Billy wrote:
>
> Who has a militia?
The United States. The militia is everybody capable of bearing arms in the
common defense. The militia is NOT a bunch of guys parading on the court
house green.
> There are reasonable uses for rifles and shot guns.
> Hand guns have only one use.
Same use as rifles and shotguns: to kill people. That's why cops, the
military, and sensible people have them.
> If the National Guard has replaced the
> militia, then are you suggesting that a guard member should be able to
> park his tank at the curb every night?
The National Guard has not replaced the militia. As for parking his tank,
no. The 3rd Amendment prohibits that.
> Times change and so do
> circumstances.
Right.
> Women and people of color weren't given the vote in the
> Constitution.
Neither were white men. The Consititution was not ratified by a vote of the
people.
> Times have changed. Carrying a weapon only gives you a
> false sense of security which, like snow tires, only gets you into
> deeper problems;o)
I suggest carrying a weapon gives you more, but even if you're right a false
sense of security is better than a true sense of doom. I carry a weapon
(two, actually). I've had three occasions to display it. In any of those
three, I would have been robbed, injured, or killed without it.
>
> Anybody, weapons or not, can get bush whacked.
Right. But with a weapon you have the opportunity to waylay others.
>
> Lastly, playing, whites, blacks, and browns off against each other
> is the "Man's" game. If you ain't a politicain, you are working
> against your own self interest. It wasn't the "brothers" who sent the
> good factory jobs overseas. It wasn't the "campesinos" that exported
> U.S. taxpayer subsidized U.S. corn and other grains into Mexico,
> thus putting themselves out of work. The problem is old, greedy,
> phosphorescent-white guys who own the politicians.
Huh? Up until now, your statements, while wrong, at least made sense.
