Posted on 10/08/2015 2:15:49 PM PDT by rktman
In August, my colleague Charlie Cooke wrote an epic rant daring the Left to stop talking about repealing the Second Amendment and start doing it. Introduce the repeal to Congress, work it through the states, and tell the American people what you want to do — take from them a fundamental, enumerated right from the Bill of Rights. As Charlie eloquently outlines, repealing the Second Amendment is an impossible task. Even worse for the Left, it’s political suicide.
But if the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges teaches us anything, it’s that the age of judicial supremacy means that five justices can amend the Constitution far more efficiently than Congress and the state legislatures. And right now there are clearly four Supreme Court justices who are committed to the absurd view that the operative clause of the Second Amendment — “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” — doesn’t actually mean “the right of the people” and therefore doesn’t encompass an individual right to own a weapon, even for self-defense. This view defies history yet is received, conventional wisdom on the judicial Left, in much the same way that it’s received, conventional wisdom that the Constitution actually protects rights to abortion and gay marriage.
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Really?! I thought that the first 10 amendments are “cannot be touched”.
Really? I'm thinking more along the lines of the Supreme Court may be just one more vote away from getting themselves repealed.
The Supreme Court doesn’t have the power to change the Constitution.
Repeal by redefinition. It’s the soviet way.
The first amendment will be tested sometime in the near future — religious freedom.
That is when the “clingers” will need the second.
Justice Samuel Chase
That would be the last decision the court would ever make.
“........shall not ne infringed.” Period.
The 2nd amendment is non-repealable.
The founding fathers made it clear the 2nd is a God given right, and therefore non-negotiable. They said they just wanted to be absolutely specific about it, so they listed it in the Bill of Rights.
SCOTUS won’t repeal the second, they will just find a new right in the constitution for people to live in a gun free society except for of course our armed rulers.
/sarcasm too close to reality off
“The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.”
Let ‘em try: that’s what the Second Amendment is for.
Ahhhh....the classic Italian wind chimes.
Folks will simply “hide” their guns.
No abortion amendment. They can make up whatever they want.
Yep, it will be a “de facto” repeal by re-definition or re-interpretation. It’ll be another Roe v. Wade type decision.
Horse hockey! The Supreme Court can’t repeal a constitutional amendment!
What frick’n moron wrote this?
I’m sure all will be lining up in the freezing wind and snow at the new Ministry of Peace, Human Dignity and Healthy Lifestyles to comply
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