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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (43093)	12/13/2005 6:55:21 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

The commonly accepted definition of arms in the context of the Second Amendment means hand held firearms that fire once each time the trigger is pulled. If we just go with that, we're on firm ground. When the amendment was written, the framers did not mean artillery and bigger weapons that had not been invented yet are irrelevant. The more time we spend defending the illogical position that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own nuclear weapons and machine guns the weaker our case and the more chance there is for the whole thing to go down the tubes. I don't support the government acting unconstitutionally, but I don't believe it is necessary to amend the constitution either. Once a constitutional convention is convened, the whole ball of wax is up for grabs and we don't want that.