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The Cancer in the Constitution
NEW YORK TIMES ^ | 06 OCTOBER 2017 | TIMOTHY EAGAN

Posted on 10/06/2017 3:28:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Not so with guns. The Second Amendment, as applied in the last 30 years or so, has become so perverted, twisted and misused that you have to see it now as the second original sin in the founding of this country, after slavery.

It wasn’t meant to be the instrument for the worst kind of American exceptionalism — setting up the United States as the most violent of developed nations. But it is now. The more we stand out for random mass killings daily, the more the leading cause becomes clear: the warped interpretation of the freedom to own lethal weaponry.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; constitution; fakenews; fute; guncontrol; gungrabbers; guns; knockitoffliberals; nyt; nytimes
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To: Rennes Templar

It’s the Internet keeping that birdcage-liner alive.


81 posted on 10/06/2017 8:54:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BenLurkin

Against liberty, supports communist and Hitler


82 posted on 10/07/2017 6:24:26 PM PDT by nobamanomore
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