Quartz Magazine On The Second Amendment
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 5 months ago
Now the Constitution, much like the Bible–another flawed text used for centuries as a tool of oppression and tyranny–has become a crutch for lazy leadership and moral ambiguity. It’s an excuse for cowards to masquerade as patriots. Today, the NRA treats personal gun ownership as an inviolable right, regardless of its function or purpose.
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To be clear, I know plenty of responsible gun owners. I want hunters to be able to hunt—but not with semiautomatic weapons. And I would like people who enjoy a little target practice to be able to do so at to their local firing range—but not with semiautomatic weapons. If you want to fire 43 bullets a minute, join the military.
Just to be clear, ownership of weapons is indeed an inviolable right, but not because of the second amendment. It is so because God says so in the very document you think was a tool of tyranny. But the only tyrants here are you, Meredith, and those of your ilk who want to disarm others. You are control freaks, every one of you. The bible you criticize teaches me that any attempts I might make to control you are based in wickedness. I don’t want to control you or anyone else. I want you to have liberty. But you have no liberty to remove mine.
Second, I understand that your acquiescence to bolt action rifles for hunting is merely baiting. It’s ineffective baiting, to be sure, but it’s still baiting and you don’t really mean it. I know that as soon as someone changes the calculus and does something a little different such as use a scoped bolt action rifle from a stand off distance as did Charles Whitman, you’ll come for the bolt action rifles too.
Third, I know that you’re a liar, and you know it too. You don’t really want to disarm everyone, because you don’t advocate disarming the police. You just believe in the same thing all communists do, i.e., a monopoly of force.
Finally, it gives me amusement and pleasure to point out the obvious. You can never effect this outcome because we have the guns. Understand? You can’t take them from us because you eschew them and we don’t. What? You didn’t really think we’d give them up, did you? And you didn’t really think those cops would want to be gunned down as they try to confiscate weapons, did you?
On June 28, 2016 at 11:54 pm, TheAlaskan said:
Those who endeavor to take your arms, whatever the mechanical function, are planning on keeping theirs.
On June 29, 2016 at 1:35 pm, Jack Crabb said:
Exactly who is this stupid, pretentious twat?
I’m not as eloquent as our host, and this is now my standard response to idiots of her ilk: Fuck you.
On June 30, 2016 at 9:02 am, Big Boss said:
She doesn’t have a friggin clue.
On June 30, 2016 at 2:28 pm, UNCLEELMO said:
“A native Northern Californian, Meredith has a B.A. in English from Cornell University, and a Master of Arts in Journalism from New York University. Before joining the staff at The (Christian Science) Monitor, Meredith honed her multimedia reporting skills with stints at PBS FRONTLINE, Newsweek International, the New York Daily News and the New York Times’ hyperlocal blog, The Local East Village. She is also a freelance contributor to the Religious News Service, Patch(dot)com, and the Huffington Post, where she comments on politics, religion and journalism through her blog.
In 2011, Meredith received an Excellence in Journalism award from the National Association of Gay and Lesbian Journalists. She is also a John. C. Quinn Scholar, and a graduate of the Diversity Institute’s Nashville, Tenn. Multimedia Institute, where it was at times hard to tell what she was enjoying more–the nightly honky tonk country music, or the fabulous video and photography instruction.”
On July 1, 2016 at 2:26 pm, alanstorm said:
Solid idiot leftie (BIRM) credentials.
On June 29, 2016 at 3:31 pm, Pat Hines said:
Just another member of the Gun Confiscation Lobby. My patent answer to her is, “No, your move”.
On June 30, 2016 at 9:01 am, Big Boss said:
Nailed it Pat. Tired of these clowns. Is Meredith Bennett-Smith going to be the first one through my door to take my firearms…? No? Then why is she prattling on…?
Time after time they let the mask slip. If they had their way, we’d all be armed with atlatls.
On June 29, 2016 at 9:27 pm, SunwolfNC said:
I tuned out right after “another flawed”. Just another virtue signaling asshat who doesn’t mind if we have our inalienable rights, so long as their in his vision of top down control for what he considers the ‘masses’, the ‘workers’, the ‘little people’
Wonderful closing, by the way
“You can never effect this outcome because we have the guns.
Understand? You can’t take them from us because you eschew them and we don’t.
What?
You didn’t really think we’d give them up, did you?”