Believe it or not, this is the best for pro-gun people. If they try to repeal it, they’ll obviously fail.
Maybe if they take his advice and stop trying to make incremental laws and such and repeal the ones that we have now, things will get a lot better.
Yeah like that’s really gonna happen.
What is this guy smoking?
What society is he talking about? The leftist, socialist big daddy government society?
In your face Liberalism. Hillary wants to take your stuff and give it to others she thinks want it and can better use it — And now, no longer is the public safety “if it saves one life” ruse even tried anymore.
Democrats, raise taxes, fund socialism and gun control. I am sure you can figure out how the three parts connect together.
Well, I gotta say....it's refreshing to see somebody tell you exactly where they stand & how they feel. Even though I totally disagree.
Make him happy. Make us rest easier.
After all, sometimes it's necessary for a single individual to pay a steep price so that others may have freedom and liberty, and this is a case where I think Wittes is that guy!
"One of the things that they believed was that the right of states to organize militias, and therefore individuals to be armed, was necessary to protect the liberty of those states against the federal government," Wittes said."This is something we don't really believe as a society anymore."
Oh yeah mr 'guest scholar'. I'll bet ya a shiny new Nickel otherwise.
Actually, it’s refreshing to hear a leftist just come out and say they just don’t believe in the Constitution and the America of the Founding Fathers.
I am so sick of these Pelosi types that come out and insist they want “America’s original vision” and then try to gut everything we ever believed.
Scary, though.
Never heard of this guy,and why do we give a crap what he thinks?
He should go crap in his hat.
The second amendment is one of the things that keeps our own government in control,and now with our politicians seemingly not caring what the will of the people is any more we may need it now worse than ever.
Hell... let’s just get rid of that pesky Constitution... didn’t the Founders understand that hildebeast was coming? (extreme sarcasm)
If they try to abolish something so important that the Founding Fathers felt it neccessary to put it in the Constitution, right behind the Freedom of Speech and Assembly... a War will break out in the streets of America... a REAL CIVIL WAR!
Can we sue these people for trying to supress our Constitutional rights? I’ll bet the lawsuits would fly at the first hint of repealing the FIRST AMENDMENT!
LLS
Not a good idea; a Hail-Mary play like this would be so in-your-face that even the freedom-freeloaders might finally get off their collective butts and resist.
"Repeal the Second Amendment", eh? How about repealing these worms' birth certificates instead?
Bring it on.
Repeal would fail miserably.
I agree with the analysis that the Second Amendment is a clear statement and that the only way to ban gun ownership is to repeal it. But the notion that repeal could happen in this country could only be entertained by somebody who has led a very, very sheltered life.
“One of the things that they believed was that the right of states to organize militias, and therefore individuals to be armed, was necessary to protect the liberty of those states against the federal government,” Wittes said. “This is something we don’t really believe as a society anymore.”
What??? This guy is nuts.
Charlton Heston said it best.......
What an idiot.
If we put the same type of regulations around “freedom of the press” as we do around owning a firearm, the daily news would be about two weeks behind, there’d be only a couple of news outlets, they’d all be censored by the federal government, and there’d be a huge blackmarket where people went for current news. Neither incrementalism nor a repeal will eliminate guns from society. What's this guy's plan for all the new criminals that will be created after the repeal? Amnesty?
The Second Amendment was a necessary precondition of enacting the Constitution in the first place. Repealing it would mean not only the end of the Amendment itself, but also the end of the Constitution.
It would not, however, mean the end of the right, because the right itself pre-existed and is not dependent on the Second Amendment. It would simply legalize government abuse and denial of the fundamental right to self-defense, just like in Rwanda.
Actually, the amount of terrorism and mass murder "back in the old days" dwarfs what we are seeing today. Folks weren't just walking around in petticoats and powdered wigs, you know...
"Dump the Second Ammendment and the rest of the Bill of Rights will follow."
While an ardent supporter of the 2nd amendment, and member of the Virginia unorganized militia (by law), it is nice to see someone taking a head-on approach to the 2nd rather than the back-door efforts to erode the right to bear arms. However, there is a sort of asymmetric warefare at play here. While there would be a definite ending point for the debate if, God forbid, the 2nd amendment were repealed, there is no such event for the 2nd amendment’s sustaining. When would the anti-gun crowd ever admit that it had failed to repeal the 2nd amendment and move on? They wouldn’t. They would just sneak around the back of the house and try the back door again. And again and again and again.
The debate is settled. The 2nd amendment is the law of the land. Period.