Come on and take’em from me.
I’ll leave the “laser” light on for ya.
“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.”
We need it more now than ever.
Only if he wants to start the next American Revolution.
It’s good to hear the opponents of the Second Amendment at least be honest about it—If you don’t like the Constitution, amend it through the established and legal process.
I wonder how Benjamin Wittes feels about the Tenth Amendment.
Might as well try and repeal buttholes; the result would be the same. A year down the road and all hell would bust loose.
Are the ten in the BOR not iviolate? By saying that one should be repealed can we not say that of any of the others at any time there are enough morons who agree? Are we to live by “the yay and no of general ignorance”?
We REALLY need to clean the garbage out of D.C. anyway and this is the perfect excuse to get the job started.
Lets Get Ready to Rumble!
An anti with the honest to admit that the 2nd Amendment says exactly what it means and means exactly what it says. If only they all had his point of view, because the Amendment is still 100 years from being nullified via. Constitutional Amendment, and his honesty signals the death knell for those who want to twist the language of the 2nd into protecting the right of state governments to form militias.
Go man, go!
What is most funny about his point of view is that overturning the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution would have no effect whatsoever on the numerous states that have RKBA in their State Constitutions.
To remove the protection on an individual’s right to KBA from the federal Constitution would make it simply a states rights issue.
To ban guns, he would have to pass a Constitutional amendment that both eradicates the 2nd Amendment and then includes an Amendment to the Constitution that bans or specifically restricts the right of the people to KBA.
I saw this on RCP this morning too. I spit my coffee onto the monitor.
Center Left??? More like far-left whacko organization.
Why do these idiots continually believe that any good can come from the government having a monopoly on firearms?
This is precisely why the second amendment was written, so that the populous could actively resist tyranny.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Yeah just try it. Whoever tries to take mine away better bring an army with them because they’ll certainly need it.
guns are illegal in mexico,
but people get killed by guns there all the time
by the government, gangs, drug lords, etc.
“This is something we don’t really believe as a society anymore.”
Maybe in his social circle
Here, I must give Mr. Wittes credit; unlike many others who also despise the Second Amendment, he can at least read. There is hope.
The left wants to seize guns from law-abiding people and deliberately leave them in the hands of criminals so that criminals can take money, property, and lives from law-abiding citizens, thus restoring the “balance” that the left works for.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus