I believe Michael needs to read more history. When he says that America has always had guns, the truth is that a MINORITY of Americans own guns.
I grew up in Appalachia where most people had guns- usually a .22 or a .410 shotgun for hunting. No one owned handguns or military weaponry. It was a very different style of gun ownership.
I believe Michael needs to read more history. When he says that America has always had guns, the truth is that a MINORITY of Americans own guns.
I grew up in Appalachia where most people had guns- usually a .22 or a .410 shotgun for hunting. No one owned handguns or military weaponry. It was a very different style of gun ownership.
And it was only in 2008 that the Supreme Court interpreted the Second Amendment as applying to individual gun ownership.
American’s history with guns has not always been this “guns at all costs or you are infringing upon my rights” rhetoric that we now hear. In the West in the 19th century, many towns demanded that citizens not bring guns into the town.
Ronald Reagan went after gun “rights” in 1967 when he signed the Mulford Act (aimed at the Black Panthers) which profited the public carrying of loaded guns without a permit.
And In the 1920s-30s when crime could involve Tommy guns, it was only organized crime that used those guns. Common citizens did not own such weapons.
Our country’s relationship to guns has been all over the board and our current iteration of gun “rights” is due to gun manufacturers’ profits, the NRA, and lobbying from what was once considered the far right.
A knowledge of history complicates the picture in such a way that we come to understand that the interpretation of the Second Amendment that we currently cite is extremely new.
I don't revere freedom like I used to. There is so very little good use being made of it. When freedom of speech permits book banning at the same time it protects commercial and political falsehood, what good is it?
Freedom to own firearms translates to more than daily mass shootings.
Religious freedom means Joel Osteen.
If only we could have a dictator of guaranteed benevolence.
I believe Michael needs to read more history. When he says that America has always had guns, the truth is that a MINORITY of Americans own guns.
I grew up in Appalachia where most people had guns- usually a .22 or a .410 shotgun for hunting. No one owned handguns or military weaponry. It was a very different style of gun ownership.
And it was only in 2008 that the Supreme Court interpreted the Second Amendment as applying to individual gun ownership.
American’s history with guns has not always been this “guns at all costs or you are infringing upon my rights” rhetoric that we now hear. In the West in the 19th century, many towns demanded that citizens not bring guns into the town.
Ronald Reagan went after gun “rights” in 1967 when he signed the Mulford Act (aimed at the Black Panthers) which profited the public carrying of loaded guns without a permit.
And In the 1920s-30s when crime could involve Tommy guns, it was only organized crime that used those guns. Common citizens did not own such weapons.
Our country’s relationship to guns has been all over the board and our current iteration of gun “rights” is due to gun manufacturers’ profits, the NRA, and lobbying from what was once considered the far right.
A knowledge of history complicates the picture in such a way that we come to understand that the interpretation of the Second Amendment that we currently cite is extremely new.
I don't revere freedom like I used to. There is so very little good use being made of it. When freedom of speech permits book banning at the same time it protects commercial and political falsehood, what good is it?
Freedom to own firearms translates to more than daily mass shootings.
Religious freedom means Joel Osteen.
If only we could have a dictator of guaranteed benevolence.