04-05-2017, 10:03 AM
(04-05-2017, 03:12 AM)hollodero Wrote: First, I'd argue the founders didn't have these arms in mind, so for me it gets tricky with the constitution in its first stages here. I reach that point often.
I try to grasp your point... are you against permits for owning a grenade launcher or a tank? In principle or because of the money?
I could make the argument that the Second Amendment doesn't actually guarantee the right to private ownership. That was, in fact, the way the law was interpreted for well over a century. The Second was interpreted as the right to join the military. The thing a lot of people claim to hate, judicial activism, is what made the Second mean the individual right to firearm ownership.
"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
