XPost: talk.politics.guns, talk.politics.misc, soc.culture.usa
Jeanne Douglas wrote:
On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:00:30 -0400, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
Unconstitutional.
The solution is simple, repeal the Second Amendment. That antiquated
bullshit is responsible for more innocent deaths than any civilized
society should be forced to bare. Best solution is to add jews and
gooks to the list of foreign aliens to be deported by ICE.
https://www.quora.com/How-can-a-gun-enthusiast-still-claim-their-right-to-bear-arms-is-more-important-than-public-safety/answer/Paul-Harding-14
All of your Constitutional Rights come at the cost of safety.
For example, you would be much safer if I could search houses, cars, and
people whenever I wanted to, for any reason, or no reason at all. I'd
catch more real bad guys. You know those stories about creeps who keep
sex slaves locked in their basements for years? I'd find those victims
and rescue them. That neighbor of yours who might have a meth lab that
is going to send poisonous fumes into your child's bedroom window, or
explode and burn down your house? I'd find out for sure whether a lab
was there.
How about all those guys who are probably child molesters, and we've got
some evidence, but it isn't enough to convict in front of a jury,
especially with that defense attorney throwing doubt all over our
evidence? Those guys are on the street right now, and a child you love
may be their next victim.
Give up your rights under the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments, and I'll
make the world safer for you. No question about it.
The only problem is that if you give up all those rights, which are
really just restrictions on the things I'm allowed to do to you, what's
going to keep you safe from me?
Every right you have increases your danger from other people who share
that right. Free speech? It allows monsters to spread hateful messages, possibly about a group to which you belong, just the same as it allows
you to petition your government with legitimate grievances.
That free speech even allows you to argue in favor of discarding freedom
and liberty as just too dangerous to trust in the hands of ordinary
people. Now that, my friend, is what scares me - that people with
opinions like that will spread them to weak-willed individuals who
haven't really thought through the consequences. I won't argue for
taking that right away, though, despite the dangers. That would be even
more scary than you are.
Yes, some people in a free society are always going to abuse those
freedoms. Criminals are going to hide behind the 4th amendment to
conceal the evidence of their crimes. People who commit horrific acts
are going to hire excellent defense attorneys who can convince a jury
that doubt exists. And, yes, some people are going to use guns to commit murders.
Freedom is scary, but lack of freedom is scarier.
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