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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: wastedyears

the first half is the preamble what you stated is actually the 2nd


121 posted on 08/07/2019 8:25:56 PM PDT by ezo4
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To: lowbridge

What astounding ignorance of history! The battle of Alamance. The “Regulators.” The Over Mountain Men. Etc. The need of the PEOPLE to be armed to REGULATE any tyrannical MILITIA.


122 posted on 08/07/2019 8:26:22 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: lowbridge

IF THIS HAPPENS - WELCOME TO THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION


123 posted on 08/07/2019 8:27:05 PM PDT by revivaljoe
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To: Inyo-Mono

Not only that, but the USSC Miller decision of 1934, as wrong as it was in the application of law, made clear that Milita/military arms for the people was the intent of the 2nd Amendment. The court was not provided evidence that a sawed off shotgun was actually used by the military in WWI.


124 posted on 08/07/2019 8:28:11 PM PDT by suijuris
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To: wastedyears

Exactly!


125 posted on 08/07/2019 8:29:18 PM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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>> It’s Time to Repeal—and Replace—the Second Amendment

One could argue it’s time to muzzle this type of hostile rhetoric.


126 posted on 08/07/2019 8:29:26 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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The Second Amendment is Dhimmicrats are 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.

FIFY Elie

127 posted on 08/07/2019 8:29:50 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: lrvp99

“I always thought it meant that, BECAUSE the militia must be well regulated, the citizens must have the right to keep and bear arms”

Absolutely, the start of the amendment stating the obvious need of a militia so that a state can remain free of tyranny, from foreign and domestic powers.


128 posted on 08/07/2019 8:32:19 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist.I'm white.Does that mean I'm racist?)
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To: McGruff

He should be a guest host on “Ancient Aliens”. He’s got the hair for it.


129 posted on 08/07/2019 8:32:39 PM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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To: lowbridge

Elie Mystal....

Another emotional, liberal loser female who thinks she knows better than the Founding Fathers.

FOAD, Elie Mystal.


130 posted on 08/07/2019 8:32:40 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

That THING is a male?

Did he / she / it transition?


131 posted on 08/07/2019 8:39:02 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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To: lowbridge

Go pick some cotton, Mydol....Mystal.


132 posted on 08/07/2019 8:40:03 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban liberals, NOT guns.)
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To: lowbridge

2nd Amendment bump for later.....


133 posted on 08/07/2019 8:48:22 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: lowbridge

We the people ARE the militia.


134 posted on 08/07/2019 8:53:06 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Political Science degrees, so easy Obama has one.)
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To: lowbridge

2nd Amendment bump for later.....


135 posted on 08/07/2019 8:53:21 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: lowbridge

Because one person craps in their pants, the rest of us must wear diapers? Leave the 2A alone.


136 posted on 08/07/2019 8:56:28 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: lowbridge
Thomas Massie ✔ @RepThomasMassie Some have asked, “who needs 100 rounds?” If 6 brave, trained, and alert police officers with professionally maintained weapons fired 58 rounds to subdue the Dayton shooter, I’d say my wife deserves at least that many chances to protect herself and my kids when I’m not home.
137 posted on 08/07/2019 8:59:40 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: lowbridge
If the 2nd Amendment read,
A well fed Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Sammiches, shall not be infringed,
I'll bet Ms. Porker would immediately spot the flaw in any argument that held only the militia can have sandwiches, despite the fact that the two versions are syntactically identical. Damned HIPPOcrit.
138 posted on 08/07/2019 9:01:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: MarMema

Yeah that’s a great idea. /s


139 posted on 08/07/2019 9:20:45 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: sergeantdave

;)


140 posted on 08/07/2019 10:13:57 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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