In response to
The Blood of Innocents

Craigclev in MT
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 10:41 AM

As normal, Rush was wrong by several orders of magnitude. The worst mass killing did come about from an explosion or actually two in Japan. Does that mean by your logic that in order to counter the military we should all have the right to our own personal nuke? The second amendment is one sentence long and is simple to determine its meaning. The only thing difficult about it is whether or not it actually includes an individual right to bear arms outside of a militia. The current administration, as hated as it is by Rush and others, is the first to acknowledge the individual right to bear arms outside of the militia derived from the second amendment. Look it up I did and it's true.

Compared to the authorities we are already disarmed and there is no way for individual citizens to usurp the government's authority thankfully. I certainly do not want an armed group of my neighbors taking the law into their own hands. Whether or not we can own superficially converted automatic weapons or extended round clips will not change the balance of power between you and the police one iota so the slippery slope argument is fallacious. I enjoy blasting off a bunch of rounds at the range much as anyone but I am more than willing to change clips often and to not own the most bad ass looking gun out there if it will keep that same gun out of the hands of nuts like your in law. The amount of enjoyment I get from owning something is not equivalent to any one person's life.