From: Joshua Clingenpeel (Josh.Clingenpeel@wwu.edu)
Date: Fri May 28 1999 - 13:46:08 MDT
Bad news, Brian. Second Amendment was written during a time when people
carried flint-lock muzzle-loaders, when they were concerned with British
troops crashing down the front door, when armed combat was an honorable
affair. Unfortunately, the Second Amendment is one of the only Amendments
to the Constitution that has not properly stood the tests of time. It is
reasonable for a person to keep a gun in their home, but realize that there
has been a surge of lawsuits involving would-be burglars suing home-owners
for damage inflicted upon them by firearms and knives. There are now legal
precedents making it difficult for home-owners to maintain their right to
use their guns in the privacy of their own home.
The important thing to remember is that gun safety and gun control are
important; people should educate their children to respect and understand
guns, and efforts should be made to make it difficult to own a gun. I
personally have no problem with people owning firearms, keeping them in
their homes. But as soon as you hit the streets packing heat, you're a
potential threat to everyone around you. The NRA's spokesmen and their
red-in-the-face, pry-it-from-my-cold-dead-fingers attitude is frightening,
fascist, and indicative of barbarism. Personal security aside, you just
want to feel big and powerful.
Pope Arhat Al-Hazred Mateed XXIII
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