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President Trump said the Second Amendment will never be repealed, despite a call for this by liberal activists and most recently, former United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
“THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL NEVER BE REPEALED!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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He is 90+ and will likely die soon. So he wouldn’t have to live through the catastrophic results for Freedom that he so desires. Typical LIB loser.
///Typical LIB loser.///
or: Typical GOPe loser.
Stevens is just doing what he can to get the republican base stirred up and ready to charge the polls in November.
He could be the deciding factor in keeping democrats out of the majority in either house.
What a great job he is doing!
What makes Stevens’ remarks not only ridiculous but also very selfish is that what would repealing 2A honestly do in terms of dealing with the criminal and tragic misuse of firearms? Basically nothing. Remember that the laws and apparatus were already in place to prevent something like last month’s tragedy in Florida and yet failed due to corruption and incompetency among school and law enforcement people.
At least we should admit that he is outlining the correct process. Not the “infringement” that Dems always do. If the libs ever DID get a Constitutional Convention together they might not like what happens next! And no, they aren’t going to get 3/4 of both the House and Senate to repeal the 2nd Amendment either.
All said and done...Americans will NEVER allow that to happen. lol
Just questions from a non-lawyer. Let's see who chimes in.
Take the guns and have us rely on people like Sheriff Israel? Nice!
The right to bear arms is among the inalienable rights. The 2nd amendment didn’t grant that right and repealing it wouldn’t take it away.
I truly hope Trump callz for the 17th Amendment to be repealed..
And then, once 38 states vote for repeal of a right which most of them recognize, we just have to get thru the ensuing civil war.
Stevens wrote the primary dissenting opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller
So Big Whoop
involving about 200 million more modern weapons...nothing to it..walk in the park.
The BOR is a recognition of God given rights. Implicit is the government’s duty to protect those rights and their application in daily life.
They cannot create those rights and repeal of them would be meaningless.
Did this Justice ever have a Security Detail assigned to him ? Just wondering ...
I say a resounding YES
As long as you can have a single shot flintlock with a 1 bullet maximum, locked up in the town armory...
... The second amendment will not be repealed.
I don’t like the language. I’m not being a nitpicking jerk, they are the nitpicking jerks and they are the ones who look at this language as a weapon.
So we need to look at language.
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