07/07/2022
"A day dedicated to freedom has put into stark relief the one freedom we as a nation refuse to uphold: The freedom of our fellow citizens to live without the daily fear of gun violence"
Freedom comes with risk. There was NEVER a guarantee to be free from that. It’s a false argument. You can’t guarantee it even if you were somehow able to take away all guns.
A prison is the most tightly controlled, regulated geographic area in the country where only the government has guns and they still cannot stop violent crimes, drug trafficking and assault in these places.
“Our founders carried muskets, not assault weapons.”
Do these people think past 5 seconds ago? Ummm excuse me. What was a musket in the 1700s? The most advanced form of personal weaponry. It was the ‘assault rifle’ of the day.
Who had it? The most highly trained military force at the time.
Who also had them? Farmers, merchants and any other kind of private citizen. They even had cannons in their barns.
“And I don't think a single one of them would've said that you have a Constitutional right to an assault weapon with a high-capacity magazine”
Read history much? The Giradoni repeating air rifle was part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition commissioned by Thomas Jefferson. This was NOT an air rifle of today. It had a 20 round magazine of .50 caliber ball rounds, the air reservoir was good for 30 shots and it had an effective lethal range out to about 125 yards. It was designed and in service a decade before the signing of the Second Amendment.
“or that that is more important than the right of the people who attended this parade today to live”
Well, I’m sorry. It is horrific and I can’t imagine the pain the families of the deceased are feeling, but, if Constitutional rights go away every time someone dies or a bad person does a bad thing then we don’t have rights. We have privileges that government can take away whenever they want and that is NOT what the founders fought and died for. Constitutional rights are supposed to be immune, and stand the test of time, against the events of the day even when they’re tragic.
In the wake of a deadly mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, on Monday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, said that he does not believe America's Founding Fathers would have said that citizens have a Constitutional right to own an assault weapon."A day dedicated to freedom has put into stark reli...