“….There is, I’m sure, will be, rather, a day for discussion of the usual Washington policy debates but I don’t think today is that day.”
White House Spokesperson Jay Carney has declared that today to talk about gun control. Today is not the day to talk about what we can do as a people to stop the massacres that have become commonplace in the United States.
In the wake of the horror that has befallen Newtown, CT, I have to ask, if not now, then when? Dozens are dead, many of them just babies. If we can’t look at a massacred kindergarten class and say, “We need to figure out how to stop this from happening and we have to do it now. This is an emergency of the first fcuking order,” we can no longer consider ourselves to be decent human beings.
Today is the day. Firearms aren’t aren’t a force of nature. They’re not hurricanes. This $h!t can be stopped. We have the power to stop it.
Today is the day. I’m furious that the gun lobby has turned our traditionally safe places in to warzones. Schools. Movie theaters. Schools. Shopping malls. Schools. Schools. It doesn’t have to be this way. This is our country. We make it what we want it to be.
Today. Is. The. Day.
We’re tired of wringing our hands and screaming at the radio/TV/internet when massacres happen. So, we’ve launched a petition via We The People, the White House’s citizen petition site. The topic?
Our petition proposes that ownership of firearms other than single-shot rifles require mandatory draft into a regulated American militia, with no upper age limit. This is in keeping of the spirit of the text of the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution, which clearly reads:
“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.”
In short, if a citizen wants to own a gun more powerful than a single-shot rifle, that citizen gets military enlistment with his/her purchase.
If we can raise 25,000 signatures in 30 days on this issue, it will have to be addressed directly by the White House.
The petition can be viewed and signed here.
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I definitely agree with the spirit of this. But the point of the second amendment is to allow citizens to organize their OWN well-regulated militias to fight back AGAINST the government so the government doesn’t get too powerful. It’s not about protecting the country from outsiders or replacing the national guard, it’s about citizens defending themselves from a government not in check.
While I totally agree that we need increased gun control in this country, this petition isn’t really the answer, as the government wouldn’t (and shouldn’t) have the power to “draft” anyone into a civilian militia. Granted, NRA supporters misinterpret the second amendment as well – it’s not a guarantee that everyone can have a gun. You’re right about the amendment being contingent on being a part of an organization. Perhaps a law saying that, before you can purchase a gun of a certain type, you need to show proof of belonging to a militia. It’s a slight rewording, but it makes a world of difference.
The “gun lobby” never wanted schools, movie theaters and malls to be a free fire zone for the criminally insane. The “gun lobby” OPPOSES those free fire zones where the criminally insane gun down defenseless innocents (congress mandated these children be defenseless). The criminally insane let loose the depravity of their minds in “gun free zones” for the same reason they do not attempt it at gun shows and gun ranges; they are cowards at heart. If guns are the problem, then gun shows, gun shops, Wal-Mart sporting goods department and gun ranges should all be non-stop killing fields; yet they are not. The second amendment was analyzed by English linguist experts and was verified to say what “NRA” supporters say it does. BTW, the US Supreme Court agrees.
So, what then? More guns? Require teachers to be armed and militarized? Also, the mentally ill are cowards? That shows a total ignorance of what mental illness is. You’re an asshole.
Well, yes and no. There have been other Supreme Courts that have disagreed with the currant, FAR-FAR-RIGHT, court. And just because they were courts of the past, does not make their rulings illegitimate. In this light, it may change with a future Supreme Court. What say you then?
In my opinion, we’re talking triage here. This country is overflowing with guns. An uncle of mine recently passed away. When they were cleaning out his house, they found over a hundred non-registered guns! Over 100! To me, that’s just incredible! It just makes all laws (for the short term) and interpretations of the 2nd Amendment, moot. So, what can we do?
Here’s my pie-in-the-sky suggestion. Get rid of the DEA and all useless vice law enforcement garbage, and have them guard the schools and everything else. That way, we wouldn’t give the NRA and new customers or have to raise any funding for a new bureaucracy.
But that would be logical. And we all know that the war on drugs and busting prostitutes are a priority.
We all know what will happen in the short run: 1. Not a thing. 2. More people will be slaughtered.
The end.