Re: Second Amendment
I'm glad Matt from Denver mentioned technology advances in guns. Which seems to be the one of the other major argument gun control advocates claim proves that the 2nd Amendment doesn't give anyone the right to own any longer. Matt makes the very correct point that this isn't the same country as the late 18th century. And the fact that technology has advanced diminishes none of the ideas in the Bill of Rights. Otherwise, one could say that the First Amendment doesn't apply to anything but newspapers, pamphlets and shouting on a street corner. If improvements in technology since 1789 preclude these rights wouldn't that mean that the First amendment doesn't apply to the telegraph, telephone, television, radio, satellite, cable, walkie talkies, bullhorns, cell phones,the internet and a host of other communication methods that didn't exist then? No, of course not.
I do not now and never have owned a gun, in fact I've only shot a .22 once...about 25 years ago as a kid. I just happen to believe in the entirety of the Bill of Rights, and as Matt pointed out, specifically in its Spirit. I'm not a cafeteria civil libertarian.
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