Words can yield as much power and be as destructive as almost any weapon. They may not kill instantly like guns can, but words most surely can destroy lives as effectively as a gun can.
I will agree that the 'well regulated militia' part muddies the waters a bit and not having the ability to talk to Tom and the others, it is open to interpretation. I will not try and get inside the heads of the men who wrote the Constitution, but one thing that I can't get away from is that it says the people have a right to bear arms...'people'...not the 'militia'. Maybe its splitting hairs but that is how I see it. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Words don't exist without people either. I understand the "dangerous > people" versus "dangerous guns" argument. One of my favorite lines is > "guns don't kill people....I do." But when we are talking 1st > amendment versus 2nd amendment, we are talking about people exercising > their right to free speech (and assembly and religion) and people > exercising their right to keep and bear arms. You could argue that the > "keeping" part is passive, but the "bearing" part? No so much. Its > people with guns and people with words. > > I'm not arguing that weapons are inherently dangerous. They aren't. In > very rare situations they could go off in a fire, etc, etc, but those > are totally fringe events. I'm talking about the relative utility and > danger of people with words versus people with guns. I still support > the right of people to have and use guns. But I think it is ludicrous > to argue that that is not fundamentally more dangerous than people > having and using words. > > Judah > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Scott Stroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But a gun by itself is merely a paper weight. It is not until we > introduce > > a human does it become dangerous. The same thing can be said for just > about > > any 'weapon'. > > > > How many people have died from gunshots where a person was not handling > the > > gun when it went off (or just before it went off to cover incidents where > > someone dropping a gun may have caused it to fire)? > > > > I am not saying that there is not a problem, btu maybe the problem is not > > with tool, but those who wield them. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:280033 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
