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In reply to the discussion: A sincere wish for our DU gun owners: visit Norway! [View all]CTyankee
(63,988 posts)about the latest interpretation of the 2nd A. Nor that they view that amendment as a relic needing placement in better context and not helpful in our modern society. I am in that group. Heller to me is no more God's Holy Writ than other RW rantings. Sorry.
Oh, you are doubting the influence of the NRA over swaying public attention? My goodness, they should stop wasting their money, what are they, stupid? I'm sure they will stop with their scare tactics immediately! But I find it interesting that you don't think their propaganda amounts to much of anything...tell them that...
I often, in these posts, point to a pre-Heller world, the one I grew up in, but in Texas, not in Manhattan. The Second Amendment had been interpreted differently, as you know, and quite simply guns weren't that big a deal. We surely did not have mass shootings on a regular basis and certainly not in a school or a movie theatre. Those in my family who had guns for hunting did so and as a child I never saw their guns, ever. And nobody strutted around loudly proclaiming their right to do so in public. Nobody held forth on his individual right to carry his gun, concealed or otherwise. I'm sure people did but we didn't live in fear that a shopping center would get shot up or the Saturday matinee would be under attack. We've come to a pretty place, haven't we? I don't know who to thank for that.