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Posted by Nilet on Mon Jul 24 21:45:16 2017, in response to Re: Editorial: ''De Blasio's Subway Follies'', posted by Steamdriven on Mon Jul 24 21:00:05 2017. The authors the Bill of Rights were hardly blind to the progress of technology.And yet they allowed slavery. Which is sort of an important point to consider. That a historical accident meant to secure the right to swords and single-shot muskets in a primitive society just happens to use wording loosely applicable to modern automatic weapons in a modern society where such weapons are utterly unnecessary does not mean the constitution actually grants a right to same. But even if it did, you still wouldn't have a right to them. If the Constitution declared that you have an inherent "right" to own guns, that would be an error in the Constitution in need of correction no different from the error that created an inherent "right" to own slaves. Fundamental rights transcend governments; no piece of paper can take them away or grant nonexistent ones. Not being shot is a fundamental right. Owning guns is a privilege that should be subject to tight restrictions specifically to protect that fundamental right to not be shot. The "right" to own guns is a confabulation of the deranged minds of murderers. |
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