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A Supreme Court justice’s solution to gun violence: Repeal Second Amendment
The Washington Post ^ | May 28, 2022 | Frederic J. Frommer

Posted on 05/28/2022 9:06:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Four years ago, when — as now — the nation was reeling from the horror of a mass school shooting, a retired Supreme Court justice suggested a radical solution: getting rid of the Second Amendment.

John Paul Stevens issued the call after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in February 2018. The attack prompted hundreds of thousands to demand action the next month to end gun violence at the March for Our Lives.

In a March 27, 2018, New York Times op-ed, Stevens praised the protesters and their call for stricter gun control laws. “But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform,” he wrote, about a year before his death at 99. “They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.”

Stevens said the amendment was adopted out of concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the states. “Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century,” he wrote.

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To: rellic; PROCON
Your cops are so bad they can’t even save some kids in a school and you think you Are going to disarm us?

Excellent point.

LE has clearly demonstrated just what our lives will be like if we are left depending on them to protect us.

If they would not take proper action to save little children from being slaughtered, there’s no way in hell they will do any different for us.

This mass shooting and how it was handled is our future if we leave it in the hands of the government to protect us.

41 posted on 05/28/2022 10:17:04 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Repeal one of the Bill of Rights Mr. Pedophile and watch what happens.


42 posted on 05/28/2022 10:18:25 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We had a revolution about this, the anti-firearm group lost big.

They want to try again?


43 posted on 05/28/2022 10:24:57 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You really want to end gun violence? Have an investigation and find out which DNC RAT is orchestrating these mass shootings at the kids in school. You’d never see a piece of human excrement like Salazar walk into a bar and try to pull this crap. He’d be toast 5 seconds after he comes through the door. It’s too bad the jackass Nazis screaming for gun confiscation don’t stand up to save the millions of infants that their pals murder every year. HYPOCRITES!!!


44 posted on 05/28/2022 10:28:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: LottieDah

That’s called beating your swords into....different swords.

The British don’t have guns. They kill each other with machetes and baseball bats. But they still kill each other.

CC


45 posted on 05/28/2022 10:29:26 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A Well Regulated Militia?
Lost in the gun rights debate, much to the detriment of American freedom, is the fact that the Second Amendment is in fact an “AMENDMENT”. No “Articles in Amendment” to the Constitution, more commonly referred to as the Bill of Rights, stand alone and each can only be properly understood with reference to what it is that each Article in Amendment amended in the body of the original Constitution. It should not be new knowledge to any American the Constitution was first submitted to Congress on September 17, 1787 WITHOUT ANY AMENDMENTS. After much debate, it was determined that the States would not adopt the Constitution as originally submitted until “further declamatory and restrictive clauses should be added” “in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its (the Constitutions) powers”. (This quote is from the Preamble to the Amendments, which was adopted along with the Amendments but is mysteriously missing from nearly all modern copies.) The first ten Amendments were not ratified and added to the Constitution until December 15, 1791.

In this Light: “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.” What provisions of the original Constitution is it that the Second Amendment is designed to “amended”? THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS AMENDING THE PROVISIONS IN THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION APPLYING TO THE “MILITIA”. The States were not satisfied with the powers granted to the “militia” as defined in the original Constitution and required an amendment to “prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers. “(Again quoting from the Preamble to the Amendments.)

What was it about the original Constitutional provisions concerning the “Militia” that was so offensive to the States?

First understand that the word “militia” was used with more than one meaning at the time of the penning of the Constitution. One popular definition used then was one often quoted today, that the “Militia” was every able bodied man owning a gun. As true as this definition is, it only confuses the meaning of the word “militia” as used in the original Constitution that required the Second Amendment to correct. The only definition of “Militia” that had any meaning to the States demanding Amendments is the definition used in the original Constitution. What offended the States then should offend “People” today: “Militia” in the original Constitution as amended by the Second Amendment is first found in Article 1, Section 8, clause 15, where Congress is granted the power: “To provide for the calling forth the MILITIA to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrection and repel Invasions.” Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16 further empowers Congress: “To provide for the organizing, arming, and disciplining, the MILITIA, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;” Any “patriot” out there still want to be called a member of the “MILITIA” as defined by the original Constitution? Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 empowers: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the MILITIA of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;” The only way the States would accept the “MILITIA” as defined in the original Constitution was that the Federal “MILITIA” be “WELL REGULATED”.

