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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
The Courts have sided with the 2nd amendment time and time again.
Jim Crow laws were not part of the Constitution,a nd when challenged, were found to be unconstitutional.
the fact remains that we are all living in the safest time that has ever existed for a human to live in history. The horrors we hear about have always been there, and were actually far far worse in the past. we just hear about it more because of the interconnectedness of the information sources we have.
to use any one horrid act to control the innocent masses is reprehensible in teh extreme, but it is what tyrants do.
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Can we have a discussion which DOESN'T lead to hyperbole and emotional exaggeration? Tyranny over the innocent masses? Hardly. A great deal of Americans SUPPORT gun restrictions, so who is tyrannizing whom exactly?
You misunderstand me. The Courts DEFINE specifically what the Second Amendment means, they interpret WHICH kinds of arms are legally permissible and in which circumstances. The Amendment does NOT read
"any, every, and all kinds of arms" it just reads "arms" which then is
up to the Courts to interpret. Federal Courts have
supported f
ederal, state, county, and municipal gun regulations and restrictions since literally the 18th century!! Further, Jim Crow was the result of the "separate but equal" interpretation of the Constitution, and "vagrancy laws" were specifically adapted around the 13th Amendment loophole which allows for slavery in the instance of incarceration. Vagrancy laws incarcerated black folks in order to force them into forced labor through the outsourcing of the prison system. You live in Texas, you should know this history, Texas was the second largest user of "convict labor" behind only Mississippi. Today, the reality that upwards of 1 in 3 black men is currently incarcerated is a DIRECT legacy of the vagrancy laws which were in full effect even until the 1960s
