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Comment Re:Since when... (Score 0) 709

We're not in agreement because as I said before, that isn't what they meant by regulated and the amendment doesn't apply only to people in a formal militia. It's an individual right, just as the 1st Amendment is. The constitution does not allow for any infringement on your right to keep and bear arms.

Allowing them to infringe on your 2nd Amendment rights in any way is as unacceptable as letting them infringe your 1st Amendment rights by creating "free speech zones".

Comment Re:Since when... (Score 0) 709

In the context of the Second Amendment, a well regulated militia means a militia that is well trained and organized so that it can adequately respond to a threat. It does not mean regulating weapons, and the phrase well regulated has nothing to do with the fact that the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

DC vs Heller pretty much put an end to that bullshit regardless when it reestablished that the 2nd Amendment was an individual right and not a collective right.

Comment Re:The lol in this (Score 0) 57

You realize that space stations like Skylab, Mir, and the ISS all count as spacecraft, right?

Given that there's always a spare Soyuz capsule docked with the ISS for emergency, I'd say that there's been two spacecraft in the "air" at all times for what, a decade now? Sometimes even three or four.

Plus, if you want to get technical, both the Apollo command module and the lunar lander were spacecraft in their own right.

Comment Re:The screeners used to be private (Score 0) 585

"aw gee, my government is infected with lobbyists, might as well have a revolution!"

seriously wtf is wrong with some people? the solution is to throw everything out rather than repair?

Look at it this way. If you're in charge of trying to sanitize a city that has been completely overrun with zombies, are you gonna pointlessly send men into that city to try to clean it up one by one, dooming a large percentage of your men to become zombies themselves, or are you going to set up a perimeter around the city, put on your sunglasses, and call in a nuclear strike on what used to be a great city but is now little more than a shell of its former self and serves only to house the very cancerous elements that killed it?

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