The States realized that “THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE” required that the “MILITIA” as originally created in the Constitution be “WELL REGULATED” by a “restrictive clause.” How did the States decide to insure that the Constitutional “MILITIA” be “WELL REGULATED”? By demanding that “restrictive clause two” better know as the “Second Amendment” be added to the original Constitution providing: “THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.” The States knew that “PEOPLE” with “ARMS” would “WELL REGULATE” the Federal “MILITIA”! Now read for the first time with the full brightness of the Light of truth: “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.” For those still overcome by propaganda: The Second Amendment declares by implication that if the “MILITIA” is not “WELL REGULATED” by “PEOPLE” keeping and bearing arms, the “MILITIA” becomes a threat to the “SECURITY OF A FREE STATE.” The “MILITIA” has no “RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS” in the Second Amendment, rather it is only “THE RIGHT OF THE “”PEOPLE”” TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS (that) SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.”


46 posted on 05/28/2022 10:30:21 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: MinorityRepublican
Stevens said the amendment was adopted out of concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the states. “Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century,” he wrote.

The amendment was there to add a delineated boost to the natural right of man to self-defense (since the 10A wasn't clear enough on the issue), and is supposed to be more of a barrier to government goons posing a threat to the people.
47 posted on 05/28/2022 10:30:34 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Deaf Smith

Happyland Social club, 1990 in the Bronx. 87 people died.


48 posted on 05/28/2022 10:34:28 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Remember that imbecile was put forth by Nixon. If Republicans had actually nominated conservative justices consistently there would be no homo marriage, late term abortion, affirmative action and other societal depravities that have been invented by the left.


49 posted on 05/28/2022 10:35:48 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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To: Ex gun maker.

Canada spent 5 years and 2 billion dollars trying to enforce a gun registry. They eventually gave up.

CC


50 posted on 05/28/2022 10:38:42 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

when will anyone point out the obvious timing and wonder what they did to spin up these people into becoming shooters


51 posted on 05/28/2022 10:57:23 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: Ex gun maker.

Great point.


52 posted on 05/28/2022 11:22:15 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

These types of people absolutely are internal enemies of the Republic.


53 posted on 05/29/2022 12:09:09 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Stevens said the amendment was adopted out of concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the states. “Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century,” he wrote.

Nothing could be CLOSER to actuality in this 21st Century. This government's standing army of administration-controlled agencies, departments, bureaus and, yes, even the upper echelon of the military ARE a threat to the security of this country.

54 posted on 05/29/2022 12:20:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: MinorityRepublican

1 million were killed in Rwanda with machetes.


55 posted on 05/29/2022 12:39:53 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: C210N

Reminder: Parkland was the result of many, many bad Leftist policies. The Parkland shooter was a very well known wolf, but his many issues were ignored due to political correctness. Many of those policies are still in effect nationwide. Thanks, Obama!

Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Meadow-Died-Policies-Parkland/dp/1642932191


56 posted on 05/29/2022 1:28:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MinorityRepublican

See my tagline, folks. Leftists will never stop. There goal is total submission of their enemies which includes killing as many of us as they can.

They will now start attacking and killing us (again) under the guise that they are doing it to “protect” the world. And, as always, the police forces where ever these democrat party solders attack, will “stand down” and let the democrat brown shirts loot, burn, assault and even murder with no consequence.

One needs to go no further than the leftist who murdered the Trump supporting in Colorado, with it on video, who had the charges dropped and is now free.

https://kdvr.com/news/local/lawyer-charges-dropped-against-unlicensed-security-guard-who-shot-man-at-rally/


57 posted on 05/29/2022 2:08:55 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

That would be the honest way to do it. Not by legislation or executive order


58 posted on 05/29/2022 2:21:21 AM PDT by RonnG ('')
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To: Ken H
Yep, so easy peezy, especially when half the states now have constitutional carry.

Freaking idiots need their unicorns. Waste of an article.

59 posted on 05/29/2022 2:27:43 AM PDT by Badboo (Ukraine is the progs new Covid. Russia gets to administer the vaccine.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They probably know already.

Do you think that fancy, super-secret X37B was just collecting data on foreign governments?


60 posted on 05/29/2022 2:30:37 AM PDT by CTyank
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