4 Responses

1. The Second Amendment deals with the rights of citizens to be sufficiently armed to overthrown a tyrant (cf. England in 1688, American in 1776) – not take out a mugger. By that logic, modern infantry weapons (automatics with large clips) are protected, but small handguns aren’t.

   Then there is a public policy argument. While criminals prefer handguns, “nut jobs” do the most damage with assault rifles.

   One should remember that historically Jews did not have the right to bear arms, and one can argue that granting all free persons (excluding slaves) the right to bear arms was an extension of that right to religious minorities (note that in England at the time, they were uneasy in giving religious minorities the right to bear arms, based on their recent history of religious civil wars).

2. 1. ANY weapon used against someone else outside of the context of “self-defense” is by definition an “assault” weapon.

   Liberals, as is normally the case, want to punish the law abiding citizens because of their inability to deal with those who break the law.

3. I personally can’t understand why there are some who are so in love with & enamored by guns. If you want to own one, it’s fine by me, but why so obsessed?
   Having universal background checks in no way infringes on law abiding citizens owning a gun, the public is overwhelmingly in favor of this.

4. Mark Levin is an assault weapon