Re: Berwyn Heights mayor denounces police tactics

Mike writes, Where would you draw the line on what kind of weapons an individual can own, Lawrence? And why would you draw it there?

Mike,

suckered in again

Lawrence responds: The implication of what you write seems to be that if I argue that individuals have a right to bear arms, my argument is absurd or ludicrous because I must be arguing that the individual has a right to bear every arm that exists including nuclear weapons.

When the second amendment was established, my understanding is that “arms” were considered to be the arms a common soldier might carry. What arms does the common soldier carry today? A rifle and a handgun. That’s what I carried when I was in the Marine Corps. You let the common citizen own rifles and handguns up to and including the rifles and handguns carried by our soldiers and Marines and I doubt very much that any 2^nd Amendment Rights advocate is going to complain.

Lawrence Helm