« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2017, 04:30:47 PM »
Without reading that page I don't know what context it was in. Without the Second Amendment our right to own firearms that are used to hunt with or to use in any other way wouldn't be guaranteed.
I think the leadership was wrong supporting a ban on bump stocks, but that issue is dead in the water, whether they were for or against it. It was a move to say we support "reasonable gun control" and it didn't have any impact except as publicity saying we aren't unreasonable. They're just playing political games and it may not have been a bad idea after all.
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""It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency." - George Washington. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, Friday, May 02, 1783
THE RIGHT TO BUY WEAPONS IS THE RIGHT TO BE FREE - A. E. van Vogt, The Weapon Shops of Isher