Like the bible, these people pick and choose the portions of documents they want to believe (cite). Only the parts that they decide fit their own narrative. A bunch of people walking around with guns does not a "well regulated militia" make. The only way this bs gets fixed is in congress and, ultimately, the courts. I won't hold my breath. At this point the dems are nearly as complicit as the gQp.
The suspect was described as a "substation maintainer," law enforcement sources said. And state public employee records showed a VTA employee named Samuel Cassidy, with that same position, who made $114,426.17 in 2019 wages, the last data available.
This is not surprising at all. I have heard many conservative gun lovers espouse this exact position. They then turn around and insist they back the blue and that anyone who doesn't comply with the commands of a police officer deserves to get shot.
This is not surprising at all. I have heard many conservative gun lovers espouse this exact position. They then turn around and insist they back the blue and that anyone who doesn't comply with the commands of a police officer deserves to get shot.
It would be funny if it wasn't actually scary fascism.
This is not surprising at all. I have heard many conservative gun lovers espouse this exact position. They then turn around and insist they back the blue and that anyone who doesn't comply with the commands of a police officer deserves to get shot.
It would be funny if it wasn't actually scary fascism.
This may have in fact been the original intent of the second amendment.
I've heard that excuse a lot over the years - citizens have to own guns to protect themselves if the government ever becomes a tyranny. Putting aside that it's gun-rights Republicans and not Democrats who are currently moving us down that road, the notion that, for example, yokels with guns could stop military drones capable of flying into to your bedroom window and blowing your house to pieces from a safe distance is absurd. And lots of rural whites have a real love/hate relationship with the police. As long as they're used to control minorities or big city folk they're fine and deserve support, but whenever they go after rural white folk breaking the law, from making moonshine to meth, suddenly they're mean sumbitches whom they despise.
The origins of the amendment are pretty murky. Certainly there seems to have been some element of preserving the right of states (not ragtag groups of Proud Boys) to protect themselves from Federal tyranny. There are also some indications that it was included at the behest of states who felt militias were needed to control their slave populations and continue westward expansion by fighting natives.