A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 12-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

The key word is "allow."

You silly, naive little man. Your precious constitutional right
to bear arms is an _amendment_.

You silly, naïve little nitwit, you don't even understand our Constitution,
so how would you know?

American history shows that
constitutional amendments can come and go - e.g. the prohibition.

You might want to note that this was the ONLY amendment ever overturned.

So in reality, your "right" to bear arms is at the discretion
of the "majority" of the citizens and the politicians you elect
(and elect typically by minority, since so many Americans don't
bother to vote).

No, it's not. You don't understand the nature of rights or the function of
the Constitution. Rights are not granted by the Constitution, government
powers are limited by it.


If that constitutional amendment is revoked, you and your pop
gun buddies will be hiding in the woods.

True, but it's extremely unlikely to be repealed, and if it is, repealing it
does not impeach the RIGHT to keep and bear arms, which pre-exists, and
exists independently of the Constitution.

Should the 2nd Amendment ever be repealed, that would likely be the trigger
for revolution to restore the rights of the citizenry and put down a tyrant.
That's why the 2nd Amendment exists. The Framers recognized the fundamental
right to keep and bear arms and enacted constitutional restrictions on
government infringement of that right specifically to ensure that the
citizenry always would have the physical capacity to put down a domestic
enemy or tyrant.

And, "hiding in the woods" is a fine tactic for removing tyrants and their
sycophants, particularly with silenced, long-range firearms. Just ask any
USMC sniper.


Don't discount the effectiveness of insurgents. Just look at what perhaps
20,000 hard-core insurgents are doing in Iraq.

More like 100-200,000.

Still a small fraction of 18 million.


BTW, do you know where your local National Guard armory is?

There is no National Guard in this country. It's a US thing.

Well, there you go. You're a slave who doesn't even know where to find the
arms needed to put down a tyrant. Ipse dixit, quod erat demonstrandum.

--
Regards,
Scott Weiser

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