Victory for the Constitution... in Illinois?!

[Soleron]

sc94597 said:

...

For starters, Washington D.C has the highest homicide rate in the country and only recently allowed handguns. Meanwhile, New Hampshire has some of the most lenient gun policies and at the same time has the lowest homicide rates, comparable to Switzerland (which also has strong gun rights.) 

I don't want to get into that argument. I'm not actually interested in whether murder rates are up or down with gun laws.

But it has been made quite clear that the police aren't here to protect us in the U.S, or at least they're not obligated to. This has been stated in dozens of court cases since 1870. As long as we have guns, it's fine with me. 

Well then, the police should be fixed and not guns.

I love articles like these when the vulnerable protect themselves, when otherwise they could not. 

They're newsworthy because so few of them happen.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/23/12-year-old-girl-shoots-home-intruder/

Anyway, should we ban cars? There are about three times more deaths by care per year than gun deaths. In fact, why not go back to prohibition? Drunk drivers kill 25,000 people per year! 

If cars did nothing but kill people, yes. Since they have dual uses, it becomes an individual responsibility. But guns? Carrying in public has literally one outcome: someone being hurt. Having them for hunting or shooting practice can be reasonably controlled without that.

As a citizen of a free nation, and as a constiutent of  peoples who employ the government, I'll fight to the last breath for every single one of my constiutional rights, including the second ammendment, but also others which are being infringed upon by our current, oversized Federal government, like due process of law, in example. 

You're confusing the Constitution with morality. What if the consitution is wrong?

Also what does government size have to do with morality? There is an extremely simple fix for government misconduct - release fucking everything. Absolutely every email, document, minutes or file needs to be public.