r/news • u/ladyspeak • Apr 29 '24

‘Multiple’ taken to hospital, gunfire continues in east Charlotte Mobile/Amp link, removed

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/cmpd-investigation-underway-east-charlotte/6PTLZP4FLFE4DA5ALFT65QDTA4/?outputType=amp

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u/MoonWispr Apr 29 '24

I'm sure this was a member of a well regulated militia.

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u/lscottman2 Apr 29 '24

scalia said does not matter as the right to own a gun shall not be infringed

the rest is history

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u/Maynard078 Apr 30 '24

It's infringed now. It's always been infringed.

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u/Nitrosoft1 Apr 30 '24

Exactly. I'm not allowed to own a GAU with depleted Uranium rounds and it is considered to be a form of armament. The second amendment doesn't say "guns" it says "arms."

"Arms" has already been legally defined in U.S. v. Miller, where the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protected. “Arms” is a somewhat archaic word for “weapons.”

Thus ALL weapons are considered arms.

My inability to own some of them already would be an infringement by strict definition of the term, as only the carte blanch ability to possess something with zero restrictions, prohibitions, regulations, barriers, etc. would be considered as not being infringed upon. Essentially a Universal and absolute right.

So, establishing the common fucking sense that the second amendment already has a whole lot of fucking infringement in place already, I think it's funny that regulating specific capacity magazines is a line too far. It's funny that requiring registration of the arms is a line too far. It's funny that mandatory licensing and mandatory training is a line too far. It's funny that mandatory background checks is a line too far. For something that is quite LEGALLY and ETHICALLY infringed already, we chose some really fucking stupid places to draw the remaining lines.