NYTimes Editorial: Congress Should Secretly Suspend Second Amendment Rights

Dailycaller.com ^ | 6-14-2016 | Casey Harper

[Prov1322]

[Trod Upon]

They might be unpleasantly surprised at how many are just itching to give it to them. Keep poking that hornet’s nest, leftists.

[Steve_Seattle]

I can just see it: anyone posting to Free Republic or any conservative site is automatically “a suspected terrorist.”

[Steve_Seattle]

"But they’d scream if anyone so much as touched the First Amendment."

Where have you been? They're also attacking the First Amendment.

[Laser_Ray]

Trump should respond by saying we should suspend the 1st Amendment and shut down leftist blogs/websites confirmed to have treasonous intent (which is most of them). Or maybe that we should suspend the one on equal-rights voting in Ferguson the next time they riot.

[TigersEye]

The Dem/libs have been yapping for gun control for decades.
How has that been working out for them?

• The percentage of Americans who own guns has increased.
• The percentage of Americans who believe we have a right to own guns has increased.
• The number of guns owned per gun owner has increased.
• The amount of ammunition possessed per gun owner has increased.
• Concealed carry laws have spread from state to state like wildfire.
• Castle Doctrine laws have been passed in numerous states.
• Stand Your Ground laws have been passed in many states.
• Gun rights lobbying groups have become a cottage industry unto themselves.
• In the worst economy since the Great Depression the firearms industry can't keep up with orders or expand fast enough.
• 65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total 2/12/2013
• 46,455 Background Checks For Gun Purchases Each Day Under Obama 5/3/2013

And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)

• Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies 1/14/2013
• NRA membership has increased by 250,000. (Jan. 2013)

And it continues...

• NRA Surges to Record 5 Million Members (May 4, 2013)

And there is more...

• FBI Report: Early 2013 Crime Decrease Coincides with Gun Sales Boom

And more...

• FBI: March 2014 Was Biggest March in Gun Background Check History
  ...the raw data shows "2,488,842 total background checks
  were performed in March 2014."

And yet more...

• Gun sales spike in June (highest June sales since 1999) July 7, 2015
  Background checks for gun sales spiked 11% in June compared to last year, making it the busiest June ever,...

And more and more and...

• FBI data shows record number of September gun sales October 10, 2015
  FBI's National Instant Background Check System shows gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row with 1,795,102 prospective gun owners processed in September.

We just keep buyin' more...

• Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Sales for October 2015

And we bought more more more...

• Record for U.S. Gun Background Checks Set on Black Friday 12/3/2015

And more and more and more...

• 2015: The Year of the Gun (All time record number of background checks processed) 1/4/2016
  More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.

KEEP YAPPIN, LIBERALS, WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)

[Political Junkie Too]

Do they mean that all this time we could have just simply suspended the penumbras that eminated Roe v Wade, gay marriage, and cross-bathrooms?

Who knew?!?

-PJ

[sergeantdave]

Let’s secretly kill commie professors and NYT’s writers. We’ll seat wooden dummies in their chairs so nobody will know that they’re secretly dead.

[LongWayHome]

In the long run....it’s inevitable I believe.

[75thOVI]

Why are the people most likely to equate gun ownership with penis envy, the same ones who are most interested in taking them away?

[freeandfreezing]

Maybe a secret committee to take away the first amendment rights of journalist who step over the line too... No court, no jury... just a committee.

Or, more to the point, and probably more effective, why not just ban the preaching and publication of fundamentalist Islamic ideas? If it is necessary to suspend fundamental liberties, it would be much easier to just have a secret court decide if a publication or a particular mosque was disseminating dangerous ideas likely to lead to Islamic extremism. That would end radicalization, so we wouldn't, in theory at least, need to worry about preventing gun attacks, bombings, arson, knife attacks, airplane hijacking or jihad by car.

In fact the process could be even simpler than trying to stop gun sales one at a time, and less intrusive and tailored to the problem. For Muslims not involved or interested in extremist points of view there would be no burden at all, except perhaps for some travel restrictions to avoid people attending prohibited talks overseas, or reading prohibited materials.

I am sure what I proposed is something the NYTimes and all of their liberal supporters would consider unthinkable. And that of course shows their true desires and beliefs. They just want to disarm and control the population. Unlike the rest of us who actually believe in the Bill of Rights.

[OldNewYork]

Is the New York Times still allowing Krugman near keyboards?

[packrat35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre

[SteveH]

nyt practicing sedition (again)?

take away their 1a rights!

[Nebr FAL owner]

Why yes we do & we are getting ready for some serious ugliness.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Like any of the folks in Congress give a shit.

[Mat_Helm]

"As of this moment all gun owners are now on Double Secret probation! No More fun of any Kind!"

[SunkenCiv]

The piece is written by Adam Winkler, a U.C.L.A. School of Law professor.

Partisan Media Shills alert:

• 'Star Trek' actor eviscerated after equating NRA with UCLA shooting
• Why Was Muslim UCLA Shooter Misidentified as a "White Male"?
• Students, Colleagues Mourn Murdered UCLA Christian Professor
• UCLA killer was diligent student in India
• Media EDITED UCLA Shooter's Religion Before Publication ("White Male is muslim-'Mainak Sarkar')
• What Law -- Specifically -- Would Have Prevented Yesterday's UCLA Shooting?

[Chode]

ya mean like they did in Connecticut and New York...

[RAWGUY]

Congress does not have the Authority to do that. Neither does the President nor the Supreme Court. It takes a constitutional Convention and 2/3 of the states to ratify an Amendment. That is the only way and that will not happen without a revolution along with the Cession of several of the many states.
So, until such an amendment is made, it is the law that citizens may go armed and it is guaranteed that the “GOD Given Right” shall not be infringed.