Specifically, they tend to refer to semi-automatic rifles, box magazine fed shotguns and any handgun as being weapons not designed for sporting use on animals in the field. They, therefore, have no legitimate sporting purpose and should not be available for purchase in this country.
Regrettably, some short-sighted, nincompoop hunters out there have tacitly agreed with this premise, because it does not directly threaten their double barrel shotgun or bolt action rifle, causing this idea to gain traction over time among the masses.
To put some perspective on this argument, let me make one simple statement:
This ain't about bucks and ducks.
Can someone out there show me where exactly, in the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, does it say that I may only bear arms that are commonly used to harvest game animals?
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Can anyone merely provide me with a single quote attributed to any one of our founding fathers that supports this notion?
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Not no, but hell no.
Our 2nd Amendment right as law abiding citizens guarantees us the choice to bear the weapons that we feel best suits us, without regard to purpose.
The 2nd Amendment never had anything to do with hunting or sporting purposes.
The 2nd Amendment was written for two reasons:
- To present an armed citizenry able to stand against any foreign forces moving against our country.
- To prevent a tyrannical federal government from overwhelming and subduing the citizens of this country.
Our founding fathers had the wisdom and foresight to know that an invading army would not want to cross our borders because they knew that they would find a rifle barrel pointed at them from behind every blade of grass. Not only would they have our standing army to deal with, but also more significantly, our militia; a group made up of every available able-bodied man who could wield a rifle.
Anyone who would say that the days of simple citizens being able to hold off an invading army have long since passed, need only to look back to the wars fought in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
The Viet Cong were nothing more than simple villagers and farmers, but their rifles allowed them to fend off the American military machine equipped with the latest technology.
The Afghan Mujahideen fought the massive army of the Soviet Union in all their mechanized might, and prevailed. Again, simple armed citizens, not an organized army, holding off a technologically superior force.
An unarmed Jewish population was able provide zero resistance against Hitler and his Nazis, resulting in one of the greatest genocides in the history of mankind.
The Khmer Rouge communists were unopposed by their unarmed citizens, which led to the massacre of more than two million Cambodians in the 1970's.
Anyone willing to look at the lessons provided by history can learn the value of an armed population. This was thought up, designed and implemented by our founding fathers more than two hundred years ago. It is as true today as it was then.
Our 2nd Amendment was never, has never and will never have anything to do with any conditional use of our right to bear arms other than that we can bear whatever we want, whenever we want, for reasons at our discretion.
Anyone who studies this can see the truth.............the quails and whitetails have left the building.
LWM out...............
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