Reply #386: Amen, brother [View All]

[jesusq]

Embraced and cherish your 2nd amendment rights, because soon, it will may be the only right you have left. Of course, you will wave your little signs and chant your little chants and the vast right-wing agenda will just laugh in your face, because they know you are too cowardly to fight for your freedom

I am a leftist, I own guns, and I practice regulary.

Read the posts where pro-gun people are called "looneys, freaks and nuts," and then try to imagine yourself as a regular blue-collar guy who has been hunting with his father and grandfather since he was a little boy. He has been around guns all his life and he has never thought of them as evil. Why would this man ever vote democrat?

As for the founding fathers arguement, these were men who started a revolution with guns; how could they be anything but pro-gun?

The main arguement for the well-regulated militia language as argued by the NRA and the gun lobby, has turned out to be absolutely right. It is impossible to occupy a country against the will of the people when private ownership of guns commonplace; Iraq is an excellent example of this thesis in action.

Say, for instance, the Christian Right succeeds in its mission to lead this country towards theocractic rule with the cooperation of the elected leadership; in violation of the constitution. It is very appropriate for a well-regulated militia (the founding fathers formed a well regulated militia, which in today's parlance is "rebel guerilla or insurgent) to use firearms to defend the constitution.