Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The stupid media called the gun used in the Oregon Shooting Fest an "assault rifle" [View all]Lint Head
(15,064 posts)used? I though the 'A' in AR meant automatic. As in Automatic Rifle. Correct me if I'm wrong. Still people are dead and the discussion can't get passed the type of gun used as opposed to why we let guns permeate society to the point of random killing.
Time has fogged peoples perception and the context of why the 2nd Amendment exists. Jefferson and Adams were against a standing army. They wrote about it extensively. They were of the mind that if men and their families had rifles and pistols at hand an army could be called together if there was a threat against the newly founded nation. Thus a militia. Back then there were no missiles, bombers, submarines, machine guns, drones or computers. Of course time moved on and we have a Navy, Air Force, Marines and Army. We no longer need people in their home with muskets to protect the nation from foreign countries. The idea that the people need guns in their homes to protect the nation from some dark conspiracy that could take over our country from within is something that was fomented and promoted by misinformed people who wants to do just that. I think they are wanting a theocratic corporate state. The NRA is a lobbying arm of gun manufacturers. I used to be a member back when it taught gun safety and responsibility when protecting yourself and hunting. That was decades ago. Like all things good eventually they're hijacked by people with bigoted ideas. Religion, the idea of civically responsible capitalism along with the 2nd Amendment have all been hijacked by bigoted groups and individuals with they're personal agendas. The study of civics is sadly absent from the majority our education system.
Th type of gun used is irrelevant to a dead human being.