10-27-2023, 01:39 AM
pdq wrote:
Also:
Uvalde: AR-15
Buffalo: AR-15
Boulder: AR-15
Orlando: AR-15
Parkland: AR-15
Nashville: AR-15
Las Vegas: AR-15
Sandy Hook: AR-15
San Bernardino: AR-15
Midland/Odessa: AR-15
Colorado Springs: AR-15
Poway Synagogue: AR-15
Tree of Life Synagogue: AR-15
Lewiston: AR-15
But Judge Benitez says it’s the ideal home defense weapon, and it’s basically like the Bowie knife, anyway, so we should be reassured.
"One government solution to a few mad men with guns is a law that makes into
criminals responsible, law-abiding people wanting larger magazines simply to protect
themselves. The history and tradition of the Second Amendment clearly supports state
laws against the use or misuse of firearms with unlawful intent, but not the disarmament
of the law-abiding citizen. That kind of a solution is an infringement on the
Constitutional right of citizens to keep and bear arms. The adoption of the Second
Amendment was a freedom calculus decided long ago by our first citizens who cherished
individual freedom with its risks more than the subservient security of a British ruler or
the smothering safety of domestic lawmakers. The freedom they fought for was worth
fighting for then, and that freedom is entitled to be preserved still."
"There is only one policy enshrined in the Bill of Rights. Guns and ammunition in
the hands of criminals, tyrants and terrorists are dangerous; guns in the hands of law-
abiding responsible citizens are necessary. To give full life to the core right of self-
defense, every law-abiding responsible individual citizen has a constitutionally protected
right to keep and bear firearms commonly owned and kept for lawful purposes. In early
America and today, the Second Amendment right of self-preservation permits a citizen to
“‘repel force by force’ when ‘the intervention of society in his behalf, may be too late to
prevent that injury.’”246 Unfortunately, governments tend to restrict the right of armed
self-defense. Punishing every good citizen because bad ones misuse a gun offends the
Constitution. A state supreme court in 1878 said it succinctly: “If cowardly and
dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must
be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege.”247 “Today . . . many Americans have good reason to fear that
they will be victimized if they are unable to protect themselves. And today, no less than
in 1791, the Second Amendment guarantees their right to do so.”248"