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   XPost: alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.republicans, alt.guns   
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   From: nsmontassoc@yahoo.com   
      
   On 7/26/2012 8:18 AM, George H. W. Bush wrote:   
   > Without question the woefully outdated and legally misinterpreted   
   > Second Amendment should be immediately abolished.   
   >   
   > Two-hundred years ago, the Constitutional framers could not envision,   
   > much less collate, individuals' possession of automatic weapons with   
   > "militias," well-organized or not.   
   >   
   > Two-hundred years ago the average rifle possessor needed a full minute   
   > to get off just one shot.   Now a crazed James Holmes can get off 100   
   > deadly rounds in under one minute.  If his automatic weapon doesn't   
   > jamb.   
   >   
   > Yet even now, we hear immature and ignorant boy-brained gun-nuts   
   > insisting that if the movie theater-goers THEMSELVES had possessed   
   > guns the killer could have been stopped!   
   >   
   > Like, when?  After he killed two, four, six people and wounded 20?   
   >   
   > Can you, assuming you're not a gun-nutty fool, imagine the absolute   
   > chaos -- and additional deaths -- that would have resulted in the all-   
   > out gun battle that would have ensued?   
   >   
   > Gun nuts, and their ruler, the NRA, along with members of the U.S.   
   > Congress and state and local officials who accept "campaign" money   
   > from the NRA -- are ENEMIES OF AMERICANS!   
   >   
   > But you won't hear any of those benighted buffoons concede that   
   > truth.   They can't think past Wal-Mart!   
   >   
      
      
   I agree the Second Amendment was an 18th century answer when guns were   
   low power, single shot, muzzle loading, pistols and muskets. Cartridges   
   hadn't even been invented yet nor had any kind of repeater, six shooter   
   or bolt action rifle.  Clearly the founders never envisioned 100 round   
   magazines and auto or semi auto actions.   
      
   Moreover, the "well regulated militia" was also an 18th century   
   construct. There hasn't been such a thing since the civil war when rag   
   tag untrained citizens would show up with all manner of guns and rifles   
   without standard ammo or parts. It became clear real quick that soldiers   
   would have to be trained and issued standard weapons if there was to be   
   any hope of winning the war.  The 18th century idea that people are   
   going to wage war with their own weapons is preposterous.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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