tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post557824890273440978..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: Eagles, Not PuppiesBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-34657958075458097852018-02-16T12:23:21.321-05:002018-02-16T12:23:21.321-05:00Actually, in the context of english grammar in the...Actually, in the context of english grammar in the 18th century, he would have been REQUIRED to be in the militia. There were no standing armies in smaller countries, and when the community needed to respond to a danger - indiginous people attacking a village, a small war, criminal gangs etc - all able bodied men - the militia - were required (and mostly happily complied) to gather with their own horse, weapons, ammunition and gear. Nothing was issued, and at the end of hostilities they went back to their farms and businesses.<br /><br />Also, too, at that time 'well regulated' did NOT mean 'managed and controlled by government agency'. Rather, it meant 'well (or properly) functioning. In the context of the time, the reason they wanted to make certain that the 'right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed' was that the people and their arms WERE the militia, and in order for it to function properly they had to HAVE those weapons.<br /><br />And it's ludicrous to suggest that the wingnuts 'elide' this due to your popular although faulty interpretation of the 2nd amendment's phraseology. It has been repeatedly adjudicated in federal courts over the years, most recently in Heller.<br /><br />Look, I'd love for this fairy tale interpretation to be true, but I refuse to believe things that are false just because it's convenient to me ideologically. That's something THEY do. The language used in the constitution has been researched deeply, and it's very easy to find out what the founders meant when they used certain words and phrases...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-57144675549529760102018-02-16T04:08:50.378-05:002018-02-16T04:08:50.378-05:00I am amazed by how political these kids are turnin...I am amazed by how political these kids are turning out to be. They aren't taking the torrent of BS talking points lying down.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-86221165378894099762018-02-16T03:12:19.897-05:002018-02-16T03:12:19.897-05:00Your comments about the student survivors are spot...Your comments about the student survivors are spot on.<br />However, my three sons, my wife and I all share the same affinity, identification with the ostracized, marginalized, painfully shy soul, you know, the oddball and wallflower in every community. Isolative behavior is a feature of PTSD. This teenager's mortality-provoking event, loss of his mother, happened at a formative age when the morbidly pathological changes to personality may have been unavoidable and irreconcilable. Outcomes in similar circumstances such as major depression with psychotic features, borderline personality disorder, dissociative disorders, and sociopathy are more common than PTSD in his age group. And God knows the engagement of similarly afflicted individuals is extremely difficult, fraught with danger, often met with rejection and too frequently unsuccessful without institutionalizing the person. So, let's start by taking away the guns. The police offer no ameliorating alternative, only legitimated and militarized force. <br />I suspect after, like you, listening to those magnificently compassionate students, the loving sacrifice of self by their football coach and their superbly insightful superintendent that the path forward may be found among them for they evinced those traits necessary for any hope of timely preventative intervention, selflessness and unremitting empathy.Kdus232425https://www.blogger.com/profile/08280487142554947927noreply@blogger.com