From the Dailey Mail, our not favorite British idiot.
He's the typical leftist against guns (but I'll bet money has has armed security around him), but he only wants them to make sure the wrong people don't get a hold of the wrong type of guns. Just listen to him.
...My argument with guns is not based on some universal, pathological hatred of them. I’m not a pacifist. Guns win necessary wars and defeat tyrannical regimes like the Nazis.
Nor do I have a problem with those who use guns for hunting or for sport. I also understand, and respect, how there is an inherent national belief in America, based on their understanding of the 2nd Amendment, that everyone should be allowed to have a gun at home for the purposes of self-defence.
But where I have a big problem is when the unfortunately ambiguous wording of the 2nd Amendment is twisted to mean that anyone in America can have any firearm they want, however powerful, and in whatever quantity they want.
This has led to the absurd scenario where I can’t legally buy six packets of Sudafed in an American supermarket, or a chocolate Kinder egg, or various French cheeses, because they are all deemed a health risk.
Yet I can saunter into Walmart – America’s version of Tesco – and help myself to an armful of AR-15 assault rifles and magazines that can carry up to 100 bullets at a time.
That weapon has now been used in the last four mass shootings in America – at the Aurora cinema, a shopping mall in Oregon, Sandy Hook school, and the most recent, a dreadful attack on firemen in New York.
The AR-15 looks and behaves like a military weapon and should be confined to the military and police force. No member of the public has any need for a death machine that can fire up to six rounds a second when modified and can clear a 100-bullet magazine (as used in Aurora) within a minute.
The only apparent reason anyone seems to offer up is that using such weapons is ‘fun’. One gun-rights guy I interviewed last week even said admiringly that the AR-15 was ‘the Ferrari of guns’.
Well, I’m sorry, but ‘fun’ is just not a good enough excuse any more. Not when children are being killed by gunfire all over America...
First, the Red Herring about the Second Amendment and sport. The Founders had nothing like that in mind when the wrote the Bill of Rights. It was a recognition that the militia (not the National Guard but every abled bodied man) was formed by the people and they would need their right to arms protected in our founding documents.
Next, the Second Amendment does not have unfortunately ambiguous wording but is very clear. A well regulated militia, (formed of able bodied men)being necessary to the security of a free state, (again, formed to protect the states and their population), the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Piers, notice how it says right of the people and shall not be infringed. Rights are not granted by the Constitution but are protected by it. And rights are part of you as a free person. Something the left seems to miss from another of our founding documents, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Again, rights are a part of you and cannot be denied without due process of law.
Oh, the NRA is very supportive of keeping firearms away from felons (like the murderer who killed the firemen) and mentally unstable people (like Adam Lanza). But leftist like you only scream "we need to keep these guns away from bad people" yet can't explain how anything you want to push on the American people will do that. Also, the AR-15 cannot fire six rounds a second no matter what you do it. If you know what you are doing you may illegally convert it to full auto but that will be 2-3 rounds am second.
Gee Piers, are you this ignorant of simple facts in other areas you stick your stuck up stupid nose into? Maybe you should go back to America's Got Talent or just get you ass back to England.
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