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Our 21st-Century Second Amendment
National Review ^ | October 8, 2017 | Kevin D. Williamson

Posted on 10/08/2017 7:49:21 AM PDT by Twotone

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1 posted on 10/08/2017 7:49:21 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

There is no one currently alive AT ALL CAPABLE of drafting ANYTHING like the Constitution or the 2A. They shouldn’t even be stupid enough to opine. ...Like HILLIARY’s dumb comments about the electoral college.


2 posted on 10/08/2017 7:54:54 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Twotone

Because armed citizens just won’t get in a box car.


3 posted on 10/08/2017 8:17:15 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Twotone

I would include it and it would read like this:

“Congress shall make no law imposing any regulation, restriction, ban, tax, tariff, import ban or regulation, registration, or any control of any kind, on bearable arms, accessories, ammunition, ammunition components, or firearm parts. No State, Territory, or other sovereign governmental entity within the jurisdiction of United States shall make any law or ordnance as described. The people have a right pre-existing this document to keep and bear arms. Violation of this right under color of law shall be punished as Treason.”

I think that’d cover everything.


4 posted on 10/08/2017 8:18:21 AM PDT by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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Good start, need to add....”and violators will be taken out to the curb and summarily executed.”


5 posted on 10/08/2017 8:20:52 AM PDT by going hot
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To: JamesP81

You should omit the word “bearable”.

The authors of the original envisioned citizens carrying-out Letters of Marque and Reprisal; for that they would need what constituted heavy artillery of the era.


6 posted on 10/08/2017 8:25:30 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

I used to teach U.S. and MO Constitutions to my 7th & 8th graders. For the U.S. Constitution we went line by line through the whole thing. Can’t do that with the MO constitution—it’s 130 pages in a bound book! I told the kids political geniuses wrote the U.S. Constitution and a bunch of lawyers wrote the MO constitution—and it shows.


7 posted on 10/08/2017 8:33:49 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Dr. Pritchett

Agreed. I’d rather it be a Presidential directive like this:

“I have directed the Justice Department to fully implement the second amendment of our constitution as written, and to severely prosecute any persons, entities, departments or states that infringe on this right as they would any other right enumerated in our bill of rights. All gun control laws are hereby declared illegal, and are to be ignored by American citizens.”


8 posted on 10/08/2017 8:39:49 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“Because armed citizens just won’t get in a box car.”

Well said.


9 posted on 10/08/2017 8:42:10 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Twotone
I am sick and tried of the news hounds & babes saying this "No one is saying you need to own 48 (or different number) weapons" crap!

How many legal weapons I own is nobody's damn business under the 2nd Amendment & 4th Amendment!

Or do the liberal bastards & bitches want to do away with the 4th also?

If so, come... and git 'em!

10 posted on 10/08/2017 8:50:11 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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I am sick and tried of the news hounds & babes saying this "No one is saying you need to own 48 (or different number) weapons" crap!

I am always slackjawed at people who know nothing about firearms trying to tell those who do what kind of weapons they should be allowed to have. But I do get a chuckle reading proclamations that no homeowner needs an AR-15 for self-defense. Heck, it is a superior home-defense platform.

11 posted on 10/08/2017 9:16:56 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: hanamizu

Not only that my YOUR state inflicted THIS on the country:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Plan MORE LAWYER CRAP!


12 posted on 10/08/2017 9:19:47 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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Re: But I do get a chuckle reading proclamations that no homeowner needs an AR-15 for self-defense. Heck, it is a superior home-defense platform.

For very close combat, there is nothing better than a Thompson... and that was told to me when I was 14-years old by none other than Audie Murphy--

13 posted on 10/08/2017 9:31:57 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: JamesP81

“... shall not be infringed” is sufficient. Totally clear. FFs presumed personal ownership of ALL weapons including battleships. More words will not persuade those ignoring any words. More words only serves to give more loopholes


14 posted on 10/08/2017 10:01:53 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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. FFs presumed personal ownership of ALL weapons including battleships

With the caveat that you would be maintain one and be practiced in its use (i.e. "well regulated"). If you maintain a tank and practice with it, I have absolutely no problem with you owning it. But those conditions are necessary and written into the amendment.

15 posted on 10/08/2017 11:19:32 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Won’t get in a boxcar alive and voluntarily, anyway.


16 posted on 10/08/2017 11:40:24 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

The History of Human Nature is what is in question.

Modern Man, the Progressive enlightened and socially evolved wanna be architects of the way things should be are finding an ever increasing audience of simple minded reactionary tools in our post-modernist era.


17 posted on 10/08/2017 11:58:43 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: JamesP81

I like it; perhaps should add that no new immigrant with less than 10 years of legal (naturalized citizenship) residency shall purchase, bear, own, acquire, or posses arms within the jurisdiction of the United States.


18 posted on 10/08/2017 12:24:45 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
The totalitarians won't use box cars.

They will use big yellow school buses,... and... far too many of the sheeple will compliantly board them just as their government teachers taught them to do.

19 posted on 10/08/2017 12:38:30 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Twotone

With tyrants like Barry and Hillary running for president it’s needed more now than ever before.


20 posted on 10/08/2017 2:22:23 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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