In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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The Constitution was officially considered to be adopted on June 21, 1788 when the 9th state, New Hampshire, ratified it. Virginia and New York, the 10th & 11th states ratified on June 25 and July 26, 1788.
Many of the States requested a Bill of Rights be added when they ratified, but North Carolina and Rhode Island actually refused to ratify the Constitution or participate in the new government until after Congress agreed to adopt one, which they passed on Sept 25, 1789. North Carolina ratified on November 21, 1789, and Rhode Island did on May 29, 1790.
The 3rd-12th amendments in Congress' proposed Bill of Rights were ratified by the several States on Dec 15, 1791, the 2nd of them was ratified 202 years later on May 7, 1992.
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BTW, my "term" is up in February ... you might want to consider applying in order to keep the trend going !