I think we should appreciate anyone's efforts to show trends in the voter's mindsets. but these polls with a tiny number of responses is just too unreliable. My dislike for any pole but for my flag has been noted. But give me a poll that looks at 100,000 and then we can talk about a real trend. For my family and many friends, if the super court leaves our constitutional rights as written, and runs down anyone who violates them no matter how high on the ladder, then, they have my complete approval. It's funny you bring this up too. We were having a little fireside chat when we went to n, carolina about the use of side measures to circumvent the 2nd amendment. Yous know, making it a crime not to have your guns locked up, or having to use some smart device to operate one. Or to serial code each bullet. Measures that by all accounts would make it too expensive to own and use a gun by the average person. One would think that the second amendment would make anyone a criminal that tries to do that to gun manufacturers and owners. Infringements is what they would be and anyone who puts up any legislation to that order should be removed from office or the seat they hold. That's the super court I want.
Whenever I see a rant about gun control, I have to ask what does the part of the second amendment that says "A well regulated militia" mean?
Mallory. It wasn't possible for me to get to the computer these past couple days. I didn't intend for this to get to some heated point, and didn't really think I was ranting. But it's true. I do indeed feel the framers of our future as the greatest nation on earth, had every intention that we, the people of these United States, freely and openly possess and bare our arms. Granted I'm no iron packin granny, but just about every man and some of the gals in our family are. I think that the militia issue has been misconstrued time and time again. Of course we had one, we needed and do need one. However the rights of the people are also clear. It would be the same for any other right given to us by the constitution. Limited by the states themselves as they are, the rights to posses and bare shall not be infringed. On the farm, we had to drive off or kill, coyotes, skunks, coons, opossum and the occasional interloper, though no interlopers were killed to be clear. I would also think that had it not been for the tyranny factors and oppressions etc. that drove the colonists to the point of dissension unto the death, well the militia factor might have been where it ended. I think that the framers were not just talking about other nations etc, but also about attack from within. That gives it a more personal and one on one feel that tends to make sense beyond the militia element. We use to have that ya know. They called it the National Guard until the unification of forces issue. I'm no gun nut but sure do feel that the courts were correct in standing behind the words that call for no infringement of said right. I also think that had they felt it might get outta hand, well, they would have worded it differently, calling for limits and prohibitions. But. They didn't, and in my heart it means what it says. Also in the midst of our family chat that evening, it was mentioned that the swiss have the lowest crime rate on earth per capita, and most know, it is due to the fact that nearly everyone is armed. Take it for what it's worth, but to me, it's an important factor. The criminals know they stand little chance in a case like that. So if deterrance matters, well there ya have it.
the constitution does not give us our rights, it limits the federal government, that is why each state has it's own constitution. In fact the federal government was create by the states for the people. any powers not specifically giving to the federal government is reserved for the states or the people! the reason is ALWAYS to defend against tyrannical governments, that was the whole point of a constitution to limit the government so it doesn't grow tyrannical! We have allowed the beast to remove it's restraints and while the population is distracted by the left/right Conservative/liberal battle as to whose's fault it is, the beast grows stronger and bigger! So what do we do, keep doing what we've been doing for 60yrs and hope things change, or should we try changing what we're doing and see if things change. How about reigning in this over sized government, how about stop bombing and waring and come home and protect our borders, how about building this nation instead of all those other nations, how about we get rid of our debt ridden paper fiat money and return to a sound currency, lets end all the free trade deals and bring back our jobs, how about we eliminate wasteful departments like the department of education(the money for administrators and buildings could be better spent on actual education), the DEA( spend billions every year arresting people for stuff that they can't even keep out of the prisons they send them too.),FEMA( it's a failure and it's in debt), homeland security( bring the troops home and then why would we need homeland security, plus if we ain't stirring up the hornets nest we won't get stung!), federal reserve( return the coining of money to congress and use a sound currency),ATF( let the states handle there state and if it goes inter-state then the FBI can handle it!!!), FDA( same as before, the states can handle it!), and so on and so on!!!! With liberty comes responsibility. We used to be the strongest economy, education, manufacturing and so on and now look, high unemployment, not the top manufacturer, not the top in education. back then there was smaller stores, shop, gas stations, meat markets and farms. Now look we have huge corporations, factory farms, super stores, corporate gas station(3.00 dollars a gallon), small businesses are dying off( slowly the corporations buy up the entire market share and squeeze the little guys out), fiat monetary system( is killing the middle class and the poor with the hidden tax called inflation, which transfers that money to the rich), wars (which increases the debt load in a fiat monetary system that's already killing the middle class and poor, while again transferring wealth to the rich), corporate welfare( really, do I even need to say anything, doe this not prove corprations got their clawls into the government) and foreign aid (really, sending money to who- there's 192 countries that exist in the world and we give foriegn aid to 150 of them) !!! America is drowning in this debt/spend beyond our means government, while corporations, bankers and investors are getting rich. The whole time we are distracted by this left/right conservative/liberal battle!!! we need to get the restraints back on the beast!
