ar15 - Assault Weapon
Should someone buy one now? I personally am not considering exercising that right, incurring that expense, nor investing in that culture.
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution: “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” seems to , at least to me, gives me the right to keep and carry an assault weapon in case I am needed for the security of our free states. A right does not mean obligation nor does necessary mean sufficient. If I am needed to support the security of our free children I know I would use all the gifts God has given me to secure the safety and security of the innocent. For me this does not include carrying an assault weapon. I also believe it interferes with the determining the issue of self defense. If someone is killed who is carrying or even is known to have an assault weapon, it is hard to determine threat level felt by the killer. To me almost anyone owning or carrying an assault weapon is presumed a deadly threat so they need to show they have no deadly or harmful intent at all times. Everyone gets angry.
Besides the need to constantly show I am helping the security of a free state and not a deadly threat to strangers ; I have better things to do with my earnings. I believe the best use of my earning is to ensure I am not a burden on the state or my remaining parent, pay for the welfare of my child and then to provide to the good that God directs me. Assault weapons, ammunition, training needed to be proficient, documentation, safe storage, repair and disposal requires funds which are better used else ware for the betterment of my family and society.
Lastly my nephew posted a George Washington quote “A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.” Wikiquote.org calls this quote misattributed; never the less it does describe a culture. It is within the realm of possibility that our government will go rogue and begin abusing we the people to the point where assault weapons may be useful. Those who know me, know I am a scientist and a mathematician and when I say in the realm of possibility it is in a more theoretical and not realistic. I don’t want to be part of a culture that skews that possibility into behaving like it is inevitable. Nearly my whole career has been working for those who protect and defend our country and not for those who would feel the need to take up arms against it.
