Welcome to the new version of the Imperial Bulletin. After much consideration, I decided to move my blog from Blogger to my main website, where I can have more control over the code and presentation. Please change your links and bookmarks to blog.imperialkingdom.net. I was able to import all of my old posts, so this is still the same blog, just with a new look and a new location.
I’m using WordPress, and right now you’re seeing the default WordPress theme, which is kind of boring. As I learn more about how to use WordPress, I’ll change the layout to something prettier. It will definitely have a flag in it and might even look a lot like my old Blogger layout.
Also, I’ll be reorganizing all of my post categories soon to make everything more orderly, and when I’m done I’ll have a list of categories in the sidebar for you to browse. I was looking back on my old posts, and I think I’ve gotten a lot better at blogging since then! I might delete some old posts that are stupid and/or useless, or tweak them to fix any spelling and grammar errors that I find.
I hope you enjoy the new Imperial Bulletin!
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Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms, it seems that America has forgotten about what the Second Amendment actually says. In case you don’t know, here it is:
A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
Note how it doesn’t say that only people of a certain age can bear arms. It doesn’t say that the right of the people to keep and bear arms only applies if said people have a permit for their guns. It doesn’t say that people have a right to keep and bear only certain types of guns. The Second Amendment guarantees everyone a fundamental right to own and handle whatever guns they want, for whatever reason they want.
Then why is it that Giants football player Plaxico Burress was arrested for accidentally shooting himself in the leg? You’d think getting shot in the leg was bad enough, but the government had to arrest him merely for owning a gun. The media is referring to the gun as an “illegal” weapon because he had no permit for it. Well, no weapons should be illegal, because weapons are not immoral and do not hurt people. Forcing people to go through an expensive and time-consuming process in order to get a permit to exercise what should be a fundamental right is an undue burden on Americans’ freedom and is unconstitutional. Burress did not hurt anyone and did not commit a crime.
Also, three people were indicted today for involuntary manslaughter and furnishing guns to minors because an eight-year-old boy accidentally shot himself with an Uzi at a Massachusetts gun show in October. The people indicted are the owner of a gun dealership that cosponsored the show, and two people who let youths at the show handle guns. People are calling for the boy’s father to be indicted as well.
None of these people should be indicted, because no crime occurred. People of all ages have a right to bear arms and to make their own choices. It is tragic that this boy’s decision had such terrible consequences, but it was his decision. No one forced him to use the gun, so his death is no one’s fault. To claim that adults have an obligation to forcibly stop children from doing what they choose to do is ridiculous. Accidents happen, and although they can be tragic, sometimes there is no one to blame.
