Reply #15: It is interesting how things have changed.

[TPaine7]

Too many conservatives are racists. However, Malcolm X would have been with them on this point. So, incidentally, would have been MLK, who kept his own gun for protection.

To my mind, it is a human right for a person to have the means of self-defense. Communities should not decide that any more than communities should decide religious matters or political beliefs or whether or not to torture criminal suspects. I know we disagree on this, but if you take a hard look at what communities have done, I think it will become apparent why the Second Amendment should be obeyed by communities just like the 1st and the 4th.

See what the community of Washington DC had as its policies--the policies that started this whole thing going: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x170607

Honestly, can you say with a straight face that those are sane and reasonable community standards?