On 10/5/2017 6:05 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> On Thursday’s Mark Levin show, Members of the House and the Senate
> have the answer to mass murder: ban bump stocks. They have a
> bipartisan bill and they are going to pat themselves on the back by
> banning something that most of us have never heard of. If Stephen
> Paddock hadn’t had this device he would have used other devices to
> slaughter as many human beings as he could.
Yep.
Bump-stocks weren't the cause.
Guns weren't the cause.
Bullets weren't the cause.
High hotel rooms weren't the cause.
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...
The cause was an individual named Paddock. That individual is now dead.
Physiological or mental issues (root cause) that drove him to his
actions have not yet been identified, and may never be. The root cause
should be identified if at all possible, and if identified, remedial
actions should be taken to help prevent future incidents such as this.
> Before anybody heard of
> bump stocks and other similar devices, the left was already pushing
> for the evisceration of the 2nd Amendment. Bret Stephens, a pseudo
> conservative, calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment entirely
> and says that James Madison would agree with him.
Amendment II grants nothing, so repeal retracts nothing.
Regardless of the status of Amendment II, the federal government has no
power to deprive the law abiding of their natural right of ownership.