Washington believed in discipline. He did not allow splinter groups commanded by Benedict Arnold to have unlimited guns. Neither would Washington allow gangs, thugs and terrorists have access to unlimited muskets.
We need to rethink the true intent of the second amendment. Washington must be turning over in his grave when America's enemies come to America to be easily armed by America to torment American police and American citizens.
Sarah Palin was apparently motivated to make a point that Americans would not give up their guns when she made her gaffe about Paul Revere. Now, it is time for Palin to fess up. None of the original Patriots would have allowed terrorists to be armed as an enemy within America.
My guess is that Palin would object to arming al-Quida sympathizers in America. But I have no idea how she would justify that some Americans have an absolute sacred right to own any gun regardless of destructive power, but other Americans, such as from the middle east, did not.
Palin learned the hard way what Paul Revere was doing through his ride to warn patriots. Now, new Paul Reveres must ride to warn the country of the danger of unbridled, unregulated guns awash in the USA.
By the way, aren't shoulder-fired sidewinder missels technically guns? Why is it not possible to envision a gun that projects radioactive material, a kind of "dirty gun?" I fear the current definition of gun could be stretched to include truly horrible guns to project anthrax or other agents of mass destruction. As Colin Powell famously showed, it only takes a small vial of biotoxin to kill a city. Such material can be fixed into the hollow of a bullet. With imagination, a large number of horror weapons could be considered protected by the second amendment. Unless we return to the original intent of insuring "well regulated militias."
We invaded a countty because they might have a vial. Why can we not rid ourselves of guns that can fire six vial projectiles, or even assault weapons that fire potentially hundreds? We have met the enemy, and he is us.
That original intent protected Washington from fringe militias. The original intent can now protect modern police from terrorists.
Serious gun control is another history lesson we can only hope gets re-examined in the wake of Palin's history revisionism.
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