Posted on 12/30/2014 3:19:55 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What country fetishizes, lionizes, valorizes, idolizes, and sacralizes guns as much as does our United States? OK, possibly Mozambique — the only country with an AK47 on its flag, but really, it's long past time to end this obsessive "My Precious" attachment of Americans to instruments of death.
This morning of Dec. 25, 2014, of the nine top stories from US Reuters, six were about shootings — four new ones and two about the national movement against shootings of citizens by police. This pandemic of sick violence, punctuated by mass killings of children, has gone on far, far too long. It is long past time to repeal the stupid Second Amendment.
The fate of the Second Amendment should have been sealed when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that past rulings by their predecessors were wrong, that in fact the amendment that provided for a "well regulated militia" really guaranteed every individual the right to own a gun. Wow. That is an interesting reading of the English language. What the Supremes have done is to not only warp the meaning and make it into twisted law, but to further prohibit states and local governments from declaring their places free of legal guns. The conservative court once again rules against the power of states, a principle that used to be associated with darn liberals who wanted to make sure everyone had the right to vote, for example, even though they weren't properly white enough. Now when a city or state wants to outlaw firearms, too bad. The conservatives took away their powers and rights in favor of Big Brother.
The only logical path, given the clearly decided role of the Second Amendment, is to repeal it. American people are tired of mass shootings and police shootings and family feud shootings and sibling shootings and accidental toddler shootings and teen suicide by gun (highly popular).We are exhausted by the proliferation of death, of threats, of bloodshed, and by the NRA/gun industry moral garbage spewing forth every time someone challenges the ubiquity of guns.
Repeal the Stupid Second Amendment. Surround it, grab it, bring it in the back room, pull down the shades, and end it. OK, petition for it, get it on the ballot, and get it done by enough of the US populace, by enough people in enough states, to get it consigned to the dustbin of history.
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Tom H. Hastings is PeaceVoice Director and teaches in the Conflict Resolution program at Portland State University in Oregon.
“Tom H. Hastings teaches in the Portland State University Conflict Resolution MA/MS program”
A man with no merit teaching in an pseudoacademic program that has no merit, spouting nonsense with no merit, all on the taxpayer’s dime. It is long since overdue that he became unemployed.
What kind of jobs need someone with a Conflict Resolution MA/MS?
Honestly, I’m thinking maybe FBI negotiator, but would the skills this guy teaches be up to the level of such a position?
A question for you Tom, the brilliant one:
After outlawing the legal possession of a firearm, how do you disarm the illegal possession of firearms, when all six of these shootings were perpetrated in a gun free zone, with illegal guns? Just asking?
The only positive to this article is that the comments over there are uniformly scathing of this moron.
He can repeal the 2nd Amendment any time he likes. Just renounce his citizenship and move to one of the lovely countries without a Bill of Rights.
Instead, these nuts want to force their views on us. They’re all petty tyrants.
It is not quite Bracken caliber work, but darned close...
Well...there is caliber and then there is calibre.
Matthew's work being .50 at least. It certainly gives me the sweats like the report from a Barrett M82. =;^)
I'll have to check it out.
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