[TheForge] todays shooting in school.

[Rob Fertner]

I believe Penn & Teller answer you best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhXOuuHcjbs&feature=player_embedded#!


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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of James Binnion
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 3:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] todays shooting in school.

No, the 2nd amendments context in its time was to provide the new government
with an armed body in case the British decided to try to take back the
wayward colonies. Our standing army and navy were mostly nonexistent and in
no way equipped to withstand a full on assault from the British. So to have
a "well regulated militia" to add their muskets to the cause would be a
great improvement. To try to apply the 2nd amendment to the situation we are
in in the 21st century is ludicrous, any foe we have as a nation that is
crazy enough to try to tackle us with arms will do so with weapons systems
that will not be in the least bit affected by any number of armed citizens.
Any other interpretation of the purpose of the 2nd amendment is later day
weasel wording and obfuscation to support the rather lucrative weapons sales
in the US and is driven by the fear and macho based advertising done by said
weapons merchants. Given the annual number of homicides with firearms is
about 11,000 per
  year one has about a 1 in 26,000 chance of being a fatality from one.
Actually much less because many if not the majority of those deaths result
from altercations between professional criminals. So given that the annual
death rate is about 8 in a thousand  with the exception for a very few
professions and a tiny number of other affected individuals the argument
that one needs a fire arm for self protection is purely a figment of the
fear based marketing of the arms merchants.

For a good example of such advertising look at Bushmasters advertising
program that poses the question,  are you man enough to have a Bushmaster? 

http://www.bushmaster.com/press-release-050710.asp


On Dec 17, 2012, at 1:11 PM, <rfertner at cox.net> <rfertner at cox.net> wrote:

> This is why it is constitutional. The Constitution is about self-defence
and not hunting.


James Binnion
jbin at well.com



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