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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: marktwain

Exactly. I need an AR15 to kill people that deny the Constitution. Its the social contract I agree to live under, I haven’t agreed to anything else. That means I come up killing.


41 posted on 08/07/2019 7:09:53 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: lowbridge

That dusty old Constitution says so many inconvenient things for tyrants like Dems and Commies.

Fact is, we love it just as it is.


42 posted on 08/07/2019 7:10:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen votforbing & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: lowbridge; All
"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."

Citizens indoctrinated to foolishly ignore their 2nd Amendment protections as a consequence of desperate Democrats demonizing firearms to try to stay in power is why it is not safe to leave your home imo.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)

43 posted on 08/07/2019 7:12:07 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: lowbridge

There is a Natural Law right to self defense, and of others, whether from one shooter or a 200 member gang of shooters or club carriers.

Best weapon you can get legally or otherwise.

No human made law should abridge it.


44 posted on 08/07/2019 7:12:35 PM PDT by amihow
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To: lowbridge

From this guy no less:

“Elie Mystal, a black attorney and popular legal website editor, stated on December 7, 2016, that all black individuals that serve on juries should automatically vote to free any black person who had been charged of murdering or committing a crime against a white person, especially a white man, despite the evidence.”


45 posted on 08/07/2019 7:12:55 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Phillyred

Exactly.

Libs always want to deal with ‘needs’ and ‘feelings’.


46 posted on 08/07/2019 7:14:13 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: headstamp 2

“Elie Mystal, a black attorney and popular legal website editor, stated on December 7, 2016, that all black individuals that serve on juries should automatically vote to free any black person who had been charged of murdering or committing a crime against a white person, especially a white man, despite the evidence.”

The author.


47 posted on 08/07/2019 7:14:45 PM PDT by funfan
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To: lowbridge

“Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” -James Madison, Federalist Paper #46.

Or,

“Ok, so we do need a professional army after all, the fact we have one doesn’t justify disarming the people.”

A.k.a.

“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.”


48 posted on 08/07/2019 7:15:05 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: lowbridge

“It’s Time to Repeal—and Replace—the Second Amendment”

Translation: It’s time to start the Civil war part 2.

Clean and oil your arms.


49 posted on 08/07/2019 7:16:14 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: MortMan

It is not a woman it is a man who also said this:

Elie Mystal, a black attorney and popular legal website editor, stated on December 7, 2016, that all black individuals that serve on juries should automatically vote to free any black person who had been charged of murdering or committing a crime against a white person, especially a white man, despite the evidence.


50 posted on 08/07/2019 7:16:40 PM PDT by funfan
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To: lowbridge
After watching the Lefties on Twitter display their ignorance of representative government today and yesterday (It's OK and Great if your US House representative attempts to get you fired from your job or hurt by violent Democrats, instead doing his/her job of helping and protecting you!), they're NEVER getting the guns.

Well, maybe they'll get the guns, but not in the way they expect...

51 posted on 08/07/2019 7:18:15 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
...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Yes, it is beautiful its simplicity.

52 posted on 08/07/2019 7:18:40 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: lowbridge

No. Your move.


53 posted on 08/07/2019 7:19:00 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: All

Apparently he's frequent quest on MSDNC.

54 posted on 08/07/2019 7:19:32 PM PDT by McGruff (If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!)
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To: lowbridge
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.”

The NRA is the oldest civil rights organization in the nation. If anything they are too wishy-washy.

55 posted on 08/07/2019 7:19:32 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: funfan

In other words, he asked to be killed in self defense...


56 posted on 08/07/2019 7:19:42 PM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: MarMema

“We should split the country before cw2.”

I agree. The Nazis can live in LA and NYC. Any left over get shipped to North Korea.


57 posted on 08/07/2019 7:20:03 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 would like to stick a bat in that bastard’s ear. Might tickle? That is one crazy M”f’r. Crazy and just plain STUPID!


58 posted on 08/07/2019 7:20:17 PM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya?)
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To: rllngrk33

This idiot doesn’t understand the purpose of the Second Amendment.


If he doesn’t now and the things keep going like they are, he will soon learn what is meant by the second amendment. He will be screaming louder than a 7-year old girl, flailing his arms and hands to the side like a little girl try to avoid the incoming projectiles in the upcoming CWII.


59 posted on 08/07/2019 7:21:00 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: SaveFerris

I have to say that’s a man based on the five o’clock shadow. But is it really? Could go either way.


60 posted on 08/07/2019 7:21:06 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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