Quote (Santara @ Aug 17 2015 03:27pm)
Over 70 years ago means it isn't valid as an erosion of our rights over time? And the guy wasn't engaged in interstate commerce, he was growing crops for consumption by animals on his own farm. Congress should never have a say in how a person chooses to feed himself.
If we ever come to need the 2nd amendment, it will be the military - with actual machine guns - that does the oppressing.
Tell me more about standards of living growth, Mr Wealth Gap.
Kelo v New London allowed the government to condemn unblighted private property not for public good, but for private benefit. It is absolutely theft.
Okay, so the SCOTUS made some pretty bad rulings. They did Citizens United as well which completely ignored precedent and made elections less free, you forgot to mention that.
But these are instances that seem to affect like four individuals. Like I said, I can get better weapons than the police have right now. I have friends with machine guns. They don't have helicopters, but it is only because they can't afford one. That is just economies of scale at work. Also, I think our army would mutiny before they attacked American civilians outright unless they were engaging in some pretty heinous activity, like the Branch Davidians or w/e where you had sex-slavery of underaged girls + massive accumulation of guns in a compound + religious devotion etc.
Compared to the great advanced in rights these four cases are nothing in relevance. Think of the Civil Rights Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Violence Against Women act, plus things like women's suffrage, the ending of chattel slavery and eventually the ending of segregation and Jim Crow, marriage equality, the massive growth of the American middle class and the economic prosperity that created....
One person having trouble with the government because he was suspected of bootlegging stuff or GOP-signed gun control pales in comparison to the transgressions that has been remedied over time. Thinking otherwise means you're a (christian) white male whose shockingly out of touch.
This post was edited by Skinned on Aug 18 2015 11:56am