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Hugabear

(10,340 posts) Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:37 PM Dec 2012

It's high time to concentrate on the "WELL REGULATED" part of the Second Amendment

Well-regulated means just that. The NRA can blather all it wants, but it cannot escape those two little words in the 2nd Amendment.

Gun control needs to be front and center in this country. The GOP and gun-lobby can howl and scream all they want. I suspect there will be a segment of DU that will scream and howl as well, I don't give a fuck. How many more mass shootings must we endure? How many more innocent children have to be killed just so some gun-nut can keep an assault weapon next to his bed?

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It's high time to concentrate on the "WELL REGULATED" part of the Second Amendment (Original Post) Hugabear Dec 2012 OP

Get your guns away from me HockeyMom Dec 2012 #1

+1000 Fridays Child Dec 2012 #2

agreed ... with the 1st Amendment, you can't yell fire in a theater and with the 2nd ... napkinz Dec 2012 #3

Regulated didn't have it's current definition in 1780 hack89 Dec 2012 #4

The closest contemporary thing is a "well regulated air supply." immoderate Dec 2012 #6

Gun regulation is a CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE. kestrel91316 Dec 2012 #5

Until we have a 60+ majority in the Senate AND an overwhelming majority in the House SoCalDem Dec 2012 #7

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)

1. Get your guns away from me

Reply to Hugabear (Original post)

Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:42 PM

Dec 2012

and the children.

Fridays Child

(23,998 posts)

2. +1000

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Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:44 PM

Dec 2012

napkinz

(17,199 posts)

3. agreed ... with the 1st Amendment, you can't yell fire in a theater and with the 2nd ...

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Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:47 PM

Dec 2012

hack89

(39,171 posts)

4. Regulated didn't have it's current definition in 1780

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Fri Dec 14, 2012, 04:51 PM

Dec 2012

then regulated meant well equipped and in good working order.

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

6. The closest contemporary thing is a "well regulated air supply."

Reply to hack89 (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 14, 2012, 05:29 PM

Dec 2012

It doesn't mean "constricted" or "restricted," and rather connotes adequacy for its purpose. I think Hamilton demonstrates the contemporary usage in Federalist 20.

--imm

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

5. Gun regulation is a CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE.

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Fri Dec 14, 2012, 05:06 PM

Dec 2012

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)

7. Until we have a 60+ majority in the Senate AND an overwhelming majority in the House

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Fri Dec 14, 2012, 05:56 PM

Dec 2012

and the members of those majorities are progressive/liberals instead of a smattering of them amidst a sea of wishywashy BlueDogs, NOTHING will be done (of any real; consequence)...and even if something were to be done, we always have the evil specter of SCOTUS looming in the inevitable background, just waiting to rule against it.

At this particular time, about the only thing we could do would be to provide FREE mental health care for "troubled people" whose family members/friends/coworkers were brave enough to "report".

Since none of these things will ever come to pass in the "free-est country on earth, Amen!", we can all just remain vigilant, and hope that we win in the "Escape Random Violence Game 2.0"

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