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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You're just upset because everyone's favorite lunatic came off looking like a bitter, stupid, callous old man.
Moore: "Then why do you have all these guns?"
Heston: "Because the Constitution gives me the right to."
Me: "Oh." (What a brilliant pick for spokesman.)
TM
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Why is that a stupid answer? If you think that people shouldn't have guns, then get enough support and change the constitution--it has been done before. If he wanted to take his millions and buy more whiskey than he could possibly drink, would you have a problem with that? So what if he wants to buy guns, that is his right. It may not be smart, but neither is eating fried foods, yet we don't try to tell those people that they have no right to do it because what they are doing is stupid.
I think trying to pass laws that abridge the 2d amendment are more dangerous than Heston's guns. If we buy the principle that a bare majority can pass laws that make an end-run around the constitution for "safety" or "security" then what is to keep the gov from trying to abridge the 1st amendment? The 4th amendment?
This country is about individual freedoms not majority rules.
