27 Words

Sorry about not posting the past couple of days, I had to have some oral surgery. If anyone would like to know how it feels to have a chunk of tissue sliced from the roof of your mouth and sewed on to your lower gum just let me know. Now on with the show.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

While in a nice Loritab® funk after my surgery on Tuesday I listened to the to the arguments for the 2nd amendment case now before the Supreme Court on C-SPAN. (yeah, I know, I need to get a life) It seemed to me a lot of this case hinges on one word that the framers did not include. That word is “And” . Had this word been included, and the amendment read like this:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, and the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Then maybe I could fulfill my dream of having a Howitzer stationed in my front yard. But as it stands I can only dream for now.

This case stems from a couple of law abiding residents of Washington DC who are suing to have their “Right To Keep And Bear Arms” returned to them. As it stands now no person who lives within the city limits of DC can own or posses a hand gun of any kind. Also any long guns (rifle or shot gun) under the law may not be operational. This means that it must be unloaded, broken down and have a trigger lock. So in affect, the citizens of the DC metro area are forbidden to protect, and defend themselves. This might not be that big a deal if we all lived the leftest fantasy land of Utopia, where the citizens do not need arms because the government will “protect” you. But this is DC were talking about here. I went there when I was in High School and let me tell you, it is a cesspool. Coming from the the south it was quite a culture shock to see real “hoods”. I’v been to Atlanta many times, but Tech Wood is a country club compared to the area around the National Zoo in DC. I was honestly worried that our charter bus would break down as we drove through Anacostia. The news has had story after story about how bad crime is, and how high the murder rate is in DC.

I own guns. So I guess I am biased on this. And I have made my pro gun argument (see posts from April 07 http://punishtheinocentaswell-aaron.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html) until I’m blue in the face.

Now the Supreme Court could end this argument once and for all. All a majority has to do is come back in June and find that the second amendment does indeed give law abiding citizens the right to keep and bear arms. The same way the court ruled in 1973 that all women have the right to abort their children. If that can be done then why not this? At least the gun thing is written in black and white in the Constitution. Yes all you loonly leftists we gun crazies should be able to use the Constitution to our advantage as well.

But I’m sure the nine idiots will chicken out, this being an election year and all. My prediction is a majority will find for the two plaintiffs, but for some sort of procedural misstep. And we will once again have the question hanging over our heads. Oh well. It’s just our liberty.

FUCK THAT!!!!

FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS IS ONLY WAY YOU WILL GET MY GUNS!!!!!!!!!

A WELL ARMED SOCIETY IS A WELL MANNERED SOCIETY!!!

GUN CONTROL MEANS TAKING DEAD AIM ON THE PERSON BREAKING IN TO MY HOUSE!!!

Sorry, I did’nt mean to go off on a bumper sticker tirade.

Criminals, people who are judged to be mental incapacitated, and minors should not be able to buy guns legally. And we already have a system and the infrastructure to make sure of this. I have no problem keeping fully automatic weapons illegal also. (well I do because I would love to have one but I understand.)

Laws of course will not keep guns out of the hands of the people who should not have them. Nor will it keep weapons that are deemed illegal off of the streets. The best thing we as law abiding citizens can do is go to our local shooting range and practice, practice, practice, so our aim is true and the only people we hit is the criminal and not innocent bystanders.