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by Acronym Esq
Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:43 am
Forum: Anti-gun propaganda and other lies!
Topic: Gun control debate history
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Re: Gun control debate history

philbo wrote:The article is reads as a synopsis of a book published a few years ago called The Second Amendment: A Biography by Michael Waldman. Follows the same outline and stresses the same events.
Funny. Looks to me like the outline and language was lifted from an October 2017 podcast by More Perfect called The Gun Show. I didn't read the book.
philbo wrote:Historically it's accurate, but like the book the article is focusing those facts in a conclusion that is more left leaning than perhaps the history of the events actually support.
That was my interpretation of the podcast too. I particularly enjoyed the conclusion that because there were no supreme court cases relating to the 2nd amendment until Heller (ignore Miller I guess), that obviously everyone knew it was a "collective right." My interpretation was the exact opposite: everyone knew it was an "individual right." Seemed obvious to me that the NFA essentially says - we can't ban these weapons, but we can tax and regulate them to oblivion.

I enjoyed the podcast, but I think it's selectively recounting history.

acronym 3/20/2018 11:40 AM

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