Originally Posted By: The Italian Stallionette
I'm with you there too PB. However, I am also for a background check on these people who want guns. Is that something the gun toters feel unreasonable? confused I guess I don't get their "bitch". Is there a law proposed changing this? I have heard Obama say many times, he is NOT gonna take their right to bear arms away. If it's the background check that pisses them off, I say "tough."

This is why this "macho" demonstration baffles me. What IS their gripe?

TIS

FWIW, my nephews and all my in-laws were big on hunting and I am NOT against it in that respect.


TIS, as the recent Heller Supreme Court case illustrated, the 2nd amendment only applies to actions by or on behalf of the Congress. The President has no constitutional authority to act on his own in this regard. In fact, it may be unconstitutional for the Congress to restrict firearms even on Capitol grounds or even in the White House. It all comes down to "original intent", what the ratifiers of the 2nd amendment meant by its words. But that is a gigantic argument for another thread.


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