06-23-2016, 11:44 PM
(06-23-2016, 11:36 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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?
The ability to reassess already exists in the form of another constitutional amendment. I understand your point, but I don't think the original intent is actually lessened by the above factors. In some ways it's even more important. The greater the technology gap between military and civilian hardware the more need for civilians to be armed in significant numbers to achieve the same effect. In any event, why the need to reassess now? As firearm ownership has grown violent crime continues to drop every year. The "gun violence" crisis is manufactured as the actual numbers point in the exact opposite direction. Couple that with an almost complete absence of firearm knowledge by most gun control advocates and you have a very insincere argument for further restriction.
