The simple truth is that a tragedy in Newtown does not erase my rights under the Second Amendment. Nor does it give any other citizen the right to negotiate that right away or infringe upon it. No One.
If this country is 75% hell-bent on some kind of knee-jerk reactionary legislation as a penance for Newtown, then by damn they'd better enact laws within their own locale and be subject to the USSC rule on it, pass a federal law, again subject to USSC, or they had better just get the 2/3 of both Houses and 3/4 of the state legislatures to ratify and amendment repealing the Second Amendment.
According to the 'numbers' being bandied about, they have the required majority, don't they? A poll doesn't mean crap to me - the US Constitution does, and if that is no longer operative here, then all bets off, and all allegiances off.
I actually agree with you but was trying to deal with the situation as it is. You are correct.If these people desire a gun free America they should do the work of repealing the 2nd Amendment. They realize that will not happen and so they fall back on the emotions of the people and use the false concept of compelling state interest to pass restrictive legislation. It’s happened before. Did you know that the supposed doctrine of public airwaves which created the FCC to monitor broadcasts was developed by the FDR admin to force Father Coughlin off the air in the late 30s? The concept of public air and dangerous speech led to threats of license denial to any station that carried his broadcast.
Conservatives have not always been so eager to defend constitutional liberties either.The Warren COurt was villified for upholding liberties clearly based in the Bill of Rights in its decisions in Escobedo, Gideon, and Miranda. Much of the only difference in the campaigns of Nixon and Humphrey in ‘68 was the Nixon pledge to undo the Warren Court.Aad I believe the Republican votes for the Patriot Act and its additions and renewals have been well nigh unanimous.