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To Preserve Gun Rights, We Must Replace the Second Amendment
Townhall.com ^ | Feb 26, 2018 | Justin Haskins

Posted on 02/26/2018 2:30:54 PM PST by Mafe

As the Parkland, Fla., school shooting revealed yet again, when it comes to firearms, the differences between Americans has become too monumental to overcome. On one end of the political spectrum are left-wing politicians and pundits calling for the elimination of the Second Amendment and severe restrictions on virtually every kind of gun. On the other end are Americans who believe the best way to stop mass shootings is to have even more weapons available to the public, and for everyday citizens, including teachers, to be better armed so that they are capable of defending themselves and others from murderers like Nikolas Cruz.

How can this stark divide ever be reconciled? Although it may be difficult for many to accept, the answer is likely that it can’t. The United States is in desperate need of a new Second Amendment, one that recognizes the fundamentally different views people today have about guns, their role in society, and our rights as citizens.

When the Founders first wrote and passed what we know call the Second Amendment, they viewed the Constitution in an entirely different way than most people do today. Originally, the U.S. Constitution was, for the most part, only understood to govern the relationship between Americans and their federal government. The Bill of Rights was largely meant to protect the states and the people from an out-of-control centralized power in the nation’s capital. Most laws were passed at the state and local levels, and state constitutions determined the limits of those laws, including gun laws.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; govtabuse; scotus; secondamendment; tyranny
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I'm not concerned if the Court reinterprets the 2nd Amendment as not protecting the individual right to bear arms because most states still have a provision in their state constitution, and even if they don't would still allow it regardless. That's the thing about court decisions - they can only repeal existing law, not create new law. Even if a sweeping ban like in Australia was passed by Congress, good luck getting states to enforce it. Marijuana legislation is the perfect window into how it might play out.
1 posted on 02/26/2018 2:30:55 PM PST by Mafe
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To: Mafe

already poted


2 posted on 02/26/2018 2:32:59 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Mafe

Don’t. Go. There.


3 posted on 02/26/2018 2:33:10 PM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: KC Burke

lol

posted


4 posted on 02/26/2018 2:33:23 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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I’m against repealing the 2nd Amendment, but repealing it wouldn’t do a freaking thing unless there was also a new amendment authorizing the feds to regulate gun ownership. The 2nd Amendment only confirms the pre-existence of rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence and presumed in the Constitution. Our right to bear arms exists and is constitutionally protected with or without the 2nd Amendment.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Article [II] (Amendment 2 – Bearing Arms)

Notice the right to bear arms in the 2nd Amendment along with the other unalienable rights in the first ten amendments are PRE-EXISTING RIGHTS that are God-given, not man or government given. 2nd Amendment says the feds cannot “INFRINGE” on the pre-existing right to bear arms. The first ten amendments including the 2nd do NOT grant rights. They merely REMIND government not to violate those rights. Totalitarian governments “grant” rights. A free people know their rights come from God and know they cannot be separated from those rights.


5 posted on 02/26/2018 2:34:40 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: Mafe

Lets just wait until “ we” start rewriting the Constitution...
easy peasy


6 posted on 02/26/2018 2:36:10 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Mafe

BS


7 posted on 02/26/2018 2:36:56 PM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Mafe

There’s an easy way to “reconcile the differences”...

We keep our rights, you sit down and shut up.


8 posted on 02/26/2018 2:40:17 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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Even if a sweeping ban like in Australia was passed by Congress, good luck getting states to enforce it.

They passed a law legalizing same sex marriage and didn't seem to have much of problem forcing on all the states.

9 posted on 02/26/2018 2:45:12 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Those who mess with the Constitution when in the majority, will have to live with messing with the Constitution when they aren’t.

Trump’s appointments should settle this for the next fifty plus years.

That’s good enough.


10 posted on 02/26/2018 2:47:23 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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EFAD



11 posted on 02/26/2018 2:47:25 PM PST by golux
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To: Mafe
Earlier thread here
12 posted on 02/26/2018 2:48:39 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Mafe

Haskins is an idiot. Useless RINO in the vein of George Will. Thinks because he’s a journalist he’s something special

Put money on he has soft hands


13 posted on 02/26/2018 2:58:32 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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14 posted on 02/26/2018 2:59:41 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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You can wish shit away. But the second amendment is going nowhere.


15 posted on 02/26/2018 3:00:52 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: gnarledmaw

Thank God your the hall monitor, here is my pass.


16 posted on 02/26/2018 3:04:34 PM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: Mafe

How can we ever have an Honest Debate with so much propaganda in the media in the first place?? So I propose we regulate the Propagandist’s:

Until we Comprehensively Regulate the commercial activity for hire or compensation regarding the 1st amendment and the “free speech” clause, where we immediately license and require background checks for All Commercial Speech for Hire or Compensation, with absolute strict rules for Truth and Fact, for anything not clearly labeled Opinion, Such as: “Nothing in this broadcast should be considered Real or Factual in anyway”
with severe penalties for any violations, including prison, fines and a Permanent Ban from ever engaging in Commercial Speech activity for hire or compensation.

Just so you know, this has NOTHING to do with Free Speech, this is “Commercial Activity” and they Fed Gov can Regulate Away!!!


17 posted on 02/26/2018 3:09:16 PM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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That’s the thing about court decisions - they can only repeal existing law, not create new law.

<<>>

John Roberts can.


18 posted on 02/26/2018 3:12:56 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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To: Jim 0216
the first ten amendments are PRE-EXISTING RIGHTS that are God-given, not man or government given.

Ah, there's a problem.
No God, no unalienable rights.
One of the many reasons God is being removed from society.

That would leave the government to bestow or not 'rights'.

19 posted on 02/26/2018 3:13:07 PM PST by Vinnie
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They wish !< /sarc>
It's NEVER going to happen !
Those people DUMB enough to MESS WITH the Second Amendment ... are gambling with their own lives !
20 posted on 02/26/2018 3:16:43 PM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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