| Posted: 28 October 2016 at 10:26am | IP Logged | 1
|
|
|
In the way we have come to interpret the Second Amendment we see a pattern very similar to the expansion of the First Amendment. There, a rule originally meant to protect the printing press and someone literally speaking to a gathering of people, has been broadened to include all manner of means of communication, and their use, that could not have been imagined by the Founding Fathers. (Thus we get rap lyrics endorsing the brutalization of women being seen as protected under "Free Speech." One wonders where these interpretations were in the 1950s, when Fredrick Werthan was blaming comic books for all of society's ills.)So it has been with the Second Amendment, as a couple of centuries of calculated misreading of a document created in a specific time and circumstance had smeared the rules in ways the Founding Fathers could not have intended. So, enjoy your guns, assholes. Cuz from where I sit, every time someone is murdered you are as complicit as if you pulled the trigger yourself.
|
Topic Closed)
