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President Trump said the Second Amendment will never be repealed, despite a call for this by liberal activists and most recently, former United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
“THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL NEVER BE REPEALED!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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I’m not saying we lose the right, just that there is a process to remove the verbiage officially protecting it.
If they’re going to repeal the 2ndA, they may as well get on with it - and then, in the extremely unlikely case of it happening, they’ll discover the hard way that we still have that right.
Hard as lead. Which at 1200 fps is quite hard enough to get the point across.
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