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Trump Has a Strong Message For Former SCOTUS Justice Who's Arguing For Repeal of Second Amendment
townhall.com ^ | 3/28/2018 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 03/28/2018 5:45:09 AM PDT by rktman

President Trump said the Second Amendment will never be repealed, despite a call for this by liberal activists and most recently, former United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

“THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL NEVER BE REPEALED! As much as Democrats would like to see this happen, and despite the words yesterday of former Supreme Court Justice Stevens, NO WAY. We need more Republicans in 2018 and must ALWAYS hold the Supreme Court!” the president wrote on Twitter early Monday morning.

Stevens penned an op-ed in The New York Times arguing that the level of civic engagement by young people over this issue “is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
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To: rktman

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21 posted on 03/28/2018 6:30:57 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (Don't hate me because I'm sane.)
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To: basalt

having been in a country which suffered a civil war, with Vietnam era weapons and very little training on how to use them, the idea of a civil war in the USA, with the weapons and the training in existence right now in the USA.

Really, our first civil war was considered epic by all who studied it, both foreign and abroad, for the deadliness of the combatants.

I am boggled by the idea of the kind of pain we would inflict on each other once CWII kicked off.


22 posted on 03/28/2018 6:32:08 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: rktman

Wrong, Mr. Trump. We don’t need more Republicans in 2018. We need congressmen who have spines and don’t cave.


23 posted on 03/28/2018 6:34:07 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: oldplayer

Exactly right, the GOPe wants US disarmed so we cannot stop them from replacing US with Spanish speaking people.


24 posted on 03/28/2018 6:37:09 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ctdonath2
"And then, once 38 states vote for repeal of a right which most of them recognize..."

Can't repeal a right. The 2A tells government what it cannot do with regards to a God given right. We have the right to keep and bear despite what the 2A says.

25 posted on 03/28/2018 6:38:46 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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To: rktman

Great retort to the gun grabbers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6XTVuUP0Ho&app=desktop

Maybe we should look at Bevins for POTUS, 2020


26 posted on 03/28/2018 6:50:16 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: rktman

It’s interesting that Stevens wants the Second Amendment repealed, when he always voted as if it weren’t there, anyway. I guess he realizes that his is but a minority opinion, and always will be.


27 posted on 03/28/2018 6:52:57 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: bankwalker

I’m not a lawyer either, but you make a point. The Constitution was originally ratified with the promise that the Bill of Rights would be added. Originally there were 12 amendments—10 were ratified immediately, one in 1992 and the other is still out there.

The English have it much easier. Their Constitution is partially written, partially custom, but can be changed by Parliament whenever it wants to. Prohibitions against self-incrimination, double jeopardy, mentioned in the Magna Carta can be done away with.


28 posted on 03/28/2018 7:06:10 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

The English have it much easier. Their Constitution is partially written, partially custom, but can be changed by Parliament whenever it wants to.

...

And when they try to speak the truth about Muslims they’ll be thrown in jail.


29 posted on 03/28/2018 7:09:18 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: rktman

For a former SCOTUS justice, Stevens seems a little unfamiliar with The Constitution.


30 posted on 03/28/2018 8:24:19 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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To: rktman

I have a message also go buy your plot you old old fart.


31 posted on 03/28/2018 8:25:35 AM PDT by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: rktman; Donald J Trump
We need more Republicans in 2018

PATRICK MORRISEY FOR US SENATE!!!

Come on out to WEST Virginia, Donald, and show some support for OUR NEXT SENATOR!.

MAGA!!!

32 posted on 03/28/2018 8:26:39 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: wbarmy
Really, our first civil war was considered epic by all who studied it, both foreign and abroad, for the deadliness of the combatants. I am boggled by the idea of the kind of pain we would inflict on each other once CWII kicked off.

Hell, I'm more worried about the phase that always happens right before a civil war: The Settling of Scores.

THAT will be a bloodbath.

33 posted on 03/28/2018 8:44:28 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progressives, or Democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!)
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To: hal ogen

Obama just told us this weekend ‘old men’ are causing alot of the problems. Stephens, Soros......etc....

I can agree with Obama on this one.


34 posted on 03/28/2018 8:48:00 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: jdsteel
And no, they aren’t going to get 3/4 of both the House and Senate to repeal the 2nd Amendment either.

Think someone oughta tell Hogg Boy?

Naaah...

35 posted on 03/28/2018 8:52:18 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: DCBryan1

Isn’t the “Settling of Scores” a part of Festivus?


36 posted on 03/28/2018 9:26:24 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: bankwalker
Are the first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights, considered more powerful than the rest of them because of what they are? Can they be repealed? The original union may not have been formed at all without them.

I think the following speaks to your question rather well. It's an excerpt from THE LP'S FIRST PRIORITY by L. Neil Smith. The whole thing is worth reading. I know some folks on this site freak out at anything from a libertarian, but I think those folks miss things of common interest. This was originally written in 1994.


The first ten Amendments to the Constitution arose from a deal between the Federalists and the anti-Federalists; they were specifically required as a condition on ratification of the rest of the document by those who didn't want what civics textbooks call "a strong central government" but were willing to put up with it as long as certain limitations were imposed on its centrality and strength.

Those limitations were set forth in what we've come to call the Bill of Rights, but that's a misnomer, and a dangerous one. It should be called the "Bill of Limitations", because it doesn't apply to you, as I've said, or to me, it applies only to the State. As I've said, it's the Ten Commandments of American political behavior, a laundry-list of "Thou Shalt Nots", imposed upon the Federalist blueprint, that wouldn't make any sense at all, historically or logically, if it hadn't been intended -- by both sides -- to be absolutely binding.

No Second Amendment, no Bill of Rights.

No Bill of Rights, no Constitution.

No Constitution, no government.

37 posted on 03/28/2018 10:08:41 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: Gigantor

Getty image, sorry.


39 posted on 03/28/2018 12:10:14 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: rktman

How about repeal his pension.


40 posted on 03/28/2018 5:59:59 PM PDT by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. T)
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