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It’s Time to Repeal—and Replace—the Second Amendment
The Nation ^ | August 8, 2019 | Elie Mystal

Posted on 08/07/2019 6:53:56 PM PDT by lowbridge

The Second Amendment is why we can’t go to school, or work, or a house of worship, or a nightclub, or a movie theater, or a music festival, or pretty much any public gathering without fear of getting shot to death. The Second Amendment is why you can’t be immediately arrested for openly carrying around an assault rifle in a public place, and why you can’t be immediately arrested for smuggling a hand-cannon in your gym shorts. The Second Amendment is how law enforcement justifies the need for military-grade armaments—to match the “firepower” they meet in the streets. The Second Amendment is why we have a generation of young people that is scarred or missing from gun violence. And the Second Amendment is why I had to tell my 6-year-old last night to act like Scaredy Squirrel and “play dead” if an “active shooter” storms his classroom, thereby mangling the whole moral of the books.

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Textually, the amendment itself is almost toothless and easily amenable to regulation. Hell, “regulated” is written right into its text: 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.

See. You don’t have to be a constitutional scholar to conclude that this amendment is talking about the need for “militias,” not an individual’s right to own a bazooka; and you don’t have to be a historian to noodle out that the founding fathers—who revolted against a global superpower—thought that state militias were pretty cool.

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It was only in the 1970s that the National Rifle Association basically invented the new constitutional theory that the Second Amendment conferred a personal right to own military grade weapons for “self-defense.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bringiton; crazywomen; eliemystal; fakenews; guns; justtryit; liberalagenda; liberalpropaganda; nra; secondamendment; thenation
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To: Rummyfan

“If the government is going to start defining what we can have based on its definition of need, the country is finished.”

Bullcorn!! If the government proclaims “You don’t neeeeeeeed an AR-15!”, then you arm up and say “Come and take them, bitch!”

Maybe shots will be fired and flesh will be cut. But bring it, Deep State!


101 posted on 08/07/2019 7:48:43 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: SaveFerris

As posted previously by SaveFerris:

This is why we pay $20 to $25 for buffets.

That is so funny. Where do you live? I’ll buy you a cup of coffee.


102 posted on 08/07/2019 7:52:40 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: SaveFerris

I wonder if he thinks the 14 th Amendment can just be swept away.


103 posted on 08/07/2019 7:53:17 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Jane Long

Re: Libertarian Redhead —

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104 posted on 08/07/2019 7:56:06 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: lowbridge

Nope.


105 posted on 08/07/2019 7:56:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lowbridge

The moron doesn’t realize that laws are already being passed against the Second Amendment. More of the Second Amendment is being ignored and violated each term, insidiously and covertly by Republicans and loudly and overtly by Democrats.


106 posted on 08/07/2019 7:57:16 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Every able-bodied man is part of the militia. Even the Illinois constitution specifies this to be true.

Nor was it a bunch of undisciplined clowns but its members held regular training sessions. Even so a militia was not an effective military force.

Today it is pretty much a useless idea given the highly advanced military forces of major nations.


107 posted on 08/07/2019 7:58:23 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: The Toll
Yes.

Yesterday, we learned from Congressfeces Joaquin "Jokey" Castro that it's the job of a US House representative to get any constituents who didn't "vote the right way" fired from their jobs or beat up by violent Leftists.

Not to advocate for them or assist them in dealing with the Federal government. That's so yesterday.

108 posted on 08/07/2019 7:58:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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To: lowbridge

Better get to it. Can’t wait for the mass Gun confiscations to start.

It will make the first Civil War look like a day at Disneyland.


109 posted on 08/07/2019 7:59:25 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: lowbridge

Elie ? Electronic Lie


110 posted on 08/07/2019 8:07:32 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: lowbridge

Bump


111 posted on 08/07/2019 8:08:14 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: lowbridge

“Name one reason you need an AR-15”

cuz my other 50+ guns are lonely in their safe place.

It’s happy he has his buddies with him - oh look there is another one next to me how did that get out of its cabinet?

Oh there is mil-spec Springfield 1911 there on my desk how did that get that lose.

And there is one of my Glock 17s

oops


112 posted on 08/07/2019 8:08:33 PM PDT by ezo4
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To: lowbridge

The 2nd Amendment is why the Democrats have not completely seized power and must resort to cheating.


113 posted on 08/07/2019 8:11:23 PM PDT by Ingtar (Funds Robbed from Everyone Else. F.R.E.E.)
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To: SaveFerris

Elie is why you can’t find cookies in the store.

Elie is why you need to stand in line 25 minutes for a cheeseburger.

Elie is why your kids can’t have an ice cream cone.

Elie is why Guam may tip over.

Elie is why the Earth may stop rotating and everyone will fall off.


114 posted on 08/07/2019 8:11:41 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: grey_whiskers
😂
115 posted on 08/07/2019 8:13:48 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: marktwain

Yes, Marxists. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.


116 posted on 08/07/2019 8:14:13 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist.I'm white.Does that mean I'm racist?)
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To: lowbridge

No.


117 posted on 08/07/2019 8:17:34 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: MarMema
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118 posted on 08/07/2019 8:20:02 PM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold. Z)
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To: lowbridge
Lexington/Concord was the result of the Crown sending troops to confiscate guns and ammunition. That's the start of the 2nd. Amendment.

That was individuals, joined together, with firearms that were in many cases superior to what the British Troops had to keep the then government from taking their weapons and ammunition, mostly the ammunition in this case since the citizens were all already armed.

119 posted on 08/07/2019 8:22:38 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: lowbridge

1) Every politician out there would be happy to see the citizenry dis-armed

2) Without the Second, “...with the consent of the governed” means nothing.


120 posted on 08/07/2019 8:25:20 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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