Actor Brent Spiner, who many might remember best for portraying Lt. Commander Data on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” had a couple of questions today about “assault weapons” registration and what might have been the Founding Fathers’ opinion of government-issued drivers licenses:
If the Founding Fathers had automobiles, would they find it an infringement of our rights to have to have licenses to drive them? Maybe.
— Brent Spiner (@BrentSpiner) March 31, 2014
Actor Adam Baldwin and radio host Dana Loesch weighed in on Spiner’s first question:
https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/450721794538762240
@AdamBaldwin More accurately would be to refer to them as select fire capability rifles, which are virtually illegal. @BrentSpiner
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 31, 2014
Spiner nutshelled the reaction to his questions:
The majority of the answers seem to be a problem of definition. Okay. Oh, and the imminent government take-over.
— Brent Spiner (@BrentSpiner) March 31, 2014
Or, combining the two, the definition of “imminent government takeover”:
https://twitter.com/AdamBaldwin/status/450731870972432384
As for Spiner’s question about the Founding Fathers and driver’s licenses, Loesch had an assist:
@BrentSpiner "Assault weapons," as you would probably define them, existed when Founders drafted 2A. No registration.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 31, 2014
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