What if government had a firearm "remote control shutoff"?

calibrator · 08-16-2011, 12:01 AM

When I enlisted in the USN back in '75, I took ALOT of tests for placement. In Boot Camp, my CC told me in our interview that he had never seen someone score so high in the "Abstract Reasoning and Logic" category as I had . I feel that the writer of this piece is "reaching" for a comp. The ability to communicate would be more likely "Freedom Of Speech" related than 2A. I STILL don't have a cell phone, and don't want one (I'm 58). Curtailing your Comms will be the first thing that is done when Martial Law is imposed (no more Internet either, OH NO, what will everyone here do then). I think that since the F.C.C. grants ALL licenses to providers, it can just as easily revoke them with any twisted logic they like. This is the 21st Century, if you lsiten to Progressives, they will say that the Constitution should be a "Living Document" and change as the times dictate. I do not agree.

ithacaartist · 08-16-2011, 10:41 AM

"...the Constitution should be a "Living Document" and change as the times dictate. I do not agree."

I detect a contradiction. The constitution has built-in accommodation for being changed. Um, they're called amendments. The process for amending the constitution is outlined by the constitution itself. Guess what? Without the capacity to change, the constitution would have no second amendment, so there you go.

Governments that do not adapt to reality are what frighten me. Those without secularity are doomed to choke on their own religious dogma. Dictatorships may last for a while, but looking at the former USSR, the Third Reich, and now the Middle East, gives a glimpse of what happens to governments that are mired in their own dogma.

The things it takes to properly run a country are reason and logic, and I'd rather not opt out of that.

Moderators, a little help here. Didn't this thread turn almost immediately into a political discussion? I laud your policy concerning this, and wish it extended to the other bugaboo, the open expression of religious thinking. Politics and religion have no place on a forum about collecting Lugers unless the references are connected to the collecting by historical context. Period.

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08-16-2011, 12:01 AM	#1
calibrator User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Cave Creek Posts: 340 Thanks: 67 Thanked 271 Times in 108 Posts	When I enlisted in the USN back in '75, I took ALOT of tests for placement. In Boot Camp, my CC told me in our interview that he had never seen someone score so high in the "Abstract Reasoning and Logic" category as I had . I feel that the writer of this piece is "reaching" for a comp. The ability to communicate would be more likely "Freedom Of Speech" related than 2A. I STILL don't have a cell phone, and don't want one (I'm 58). Curtailing your Comms will be the first thing that is done when Martial Law is imposed (no more Internet either, OH NO, what will everyone here do then). I think that since the F.C.C. grants ALL licenses to providers, it can just as easily revoke them with any twisted logic they like. This is the 21st Century, if you lsiten to Progressives, they will say that the Constitution should be a "Living Document" and change as the times dictate. I do not agree.

08-16-2011, 10:41 AM	#2
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,401 Thanks: 7,558 Thanked 2,643 Times in 1,393 Posts	"...the Constitution should be a "Living Document" and change as the times dictate. I do not agree." I detect a contradiction. The constitution has built-in accommodation for being changed. Um, they're called amendments. The process for amending the constitution is outlined by the constitution itself. Guess what? Without the capacity to change, the constitution would have no second amendment, so there you go. Governments that do not adapt to reality are what frighten me. Those without secularity are doomed to choke on their own religious dogma. Dictatorships may last for a while, but looking at the former USSR, the Third Reich, and now the Middle East, gives a glimpse of what happens to governments that are mired in their own dogma. The things it takes to properly run a country are reason and logic, and I'd rather not opt out of that. Moderators, a little help here. Didn't this thread turn almost immediately into a political discussion? I laud your policy concerning this, and wish it extended to the other bugaboo, the open expression of religious thinking. Politics and religion have no place on a forum about collecting Lugers unless the references are connected to the collecting by historical context. Period.