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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
On a slightly related tangent, the Pentagon spends money every year on research for a nuclear hand grenade. Figure that one out.
I think we should also have state militias, as the amendment reads. With nuclear hand grenades.
Taken literally, it seems like an amendment that sort of lacked vision, which I think is sort of uncharacteristic of the constitution as a whole (if Hamilton wrote it it would've been different  ).
But to be fair, what about the 1st Amendment? Does the line "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" really mean that kids can't have prayer in school? What about "Under God"??? Is that Congress codifying a specific religion? |
I say you can take out "Under God" if you allow the kids in school to bring Bibles and pray at will. Under God only specifies monothiestic male dieties which is the belief of most of our albeit deistic founding fathers. Now the most popular religion is athiesm. I think the government does infringe on freedom of religion a bit to much like taking away tax exempt status for churches supporting political causes. (after all the bible didn't promise seperation of church and state, the state did, its not an even field and it's not meant to be) The state should not enforce religion but niether should it endorse any of them (and yes athiesm is a religion, hell buddhism has no gods and it's a religion)
As for on the subject. I think you should be able to own something automatic or under but ONLY if you get the gun registered, you get fingerprinted and sample fired bullets are taken. After all most murders don't happen with automatics (outside of gangs), those are usually just for collecting.
I think the laws should be much stronger on buying, selling, owning, and using guns. But I think it's alright to have them in general. But honestly i don't know much on the subject nor do i have any strong stand one way or another outside of that damn gunshow loophole i think needs to stop.
as for the nuclear nades I think they were better in perfect dark