2nd Amendment

So right now a great deal of people are talking about gun control. I would like to first immediately put forth that I support gun rights and responsible gun ownership in general, for multiple reasons. I'm not going to go into them tonight. My point tonight is that the United States Constitution is NOT one of those reasons.

Read it.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Someone today said something about putting "limitations" on the Constitutional Amendments. That was the last straw that ended up creating this post.

The purpose of the Second Amendment is to allow ordinary people to keep the equipment necessary to engage in WARFARE and paramilitary actions.  I'm sorry, but hunting, sporting, and even self-defense from petty criminals are NOT explicitly covered. Hand guns, having limited direct military application, are not explicitly covered. No one needs to limit the Second Amendment because it is already limited. It does not say "...the right of the people to keep and bear Any Arms They Want." It even has the word "regulated" right there.

"REGULATED." IN THE CONSTITUTION. IN 1789.

Trying to twist the meaning of the Constitution to suit your own agenda is a game for liberals. Don't do that.

Using over-simplified sound bite arguments, though, is a game for Faux News. Don't do that either.

I'm sorry, but educated liberals know what the Second Amendment actually says. You guys talking about it over and over again has zero effect whatsoever on the people pushing for tighter regulations, and using it on the masses who have never bothered to look it up is simply unethical. Plus the whole thing makes you look ignorant. I'm sorry, but it does.

So PLEASE, whenever discussing gun control, don't use bad arguments. It discredits you, doing more harm than good. You know much, much better arguments. Use those instead.

EDIT for everyone pushing gun bans: No, the Constitution does not explicitly protect hand gun ownership, but it DOES protect military-spec equipment such as fully automatic assault rifles, with room for conditions. The whole national dialogue just seems ironic to me.

Introduction

Hello Internet.

I go by Grey. I am a late-twenties, single, male college drop-out living in Texas. I have created this page primarily to keep my longer, or at least more significant, rants and musings off of Facebook, but also as a space to fill with deeper explorations that simply are not well-suited for Facebook at all.

I will expand this first explanatory post considerably in the future, but for right now... onwards to the issue of the day!