-peddlers take themselves for the militia: the way they talk about freedom when referring to their mere right to play with guns make clear that they do not consider a "well-regulated militia" a federal job and imposition but, literally, their own personal, private, government-free (hands off their holy guns) playground.
Of course, they are the same sort of people who, like with the economy, demand to do as they please and have no daddy government spoil their playing but, whenever anything goes wrong and responsibility and action are wanted, what they demand is that it's the government's job to deal with the mess.

 

[Kulindahr]

What? This is disjointed and contorted, and willfully refusing to see the crisis created by no regulation using the expedience of pretending something really bizarre.

Please, where is this "militia?"

It doesn't exist just because you need it as a rhetorical excuse.

WHERE IS IT?

Now you will attempt to assert that somehow, we are ALL "militia."

That's bogus too.

We are all the militia -- that's how the term was defined back then, and has continued to be defined in U.S. law although the age limits have been shifted a bit and some women can get included (one place they're still heavily discriminated against in the federal code).

The militia is in fact all of using the historical definition and in the law. The Congress is assigned significant authority over the militia, yet has failed to act on it -- and thus we get killers misusing weapons to harm others, which is contrary to what the militia is. They are, then,not just criminals against the people they kill, they are criminals against the entire "We, the people" and thus against America itself. So Congress should long ago have specified drastic punishments for such failure to behave as the militia -- yet Congress has no done so.

 

[Kulindahr]

The gun-peddlers take themselves for the militia: the way they talk about freedom when referring to their mere right to play with guns make clear that they do not consider a "well-regulated militia" a federal job and imposition but, literally, their own personal, private, government-free (hands off their holy guns) playground.
Of course, they are the same sort of people who, like with the economy, demand to do as they please and have no daddy government spoil their playing but, whenever anything goes wrong and responsibility and action are wanted, what they demand is that it's the government's job to deal with the mess.

Many do, in fact, see themselves as the militia because they've bothered to exercise the right to keep and bear arms and so look down on any who haven't done the same. And the militia is in fact a creature of the people and not of the government; they are correct on that and yet rather than using it to become "well-regulated", i.e. not just good shots but self-disciplined and dedicated to protecting "the security of a free state" they tend to use it to instead avoid responsibility.

And they are quite good at ignoring the fact that the Constitution gives Congress certain authority over the militia, because under that authority there are things the Congress could mandate that would get in the way of their individualistic approach to rights without recognizing obligations.

Under Wayne La Pierre the NRA has gotten very, very good at proclaiming the rights involved while even better at ignoring obligations. One clear example is how they repeatedly turn to the problem of mental illness not just in mass killings but in "ordinary" violent crime, yet when someone proposes a way to deal with the mental illness situation they revert to what you point to, screaming that they can't be required to pay for taking care of other people's mental illness (which is suggestive of a mild mental illness of its own...).

But the fact is that under the meanings of the terms Congress is authorized with under Article I Section 8, Congress could establish a national, community-based mental health system with 24-hour drop-in centers that have trained volunteers and on-call professionals and provide social interaction and support systems, and tax us all to pay for it in order to better organize and discipline the militia (all of us) since a militia that allows the mentally ill to act poorly through abuse of arms to harm rather than to work for the "security of a free state" is not one that is "well-regulated" either under the meaning at the time of the Constitution's ratification or today. Heck, an argument could be made that a national single-payer health care system that is based in the state's (on the Canadian model) would serve ot better have a well-regulated militia by improving the health of all the people -- who are by definition the militia.

And its past time that some savvy Democrats stopped playing games and made these proposals with Article I Section 8 specified as the authority for them, calling the extreme individualists on their regular plaint that the real trouble is mental illness by saying, "Fine, then, let's not just take care of mental illness, because we know that someone who is sick can't serve as a part of a well-regulated militia, so we'll cover all aspects of health!" La Pierrre and his ilk have been tossing the blame onto mental illness for at least thirty years I can recall, and it's time their bluff gets called.

Democrats are always about "gun control", almost none of which can find any authorization in the Constitution, but by neglecting to pay attention to the Constitution they have failed to see that the best route here is to take the "well-regulated" and the "security of a free state" justifications for protecting the natural right to keep and bear arms and combine that with the authorization for Congress to "organize" and "discipline" the militia, recognize that the militia is "the whole people" as was said back then, and run with it. The mental health and total health care I described are just the beginning of what could be done, but they aren't looking in the Constitution and thinking about its actual words. It's time that changed.