..and I was able to recycle that exact heading thanks to the magic of Mozilla's auto-complete. To find the full text of that conversation you will have to go back a few months to a different conversation. I don't feel like rehashing it here.
As for limitations on the other items listed in the Bill of Rights, I reference you again to Feinstein, specifically her response in the committee meeting to the when she replied that "No, of course not." when asked if she would apply the same rational for limiting speech, religion, or assembly as she is on guns.
Feinstein's bill, which is what this discussion was originally about, was not regulating gun ownership, it was banning all but a select few weapons. Weapons that, as you pointed out, are not regularly used in criminal activities.
You are apparently, like most in favor of gun regulations, forgetting, or ignoring, why we have the 2nd amendment. It is not for hunting, or sporting, or even self defense against criminals, it is intended as a check upon our own government. A disarmed population are not citizens, they are serfs. The 2nd amendment exists so that if the government of the US ever wanders into tyranny, the people can again rise up and get rid of them.
i also don't think that Feinstein believes there are no similar restrictions on the other amendments. If we take politicians at their word in such off-the-cuff moments, then we should go revisit things like GWB saying "a dictatorship would be easier". I didn't take it to mean he is actually going to instill a dictatorship, but I know quite a number of people who did, and who will still use it against him even though he has been out of office for a number of years now.
And if you think your AR-15s and whatever other guns you have are going to stop a drone from blasting you dead where you stand, you should probably stop to reconsider what you think tyranny looks like if the government ever decided they wanted to take you out. Not to mention the fact that if it came to an all-out civil war, you are going to have to be comfortable shooting dead your neighbors and friends in order for your side to win.
"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman
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- 22/03/2013 07:35:13 PM
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