Condi Rice: it’s time to discuss what 2nd Amendment ‘means in the modern world’

The Washington Times ^ | 2-23-2018 | Jessica Chasmar

[Pelham]

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that it’s time to discuss what the Second Amendment “means in the modern world” in light of last week’s mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Ms. Rice, who served under President George W. Bush, said that while the Second Amendment remains “indivisible,” she doesn’t think civilians should have access to guns like the AR-15, which was used by 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz to fatally shoot 17 students and teachers on Valentine’s Day.

“I think it is time to have a conversation about what the right to bear arms means in the modern world,” she told radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt. “I don’t understand why civilians need to have access to military weapons. We wouldn’t say you can go out and buy a tank.”

[Electric Graffiti]

“So she is pro-abortion and anti 2nd Amendment. And GOPe.”

And a 2 time Obama voter. That Bush admin was something else.../spit

[Lazamataz]

I never trusted her, now she shows who she really is.

[mulligan]

Another intelligent person down to the liberal and Democrat cesspool.

[CitizenUSA]

Don’t like the US Constitution much, Condi? Pass an amendment!

[ALASKA]

“I think that we need to have law enforcement protect us.”

well

[wastedyears]

My Natural Rights are granted to me by God.

[Davy Crocket]

My bet is that the Condi For President movement may suffer a setback...

Yea I think I’d pass on voting for her.. Se don’t like the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. Ah we can just ignore that one and we’ll move on to the 3rd.

[Terry Mross]

Hey Tim, I’m on your side. My .22 caliber. Rifle can hit a burglar many, many times before he’d know what hit him. But I can see them taking away my rights to own that little rifle.

A guy coming into my house at night is up is up to no good and he should prepare to be taken out....with extreme prejudice.

[Pollster1]

World’s easiest discussion.

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state” explains why the federal government created by our Constitution respects this preexisting, God-given individual right.

“the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” identifies the right that is protected:
- an individual right held by the people
- a right both to keep and bear arms (meaning any weaponry that can be carried)
- a right with the highest protection of any enumerated in the Bill of Rights - “shall not be infringed” is unambiguous.

If America’s enemies on the left wish to act as the thugs they are, and attempt to disarm us, they do so with no legitimacy at all. It’s a question of pure force. Do they really think they can win that one?

[Vaden]

Yet another of Bush’s abhorrent picks once more shows what they always were-big fat liberal leftists who don’t believe in America or the constitution.

Shove it Condi-you’re not getting mine.

[American in Israel]

Fair enough. As you can tell, I feel pretty strongly about my choice of a semi auto for hunting and self defense.

[Howie66]

Yep.

[Hardastarboard]

The modern world? That being the world that in the last century saw governments slaughter more of their own citizens than in any other century in recorded history? That modern world?

EXACTLY!! I've read waaay too much history to give up my guns. I know what happens next. And there won't be a free society on a distant shore to come rescue us like there was for Europe in 1944.

[rktman]

😡🐂💨💩. Sounds like someone is goin' all "colon" powell like. ill take "Who gave the wrong answer about the second amendment." for $1,000 Alex.

[Terry Mross]

If legislation is passed and signed by Trump basically saying the Constitution can be cherry picked to mean whatever they want it be at the time, this country is doomed. I figure I got no more than 10 years left so hopefully the republic will stand another 10 years. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

[Cheerio]

I am getting more and more sick of the Bush Admin by the day. John "It is a Tax" Roberts, Colin Powell, and now Rice! She obviously is in the group of US Residents that cannot tell the difference between an Assault Rifle (Rice: "I don’t understand why civilians need to have access to military weapons.") and a semi-auto AR-15 style rifle. What is God's name has happened to our ed system? That is a rhetorical question - it started in earnest back in the 1960s with the proclaimed Commie 45 stated goals and the movement spawned by the Haight Ashbury district where anything goes.

[Cheerio]

No. We need the 2nd Amendment more than ever to protect us from tyrannical governments.

[stevio]

Yea Uniparty, member from the Uniparty president.

[SecAmndmt]

No surprise. W advocated for a renewal of the AWB and his solicitor general, Clement, IIRC did not want SCOTUS to rule that 2A recognized an individual right. Condi the neocon having a similar position is no surprise. Bush was meaningfully different that Gore in which ways? Maybe 1 or 2?

[hal ogen]

condi is merely yet another tiresome uniworld, uniparty, anti-sovereignty moron. What a disappointment.