06-23-2016, 11:36 PM
(06-23-2016, 11:03 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: It seems clear to you but the vast majority of constitutional scholars and the supreme court disagree. If you study the language of the times it is clear that the framers intended military power to rest with the people and not just with a central government. Several of the framers flat out say this in other writings. It's fine that you disagree, just know that your opinion is not shared by most people who have studied the issue intently.
I agree with you here, and not just military but also law enforcement. In today's society, however, with a standing full-time army, a formal part-time army at the state levels, and law enforcement agencies, all things not in the minds of the framers when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written would you consider it to be a fair argument that we should reassess our approach to how firearms in the hands of the citizenry and/our how our military and law enforcement in this country operates in the context of today's world?
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
