A honest question I really want an answer from Repubs

Pure revisionist history with no basis in fact.

Militia units held the line until the Colonial Army could be organized. The militia harassed and harried the British, and in the first part of the war did a better job of taking the fight to the British than the army.

Oh, and in the War of 1812 several battles were won almost exclusively by militia units; including the defense of Baltimore and the Battle of New Orleans.

History is replete with examples of a determined populace fighting off tyranny, and your claims are fanciful at best.

 

Geeze. I'm a Son of the American Revolution. My ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. They were members of local militias. My ancestors were burned out of their farm for their membership in the local militia they served from beginning to end.

It's rather revealing to witness how an ideological agenda can require someone to so completely rewrite history and piss on the graves of those who sacrificed everything to drive out the British, and establish the United States of America.

Wow. Some people should keep a few things to themselves, rather than expose them in a public forum.

 

Your knowledge of history is a joke.

 

One of the strictest gun laws in America, hows that? Lib talking heads denying theres a problem doesnt change the fact that Democratically controlled Chicago is no model for stricter gun laws. All youve got are tiny foreign countries to try and prove your point. Aint working.

 

Name one tyrannical government in history that didn't start off by disarming the populace.

 

Typo in the op. It’s Nick Cruz, not Nick Cage.

 

No one is asking you to hand over the Second Amendment. Again, when will you separate the Second Amendment from safety? Using it as a shield goes only so far. Nowhere in my OP did I imply we repeal the Second Amendment.

 

Nick Cage is angry.

 

And once again, we have a stalemate.

Gun availability isn't going to change. Mental health programs aren't going to be expanded.

Tune in for the next mass shooting.

So far, Trump gets to be number one on the Presidential scale for most dead school children in his first year of office.
Congratulations for making the U.S. so safe that we wouldn't believe how safe we are ...

 

It’s alarming that firearms are distributed so easily, it makes up more than the citizens of this country. The federal government should not have allowed these guns to go unregistered. You have to have registration for your car, right? Then why shouldn’t the same apply to guns. That number would reduce significantly if the government took back guns that were unregistered and allowed its citizens to have guns that were registered. That’s not speaking out of emotion, it’s speaking out of common sense.

 

Arming yourself is the sole method you can take to even partially guarantee your safety.

My fiance is a teacher. She wants to be armed so she can defend herself and her charges. Why won't you let her protect them? Why must she be defenseless?

 

I can't say I would be thinking clearly in the state of grief. I don't I think we should make policy decisions based on passion.

 

This fictional scenario is, in reality, not a valid one. I will, nevertheless, endeavor to explain why I disagree with it.

in 2004, scores of children were slaughtered at their school in Beslan, Russia. While the flames of that tragedy were still burning experts in security and public safety descended upon the site to investigate and study the incident to figure out what had been done wrong and what might be done to prevent such in the future. A veritable laundry list of recommendations was released. To date NONE OF THEM have been implemented in American schools. Why? They were blocked by "educators" who thought they were too expensive, or they resented being required to undergo proper security response training, or they felt kids shouldn't have to be educated under the watchful eye of properly equipped security personnel. Then, these same people shouted for gun control, because they rejected having to take responsibility for themselves or the children they were tasked with caring for. Gun control is an empty panacea, created by people who want to abdicate their own responsibilities.

As for the Constitutional issues, the plain truth is that we cannot ignore the Constitution merely because we find it inconvenient. The 2nd Amendment exists for a reason. If our society decides it is time to give upon our Constitutional rights, then we can pursue an amendment to make infringements upon those rights legitimate. If we ignore the Constitution when we find it convenient, we render the rest of it moot.

The Constitutional issues aside, there is no avoiding the hard fact that the genie is out of the bottle when it comes to guns. There are literally MILLIONS of guns out there. When you ban something, as we tried to ban alcohol, or drugs, you create a black market in it. Guns are stolen every day from police and military sources. Drug lanes can also carry select-fire military grade weapons from Mexico or South America. Gun control affects only the law-abiding; not the criminal. Gun control is nothing but a business opportunity for them.

Children dying is a horrific tragedy. It never should have happened. The right solution has been in front of us all along, but it has been opposed and blocked in favor of calls for a spurious policy that makes some people feel like "something is being done" but which in reality fundamentally endangers us and our political liberty.

 

What if a student hijacks the damn bus and runs children over?

What if....

 

You can't ignore the 2nd Amendment because you find it inconvenient, and it's a hollow comparison.

"Safety" is a myth. We can protect our kids; we can't make them safe. We need proper security measures; not gun control.

 

Yes, that is fake news. I called on this poster TWICE to admit he was wrong but he refused. He posted this meme in another thread.

 

Let me remind you what I was responding to.

Me..........Are you saying you think gun possession is illegal in Chicago?

You...........Yes, thats my understanding. Wanna spend another 20 seconds proving me right?

I'm disappointed, but not surprised, to see you lack the integrity to admit you are wrong.

 

the second amendment was never tied to safety.

a shield against what?

 

Fail? Your argument prove nothing in as far as Switzerland requires its citizens to own a gun. You can't prove that Switzerland have the least homocide rate. That meme is a fail, and so is your argument.

 

Like most rational, reasoned people, my political positions are not affected by my emotions.

 

Still wrong.

 

All Crime is not federal, nor should it be

Some are some aren't. A lot of stuff is just a function of taking proper precautions in the mixing process. By the way black powder is fairly widely available.

 

I guess the President has a long way to go to reach the most dead school children while in office that Obama reached...