Capitol Hill Blue Forums Capitol Hill Blue Opinions CHB Columnists Time for serious control of guns and those who promote their sale, illegal use

I think we all understand what "militias" were back in the day. And I think we all understand how they changed over time.

They evolved from a gaggle of conscripted boys and farmers, armed with rusty swords and squirrel guns, into the modern professional security forces we know today.

Do you know what didn't change? The Constitution.

From the inception of this nation, it has always been the case that men needed weapons for their very survival. It has been so since we climbed down from the trees.

There has never been a time in our history when anyone questioned a man's right to own weapons. And there has never been a time when they weren't well regulated.

And there has never been a time when enemies of the state didn't make themselves evident in some form, from within and from without. Making the need for some civilians to be armed and the right of all civilians to arm themselves if they felt the need.

It was deemed so important that the founders set it down in those 22 words.

A man who cannot arm himself can't fight back against anything.

Now, you wanna talk gun control? And taking away gun rights from individuals?

I'm all in favor of that and see no Constitutional barrier to it.

The cop in the school is another one. Last night somebody was on and said that only one cop actually killed a shooter. Not only that but cops in schools has also been a complete disaster. They just keep being cops. They have arrested little kids which means that they now have a criminal record (at the age of 10). There was a long list of things why cops in schools was a really bad idea and that nurses and councilors were a really good idea. The Republicans, obviously, are in favor of cops instead.

The really strange thing is that the Dems have been, pretty much, quiet about the whole thing which, I guess, is somehow their secret plan. If I had a little kid in school that had a cop in it I would raise all sorts of hell to put a stop to it.

The Republican solution is an armed cop in every school and every citizen conceal carry. Republicans make their Russian-funded NRA masters proud. “Money well spent.” - NRA.

If Republicans get their way, America will become theocratic, belligerent, armed nightmare.

America is already theocratic, belligerent, and an armed nightmare.

The secular, passive, and unarmed factions hope to change this.

Through civil war if necessary...

My thought would be the unarmed folks will change America through legislation. Being unarmed won’t bode well for a civil war.

I suspect that the gun manufacturers are rich enough to fund their NRA all by themselves. The started the NRA and it was a genius move which has kept them going for years. I think they are still making everybody who buys a new gun also a new member of the NRA. We are currently living in a society where greed rules. I think that the only industry more greedy than the gun manufacturers is the Pharmacy industry.

That is, I think, a fact.

That better work, since the campaign to disarm the armed folks isn't going so well.

But that's legislation isn't it...?

No one has ever claimed that ALL of America are stellar thinkers. Probably close to half of Americans let their emotions think for them. Probably the same amount cling to inanimate objects that facilitate murder and mayhem out of being frightened and scared because of their inability to process and understand why they are frightened and scared. Self analysis requires intelligence - ergo the problem. And now this post has come full-circle.

I wonder if EVERY state expunges that criminal record when the little juvie turns eighteen, or do some keep it going, or do some "forget to expunge" unless the juvie jumps through a bunch of increasingly complex hoops to get their rights restored.

Anyway, as long as it prevents them from voting for a little while, it's good for the Republicans!