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The Endgame
Aaron Spuler is a firearms enthusiast and recreational shooter. Follow more or his work at The Weapon Blog
A professor from George Washington University has let slip that gun control is not the end goal — complete disarmament is the end goal.
Advocates of gun control frequently cite the much lower levels of gun violence in other developed nations — such as Canada and the UK — in support of the measures they promote. However, these very low levels of gun violence have not been achieved by gun control but — by domestic disarmament.
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One may say that the Supreme Court, after 250 years in which the Second Amendment was read as allowing only a well-regulated militia to have guns, recently reinterpreted it to mean that there is an individualized right to own guns. This suggests that we may have to get to domestic disarmament through the back door.
Make the gun manufacturers liable for harm done with their products. Ban the sale of ammunition. And vote for a president that will add to the Supreme Court those who will read the Second Amendment as written.
I won’t even get in to the part where the entire point of the Second Amendment as written by the founders is completely misrepresented here. In 1776, the general populace was the militia.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amitai-etzioni/needed-domestic-disarmame_b_8739712.html
Source: http://www.weapon-blog.com/2015/12/the-endgame/
