Shoot Yer Mouth Off: What is the purpose of assault weapons?

8/29/2008

This movie: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4069761537893819675&pr=goog-sl

puts it very clearly. In undeniable terms, why we have the 2nd Amendment rights, and more particularly, why assault weapons should be allowed.
And this movie: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-32744296213691062&vt=lf&hl=en

puts it very clearly why the closing statement of the previous movie is a reality. And why it matters to us, right now.

At Fri Sep 05, 05:50:00 AM MDT, The Moderator said...: I totally agree with the concept. As you know, the intent of the 2nd amendment was not to protect our right to hunt and fish - although liberals love to make this argument and paint all 2nd amendment supporters as gun-toting rednecks concerned that they won't be able to git their deer anymore. It was to enable the citizens to protect themselves from the government.

I'm not sure where to draw the line. The real intent of the 2nd amendment is the right to be as well armed as the government is. In colonial times, if you had a musket, you were as well armed as the government. In modern society, you would need tanks, fighter jets, missiles, and weapons of mass destruction.

So, even if we can use assault weapons to defend our property from fellow citizens, meeting the real intent of the 2nd amendment is a lost cause. Unless we are willing to allow every Tom, Dick, and Achmed to own nukes, then we ultimately remain at the mercy of the government.

(By the way, in the book Freakonomics, the author states that if a family has both a swimming pool and a handgun, they are ~100 times more likely to lose a child to the pool than to the handgun.)

Shoot Yer Mouth Off