02-03-2013, 02:50 PM
Michael Wrote:Sorry, even though I have a gun safe full of ARs, I cannot find a justification for belt- fed weapons in the hands of the civilian populous....
I cannot justify belt-fed weapons—or Bloomberg's alleged antiaircraft missile—in the hands of civilian law enforcement. Civilian law enforcement is just that, civilian.
The militarization of civilian law enforcement is the antithesis of "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Plenty of innocents are dying. We have exported so much "democracy," what is left at home?
COTNTOP Wrote:Did not the earliest gun control acts stem from violence in places like Chicago. Has it got any better in those places. Seems they are still top of the list.
It has been well-documented that the earliest US gun control was intended as "race control."
See:
Tonso WR. “Gun Control: White Man’s Law.” Reason. December 1985. pp. 22-25.
Tahmassebi S. “Gun Control and Racism.” George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal. Summer 1991; 2: 67-99.
Cottrol RJ and Diamond RT. “The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration.” The Georgetown Law Journal. December 1991: 80; 309-61.