January 18, 2013 - 8:27 am
The latest Rasmussen poll just hit my inbox, and you’re going to love it. Assuming, I mean, that you aren’t one of those vile, gun-grabbing progs. Read:
Two-out-of-three Americans recognize that their constitutional right to own a gun was intended to ensure their freedom.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of American Adults think the purpose of the Second Amendment is to make sure that people are able to protect themselves from tyranny. Only 17% disagree, while another 18% are not sure.
It’s that 17% always claiming tyranny comes from the Right, too. Now if they really believe that, why do they want to outlaw guns?
Well Zeke, you can take comfort in the fact that 17% of Americans agree with your ignorant mockery of our principles. That’s fewer than believe in alien abduction, FYI.
Isn’t roughly twice the amount below the age of 50 who think they’ll ever see a penny from Social Security?
Penn&Teller’s BS kinda crystallized what I think the text is trying to say. A free nation (i.e. not a vassal state) must have a well regulated (trained) militia to remain so. Comma. Therefore since is impractical and unwise to disarm the state (government), the people of that state get to have guns too.
In addition to standing up for the 2A they had a show about how unwise the war on drugs is.
And although P&T oppose capital punishment I think they do so based on a reasonable principle: the government shouldn’t be trusted with the power to kill its citizens.
Governments alwys have that power, and aways will. The question is one of authority (because government doesn’t have rights — only person have rights).
I accept your correction… it’s a subtle but important distinction. I’m normally more careful.