America's Unique Relationship With The 2nd Amendment

[Bopeiro]

Obviously America has a unique relationship with the 2nd amendment... its part of the american constitution.

Oh my god when will Americans stop thinking their law applies to the rest of the world?

[mikejg2550]

Just my take: guns have been a part of the United States since its birth, unlike the other major powers in the world. Claiming the right to bear arms was a direct challenge to the British - - the colonial masters of the time - - and locking it into our Bill of Rights is one safeguard to prevent a totalitarian regime from taking over easily. On a personal level I feel that I am part of the commitment to freedom and liberty because my country the USA recognizes gun ownership as a right.

[judetheobscure100]

Maybe it should be not just a right but a responsibility to bear arms. Any wrongdoer who waved a gun in a felony would need eyes all round their head to protect themselves from the concerned citizens' armed response of a hail of bullets...in self-defence, of course. Since America already has a greater death-by-gunshot count than the rest of the world put together it would hardly make a dent in the statistics and would thin out the armed felons at a rapid rate.

[wombchakra]

what other countries use our constitution?

[wombchakra]

Do i win the prize so far?

[UpTakeVideo]

Looking for the translation :-)

[dogstar7]

I missed the question there.

Sounded like a lecture.

[gamoonbat]

The 2nd Amendment is indeed fundamental and gives the individual citizen the right to bear arms against an attacker in a public place as well as an intruder or trespasser on their property. That includes, I believe, intrusion by federal agents as occurred on Ruby Ridge where Randy Weaver defended himself boldly but was defeated by superior firepower.

[newmanfrigan]

Thank God that the traitor Randy Weaver was killed.

[mssedmebich]

Actually I think they shot his wife and child or maybe just his wife. Anyway you know how sneaky an infant can be. He may have been packing heat in his diaper. The feds were just being careful.

[newmanfrigan]

Of course I'm aware of that, numbnuts! As his fellow 2nd amendment activist and patriot buddy Timothy McVeigh would say, "Collateral damage". He was a right wing terrorist.

[tobiasaurusrex]

Yes, they shot his wife in the head because she was armed with a baby.

He's alive and suing the FBI.

[gamoonbat]

David Koresh, on the other hand, is deceased. So I believe that the 2nd amendment was not incorporated against Oklahoma in the same manner that it may have been against Idaho for Randy Weaver.

[wombchakra]

@tobiasaurusrex: It was Lon Horuichi of the FBI...you know how those loose cannons like to join up. never know if they're following orders or not and probably never will know.

[wombchakra]

@mssedmebich: the fed/FBI officer was not a "they" - Lon Horuichi was the one who shot his wife - get the facts so you can focus your anger and inform yourself.

[mssedmebich]

Most lawyers would be on the floor laughing at the idea that an organazation like the FBI is not responsible for the actions of it employees. I believe they still run their own mental evaluations and training in house. You are what you put on the payroll.

[wombchakra]

No one stated, mssedmebich, that an "organazation" (sic) is not responsible for the actions of "it" (sic) employees.

Unfocused anger and vague diatribe does nothing....except placate the enemy.