Letters to the Editor
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It's not Guns and it's not Americans
It's both of those things together. Sorry but there is no legal solution to that problem. We are violent halfwits and we love to pretend that being violent halfwits is our godgiven right.
Way back when when they were banging out the Constitution, no one would have seriously wondered whether guns would be taken away. It's absurd. In other words, the clause is not there to ensure that people keep their guns. It goes without saying that people back in the 1780's had guns. No, the point of the clause is to ensure there really is a 'well regulated militia', an organized or semi organized force held in abeyance to make sure that NO usurpers whether internal or external would ever imperil the nation or the government. It has nothing at all to do with you, your redneck buddies and gun shows. Zero. Sorry but that's the way it is. Now, the fact remains is that we as Americans don't care about that. We don't worry about what the Constitution says or means. We're idiots, literalists because it suits our stupid selfish purposes to read it that way. Why? Because we loves us our guns.
BTW, and for what it's worth, George Washington, that Stalinst commie hippie autocrat you Republicans love to hate, HATED the militias because they were universally undisciplined, violent, untrained, and more of a danger to everyone around them than they were to the Redcoats. In other words, you, your Sig Sauer are precisely the kind of whackos that Washington had little need for.
But lucky for you you have a Federally protected fantasy life.