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Guns In Paradise
I do not have any friends or family in Paradise, PA, but I have spent a fair amount of time there--it's a regular stop on our trips to New York City.We often drive on the back roads, and I know exactly where the Amish school is located. The Amish school where this Monday, a mentally deranged man with a large supply of weapons gunned down 10 innocent little girls.
So I don't give a flying fuck for your insistence that the Constitution says you have the "right" to bear arms.
The Bill of Rights is NOT talking about handguns or assault rifles or other instruments whose sole purpose is to kill or maim human beings. This is all the Second Amendment says:
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"
The drafters of the Constitution wanted Americans able to defend their country as a militia. They never dreamed about testosterone laden morons like Bush, Cheney and their lunatic fringe cronies who get off owning weapons they "need" as much as a fish needs a bicycle. A hunting rifle is one thing. But a pistol? A semi-automatic? What are you going to hunt with that?
Most of the Founding Fathers WERE fathers. Thomas Jefferson was the father of 2 adored daughters, and many beloved granddaughters. And I am damn sure he and his fellow authors of our Constitution sure as hell wouldn't have wanted to give people the right to own a gun and shoot down other peoples' daughters!
So wave your flags and scream about your rights. But there are 5 innocent little girls--most of them the age of my own little girl--dead in Paradise, Pennsylvania.
Go look their parents--and the parents of all the other little boys and girls lost to gun violence--in the eye and tell them that your "right" to own a gun is greater than their children's right to live...................
