Friend brought this up... Here's what I have to say
Reference:
Supreme Court Strikes down DC Gun Ban The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America states that: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
My thoughts:
The second ammendment to the Constitution was intended to keep the power within our country with the people who lived in it, to allow them to defend themselves against any who would invade America or against a tyranical
SEMI-AUTOMATIC HANDGUNS DID NOT EXIST IN THE 1700s
No founding father of the American Constitution could ever have percieved that such a thing would be created and that the crime in our country would ever have evolved to such a state with the assistance of this very invention. The "right to bear arms" should NEVER have extended as the Supreme Court has recently allowed. While many may argue that the "right to bear arms" is a "right to defend oneself", I disagree to a degree. This right, as given in the second ammendment was only intended for the type of arms and their evolution following the period in which this amendment was created (i.e. The RIFLE and assumedly The SHOTGUN). Arms that could not be hidden for view nor the intent of their use misconstrued.
The shotgun and the rifle evolved under two circumstances: war, and hunting. The handgun evolved under one circumstance: killing another human. No person, goes hunting with a handgun; nor do they go to war with the impression that the primary fight would be with their handgun. The ONLY purpose of a handgun is to kill or injure another person (and recreation cause I have to admit, shooting one is fun, but for the purposes of this blog, should be in a controlled environment for the civilian populace).
If one wishes to defend their home with a shotgun in Washington D.C., they should be allowed (The shotgun is preferred over the handgun during Military Operations in Urban Terrain [MOUT] for the purose of in-building combat). However, I firmly believe that in a city, so rampant with crime, if the Handgun Ban was upheld by the Supreme Court under the implication that the police must find a way to critically enforce that ban, then the ban should have been declared illegal ONLY by the fact that it banned ALL guns. The Supreme Court, in their Majority Statement SHOULD have specified that the intent of the second amendment did NOT cover handguns, nor should it be allowed to be misconstrued by lower courts as such.
I believe whether foolishly or not, that if the handgun was barred from private ownership, within 10 years, roughly 95% of all handguns carried by the civilian populace (illegal and legal) would be turned in, confiscated, or destroyed within the United States. The remaining 5% percent accounts for some trafficking of weapons in and around the United States through criminal intent, and those citizens that would keep their handguns for nostalgic value.
The sad truth is that, our country, in it's infinate glory and freedom, has become a place where criminals are protected by the very same amendments that make our country so great, through political miconstruements, lobyists, and a gross deformation of certain individual's "concept" of what our forefathers had intended.
Author's Comment: I believe in the right to bear arms, and I love shooting. I'm in the Military, and shoot both rifle and pistol with expert precision. I love my right to shoot as a recreation as well as my job. In no way do I believe that 'guns' such as the rifle and shotgun should be banned. Nor do I believe the handgun should be eliminated for public use. But I do believe handguns should be restricted to public ranges for rental purposes only, and their routine use be for the military and police only.
For those of you who would argue, 'what about the military being turned against the people of America' (concerning handguns), I say this: Do you want to bring a handgun to a fight with M4's, M16's, Shotguns, Apache Helicopters, M1A1 Tanks, and AC130 / AC10 Gunships?
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