An AR-15 is not a colonial musket. Our laws should acknowledge that.

BidenPresident said:
Did the founders know they wrote "well regulated militia" in the Constitution?
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My gun club is well regulated. Most gun clubs are. You can be arrested if you step food on our gun club grounds if you're not a member. Members are allowed one guest only.
 
Rune said:
I like you and especially your disdain for the other Wanker Tom.
On this topic however I stand fast.
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This from the guy that used to defend Desh to the hilt yet now thinks she's a lunatic. She is of course, but then so is Moonshi'ite. You'll wake up one day to that cunt as well.
 
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BidenPresident said:
But those who wrote the Second Amendment in the 18th century could not have envisioned how their perfectly reasonable intentions would be distorted 235 years later — or how 18-year-olds would be able to buy and carry assault weapons meant for a modern battlefield into grade-school classrooms.

There’s a galaxy of difference between a musket and an AR-15. It’s time to remove these instruments of mass murder from the marketplace once and for all.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/27/uvalde-buffalo-gun-safety-laws-must-change/
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A rough analogy is FCC regulations. The first amendment has a pretty flat prohibition against restricting the freedom of the press. But, at the time, the "press" (as the name implies) consisted of a printing press. Then radio communications came along.... something the Founders never foresaw. So, should that have been a free-for-all? Should anyone have been able to broadcast anything on any frequency and at any power level?

That was a possibility, I suppose, but it would have been a nightmare. Instead, we took the practical approach of acknowledging that new technologies created new challenges, and that government intervention might make sense in a way it wouldn't have when we were just talking about newspapers. So, we got a bunch of regulations, parceling up radio bandwidth, establishing standards about broadcast volumes and content, etc.

In the same way, weapons that have come along since the Second Amendment created issues not foreseen by the Founders. It needn't be a free-for-all. We can, in fact, create regulations about those new technologies, just as we did with the radio spectrum, despite the first amendment. And that's what most Americans want. Unfortunately, our overlords on the high court have different ideas, and are trying to force a free-for-all situation.
 
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