There is already more than one thread regarding gun control submitted to join our question list. Because of this, I wanted to briefly state why I felt like adding one more, and why mine is better.
The main problem I have with these questions is that they are too narrow, too confrontational, and seem to presume what the proper position on gun control is.
I would like to see the candidates answer my version instead, because it cuts directly to what is the heart of the matter. That is, whether or not people truly have a "right" (in the strict constitutional sense) to bear arms.
I believe that knowing how a president answers this question is more important than knowing where they stand on any individual gun control measures.
In several court cases, the current administration has taken the position that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution does not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Specifically, the current Solicitor General of the United States has recently stated that the sole purpose of the Second Amendment is to prevent federal interference with organized state militias.
As a candidate for the Office of President, I would like a clear answer from you to the following question; Do you believe that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms?
Lars really confused me when he said there was only one download of an unsigned artist. The reason this confuses me, is I don't understand how they could know this, and it makes me wonder how NetPD did their job. I imagined that NetPD had written a client to query the Napster servers and look for people providing Metallica songs. But Lars keeps talking about downloads, not shares, and it means that either: 1: He doesn't know what he is talking about. -or- 2: They monitored Napster a lot closer than I first thought. So, fellow slashdotters, puzzle me this; How could they know how many downloads of an unsigned artist there was?
I assume you are alluding to the idea that a bullet that has been fired from a firearm can theoretically be matched to that firearm by the scratches on the bullet. This isn't quite true, because the deformation when a bullet hits a target tends to obscure all those scratches.
Sometimes the police are lucky, and a bullet is recovered that was only lightly deformed (it went into a piece of furniture or such).
On the other hand the spent shell casings are also scratched by the chamber, extractor, ejector, and firing pin of the firearm. These can by matched to the firearm with a high degree of accuracy.
The moral of the story is to pick up all your brass when you are done.
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Among others, we already have these threads:
The main problem I have with these questions is that they are too narrow, too confrontational, and seem to presume what the proper position on gun control is.
I would like to see the candidates answer my version instead, because it cuts directly to what is the heart of the matter. That is, whether or not people truly have a "right" (in the strict constitutional sense) to bear arms.
I believe that knowing how a president answers this question is more important than knowing where they stand on any individual gun control measures.
Specifically, the current Solicitor General of the United States has recently stated that the sole purpose of the Second Amendment is to prevent federal interference with organized state militias.
As a candidate for the Office of President, I would like a clear answer from you to the following question; Do you believe that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms?
Lars really confused me when he said there was only one download of an unsigned artist. The reason this confuses me, is I don't understand how they could know this, and it makes me wonder how NetPD did their job. I imagined that NetPD had written a client to query the Napster servers and look for people providing Metallica songs. But Lars keeps talking about downloads, not shares, and it means that either: 1: He doesn't know what he is talking about. -or- 2: They monitored Napster a lot closer than I first thought. So, fellow slashdotters, puzzle me this; How could they know how many downloads of an unsigned artist there was?
Sometimes the police are lucky, and a bullet is recovered that was only lightly deformed (it went into a piece of furniture or such).
On the other hand the spent shell casings are also scratched by the chamber, extractor, ejector, and firing pin of the firearm. These can by matched to the firearm with a high degree of accuracy.
The moral of the story is to pick up all your brass when you are done.