if we're gonna get serious, really serious, about gun control you need to talk about banning things like all semi-automatic actions or the 5.56 round
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Ban all private firearm ownership beyond a bolt-action rifle; the only other firearms are to be accessible if you join a state-recognized militia, as it was intended to be when the Second Amendment was drafted
aug 29, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
The thing that gets me the most about Heller is that it's so obviously a retrofitting of the conservative justices personal politics; any good faith reading of the Amendment recognizes that the ownership is continent upon militia membership.
aug 29, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
and any argument against that view is simply a misunderstanding of how grammar and sentence structure works in the English language
aug 29, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
This pre-Heller paper argues that 2A was about relations between Washington DC and state governments. The paper argues that proponents thought protecting the right to own weapons would ensure the feds couldn't disarm a state gov. Just levy a bunch of farmers! scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...
aug 29, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
The paper also argues that pro-federal figures with greater military experience were OK with 2A because they figured any hastily-formed militia with small arms would be a military pushover anyway. It provided a convenient fiction to states afraid of losing their autonomy.
aug 29, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Semi-automatics have been around since the 1890s. Mark Twain & Tim Walz both with semi-autos...
aug 29, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
i never said that semi automatics were a new invention or only used by psychos or even that i don't like semi automatics personally
aug 29, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
critically: I'm not saying doing anything less is pointless, anything that reduces the amount of guns is probably a net good, but the thing that kills the most people is not automatic fire and it's not silencers and its not military styling its a gun that fires one round per trigger pull
aug 29, 2025, 4:44 pm • 3 0 • view