Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights was written in a certain sequence for a reason. The First Amendment:
"Congress cannot make a law that favors the establishment of one particular religion; that prohibits the free exercise of religion; or that restricts freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people to gather and engage in peaceful demonstrations and to petition the government for redress of their grievances."
This is our most important amendment, yet America's Right doesn't seem to give a shit about it, nor of any other amendment, except number 2. Where was their anger when the police were pepper-spraying peaceful protesters during the UC Davis Occupy Movement? Was it because the protesters were hippie, communists who all clearly hate America? Love it or leave it, right...isn't that what they always say?
Where was their outrage when the patriot act (I refuse to capitalize those words) was gutting our fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth amendments? Men in Black can now whisk any one of us away in a C-130 down to Git-mo and water-board our asses everyday, FOREVER, to death, just because THEY CAN. Our Glorious, Liberal, God-King-who-can-do-no-wrong Obama, can target a drone and assassinate you instead of arrest you. Yeah, America's Right is okay with our gov't blasting them with Tomahawks, as long as they can keep their AR-15s. It's bullshit.
"Because a well-regulated militia is necessary to national security, the right of the people to keep and bear arms may not be infringed."
It's not my opinion, it is clearly a fact that if high-capacity magazines and assault weapons were federally banned from public ownership, but all pistols, shotguns, and hunting rifles were not affected by said ban, the 2nd Amendment would thus remain intact, and anyone challenging that just plain doesn't know how to read. The ban would not take away ALL arms, only certain ones. The Right would have us believe that the sky is the limit when it comes to what kind of weapons they can own...wmds, javelin missiles, fully armed F-18s, all because the 2nd Amendment doesn't place a limit.
As Americans, we were all taught in High School Civics classes about the Bill of Rights and about how difficult it is to change a Constitutional Amendment. This is why in the 222 years since the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, we have only added 17 more amendments to it. The Constitution is our living, breathing, blood-red soul and it is NOT perfect, but it is more perfect than anything else on our planet...for the last 237 years and counting.
If someone feels threatened over possibly losing ownership of their AK-47, but doesn't give a crap about someone else's right to peaceably assemble being trampled on by the Police, then I say that person isn't patriotic at all. And here is where I invite them to eat their own words; Love it or leave it, and learn how to count...1 comes before 2, and without 1, there can be no 2, nor can there be anything else.
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For that matter, Twice as many people were murdered with a 20 gauge shotgun-that's suitable for rabbits and pheasants. The AR15 accounted for less than roughly 2% of all firearms homicides in America. Only 13.5 people died by a .223 rifle in 2006. How is that the most pressing problem when you consider that 7,795 people were murdered with a handgun? 500 people were murdered in Chicago, the vast majority of which were gang related. Is that not a more pressing national problem? 
