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What If the Second Amendment Were Repealed?
The Huffington Post's Huffpost Politics ^ | January 30, 2016 | Paul Heroux, State Senator (D-MA)

Posted on 01/31/2016 5:18:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The Second Amendment to the Constitution states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Debate about the Constitutionality of the individual right to bear arms was settled when the US Supreme Court in District of Columbia et al. v Heller stated that:

The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.

The Second Amendment is more than the right to bear arms. It represents a way of life and a culture in America. People who take advantage of their Second Amendment right are generally very responsible gun owners. In my experience, they take gun safety very seriously for two main reasons: 1) they are law abiding citizens and 2) they recognize the consequences both individually and collectively when guns are abused.

What if the Constitution Changed?

There are two avenues for the "right to bear arms" to be eviscerated, and to be clear I am not advocating for that in this article. The first is by changing the Constitution, specifically repealing the Second Amendment. While changing the Constitution and repealing an Amendment has happened in the past with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) in the Twenty-first Amendment, I don't think this is going to happen. To amend the Constitution we need to satisfy all of the requirements of Article V in the Constitution, which states...

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.


41 posted on 01/31/2016 5:43:55 PM PST by pa_dweller (Go ahead Libs, drink the kool-aid. It's got electrolytes!)
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To: RC one
But nearly all of the combat arms units in the military are composed of US. Conservative, Constitution loving Americans.

That's why they (and I) volunteered to put their lives on the line in very dangerous occupations.


42 posted on 01/31/2016 5:45:36 PM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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To: Nachum

What if the First Amendment were repealed? What do the huffandpuffings think happens in the type of socialist utopia they so desire.


43 posted on 01/31/2016 5:46:07 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment.


44 posted on 01/31/2016 5:47:51 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As much as most politicians hate America with its Constitution and Bill of Rights, I don’t think they would dare try this. It would be the opening shot in Civil War II.


45 posted on 01/31/2016 5:47:56 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Viruses and diseases must be DemocRATS. They love open borders.)
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To: Salvavida
Civil War 2. And the really unfortunate thing about the coming one, is there will be no way to turn it off. There will be no recognizable armies like the first one.

Scary. The part about trying to differentiate between sides. I bet a lot of the other side will become instant believers in the 2nd Amendment (especially the unarmed ones).

46 posted on 01/31/2016 5:49:59 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Vermont Lt

I viewed “regulated” in that time not so much as “trained militia” but and in an “organized chain of command”.

To me, the second amendment protects the right to form a militia apart from the control of the government, but also the right to use weapons of your own choice/provision. There was not prohibition of owning a cannon, or even having enough material to support your own army (as a private citizen) as a check on the power of the state as long as your intention was not to overthrow the government of “We the People”. It was to check those who would corrupt the government of “We the People” against those very people.


47 posted on 01/31/2016 5:50:04 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Every single gun law is unconstitutional. Every one. The government has no more right to put restrictions on gun ownership than it has to restrict your breathing. And no, they can’t legally require a background check.


48 posted on 01/31/2016 5:50:15 PM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: RC one

Liberal pipe dream. When we are backed against the wall and our freedom, families, and lives are threatened... what else is there to do but fight and fight like our lives depend on it because it does.

We may not win but our dead stinking flesh in the hundreds of million will make their broken lives worthless.

Are they ready for that fight?


49 posted on 01/31/2016 5:50:49 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You can’t repeal a God-given right. But whatever. Come and get ‘em.


50 posted on 01/31/2016 5:51:03 PM PST by refreshed
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To: datura

That’s why they have been purging like stalinists for the past 6 years.


51 posted on 01/31/2016 5:52:01 PM PST by RC one ("...all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens" US v. WKA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What if pigs could fly?


52 posted on 01/31/2016 5:52:19 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thank you Smokin’ Joe. Too many keep talking about the 2nd as if that is what gives us the right.


53 posted on 01/31/2016 5:52:40 PM PST by voicereason (The RNC is like the "One-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: Randy Larsen

they would love that fight because they think they won’t have to participate in it.


54 posted on 01/31/2016 5:53:03 PM PST by RC one ("...all persons born in the allegiance of the United States are natural-born citizens" US v. WKA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stop baiting people.


55 posted on 01/31/2016 5:53:10 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: RC one

Then they will pay dearly for that mistake.


56 posted on 01/31/2016 5:56:09 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: Bull Snipe
The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment.The right to consume alcohol is neither declarative or restrictive, IOW, a God Given Right.

The BOR spells out what is inalienable and cannot be take away.

Please study some history of our country and learn the difference.

Not meant to be sarcastic, but really, your comment is in need of some further study of what we're about.

57 posted on 01/31/2016 5:56:10 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Ouderkirk

Right. Private armies are allowed under the Constitution and under God’s law. It’s an outrage that there are restrictions that impede private citizens from owning anything the government can own. That includes nukes. I completely trust that private patriots could responsibly handle such weapons. If the government doesn’t agree, then right there is the reason why we should be able to have them.


58 posted on 01/31/2016 5:56:18 PM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hellers attorneys were Neily, Levy, Healy, Possessery, Huff, and Alan Gura who actually argued the Heller case before the Supreme Court.
I assume you mean lead attorney Alan Gura.
What is the bonus prize?


59 posted on 01/31/2016 5:58:14 PM PST by Sasparilla
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To: windsorknot

“What if pigs could fly?”
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PULL!


60 posted on 01/31/2016 5:59:35 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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