I can't help but wonder why anyone would express or even believe that our Founding Fathers would write into the Constitution a right for the means to allow wholesale killing.This is probably not the only situation where you'd be helpless to do more than wonder, Thomas G. Sykes.
Hey, could somebody call down to the front desk? We need a change of sheets in here.
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David,
You know, Mr. Sykes is actually right. "The right for a gun-happy bunch to run around with guns is inane (sic)." But, of course, That's not what the 2nd Amendment. Rather than tackle what the amendment says, these guys are always coming up with strawmen to destroy.
Regards,
PolyKahr
And just what was alcohol invented for? (Oh, I'm sorry, it was supposed to help man.) And just which kills more people per year?
Bunch of hypocrites.
Of course we could take this tack with the anti-gun crowd:
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. (Proverbs 26:4-5)
You know since the 1960s, mortality rates of 9.5-12.7% for civilian gunshot wounds have been reported in the United Sates. Most people shot (unless it is in the head) survive....I would say that if a handgun is designed for only killing it has a remarkable failure rate. Oh, what's that you say....it's has many uses one of which is to stop threats (why we preach shoot to stop).
Mortality rates from:
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/byname/Abdominal-Trauma--Penetrating.htm
The lies and deceitfulness of the antis, from local papers, politicians, right on up to the government are just astounding! I know John R. Lotts' book, The Bias Against Guns, is not new, but I just got around to reading it, and it's just mind numbing! I wish I'd have read it when it first was published!
"I can't help but wonder why anyone would express or even believe that our Founding Fathers would write into the Constitution a right for the means to allow wholesale killing"
Because wholesale killing was what was needed to make Americans secure in their homes, lives, and property. You know, those guys in red coats weren't paying attention to stern talkings to.
In their wisdom the founders determined it would alway be better to retain the means to do so as a deterrent to the next would be dictator, rather than to actually need to re arm in order to engage in wholesale killing after the tyranny had been established and nothing less would then dissuade them.
Mr. Sykes, you should be grateful to those founders whose wisdom have protected you and your ancestors from tyranny all this time.
You in your unintelligent assessment would recreate the circumstances that make wholesale killing inevitable, whereas our founders have for better than two hundred years deterred such on our soil with but one exception.
Hie thee hence to the enemy camp, you are too weak in head and heart to be of benefit to your nation and its countrymen. Your inclusion in the camp of our enemies would weaken them on intellectual and moral planes, thus making our task of deterring them easier, whether they be domestic or foreign.
Go from us in peace, but go from us.
Of course they were made for killing, Mr. Sykes.
Some folks just need killing.
I do believe Mr. Sykes needs a pants change, too.
I look out at the world, and I don't need the 2nd Amendment affirming my right to own and carry a weapon. As far as I'm concerned, these air-heads can interpret the 2nd Amendment anyway they want (they will, anyway -let's face it), my right to defend myself and property comes from God, not from our Founding Fathers; wise as they were, they have no say in the matter.
Here's my response to the editor of the Leaf-Chronicle:
Dear Editor,
I normally don't respond to anti-gun opinion letters in the papers these days, having long ago discovered that no argument of fact, logic, law or history can change their emotion-clouded collectivist minds. However, since Mr. Sykes' anti-freedom hoplophobic bloviation was printed in the Leaf Chronicle, the hometown newspaper of my son and many other troopers of the 101st Airborne now in service in Iraq, I feel compelled to answer his mischaracterization of the intentions of the Founding Fathers when they crafted the 2nd Amendment. Sykes "can't help but wonder why anyone would express or even believe that our Founding Fathers would write into the Constitution a right for the means to allow wholesale killing." Really?
Sykes must be stunningly ignorant about the Revolutionary War, for almost every battlefield of that conflict was characterized by "wholesale killing." Indeed, the wounds of that war were still fresh when the Founders wrote the 2nd Amendment. It is precisely because guns are killing instruments (a fact which seems to distress Mr. Sykes in and of itself) that the Founders decided that they didn't wish our government to have the monopoly of military capability. Being unable to disinvent firearms, the Founders wanted to make sure that they were not only in the hands of would be tyrants, but also in the hands of those prepared to resist them.
While the abysmal level of Sykes' understanding of this country's history is unfortunately common these days, it doesn't make his opinions any less offensive to those of us who swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Sykes would remove our means to carry out that oath and protect all our freedoms, should it ever become necessary. Should Sykes get his wish, his freedom to write uninformed letters to the Leaf Chronicle would be forfeit as well. I doubt this was what he had in mind, but with someone so woefully ignorant of his own history, it's hard to say.
Mike Vanderboegh
PO Box 926
Pinson, AL 35126
Let's hope nobody shows Mr. Sykes a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
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