I support the right to keep and bare arms but...

...this is just plain stupid. Surely he has a paranoid personality disorder and allowed to do this is danger to everyone around him. How long would it have been before reading of him taking out 30 people at a McDonald's? Is he a postal worker? *joke*

Southern California officials find million rounds of ammo in house fire

NORCO, Calif. Firefighters in Southern California have uncovered a cache of more than one (m) million rounds of ammunition, along with 20 guns and 75 pounds of black gunpowder.

They found the stash yesterday while responding to a reported fire at a single-story house in Norco, east of Los Angeles.

Investigators don't know yet what it was doing there. But they do not think it's connected to organized crime.

The ammunition for shotguns, handguns and assault rifles was found tucked away in metal and wooden boxes in the house and garage.

Firefighters called in sheriffs and hazardous materials teams after having to forcibly keep a resident from running back inside the house.

He's now in custody.

[Not mentioned here but mentioned in a separate video news article is that several illegal weapons were also discovered, hence his incarceration.]

I support the spirit of the 2nd amendment, to keep the citizenry on par with the government in order to prevent governmental tyranny by assumed threat of armed insurrection, but really can the citizenry today TRULY stay on par with the government in this technologically advanced day?

Anyone for their neighbor owning a howitzer or a fully loaded Abrahms tank, F-16 or how about a tactical nuclear (nook-lee-ur) weapon?

It is obvious that the letter of the amendment cannot be now sustained. I do not propose a new amendment or a revision f the original. I do propose a return to the "spirit" of the law again in that we form an armed citizen militia owing no allegiance to the government but solely to their respective communities.

No attempt would be made to disarm individual's legitimate weapon ownership. However, egregious violations of the public welfare such as this guy would be regulated. I doubt someone like this could have passed a psych test and he should not have been allowed to amass as many weapons without passing such a test.

The formation of a local citizen militia might even pacify the paranoid leanings of some individuals that fear the government so badly they feel it necessary to stockpile arms for the ever on the horizon "coming revolution", whatever that means. If people felt that their friends and neighbors that usually have their best interests at heart and together were en masse armed against government or even terrorist violations of personal safety and autonomy, they might relax a little and not seek so much a personal armory.

Would anyone really want it legal for their neighbor to keep a stockpile of grenades, RPG's, mortars and Claymore mines in his garage? Imagine the boom that would make and the lives threatened when a fire, statistically quite likely to occur, consumes your uber armed neighbor's garage. Fires happen all the time and are made even more likely in the presence of chemicals the likes of those in explosives.

We require people to have a license to drive a car. Now I know the difference between a right and a privilege, the car driving being a privilege. However, a car can kill as easily as a weapon so why not some common sense and have people go to classes to learn the proper care and use of guns just as they do for automobiles? A bonus being completion of which allows them to carry them anywhere except perhaps alcohol imbibing establishments. It is silly to not allow honest citizens to carry their own concealed weapons into a bank. An outlaw won't mind the law anyway. But if a bank robber had to worry that any one of 20 to 30 other patrons in a bank could draw down on him/her and not being able to watch everyone, would this not deter such crimes? At the same time the properly licensed and trained citizenry will mean fewer gun accidents caused by people not knowing which end the bullets go in, or having irrational fears of guns that cause shaky handling and often mistaken discharge.

Soon technology will allow for personalized weapons that only fire when they recognize the DNA of the owner. This technology alone will enable easier government control of weapon ownership and especially tracking down of owners when their weapon has been used to cause an unwarranted fatality or injury.

Would it not be better to have in place regulations that enable more citizen autonomy and thwart government excess? Government, whether right or left oriented, will take every inch of latitude allowed them. Will the Democrats for instance, that lambasted certain parts of the Patriot Act -- now that they are controlling congress, roll back some of the most egregious abuses to American freedoms in the Patriot Act? Not bloody likely. Once government has gained a power tool they are not likely to give it up regardless of how some might have chastised their opponents for seeking it in the first place. Therefore it is better to now ahead of time form citizen militias beholding only to their communities, selves and families and perhaps enacting some self regulation at the state level before the federal government, in the name of terrorism, finds another excuse to curtail our freedom.

FutureQ