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Sadly, guns are a tool to execute power, and power itself is amoral. Power can be used for bad and for good. In America this power that we have been granted is being abused in ways that it is obvious on the world stage. Our culture clearly has a sickness.
We frequently talk about freedom, but fail to talk about responsibility to use our freedoms properly. "Rights" framed discussions rather than "responsibility" framed discussions result in what we see. Abuse of rights without any way to address neglected responsibilities creates an environment where the rights themselves are called into question.
“The expectation of clean water in wealthy countries is enabled by technology and infrastructure; like effective sewage systems and water treatment facilities. But to a large extent it is also enabled, and was initially bootstrapped, by sound policymaking and regulation.
Regulation requires verification.”
Regulation of water does not require verification. We live on a planet where clean water is abundant and cannot escape the planet’s atmosphere. Why you think we need to measure how this is verified is beyond the beyond’s.
Here’s a wiki page reference if you need help measuring how much water exists on Earth:
While the majority of Earth's surface is covered by oceans, those oceans make up just a small fraction of the mass of the planet. The mass of Earth's oceans is estimated to be 1.37 × 1021 kg, which is 0.023% of the total mass of Earth, 6.0 × 1024 kg. An additional 5.0 × 1020 kg of water is estimated to exist in ice, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and atmospheric water vapor.[20]
There are only so many ways and places to extract clean water for large populations in an efficient way. Once water is used, it has to go somewhere, which is back into the water system. Every person/population downstream then no longer has 'clean water' without verification. We could have 10x the clean water we have now and we would still have to consider this aspect.
People forget the “well-regulated militia” part. Register all the guns so they can be called up at need for the militia. Why not place all of the militia, err, gun owners in the Guard and have they drill monthly and 2 weeks a year… This is what was intended as the aFounders were not fond of a standing army. They tended to oppress people and suppress liberties.
People don't forget that part, but people fail to understand that part. It's a fallacy to say that people can keep firearms only in regards to service in a state organized militia. This has been roundly rejected by all constitutional scholars of any merit. Those that espouse that point of view are not taking the statement in the context and time in which it was written.
Even if you do not support the conservative leaning of the current supreme Court it must be acknowledged that they do view things in a originalist intention. This is why they have rejected this point of view as it is completely incorrect.
You're confusing the idea of many of the founders not supporting a standing army and the idea of gun registration or the national guard being considered a militia. Hence why there's specific provisions about not being able to quarter military forces in people's houses.
There was a very good reason many of the founders and people of the time did not support a standing army. If you do a little bit of research and learning about history you will understand that the concept of a police and the concept of a army weren't really two different things that we have today. In that context not wanting a standing army is a good position.
Because when you look at the duties of an army and the duties of a police of the first fights the enemy of the state the second should be to protect the people. When you have one force that attempts to do both jobs what you usually end up with is that the people become the enemy of the state.
This is one of the reasons why there are many people who do not support the current militarization of our police force being handed decommissioned military weapons and vehicles. This removes the incentive of the police to protect the people or to find alternate means to de-escalate situations. Instead they can take the overwhelming force option that we do with our military.
Rev. 04/26/2023”