Gotcha.He Hate Me said:Yep. If you can afford plutonium, then you get plutonium. And I said, that I believe in the Second Amendment as it is written. If you are not fit for militia or military service, then you are outside the scope of the Second Amendment. As you represent the "restrictions" of the 1968 act, those "restrictions" concerning felons, minors, and the mentally ill are consistent with the Second Amendment.90sBear said:So you do believe in the restrictions placed in 1968. Note that those restrictions were not necessarily in place prior to that law. So the SECOND amendment has nothing to do with it.He Hate Me said:No. I think that if you are capable of service to a militia or to the military, there should be no restriction on your right to own any kind of weapon. Minors, felons, and the mentally ill are all unfit for militia or military service. So, those classes of people are necessarily are banned from weapons possession by a plain reading of the First Amendment.90sBear said:The Gun Control Act of 1968 restricted, among other things, the following:He Hate Me said:90sBear said:You didn't answer the question.He Hate Me said:Yes. The purpose was to keep us free from tyrants. Like the kind of tyrants that prosecute political opponents and put healthy, law-abiding people under house arrest without just cause over virus and coerce them to put a needle in their arm over scary unseen particle.90sBear said:So for argument's sake let's say the phrase was written (based upon the available technology and community standards of the day) to state that there should be no restrictions placed on anyone possessing any weapon that they knew to exist.Oldbear83 said:
Contrario: " I personally don't view"
And that's the key phrase.
And yet again, only the Second Amendment specifically has the phrase 'shall not be infringed'.
So I ask yet again, what does that phrase mean in that context, and why is it specifically written that way?
Do you believe that should be the case today?
Do you believe that should be the case today?
The first word of my response was yes.
Minors buying guns
Felons possessing guns
Mentally unstable people possessing guns
Add to this the possession of chemical weapons and plutonium/uranium/etc. is also illegal.
Do you agree or disagree with these restrictions placed upon US Citizens 2nd amendment rights?
Does your interpretation include the idea that all who are "unfit for military service" are excluded from 2nd amendment rights? If not, then fitness for military service is not a valid argument.
Also, to clarify, in your opinion chemical weapons and plutonium should be made available to any adult citizen who is not a felon or officially diagnosed with a mental disability?
Plutonium and chemical weapons: yes
Women who are far enough along pregnant: no
Physically disabled: no
Elderly: no
I can honestly say I am glad your viewpoint on the 2nd amendment and subsequent laws regarding possession of weapons is not how the US operates and I would be willing to bet more than 99% of the population agrees with me.