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Village News Editor feels a "six-shooter" is enough protection for your home
After all, he claims, the "Taliban" won't come knocking down your door:
Haven’t we learned? - By Mark Fausz, Jan 02, 2013
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After all, he claims, the "Taliban" won't come knocking down your door:
Haven’t we learned? - By Mark Fausz, Jan 02, 2013
The “right of the people to keep and to bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” I join Supreme Court Justice Stephen Beyer when he said historians would side with him… because they have concluded that Founding Father James Madison was more worried that the Constitution may not be ratified than he was about granting individuals the right to bear arms.
When the Framers of the Constitution put pen to paper, how could they possibly have imagined automatic weapons when the arms they wrote of where muzzle loaders. Could they have predicted that your neighbor may have just purchased an AR-15 assault rifle (the gun used at Sandy Hook and the movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado) to protect their home? Assault is defined as imminent harmful or offensive contact. By strict definition, assault and protect are contradictory, and fire arms enthusiasts consider assault weapons as a description used by many people in many ways.
But an assault weapon is not meant to be something your wife carries in her purse or used to hunt squirrels. It has a magazine that carries as much as 32 rounds of ammunition. I think you realize that a Bushmaster, AR-15, AK-57 or similar guns are made to hurt people.
Need a gun to protect your home? A pistol with a half-dozen cartridges will work. Do you think your home will be attacked by a Taliban militia? When is the last time you heard of someone using their machine gun to fight off someone robbing or attacking their home? Oh, it’s the President turned dictator whose goons will knock down your door and take you guns, right.
People get some nutty ideas when unspeakable things happen. I don’t have a solution but I will say that more guns is not it, especially guns meant to kill people, and a lot of them.
Some say that Al Qaeda, China or some other hostile country is coming to get us. I think we should be more afraid of ourselves.
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