Posted on 09/15/2023 4:32:06 PM PDT by Publius
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing a change to the United States Constitution. The state's legislature on Thursday approved a resolution in support of Newsom's call for a 28th Constitutional amendment, according to the Los Angeles Times. The amendment would enshrine a list of Democratic gun-control policy priorities into federal law.
California is requesting a Constitutional convention to enshrine the amendment. For the amendment to be considered, two-thirds of state legislatures would have to vote in favor of a convention, according to the Times. The proposed "Right to Safety Amendment" would limit legal gun ownership to adults 21 and older, enact universal federal background checks on gun sales, create a mandatory "reasonable waiting period" for gun purchases, and ban the purchase of many forms of semiautomatic rifles. Newsom started touting the idea behind the amendment earlier this summer.
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Sure, like there's no way O'Biden beats Trump in 2020..
I’d rather see a ‘Secure The Border’ Amendment, myself.
It’s going to be TERRIFYING if this POS gains any power via a national platform (CongressPuke, VP, Prez, etc.)
*SHUDDER*
Haven’t ‘We The People’ been punished enough?!?!
Pipe dream for the radical. How can a new amendment supersede the established 2nd?
Unbelievable. One look at the guv’s record in Kalifornia should be enough for people to laugh at the guv chump whenever he appears in public. What a dope and the voters who vote for this guy, should be immediately committed to a mental health hospital/asylum.
That wouldn't stop over half of the citizenry from allowing it to happen. If it did somehow make it's way in to the constitution, would it be used as a precedent to allow future amendments without regard as to their legality/constitutionality ??
INDEED
The state’s legislature on Thursday approved a resolution in support of Newsom’s call.
Left dominated COS agenda day one:
1st amendment.
Day 2, 2nd amendment.
Day 3 closing ceremonies.
That’s the problem we have with “gun laws!”
The people are so ignorant of the Constitution that they allow or go along with them!😟
RE: And Mao Tse Tung is one of their favorites too.
How could I have missed mentioning Mousey Dung?
Thanks for the reminder.
Total number of people estimated to have died as a result of his career:
Mao’s policies were responsible for vast numbers of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labor, and mass executions, and his government was characterized as totalitarian.
i have no issue with that at all. There are prescribed ways to change to constitution. Everything else is illegal.
So, what, having an amendment to the Constitution will magically make criminals who ignore current gun laws start obeying them now?
They qlqays care about the law when it says what they want it to say.
You have aptly described the liberal mind.
He CAN win nationally. It depends on how the D’s frame their campaign, and they are very good at that!
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You are correct. This is a political move that should not be dismissed. It is part of a bigger plan to win the nomination, then the presidency: Youth and a better America.
Do not underestimate the power of the fascist-democrat campaign machine, especially when it is teamed with the influences of an accommodating press.
On another forum I wrote that I visualize an upcoming campaign for the new, intelligent wave of congress; all young politicians as the oldies in they party say they will resign after this election, then lie about it.
The young vote will eat it up, especially against any old republican.
By having mal-educated the masses, this can be done.
that is why I really hope it doesn’t happen while this “Globalist Deep State” government in in full bloom like this. A few weeds would need to be pulled first before even thinking about pruning the constitution. And State governments are no better than the feds, they are all legalized crime syndicates
In other words, do what democrats are already doing.
If given the chance, they will strip all the amendments and this country will become a totalitarian dictatorship.
This is easy to predict. It’s already that way where dems are in control.
The easiest thing to do is to take the SCOTUS and then nullify all the amendments. Alito and Thomas are in their 70s. So we have 10-20 years left. If we're lucky.
Well, it’s the first time I’ve seen a leftist actually pursue the only Constitutional avenue.
Not a chance in hell, thankfully, but credit where it is due for actually following the process.
So he wants a negative Second Amendment. (-2A).
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