Seems like a good time to amend either military code of justice to move assault on women and children to dishonorable. Or amend the 68 gun law to include a more wide range of court martial convictions to not able to buy a gun.
Been covered. Was a bad conduct discharge. Doesn't carry immediate weapons ban. And even though he was court martialed for domestic violence which would bar ownership if a civilian charge and served a year, apparently it doesn't translate out of the military with the discharge to an ownership ban.
I was shocked the Lautenberg Amendment didn't cover military charges. It makes absolutely no sense.Seems like a good time to amend either military code of justice to move assault on women and children to dishonorable. Or amend the 68 gun law to include a more wide range of court martial convictions to not able to buy a gun.
That's fine. Glad it worked out for you.
Two points: for every story of self defense there are countless more of murder, suicide and unintentional manslaughter. As a society overall from a utilitarian point of view, we are not winning based on this sort of trade. Furthermore no one is saying don't carry a pistol. We are saying let's at least look as to whether people should be allowed to carry assault rifles and semiautomatics built for battlefields.
And there are mechanisms to get the guns back. People respond to incentives even if at baseline there is some irrationality to their actions.
Honestly the most defensible position in the gun control debate is that whilst it's a noisy and charged issue, as a cause of death its just not that big a deal compared to say everything else (similarly to say how terrorism is such a noisy issue but really is not a threat on your life percentage wise).
I was shocked the Lautenberg Amendment didn't cover military charges. It makes absolutely no sense.
Of course it can be done. The 1st amendment has limitsstripping someone of their rights requires a good reason, and where you set the bar for "(insert issue) is bad enough to warrant removing a right"?
i'm not saying it can't be done, only that if you put it in the same context of "mentally unstable people aren't allowed to vote" (because voting is also a right), how you define "mentally unstable" becomes a very challenging thing to without excluding a huge amount of the population (about 16% take some sort of medication for mental-health-related issues).
other factors are the poor state of mental healthcare in america, as well as our cultural attitude towards it.
Lest the armed masses can no longer rise up violently against the government? I don't think that's what the framers had in mind, but it's yet another justification for being armed.So, you're comfortable with only the government having guns with Trump in the White House. Have I got it right?
"Bad conduct" seems less than honorable, but I guess not "dishonorable."Been covered. Was a bad conduct discharge. Doesn't carry immediate weapons ban. And even though he was court martialed for domestic violence which would bar ownership if a civilian charge and served a year, apparently it doesn't translate out of the military with the discharge to an ownership ban.
A person who is a national of the United States whether by birth or naturalization, shall lose his nationality by voluntarily performing any of the following acts with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality—
...committing any act of treason against, or attempting by force to overthrow, or bearing arms against, the United States, violating or conspiring to violate any of the provisions of section 2383 of title 18, or willfully performing any act in violation of section 2385 of title 18, or violating section 2384 of title 18 by engaging in a conspiracy to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, if and when he is convicted thereof by a court martial or by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Or we'll be fighting over phaser control.Not your idea of a terrorist, but that's a mental disorder in its own right. The Columbine shooters were white, but they were certainly terrorists, just not with the political agenda you have in mind when you label someone a terrorist. It's the guns. If people didn't have access to guns this shit wouldn't be happening. Is it still possible to have mass murders without guns, sure, but it's way way way more difficult and they would be very rare compared to what's happening all the time in America now.
Some day, in 500 years, people are going to look back on us and think we were lunatics with our gun fetishes.
From personal curiosity, I actually support the right of a well regulated militia to bear arms in defense of liberty, but if ability to bear arms against the government is one of the fundamental rights in the US Constitution, via the Second Amendment, why does US law not only explicitly prohibit it, but also strips one of US citizenship for doing so?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1481
Exactly. Their ubiquity makes them uncontrollable.Please answer my question...
How are you going to get the guns out the hands of criminals who have no problem breaking the law? Liberals are always spouting the numbers of those who are murdered by guns and the majority of those homicides are criminal gang members. So please tell us how you are going to the guns out of their hands? If you can do this, I am pretty sure those numbers that that are constantly being spouted will do down dramatically since those gang bangers wont be able to shoot each other anymore....
Do you think they will turn in guns to a buy back program? or they will be scared that of laws that make guns illegal?
A neighbor nears the church with a gun intervened and the shooter ran away and then allegedly shot himself dead.
A local resident grabbed his own rifle and engaged the gunman, said Freeman Martin, the regional director of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
"The suspect dropped his rifle, which was a Ruger AR assault-type rifle and fled from the church," said Martin, adding that the resident then chased the gunman.
Funny how theanti2A fools "forgot" to mention that.
I believe that was called the Confederacy yet righties want to celebrate it.Are you really asking why a govt would make treason\insurrection against it illegal?
Very helpful after damage has been done.Funk ass coward fled and ran away like a bitch when another good gun owner confronted him.
Funny how the anti 2A fools "forgot" to mention that.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/05/us/texas-church-shooting-resident-action/
It's been mentioned several times. Unfortunately over 50 people were shot before that occurred.Funk ass coward fled and ran away like a bitch when another good gun owner confronted him.
Funny how the anti 2A fools "forgot" to mention that.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/05/us/texas-church-shooting-resident-action/
From personal curiosity, I actually support the right of a well regulated militia to bear arms in defense of liberty, but if ability to bear arms against the government is one of the fundamental rights in the US Constitution, via the Second Amendment, why does US law not only explicitly prohibit it, but also strips one of US citizenship for doing so?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1481
i am 42 years old, have lived much of my life in the city, in areas you would likely consider ghetto, yet i have never had a gun pulled on me, not even once.
sounds like you live a life of irrational fear.
Funk ass coward fled and ran away like a bitch when another good gun owner confronted him.
Funny how the anti 2A fools "forgot" to mention that.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/05/us/texas-church-shooting-resident-action/
From personal curiosity, I actually support the right of a well regulated militia to bear arms in defense of liberty, but if ability to bear arms against the government is one of the fundamental rights in the US Constitution, via the Second Amendment, why does US law not only explicitly prohibit it, but also strips one of US citizenship for doing so?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1481
Why don't your tell your anecdotal story to all of those who have been victims of home invasions or have been assaulted with a deadly weapon...It only takes one time to become a statistic and some would like to be prepared for that situation while others like yourself would rather not...
Pretty hilarious that you think the entire country should live based solely on your experiences though....