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Technology has rendered the Second Amendment obsolete

Did he have to pull a trigger to discharge each round?

Yes.

But the fact is that the volume of fire produced by Lanza’s semi-automatic arsenal was substantively the same as the fully automatic “gangster guns” effectively outlawed by Congress in 1934 and again in 1968.

That ban did no real violence to the 2nd Amendment, so it’s hard to see how constraining the availability of high-tech military knockoffs would do so today.

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Given that, I am not sure how having the right to guns gives anyone a fighting chance against the government. What am I missing here?

peter_griffin on December 18, 2012 at 2:23 PM

I know! Those founders must have been out of their minds giving farmers and blacksmiths the right to arm themselves against troops that had just beaten the best trained army in the world!

CurtZHP on December 18, 2012 at 2:57 PM

Man these fear mongers are really grasping for straws aren’t they. No laws will get through congress, at least not the House and they know it. The more and more they try to take an individuals right to protect themselves away the more push back they will get, the more people will buy guns, the people will purchase ammo and the more people will join the NRA.

MoreLiberty on December 18, 2012 at 12:20 PM

I’m beginning to think that’s the only thing keeping this economy afloat.

txhsmom on December 18, 2012 at 3:04 PM

I know! Those founders must have been out of their minds giving farmers and blacksmiths the right to arm themselves against troops that had just beaten the best trained army in the world!

CurtZHP on December 18, 2012 at 2:57 PM

It’s how they fought. The minute men and fighters of the American rebellion didn’t fight on the red coat’s terms. They fought, for the most part, as guerilla fighters.

MoreLiberty on December 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM

Well, from this Wiki page, gangsters preferred the Thompson with drum barrels and drum magazines came in 50 and 100 rounds capacities. Generally, rate of fire through stick and drum ranged from 600 to 1500 rounds per minute, depending on model and magazine.

Clearly, the NY Post is willfully ignorant of the history and technology they wish to use as the basis for their argument, history and technology I just learned about it the last five minutes.

They also don’t have a good handle on the meaning of substantive or blink of an eye.

But that’s why they took up the career of journalism, because they prefer pomposity over accuracy.

Dusty on December 18, 2012 at 3:43 PM

A ragtag band of civilians armed with whatever they can get their hands on are no match for a well trained military force armed with the latest and greatest weapons technology. Just ask the people of Afghanistan.

Rip Ford on December 19, 2012 at 11:19 AM

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