Posted on 05/01/2014 4:49:26 PM PDT by Publius
I dont believe the Second Amendment was ever intended to support the kind of gun craziness we contend with today, but since its always used to ward off any common-sense gun reforms, maybe we ought to just fix the Constitution and be done with it.
Yes, I know the odds against that are immense, but maybe we could start by nibbling away at the idea that the Constitution is infallible or that the founders had the answers to everything. They were smart men but neither perfect nor prescient.
One of the ways they showed how smart they were, was that they made a document that could be updated when it needed to be, and today it needs to be on this issue.
Weve had another of those disturbing clusters of shootings in Seattle the past week, and gun violence continues to injure and kill across the country in public, and frequently private, ways. Most gun deaths are suicides.
But some Americans embrace their guns even more tightly even as the headlines call out for sanity. You know what Im talking about.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
Jerry seems to have a cranium stuck in rectal sphincter issue. A US police state getting more lethal and more out of control by the day and ole Jerry thinks we citizens no longer need firearms. Really Jerry??!!
He should just move to Mexico where gun ownership is illegal for just about everyone, that way he can avoid all the gun violence.Exactly. No gun violence in Mexico at all.
There's nothing stupider on Planet Earth than a liberal.
He just doesn’t want any white folks to win a knockout game. F him and his sons on the school bus.
End of the Human Race: Liberals are allowed to vote.
Yeah just like how they gracefully accept defeat. Puke
I call for the repeal of free speech rights for fascist idiots like Jerry Largeass.
the article is barely laughable, as it sounds as if an elementary school child wrote this piece. This is a journal entry at best, elevated to “news” article. Bravooo Mr. Large, riveting..
Another cock crowing about gun violence in the city..gun suicide..the reforming of our guns with common sense???...just another mindless earthling that must ‘cry out’ along with the rest of the needy collective, letting no crisis go to waste??
Well done, now march on to your next ordered crisis, your loyalty to the Crown will be noted
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The chances of them winning, in today’s climate, is about 0.01%. Before Obama it was closer to 2% - but Obama created a brand new class of gun owners and DESTROYED their chances of having any chance at all to change the Constitution, that’s why I much prefer to see them fighting at that level, rather than undermining it in the courts.
the constitution does not give us that right... it enumerates it... it is inalienable. mr. large, compensating for something, cannot take it away.
“They were smart men but niether perfect nor prescient.”
No one is perfect, but the Founding Fathers were certainly prescient: they knew that tyranny would always exist and rear its ugly head when conditions were ripe.
They also knew that pieces like this, from whatever press, would be written by those with totalitarian tendencies.
IMHO
“He should move to Mexico....”
Cuba would be better.
Logical rebuttal: Put down the crack pipe and step back. IIA didn't prevent NFA, or CGA 1968, or 1986, or even the UBC bill the false-flagger in chief tried to ram though after Newtown (that was averted politically, not constitutionally).
Practical political rebuttal: In most ways firearm legislation, especially at the state level has been trending toward sanity over the past few decades, even awash as we are in anti-rights fascists. What do you think the odds are of legally revoking Constitutional recognition of one of the most important civil rights? Like 1 in 10^12 or something?
Paul Begala for the 21st century. There's tons of countries headed by dick-taters; if these guys think it's such a hot ticket why not just move there rather than fight an uphill battle to bring it here?
The Conservative side will win. Big time...
Yeah, it was the Forehead who said, “Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool.”
Kinda fascist, IMO.
How would you know, smartass?
Bump.
Because the dictator jobs are all filled already in those other countries, and our wannabe's would get skinned alive and shot if they applied for them.
And to think, in 1962 Thomas J Dodd and Emaual Cellar proposed the first federal law on common firearms.
1962; We dont want to take away your guns, we ONLY want to register handguns! Rifles and shotguns will not be affected.
1964: We only want to register all your guns, not ban them! Only Army surplus guns will be banned.
1968: We only want to register your guns, and ban Saturday Night Specials and small foreign handguns along with army surplus rifles! (They got the ban on 5 shot army surplus rifles and handguns and small foreign pistols)
1970: We only want to ban Saturday night specials! Large handguns and rifles will not be affected!
1971: “According to the Miller Decision of the SCOTUS, RIFLES are protected by the 2nd Ammendment, handguns are not!”
1976: We only want to ban all handguns! Long guns will not be affected!
1981: The NRA is a rifle organization! They should give up their handguns, and they can keep their rifles!- Lee Grant on GMA
1984: We must ban assault Rifles, unsuitable or hunting!
1989: George Bush bans import of some foreign made assault rifles”.
1992: Assault rifle ban passed by Clinton.
2000: first calls to ban single shot .50 cal rifles...
And they continue to try to fool everyone.
Sure there is. A liberal's kid.
Especially when you get down to the third and fourth generation; now you're talking civic vegetal matter.
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