Reply #203: Disagreeing with you is not the same thing as telling a lie. [View All]

You have to get over this idea that your opinions and interpretations are facts. They are not. A person may interpret something differently from the way you interpret it and not be lying. This applies to the Silveira/Adams quote and to a great many other issues we have been discussing.

Specific to the Silveira/Adams quote, when you show me a gun that can be used only for self-defense and automatically jams and refuses to fire when used for any other purpose, then I'll consider the possibility that Judge Reinhardt was lying about Adams's quote. Until then, I will maintain that he was just interpreting it logically. There is no way to assure that privately owned firearms will be used only in self defense, as Adams must surely have known.

Something changed since 1939 but I can't put my finger on what? Well, let's see, there was World War II, the development of the modern military, the development of tanks, military aircraft, modern artillery, bombs, missiles, pushbutton warfare, and the end of the draft. You're right, there's too much that has changed for me to "put my finger" on all of it. In World War I (the last US war before 1939), cavalry troops still rode around the battlefield on horses, for godsake.