JASmith Wrote:Excellent caution -- but the point is an extraordinarily strong one and goes to the heart of the challenges to the second amendment. The Bill of Rights was written by people who understood the value of self determination - being accountable to oneself in matters of judgement. This goes far beyond prescriptive rules of behavior that eliminate the need to judge right and wrong.
Seen from this point of view -- that is the government is our sole source of moral guidance -- then the rabid nature of the current assault on the second amendment begins to become a little more understandable. With our 'popular' leader telling us what is right and wrong, and us following his mandates to the letter, why do we need guns?
How do we turn this around? I know that focusing solely on the 2A is not the solution since the assault is on the entire Bill of Rights and the whole package needs to be viable for any one of them to be protected.
Joe / Guys:
Was I not clear enough in my caution against getting this thread bogged down in a religious argument?
Let me make myself more clear.
Keep this thread on topic and the topic is a leftist who thinks it is too easy to buy a handgun.
There are people of many different faiths on this forum. Some are agnostic and others are outright atheists.
I have witnessed what happens to a thread when religion gets tossed into the mix. It becomes a podium for atheists and believers to rant about how much they hate each other. And, it can become a podium for anti-semitism and outright bigotry.
If this thread started out as a religiously oriented topic, I would let you guys go for it and Bill would eventually lock it down.
However, it is not a thread about the religious convictions of the Founding Fathers and theories about how their religious beliefs effected the 2d A.
So guys, keep this thread on topic and do not interject your religious convictions here.
LR1955