Gun Control on Rinsland's Corner

The 2nd Amendment is not about Firearms.

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:26:05 -0500

Erik Ramsay posted this on a Facebook group I’m in and gave permission to share it far and wide.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states:

“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

When this was written it was considered to be in plain language, but language can drift over time; meanings change, words fall in and out of common usage, and so the meaning of a phrase can be obscured over time. Take a look at that same concept, but applied to books:

Superhero Comics Require Gun Control

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 08:17:27 -0600

Superhero comics take place in a world post-gun control. The only people with guns are law enforcement, common criminals, or the occasional antiheroes (the Punisher, for example). It’s clearly not because guns are ineffective at fighting various powered-people related crime, after all a gun is far more capable than an arrow, and archery is effective enough for multiple major superheroes to build an identity around it.

Gun Violence and Statistics

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 15:13:57 -0500

I ran across this on the internet today and felt it really needed to be saved somewhere public.

There are about 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, this number is not disputed. (1) U.S. population 328 million as of January 2018. (2) Do the math: 0.00915% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant. It’s not even a rounding error. What is not insignificant, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths:

Philosophical Approach to Gun Control

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:06:41 -0600

This post on reddit is one of the better and definitely unique reasons to be against gun control in the United States. Not written by me, but merely reposted here for posterity:

“I won’t give the expected answers of self defense or resisting tyranny, those are too trite and overblown. No, I answer with something far more basic yet fundamentally bigger.