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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of Weapons!

Weapons: They are used to kill! They are used to save! It all depends on the user! It's "The Devil That We Know!"

The Good! The Bad! And The Ugly Of Weapons!

The Good: We need weapons to defend America. We need all types of weaponry to get the job done. To defend our home land! When we come up against a formadable enemy, we will always need the most powerful weapons that there are; or that we can invent. We will always need to have the newest, best, and fastest weapons at our disposal at all times, in time of war and in time of peace. America will always-always need secret weapons in our arsenal to protect our shores from the east to the west...and the north to the south. We will always need top-notch weaponry to fight wars that we intend on winning; And we do always...intend on winning! Our Armed Forces are the only ones that should have powerful weaponry! They are the only ones that should have access to any and all powerful weapons. They are the only one that should have access to these types of weapons. No exception! Yes...weaponry of these types are needed. But only in the appropriate hands; and always for the appropriate reasons! And that would be---"The Armed Forces Of These United States Of America." For this cause, I am in favor of weaponry that has devastating affect on the enemy.

The bad: No civilian should have access to weaponry of this type. Under no circumstances should that ever be allowed! There is no viable reason to have this in a compliation of a collectors guns unless it is rendered unusable, by removing the firing pin. Weaponry of this type are not meant for the general public. They are not for home or self protection in any sense of the word. They should never ever even be in the gun shows or arms dealers, or gun stores. What would be the reasoning for acquiring weapons of this type. They are so very destructive to the human body!

These weapons use bullets that rotate in the body and do unimaginable damage to soft tissues and organs. There are some bullets that tumble and inflict mass destruction on tissue and organs. And still others that fragment and go in all different directions. They are designed just to do massive damage to a persons body. Weapons that can go through three and four human beings with destructive and devastating force should never be allowed in the hands of civilians! The police are not even allowed to have such powerful weapons. And some indivauls have more powerful weapons than the police! I don't ever want an individual to have any weapons that are more powerful, or has more fire-power than our paid servants---the police department have. I never want them to be out gunned by a home grown terrorist, or evil cold hearted individuals!

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However...however, The Second Amendment does allow for the procurement of arms. (The Second Amendment was based partially on the right to keep and bear arms in English common law and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Sir William Blackstone described this right as an auxiliary right, supporting the natural rights of self-defense, resistance to oppression, and the civic duty to act in concert in defense of the state.) [1.] This right has been granted to all individuals under the Constitution unless unlawful to do so!

The Ugly: There is a vast difference between evil and crazy. Nevertheless they both can perpetrate the very same crimes. The difference between evil and crazy...is...crazy is always going to be crazy or acting crazy; having psychological problems. The mentally ill will always exhibit some type of behavior to let you know that they are having psychological problems, unless they have medication to off set their behavior.

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However...evil is deep rooted in the hearts of those who have intented maniacal desires and hidden agendas. You can not really tell anything by observing their behavior. They present suitable facades that would fool even their very best friends, relatives, love ones, even their spouses and their parents! You will most likely hear ones that know them, speak in shock, "I never would have suspected that they would do something like that! I'm shocked that they would do that. They seemed like such a nice guy/gal!"

Well, we know that the aberrant individuals will not get firearms...if all procedures and check-points are in place and carried out. Well...on second thought, they may be able to get one, some, or many firearms at the gun shows and other weapon outlets.! It just all depends. However, it's an all together different story for those who have evil intent! They smile, they always keep their facade in place. One is always fooled as too their true intent. Always! One never knows, at least not from just looking at them...what evil lives in their hearts just waiting to be unleashed on mankind! This kind of evil is insidious. These individuals are cunning, deceitful, and extremely-extremely cold hearted!

I'm against individuals like Stephen Paddock having multiple high powered weapons. But in all honesty...how do we know who these individuals are..."the Stephen Paddocks of the world" when family and friends can not even recognize them? It could be on the turn of a dime when they decide to do the unthinkable! However...with Paddock, we know this is not to be the case. He planned this henious acts with precision timing. There was a method to his evil-wicked madness, and he orchestrated this heinous horrendous vicious massacre with diabolical perfection! "There's absolutely no way I could conceive that my brother would shoot a bunch of people that he didn't know," Eric Paddock said outside his home Monday, shaking his head as he fumbled for words.
"Something just incredibly wrong happened to my brother." That came as a surprise to one of his former neighbors. "If there was any impression, I would say, this guy had no idea what a gun was," said Don Judy, who lived next door to Stephen Paddock from 2013-2015 in a retirement community in Melbourne, Florida."He was my brother, and it's like an asteroid fell out of the sky," he said. "We're still just completely dumbstruck." [3.] CNN Excerpts taken from article by Emanuella Grinberg

Conclusion: The Second Amendment: The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms and was adopted on December 15, 1791, as part of the first ten amendments contained in the Bill of Rights. was as in accordance with the times and, influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Sir William Blackstone described this right as an auxiliary right, supporting the natural rights of self-defense, resistance to oppression, and the civic duty to act in concert in defense of the state.) [1.] Our forefathers never envisioned the type of weapons that we have today...or that the enemy among us would be acquiring them so easily, and to use them so wickedly, with disregard for human life, when they adopted The Second Amendment to be part of The Constitution. The Second Amendment was for defense of state. as well as self protection. When this was written in 1689, there were no State Police, City Police, County Police, Sheriffs, United States Marshalls, FBI, CIA, Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines. It was just them, and the armed forces of that time. Now...we have more than enough protection. America has 99.99% more protection than when that Amendment was first written.

Neverthless...We all should have fire arms...well most of us...but for the same reasons. Protection, or collections; But not firearms of mass destruction. Never more fire power than our law enforcement officers, should any citizens of the United States have. The citizens should never out gun or have more fire power than the ones that are assigned to protect them.

The Good, The Bad...and...The Ugly Of It All!: We all should have guns to protect ourselves in case there is an invasion on our home soil by the enemy. If there is an all out war and the enemy comes over to these United States of America...and dares to set foot on our soil...then we all must...we all must arise to the occasion and become soldiers!

[1, 2] Excerpts from Wikipedia, "Second Amendment To The United States Constitution."


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