Posted on 06/27/2008 5:13:44 PM PDT by RetiredArmy
NEWS RELEASE
SAF CALLS CHICAGO TRIBUNE PLEA TO REPEAL 2A ‘UNCONSCIONABLE’
BELLEVUE, WA – The Chicago Tribune’s call for repeal of the Second Amendment following the historic Heller Decision is an “unconscionable attack on the entire Bill of Rights and the freedoms it protects,” the Second Amendment Foundation said today.
In an editorial published on the day after the Supreme Court handed down its 5-4 ruling, the newspaper called the Second Amendment an “anachronism” that should be repealed. The newspaper supported its argument by falsely claiming that a 1939 case, U.S. v Miller, established the amendment as a “collective right” that applied only to service in some type of militia.
“The Chicago Tribune’s editors have demonstrated an appalling short-sightedness,” said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. “If they are so willing to abandon one civil right for an entire class of American citizens, what’s next? Perhaps they would strip some citizens of their First Amendment rights to free speech or religion. Heaven help us should the Chicago Tribune editorial board one day decide that they don’t care for the editorial slant of their competitors at the Sun-Times, and call for a restriction on that newspaper’s freedom of the press.
“Once you make it acceptable to destroy one civil right,” Gottlieb observed, “it does not take a very big leap to embrace limitations on, or the abolition of, another civil right.
“Not once, in all the years that gun rights organizations have been vilified in the editorial columns of the Tribune and other newspapers did anyone from the firearms community suggest we should repeal the First Amendment,” he stated. “Unlike elitist newspaper editors, gun owners understand that the Bill of Rights is an all-or-nothing document, not a civil rights buffet from which we can pick and choose the rights we want to enjoy and those for which we have no stomach.
“We have always known the Second Amendment affirmed an individual civil right, and a truly objective reading of history by the Chicago Tribune would – if they had any notion of objectivity – lead them to the same conclusion,” Gottlieb concluded. “A generation of parents and grandparents of those now writing such nonsense in the Tribune risked, and all too frequently lost their lives to defend all of the freedoms enumerated in the Bill of Rights. The Tribune editors may as well just spit on their graves.”
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I just renewed our NRA subscriptions. They are fighting crap like this and could use our help. Afterall they are fighting for US.
Bet those asshats at the Chicago Tribune wouldn’t like it much if someone proposed repealing the First Amendment...not that repealing it matters, as the Bill of Rights doesn’t confer rights, it merely enumerates them.
Well, gosh ...the Chicago Trbune ..now the definer of our constitutional Rights. I feel so much more secure knowing that this rag of a paper going out of business can not even keep itself afloat in a city that NEEDS a troop surge is telling us What the constitution means. HA!
these editors would have gone the way of Benedict Arnold back in the day...ha.
I’d prefer we repeal that Commie rag some call the Chicago Tribune. Introducing Communism into a country is tough when the populace is armed.
Actually I admire the Tribune for wanting to play by the rules. If they feel that the right to keep and bear arms is obsolete, then, by all means, delete it from the Constitution. Obviously, this will be a difficult process (to say the least), but that is our system and I will certainly support the results, either way.
JUST STOP USING JUDGES TO CIRCUMVENT THE CONSTITUTION!!!
This is absolutely astonishing. While the US Constitution outlines provisions for its amendment, we should tread very lightly on the ground around repeal of ANY rights granted by this timeless document.
The second amendment recognized an individual right; it has always recognized that individual right.
Just because the gun-grabbers want to extend their control to the rest of us, and SCOTUS has hammered them, they want to immediately jump to amending the US Constitution?
Absolutely ridiculous. Scary, too. These people must be stopped.
So the Chicago Tribune knows what’s better for Americans than James Madison?
hopefully the chicago tribune and los angeles times will go broke.
Hummm. Can you imagine what those people will say when the reality of Heller sets in? I’m going to stay out of town for awhile.
The right to bear arms is an unalienable right. Repealing the second amendement would not change the fact that it is a right belonging to the people that is inviolate.
The right to bear arms is necessary to the security of a free people. Even if there never was a second amendment, it would still be an unalienable right.
We need a national boycott of the Tribune, its parent company, and all its holdings. This is anti-American, traitorous tripe.
And for everyone here that ever made fun of WND... This summer may see first ice-free North Pole
Without the Second Amendment, the First doesn’t mean squat.
Anyone know who owns the chicago tribune?
DING DING DING!!!! No more calls, folks. We have a winner.
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"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
Obama?
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