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On 7/8/2024 2:47 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 7/8/2024 4:21 AM, John B. wrote:
>>
>> But,but, but... Removing guns is a rather simple task. 
>> Just appeal the
>> 2nd Amendment. I've mentioned this a number of times...
> 
> ... and it's been countered an equal number of times.
> 
> First, the second amendment was used rationally for nearly 
> 200 years, including the gun (fantasy) glory days of the Old 
> West. Then mass shootings became fashionable, mostly using 
> guns not appropriate for hunting or other peaceful purposes.
> 
> And the NRA decided to cash in by changing from a rational 
> "learn to shoot responsibly" organization to a manic "They 
> want to take your guns" organization. That transformation 
> allowed NRA's upper management to rake in fortunes and enjoy 
> lavish lifestyles. It also allowed fortunes to be made by 
> promoting and selling weirdly fashionable quasi-combat 
> firearms. And of course, it promoted the election of right 
> winger politicians, by claims like "If Obama is elected he's 
> going to take your guns!"
> 
> The second amendment was perverted into removing logical 
> restrictions that had existed since the days of Dodge City 
> shootouts, and into allowing things like bump stocks and 
> Glock switches.
> 
> The second amendment doesn't really need removed. It needs 
> tuned up by rational court decisions, preferably by judges 
> who are not in the pocket of gun manufacturers and their 
> allies. Our current bribe-worthy supreme court does not 
> qualify.
> 

Since you're obviously distanced from the sport and 
unfamiliar, the very diminished NRA is much less influential 
than GOA nowadays.  Both together comprise a small subset, 
nowhere near a majority, of lawful firearms owners.

And no one in either group, nor lawful firearms owners 
generally, advocate for auto sears.  You made that up.

The Supremes have been more explicit in their logic and 
constitutional basis for decisions of late, if you bother to 
read the decisions, agreements and dissents.

Several well known people have blatantly misreported some 
recent SCOTUS decisions in a dishonest and one might say 
polemical or demagogic manner this week. The radio news 
reports of those statements are even more truncated and 
hysterical.  Read the actual papers the Justices (all of 
them, not just the majority) wrote before panicking.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971