re: #110 Great White Snark

it’s a glaringly obvious poison pill approach. Seriously, all the progressives, liberals, Democrats that really thing civilian based militias are a good idea please step up and tell me I’m wrong.

Plus if we think we want the rights and laws in the constitution are actually limited to the technology of the late 1700’s think again please. We would then no longer have any civil protections from surveillance of and technology more advanced than quill pen and paper, and the handset lead type printing press. There would be no such thing as protected speech on radio, let alone the internet. Sedition laws would apply to blogs. Police cameras would be for the prosecution only. FOIA? LOL.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I still don’t see any major holes in the idea that 2nd amendment rights should be strongly linked to responsibility.

For example, eliminate the legal concept of accidental discharge of a gun. There is only deliberate firing and negligent firing, and if anything goes wrong just follow the ordinary principles of criminal and civil liability as they relate to intentional and negligent acts.