[suijurisfreeman]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (castille,)
</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Zeebadee,)
If the right to own guns was included in the Bill of Rights in order to enable the citizenry to rise up against an oppressive government, then why are the guns that would be most useful for that purpose (e.g. assault and other automatic rifles) outlawed? If only "safe" guns are going to be allowed, then we might as well limit the right to own them and require special training and permits for any individual to possess one.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>


Why not let the people arm themselves with bombs? Grenades? Or nuclear bombs?

Thats because to use "unsafe" guns requires a lot of training. Otherwise you're just going to end up shooting your entire family and friends during Christmas.


Would YOU feel safe if every teenager walked on the street armed with an AKSU assault rifle? Or grenades? Or nuclear weapons?

Why not let the common people arm themselves with nukes so they can overthrow the US government and kill themselves in the process?<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

"let", "let the common people"? By what lawful authority does the government presume to "let" or "not let" the "common people" do that which is the right of a free and sovereign Human Being?

Exactly who, what is "the common people"? Do free Human Beings exist in your world castille? Perhaps you've abducated your natural, inherent and inalienable rights, but I have not! A brief quote from Samuel Adams: "It is the greatest absurdity to suppose it would be in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defense of those very rights; the principle of which are life, liberty, and property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." (Quoted in Wells, Life of Samuel Adams, 1:504.)