To: neverhillorat
Criminals don't care about laws. If they want to have a gun, they will get one regardless of bans. Citizens have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The voters cannot remove that right. Would take a constitutional amendment. Good luck with that.
1,505 posted on
03/03/2007 12:35:50 AM PST by
Jim Robinson
(It's "originalists" not "constructionists.")
To: Jim Robinson
Would take a constitutional amendment. I'll take issue with that statement.
Since the BOR doesn't grant rights, how could another Amendment 'take away' something that wasn't 'granted' in the first place?
Repealing the 2nd Amendment wouldn't make Government confiscation of firearms legal any more than repealing the 8th Amendment would make torture legal.
L
1,506 posted on
03/03/2007 1:08:00 AM PST by
Lurker
(Calling islam a religion is like calling a car a submarine.)
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