Showing posts with label Second Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Second Amendment. Show all posts

Friday, September 20, 2013

NO WORDS

Until I see the possibility of the enactment of sensible laws to regulate ownership of guns in the United States, I have no words. I am silenced by the insanity of acceptance of a culture of frequent mass shootings with no will to change.
"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."
Surely, when the framers of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution included the words "A well regulated Militia", they did not intend the amendment to give free rein to the carnage we see happening all too frequently today.  Why do we continue to ignore the words "well-regulated" in the amendment?  That is all. 

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

FIREARMS OF THE LATE 18TH CENTURY


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.