It's quite straight forward but the dumbingdown these last few decades has made it inaccessable to the average American. Ain't education great. Hide yer guns.
Cost of gun violence: hospital charges for 100,000 shot annually reach $2.8bn
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It's quite straight forward but the dumbingdown these last few decades has made it inaccessable to the average American. Ain't education great. Hide yer guns.
Upgrading a constitution is often expensive. The banks however will support both sides to make it fair of course.
Sounds like target practice needs to be mandatory in highschool.
That's true. There were no snowflakes alive when it was written. Need to make military service mandatory to toughen them up so they don't have meltdowns when someone tells them to get off their worthless asses and find a job.
The ghood old days when men were hammered into shape. There are no two snowflakes alike it seems, twits the whole lot of them, the most self destructive generation ever generated, cornflakes and sugar pops are to blame
gun violence like the destruction of NKorea Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Syria,Lybia, Yugoslavia etc
guns rule
Ukrain comes to mind when I think of stupid, lettuce pray for them.
Well you should think positively, guns are lawfull for the spread and maintenance of democracy
Nice will rule or else we'll kill you
the tyrany of nice
progressive patriediots
I find there's very little self-deprecation in the humour of Americans...it's all 'at ya'...and 'in your face'.
Add guns, race and no healthcare to that mix and i wonder why anyone would want to live in that divisive stew called the United states.
Add guns, race and no healthcare to that mix and i wonder why anyone would want to live in that divisive stew called the United states.
the ice age will prevail of course and we will adapt or not, it's a very big universe and we ain't necessary to it's continuance, sorry we are not what we pretend to be
LOL So all those 11000 plus Americans shot and killed by other Americans every year constitutes a well regulated Military??
Who'd of thought??
Are the private hospitals claiming that raises their taxes to an unbearable level?? Almost $3B they wouldn't have otherwise. I can see the victims complaining but not the place that experiences it like the cash cow that just keeps on giving.
You can spot a 2 part sentence from a mile away?
You two dipshits need to take ESL classes.
The first part is irrelevant. The Right to a militia is part 1 and a given in any democracy. We call our militia the RCMP.
The comma is the obvious give away.
Part 2 of the two part sentence cleary states:
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
EVER
Fine.
Propose a constitutional amendment.
First you will need a vote on the proposed the amendment: a 2/3 majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate is required.
Good luck. You'll need it.
Then the proposed amendment requires ratification by 3/4 of the state legislatures. That is 38 states.
Good luck. You'll need it.
https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution
Then you have to deal with this: .
In United States v. Cruikshank (1876), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that, "The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence"
You would get that civil war you are itching for.......
Good luck. You'll need it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The state does not grant rights, it merely recognizes or denies them.
But, congratulations, as a proposed amendment to the Bill of Rights is the only legitimate way to attempt gun control in the USA.
(sigh)
"Well regulated" in the parlance of the time, essentially meant "well practised" or skilled, as one is with their personal firearms.
The first part of the sentence "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state" in no way modifies or changes the meaning of the second declaratory phrase "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". Basic English comprehension.
And the people are the militia.
US CODE S.246
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are-
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
[USC02] 10 USC 246: Militia: composition and classes
Well, to be fair, Paddock didn't seem to be real well regulated. . .
Especially when gun ownership polls about 70% favorable year after year after year. About the only thing with higher favorable ratings in the U.S. is bacon.
MMMmmm. . . bacon.
You mean that the Second Amendment DOESN'T mean a loaded Glock under every pillow?
Americans overall are 25 times more likely to be murdered with a gun than people in other developed countries.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/02/us-gun-control-ownership-violence-statistics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/02/us-gun-control-ownership-violence-statistics
Figures this would be front the guardian, the rag for clowns with the attention span of a Gnat. This is hardly the deadliest mass shooting in America unless you chose to cherry pick the data. Ever hear of wounded Knee? I can find a dozen more way worse than some guy with a couple of rifles.
It's high-larious! Long about last evening, all the news switched from "deadliest mass shooting in American history" to "deadliest mass shooting in modern American history" (I calculate "modern" means "since the day after Wounded Knee"). And they ignore Oklahoma City, I guess cuz that was a bomb, and getting killed by a bomb is a different kind of dead from getting shot dead.