The only war I see here is the one between us and the anti's.
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We as gun owners are very, very disorganized, and are very bad at protesting. There should be a protest at the state house and a sit in on the state house floor, hallway etc.. But we all have jobs and obey the law and that works against us.
Go to 6:40 if you care to do so. He is right on the mark.
My experience is similar. And the question of what else can we be doing needs some answers. I agree that social media is helping to keep people updated and organized but more can be done to educate non gun owners on the issues. If this is not done then they'll continue to learn about guns through the media or anti-gun politicians as they have been. I try to educate those within my circle (friends/family) but the "weapons of war" and "gun violence epidemic" rhetoric is almost non-stop.I've been to the goal rally, the lobbying day event where I talked to both my senator and rep, I have written letters as well and signed petitions. I donate to goal and the NRA (I probably need to send some to Comm2A for all the amazing work they do), go to the friends of the NRA banquet and end up donating more. Exactly three years ago I did absolutely nothing because I didn't have an LTC and had no skin in the game. Now I see all the misinformation and outright lies that are spewed from the people who hate me. What else can I be doing? I look at it this way, I am at least another voice that a few years ago didn't exist, and to be honest I really think that we are becoming a lot better organized than we have in the past because of social media.
“We have no power to extend Second Amendment protection to the weapons of war that the Heller decision explicitly excluded from such coverage,” King wrote in the 4th Circuit opinion, referring to the Supreme Court case known as District of Columbia v. Heller.
I grew up in Maryland, left there at 17 to go to school in Connecticut, but I still have some family and friends in Maryland. I pay some attention to the gun laws there as I still visit. It's one of the very few states on the East Coast that I can't legally carry a firearm in. My friends there tel me it's very difficult to get a permit as a resident.
Continuing on, the Heller Court specified that "weapons that are most useful in military service
— M-16 rifles and the like — may be banned" without infringement upon the Second Amendment right. See 554 U.S. at 627.
It may be objected that if weapons that are most useful in military service—M-16 rifles and the like—may be banned, then the Second Amendment right is completely detached from the prefatory clause. But as we have said, the conception of the militia at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification was the body of all citizens capable of military service, who would bring the sorts of lawful weapons that they possessed at home to militia duty. It may well be true today that a militia, to be as effective as militias in the 18th century, would require sophisticated arms that are highly unusual in society at large. Indeed, it may be true that no amount of small arms could be useful against modern-day bombers and tanks. But the fact that modern developments have limited the degree of fit between the prefatory clause and the protected right cannot change our interpretation of the right.
in Caetano v. Massachusetts, the Court reiterated two points made by Heller: first, "that the Second Amendment ‘extends . . . to . . . arms . . . that were not in existence at the time of the founding’"; and, second, that there is no merit to "the proposition ‘that only those weapons useful in warfare are protected.’" See Caetano, 136 S. Ct. 1027, 1028 (2016) (per curiam)
Caetano said:But Heller actually said that it would be a "startling reading" of Miller to conclude that "only those weapons useful in warfare are protected."
I've been to the goal rally, the lobbying day event where I talked to both my senator and rep, I have written letters as well and signed petitions. I donate to goal and the NRA (I probably need to send some to Comm2A for all the amazing work they do), go to the friends of the NRA banquet and end up donating more. Exactly three years ago I did absolutely nothing because I didn't have an LTC and had no skin in the game. Now I see all the misinformation and outright lies that are spewed from the people who hate me. What else can I be doing? I look at it this way, I am at least another voice that a few years ago didn't exist, and to be honest I really think that we are becoming a lot better organized than we have in the past because of social media.
This issue is sure to make its way up to SCOTUS. It's time to settle this once and for the foreseeable future.
Hopefully Gorsuch isn't a FUDD.
My experience is similar. And the question of what else can we be doing needs some answers. I agree that social media is helping to keep people updated and organized but more can be done to educate non gun owners on the issues. If this is not done then they'll continue to learn about guns through the media or anti-gun politicians as they have been. I try to educate those within my circle (friends/family) but the "weapons of war" and "gun violence epidemic" rhetoric is almost non-stop.
This issue is sure to make its way up to SCOTUS. It's time to settle this once and for the foreseeable future.
Hopefully Gorsuch isn't a FUDD.
In for a dd group buy when it comes upI'd love to actually have some weapons of war, auto weapons and destructive devices
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Doesn't matter, I consider ALL democrats a threat to the 2nd by default.
In for a dd group buy when it comes up
Consider hosting a gun primer in your town. Use the community room at your town hall. Keep it to gun safety and why we own guns. Give correct info on storage, possession and transportation. Do it every few months. Keeps the words "Gun" in the town newspaper/social media. Keep it factual and without politics. That's what you can do/be part of.