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sarisataka

(18,674 posts)
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 01:54 PM Jul 2022

Americans can't handle their guns. Time to repeal the 2nd Amendment.

Americans can't handle their guns. Time to repeal the 2nd Amendment.

We must repeal the Second Amendment if we want this country to ever be safe again. 

Whether it's killings by police, like the 60 bullets fired into Jayland Walker, or by civilians like in Highland Park, Illinois, Uvalde, Texas, or Buffalo, New York our national record on gun violence is an international embarrassment. It can't be reformed without doing away with guns entirely. 

States like California and New York that have tried to set restrictive gun laws can do little when guns are trafficked in from other states. What's more – legislative attempts at restricting gun rights were recently shot down by a Supreme Court gone rogue. 

We're way beyond what the framers ever had in mind for gun rights already. And for a selective originalist Supreme Court conservative majority, it's hard to justify glossing over the history behind the Second Amendment.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/americans-cant-handle-their-guns-time-to-repeal-the-2nd-amendment/ar-AAZrQs3
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Americans can't handle their guns. Time to repeal the 2nd Amendment. (Original Post) sarisataka Jul 2022 OP
That would be ideal but barring that increase the SC AndyS Jul 2022 #1
Is it me, or does this paragraph make anybody else's head hurt? yagotme Jul 2022 #2
Kinda irrelevant, but here's this. MarineCombatEngineer Jul 2022 #3
Gives them a fair shake, yes??? yagotme Jul 2022 #4

AndyS

(14,559 posts)
1. That would be ideal but barring that increase the SC
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 03:13 PM
Jul 2022

to 15 and interpret it the way it was interpreted until 2008.

yagotme

(2,919 posts)
2. Is it me, or does this paragraph make anybody else's head hurt?
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 06:10 PM
Jul 2022

"We're way beyond what the framers ever had in mind for gun rights already. And for a selective originalist Supreme Court conservative majority, it's hard to justify glossing over the history behind the Second Amendment."

An "originalist Supreme Court", of course, isn't going to go with other precedents. They are going to find in accordance with original intent, thus, "originalist". Water is wet, well, because it's wet. Duh. "People" means individuals, "Arms", firearms, etc. Militiamen were required to keep personal arms available in case they were needed quickly. And, I bet, the guy that showed up with a 15th century matchlock would have been told to get with the program, and get a "modern" arm. And "bear"? Tell me that "bear" means something other than "carry".

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