Net Llama! wrote:
On 11/09/2004 04:10 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
1. "The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" (aka the shameful piece of legislation known erroneously as the "Assault Weapons Ban")
Which did not stop you or anyone else from owning a gun. Try again.
"Shall not be infringed" means shall not be infringed. It stopped me from owning the gun I *wanted* and had the *right* to own. Try again.
And what gun was that?
Shall we treat the "right" to abortion with the same rigor that the left treats the *right* to keep and bear arms?
Last I checked there was no 'right' to abortion. So it seems that 'we' (whomever that is) already are treating a women's choice to have an abortion with the same rigor that the left treats the 'right' to keep and bear arms.
2. The religious freedom, property, privacy, and very lives of men, women and children in a wacky religious cult outside Waco, Texas.
Oh yes, especially the children who were being held against their will, and married off to men twice their age. Lovely group of people.
No-one said they were a loveable bunch. Being wacky isn't a crime.
Raping children is illegal in every state.
But tell me, did killing the children improve their situation from the alleged "being held against their will"? Were the soldiers and ATF agents thinking of the welfare of the children when they fired automatic weapons into a plywood structure known to contain children? Janet Reno gave the order for that.
Indeed she did, and it was in poor judgement. However the Branch Davidians weren't the saints that you're implying that they were. They were a bunch of child molesting religious wacknuts who defied a court order to turn themselves in for weeks. How would you suggest this be handled seeing as how the cultists were armed?
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