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US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com)
New submitter fremsley471 writes with this story by Christopher Ingraham about shooting accidents involving children 3 and under in The United States. There were at least 43 cases this year of shootings involving a toddler. The Washington Post reports: "This week a 2-year-old in South Carolina found a gun in the back seat of the car he was riding in and accidentally shot his grandmother, who was sitting in the passenger seat. This type of thing happens from time to time: a little kid finds a gun, fires it, and hurts or kills himself or someone else. These cases rarely bubble up to the national level except when someone, like a parent, ends up dead. But cases like this happen a lot more frequently than you might think. Briefly sifting through news reports found at least 43 instances this year of somebody being shot by a toddler 3 or younger. In 31 of those 43 cases, a toddler found a gun and shot himself or herself."
Is there any reason at all for this to be on Slashdot
The reason is that /.'s new owners feel a need to perform virtue signaling rituals for their fellow left-wingers.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
No, you should lose both. You shouldn't have a right to own handguns. The Constitution was interpreted that way in two 5-4 decisions by conservative supreme court justices, but that's not the last word on the matter by any means.
Funny how reasonable people can come to a different conclusion about that. The 2nd Amendment seems to say that the right shouldn't be infringed since we need a militia.
Since we no longer need a militia, because we have a standing army, we can infringe it.
More importantly, screw the 2nd Amendment. It was written during a completely different time and the Founding Fathers were not infallible. It should be rewritten to more clearly say "Individuals should not have the right to own a gun."
It wasn't about of the government to own it's own forces, as a militia wasn't considered as an extension of the government. In essence, once we got an army, there was no need for a militia.
But you are right, the 2nd Amendment should be repealed.