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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

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To: Menehune56

There’s a difference. As I said, the Court can only change the law 1 way - they can repeal existing laws, which is exactly what Obergefell, Roe v. Wade, Lawrence v. Texas, and countless other decisions have done. If something is legal that means there are no provisions against it. Obergefell got rid of existing provisions. There’s nothing in the constitution that can be reinterpreted so as to create a provision against certain kinds of weapons. It’s easier for government to do nothing than to enforce laws. Defying Obergefell requires enforcing laws, where defying a gun prohibition would require no action.

By the way SCOTUS recently upheld a Texas law denying marriage benefits to queer couples.


21 posted on 02/26/2018 3:18:35 PM PST by Mafe
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To: Mafe

Worst suggestion coming from Townhall ever. Author was correct about what a 5/4 liberal court could do - but if they do that, it’s likely there will be war as a government tries to confiscate weapons.

If it comes to that, so be it.

I live in a state (really, a commonwealth) that the Marxists are taking over because of their total control of our counties surrounding DC - and I fully expect our Marxist/Dem state government to, in time, outlaw our weapons like in CA.

If we have to fight, it’s far better to do so together on a national level rather than on a state level.

IMHO.........


22 posted on 02/26/2018 3:21:16 PM PST by Arlis
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To: Mafe
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.

Posted at CuckHall, of course - hq for all cucks.

Listen dope, the rights listed in the Constitution are granted by God, NOT government, so Cuck Off, jerk.

23 posted on 02/26/2018 3:40:28 PM PST by bkopto
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To: Vinnie

Wow, good point.

I never thought of it that way.


24 posted on 02/26/2018 3:51:55 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Mafe

Maybe if it said the People can keep and near any arms they wish anywhere, anytime with absolutely no restrictions.


25 posted on 02/26/2018 3:55:51 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Vinnie

Exactly.


26 posted on 02/26/2018 3:55:59 PM PST by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: Arlis

Wont have to fight it at the national level. A few firefights at a few places killing and wounding several hundreds will end the conversation right then and there.

The concern I have is if the military would stand down.

Think Deeetroit in the 60s. The 101 and 82nd were sent in along with the rest. But then again, they cant cover so many cities and they know it. I suspect that they would cover DC and maybe NYC and places like those. At that time, the good guys (us) shut down most of the transportation into and out of those places and let the riots take the toll on those places. That and the electricity would do it. There is only about 3 days worth of food supplies at any given time within the stores..I hope you get my drift. 2-6 million people would eat it up in a flash and after that the riots start. They’ll kill themselves off.


27 posted on 02/26/2018 4:01:06 PM PST by crz
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To: Mafe

What kind of dumbass do you have to be to think we have to accommodate people who don’t like us having rights?


28 posted on 02/26/2018 4:08:15 PM PST by papertyger (Bulverism: it's not just for liberals anymore.)
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To: Mafe

...Even if a sweeping ban like in Australia was passed by Congress, good luck getting states to enforce it...

And good luck at those who try to enforce a forced “buyback” by forced confiscation and arrest. That issue was settled at the Lexington bridge and from the woods bythe road as the British retreated to Concord after their failed attempt to do the same thing.
They would run out of confiscators by the end of the first 48 hours.


29 posted on 02/26/2018 4:10:39 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: Vermont Lt

That’s right. Not as long as people understand what it’s saying.

... never owned a gun in my life, but I shot a .22 in Boy Scouts, so I’m there. I mean that sincerely.


30 posted on 02/26/2018 4:11:11 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Menehune56

They passed a law legalizing same sex marriage
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No law was passed, the Supreme Court just decreed that we all had to accept it.


31 posted on 02/26/2018 4:14:43 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Mafe

No gunz for Libtards and their fellow travelers. (Any emotional thinker actually)

HollyWierd is the NRA for illegal gun owners and users.


32 posted on 02/26/2018 4:23:38 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Lurkinanloomin; Menehune56

They passed a law legalizing same sex marriage
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No law was passed, the Supreme Court just decreed that we all had to accept it.

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Actually, at least Ohio and probably some other states have not changed their law defining marriage. I wonder how that effects all the laws dependent on the definition of marriage, whether marriages of the last couple of years are valid in those states, and what happens when some lawyer figures this out in a divorce or inheritance dispute.


33 posted on 02/26/2018 4:26:11 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: Mafe

How are you going to improve on language as precise as “ . . .the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”


34 posted on 02/26/2018 4:31:48 PM PST by iontheball (lLL)
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To: Mafe
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.

Concur. The irrational bed-wetters are delusional about the absolute right of self-defense and its companion right to keep and bear arms. They will never learn. The tin Hitlers know exactly what they are doing trying to disarm The People. They will always oppose anything enabling We The People to enforce our sovereignty.

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.

No we aren't. The gun-grabbers are flat out wrong. What the United States is in desperate need of is to publicly and continuously slap down gun-grabbers until they are too humiliated to voice their worthless opinions. Further, we need to take decisive legal action against all levels of politicians who infringe the right of The People to keep and bear arms.

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.>/I>

Nonsense! The right to keep and bear arms was spelled out in the Constitution as an exclusive right of The People. It was not an enumerated power granted the federal government nor even one reserved to the several states. It was reserved specifically by and to The People. No level of government in the United States has ever been granted the authority to regulate "arms" of The People. All provisions doing so are unconstitutional operating under the color of law.

The Second Amendment is as valid today as the day it was ratified. It was written specifically for times such as these, when we have bed-wetters, tin dictators, and mushy headed "thinkers" all attempting to destroy the sovereignty of The People by disarming them.

This is a fundamental issue. Either ultimate power resides with The People, or we are nothing but subjects wholly owned by those with power.

35 posted on 02/26/2018 4:36:28 PM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: Vinnie

Well, since the TRUTH cannot be changed, while “facts” can change in an instant, we’ll stand by truth and fight for faith and freedom all the way.

WE are right. THEY are wrong. We’ll fight with as much or more determination as the Lying Leftists and we will win because the true God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who they deny, is on our side.


36 posted on 02/26/2018 4:43:00 PM PST by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216; Delta 21
"first ten amendments are PRE-EXISTING RIGHTS that are God-given"

Now you know why the regressives are trying so hard to push out God from our culture.

A couple days ago Delta 21 posted this. Very accurate and concise review of the last 40 years of a certain political party.(or at this point maybe both.)


37 posted on 02/26/2018 4:54:40 PM PST by lizma2
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To: Mafe
NO!
38 posted on 02/26/2018 4:57:47 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: Mafe

To save the village ... we had to destroy it ...


39 posted on 02/26/2018 5:13:01 PM PST by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: Mafe

On one end of the political spectrum you have millions of law-abiding, peaceful gun owners who know how to shoot and on the other end you have hateful, lawless liberals who are triggered and piss themselves at the very sight of a gun. I wonder who will prevail if they ever get the Civil War they seem to so desperately want?


40 posted on 02/26/2018 5:13:49 PM PST by nhbob1
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