When the Second Amendment to the U S Constitution was written and ratified, the firearms pictured above were in use at the time. Lethal? Definitely...still quite different from the weapons used in mass shootings today.
Further information on the weapons pictured may be found here.
Thought that said 'marital' pistol!
ReplyDeleteA Freudian slip?
DeleteNow Mimi I have to tease you just a little bit here. I do get your point, and I do agree with it.
ReplyDeleteBut notice that on this particular issue, how quick liberals are - very very quick - to jump on Justice Scalia's bandwagon: i.e., the Constitution must only be interpreted according to exactly what the Founders were thinking, and thinking about, in the long-ago summer of 1787.
Politics makes strange bedfellows. Just sayin'.
But Russ, what is my point? All I said was that the firearms of the late 18th century were different from the firearms of today. I leave it to my readers to take it away from there. ;-)
DeleteYes, Russ, you seem to miss that "quoting Scalia" is Mimi's POINT.
DeleteIF you follow Scalia, then consider that the weapons "of the founders intent" fired ONCE, and took how many seconds? minutes? to reload.
If, like myself, you do NOT follow Scalia, then you say SCREW what the founders may have intended: outlaw 100-bullet clips NOW!!!!
Scalia & Co are the ones who chose to play this game on the "original intent" field. But they, of course, get to shift the goal-post in any direction that suits and to ignore whatever ("militia"?) does not suit. Best not to reflect on the "pry it from my cold dead hands" mantra.
DeleteI agree that the clips of many bullets should go, and with a stronger law than last time around, which had so many loopholes as compromises to pass the bill, that in some areas it was toothless.
DeleteScalia does whatever he pleases. Just look at his silly musings on broccoli, which Ginsburg, to my great pleasure, blasted scathingly.
I wonder if he knows what the Founding Fathers thought about broccoli? I shall have to look that up. Grin.
ReplyDeleteThomas Jefferson first grew broccoli in 1767.
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