DonR101395 said:
You keep bring up things that aren't guaranteed rights and can be regulated as if they are the same as a Right guaranteed by law.
It's always funny when leftists like you are willing to sell me out but expect me to support the things you believe are "rights."
Thanks to legislation in 1934 and 1968 you don't have as many gun rights as you think. You can also thank laws like The Sullivan Act for making honest citizens apply for the CCW licenses we have now.
America has a very select memory. Oil and OPEC didn't kill muscle cars, but it's a nice fairy tale people can tell to keep America green. The fact is that we were giving cheap 400 horsepower cars to teenagers, who like all teenagers, had trouble parallel parking. They smashed up so many Dodge Chargers that insurance companies jacked the rates through the roof.
And idiots made it impossible for anyone to actually afford a hemi.
How does this equate to rights under The Second?
Again, once you start a climate where a reasonable man feels the Constitution has passed its need, or oversteps supposed rights, you'll find people like Diane Feinstein passing garbage and no one cares.
Take away loud pipes and guns are next. The same arguments will be used.
"No one needs loud pipes and muscle cars." "No one needs the weapons of the police and military."
The problem is logic and "the slope." In point of fact, my bike runs better on Screaming Eagle pipes. For you RUBs, that means my pipes have some baffling. A straight pipe has no back pressure. And truth be told, I'm just as ticked as anyone when an idiot blasts through my neighborhood at 2:00AM.
You cannot expect your rights, even those guaranteed by The Framers, to be respected if you do not support freedoms in other areas.
If you come out for helmet legislation, don't expect bikers to get all lathered up when the government mandates firearms competency training for you. Frankly, I'm beginning to think that the average citizen ought to get a little taste of what bikers tolerate now.
A little mandated training might be a good thing there, Dirty Harry.
(See how it feels?)