you think it's funny .. well, it's hilarious that back in the '30s the 2nd Amendment was not even a debating point of you anti-stricter gun control law idiots ..
The NRA today condemns every one of these provisions as a burdensome and ineffective infringement on the right to bear arms. Frederick, however, said in 1934 that he did “not believe in the general promiscuous toting of guns. I think it should be sharply restricted and only under licenses.” The NRA’s executive vice president at the time, Milton A. Reckord, told a congressional committee that his organization was “absolutely favorable to reasonable legislation.” According to Frederick, the NRA “sponsored” the Uniform Firearms Act and promoted it nationwide. Highlighting the political strength of the NRA even back then, a 1932 Virginia Law Review article reported that laws requiring a license to carry a concealed weapon were already “in effect in practically every jurisdiction.”
When Congress was considering the first significant federal gun law of the 20th century—the National Firearms Act of 1934, which imposed a steep tax and registration requirements on “gangster guns” like machine guns and sawed-off shotguns—the NRA endorsed the law. Karl Frederick and the NRA did not blindly support gun control; indeed, they successfully pushed to have similar prohibitive taxes on handguns stripped from the final bill, arguing that people needed such weapons to protect their homes. Yet the organization stood firmly behind what Frederick called “reasonable, sensible, and fair legislation.”
One thing conspicuously missing from Frederick’s comments about gun control was the Second Amendment. When asked during his testimony on the National Firearms Act whether the proposed law violated “any constitutional provision,” he responded, “I have not given it any study from that point of view.” In other words, the president of the NRA hadn’t even considered whether the most far-reaching federal gun-control legislation in history conflicted with the Second Amendment. Preserving the ability of law-abiding people to have guns, Frederick would write elsewhere, “lies in an enlightened public sentiment and in intelligent legislative action. It is not to be found in the Constitution.”
dropdeadfred -- "there are shit asses in this world"
so, what would possibly have you think we don't understand that?
or put the other way:
wow, no shit, Sherlock -- you figure that one out all by yourself? -- as it always has been and always shall be -- that's life -- shit happens -- including "shit asses" acting out
and to say it -- as if more and more of us having more and more weapons could be any answer to something like this, to this sort of threat -- thankfully there weren't target-seeking carries there drawing their weapons in the resulting chaos
don't worry about us, we're just fine thanks, plenty well aware, gonna keep right on keeping on, living our lives, while following what gets figured out about this and staying involved in the discussion of what we can learn from it and what, if anything in particular different/beyond we've already been doing, we should consider doing in response to it -- you'll just have to forgive us that we don't all react by screaming like paranoid tweens and running out buying oodles and oodles of guns and ammo and canned grub with which to stuff our new rural retreats/bunkers with cisterns adequately massive for the preservation of all of our precious bodily fluids
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