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  • SupraMario@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Supreme court justices appear skeptical of move to end birthright citizenship as Trump attends arguments
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    2 days ago

    I quoted the amendment, which I am all in favor of. In fact, I am in favor of well regulated ownership by anyone who can pass a gun safety course. While I am in favor of background checks to reduce the chances of someone buying a gun when they are not eligible due to a violent felony or similar reasons (part of that well regulated thing), I am against tracking those background checks or a gun registry.

    The well regulated part means in working order. Not that the government gets to decide who can and cannot own arms.

    If you’re ok with that, then you’re ok with the current regime trying to label LGBTQ+ people as a mental illness, so they can deny them the right to bear arms.

    That’s why you shouldn’t be ok with it. When a group that’s like the current regime is in power they’re going to try and pull shit like that. Which they did btw and even the NRA(puke) was against it.

    My dislike of stupid court rulings that contradict the amendment is based on what is written and putting it on individuals who want to play rambo doesn’t mean I don’t like the basic concept.

    But the ruling didn’t contradict the amendment.

    Hamilton Federalist paper #28:

    If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. In a single state, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair. The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo. The smaller the extent of the territory, the more difficult will it be for the people to form a regular or systematic plan of opposition, and the more easy will it be to defeat their early efforts. Intelligence can be more speedily obtained of their preparations and movements, and the military force in the possession of the usurpers can be more rapidly directed against the part where the opposition has begun. In this situation there must be a peculiar coincidence of circumstances to insure success to the popular resistance.

    This is what the founders thought of the 2nd amendment. That the government should not be the ones with a monopoly on force.

  • SupraMario@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Optical illusion
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    9 days ago

    Think of it this way. The majority of our gun deaths are from suicides, then the next largest amount is from gang/drug violence, after that it’s police (on average 1k a year) then it’s the rest. Meaning that around 4k deaths a year are from literally everything else (domestic/robberies/random acts). We don’t really have a gun problem, we have an issue with our society. 99.99999999% of all firearms in civ hands have never been used to harm another person.

    Poverty creates the violence, lack of education, lack of social support, lack of opportunities, lack of healthcare. If we fixed those things, our guns violence would plummet overnight. But the owners of this country would rather have us fighting each other than them.