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Mar 30th, 2018 91 Never

I do not accept that the 2nd amendment creates an individual, or inalienable
right, at all. What it describes, is a right of a STATE to maintain militias or
irregular forces that would supplement the army!  Do they maintain anything?
Is there even a militia officer anywhere these days?  The right to a have
a weapon to defend (singular) the home, includes shift-weapons, and swords in
some states, who claims those are inalienable rights, though? AND, I believe
the amendment that goes "rights enumerated to the states", is in fact the
one, not the 2nd.  Also,the articles that allow the U.S to sue a state should
it change it's common laws, also function here -- to protect gun-rights.
So,no one needs the N.R.A.

Before I forget, I should add that the army was in fact created with a
thousand men, composed of 1 regiment, 8 infantry companies, and 1 battalion
of 4 artillery companies on September 29th, 1789.  One of the last acts of
the "confederation congress", -- that's right, the army is older than the
Bill of rights.  Check an almanac, and you'll find that New Jersey became the
1st state to ratify the Bill of Rights on November 20th, of the same year.
So, these archaic militias could only supplement; there was never a time when
there were only the militias.   Also, militias were not clubs.  They were
part of city, town, and regional governments. They chose you, not you chose
them. The fact the AR15 does not fire full automatic does not help anyone. It
can fire, as fast as one can pull the trigger.  How many windows do
you think I can kill a second with a mouse?

All knowledge has three properties:
It can be shared.
It doesn't have to be accepted.
It must be maintained with reasoning, or it fades.

A right is something that the law describes as lawful.
Freedom is the absence of prohibition.
But, a right, can be described as a prohibition against the lawmaker.

So, it is not harmless, when N.R.A slurs all gun-rights -- in any state
-- together, and calls it "The 2nd Amendment."  It is propaganda.
What is propaganda?  The design of propaganda is to corrupt knowledge by
intending to make it problematic to maintain, and ultimately shameful to share.
This propaganda is corruptive to the democratic process and kills
people every day.

"And, the good do nothing."