@BalooUriza Saying the same untrue thing a second time wont make it true.
No it really cant, and thats a really dishonest interpritation.
For starters it is **obvious** it is a exemplary clause, not a qualifying one. I think thats pretty obvious and if you cant see that just change the language to something youd support and it becomes obvious.
Second, the people who literally wrote that amendment have been quoted and cited dozens if not hundreds of times explicitly stating that isnt what was meant, and the courts at the time made it clear that isnt what was meant.
There is literally no **honest** interpretation that could possibly see it that way, thats just absurd IMO.
But more importantly what i think they should have a right to doesnt matter. What matters is there is a top level law (amendment) that does grant them that right. So long as that exists yes, it should be upheld and they should have that right.
Now if we agree certain weapons should be illegal, im fine with that. then make it a new amendment and do it the right way.
Some of those **america** as a whole cant bear due to international treaty, which would supercede any right for an individual to bear them.
But tanks and bazookas, sure.
Well only scotus ruled that, courts need to agree with scotus.. but yea it has been the interpritation for quite some time.. but it is a **horrible** interpritation.
Now to be clear I support abortion, and I was saying for years that it was a cheat to even attempt toi use that amendment the way it was to protect abortion, it made no logical sense... and here we area.
I may dislike the fact that abortion is no longer protected, but it was absolutely the correct interpretation of the law in its current state.
/such a law would be great just because it may take some time before SCOTUS acts, if it will act.
All I am saying is that the two arent comparable... Abortion has no amendment and democrats have made no effort to propose one (but republicans have proposed anti-abortion amendments many many times).
Cant really compare that to guns where republicans already have an amendment, secured it as best they could with getting a friendly scotus, and generally are working against bad-faith interpretations rather than lack of action on their parts.
The 2A already makes it illegal to infringe on the right to bear arms, that includes the right to carry them. So any laws like that shouldnt be needed if it werent for our really ass-backwards SCOTUS rulings.
Getting clarence on the SCOTUS likely already fixed that we just need some gun cases to make it back to SCOTUS for reconsideration. My hope is that the now republican SCOTUS will actually enforce the 2A as it should have been all along, that is, to strike down **all** laws limiting access and the right to bear arms.
Because we already have the strongest law and protection imaginable, there is literally an amendment that says that access to guns cant be infringed, it doesnt even mention the possiblity for exceptions.
The problem is theleft has largely ignored the amendment and violated it. This isnt the republicans fault.
Now abortion, for that there is no amendment and no real protections, unlike gun laws.
Ivebeen saying the same thing.. there is a reason they never proposed an amendment on the issue... because they WANT it to be a weak or non existant right so people have a reason to vote for them.
Regardless of how close to the center Bernie is that makes absolute no sense.
No matter how arbitrarily close someone is to the center, you can always be closer. Much like the real number scale there is infinite room to always have someone still left but closer to center than anyone else.
Well no, the DNC is clearly down the line left. Though they are closer to center than most of europes left
@weepjp yea i can understand that. Its a lot of work and the network just keeps growing. Youve done amazing so far!
@weepjp ahh i misunderstood that this was about wordpress. Makes sense, good luck and thank you
Nope, while those measures can reduce the spread and are fine measures to take. They would not, unfortunately eliminate it.
@weepjp may have been a mistranslation. I read your message as asking if we thought japanese ticker submissions should be given priority. I answered no.
@weepjp No ;)
Probably because they felt they had a right to choose for themselves and were willing to try any angle they could to make that happen.
I highly doubt anyone thought it was truely a religious requirement of their religion.
@garyackerman It depends, if true then yes, if not then no.
And just so you are clear, what I said was that both were "like that bully on school that doesn't care about anything but causing chaos"
How you can take that to mean I implied they are equivelant in every way, and thus if one does X then other must do X is just a complete failure on your part to discuss faithfully, because we both know what I said and that your comparisons are just trolling at best.
Time for an updated #introduction post
I'm currently an Engineering Manager for a #WordPress host and have spent most of my #tech career in WordPress. Before that I've been a teacher, airline captain and even made money with my #trumpet for a little while.
I'm a recent transplant back to #Chicago but we do hope to continue our move to #Portugal in the coming years.
I spend my free time reading, writing and thinking about things like #privacy, #sustainability and #ethics.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE