Hear AntiFa scum are out of control (and yes I include the NYT as AntiFa) if they say this about theb2nd amendment just think what they’ll say about the first once the 2nd is gone.
In fact they already are - there’s too much speech, political speech needs to be regulated, etc.
Dark times for the Republic - but people are waking up.
Gun control is a moral crusade against a benighted, barbaric citizenry. This is demonstrated not only by the ineffectualness of gun control in preventing crime, and by the fact that it focuses on restricting the behavior of the law-abiding rather than apprehending and punishing the guilty, but also by the execration that gun control proponents heap on gun owners and their evil instrumentality, the NRA.
The private ownership of firearms is a rebuke to this utopian zeal. To own firearms is to affirm that freedom and liberty are not gifts from the state. It is to reserve final judgment about whether the state is encroaching on freedom and liberty, to stand ready to defend that freedom with more than mere words, and to stand outside the state's totalitarian reach.
The repeal of the Second Amendment would no more render the outlawing of firearms legitimate than the repeal of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment would authorize the government to imprison and kill people at will. A government that abrogates any of the Bill of Rights, with or without majoritarian approval, forever acts illegitimately, becomes tyrannical, and loses the moral right to govern.
I would encourage you to read the entire piece. It is as perfect 24 years later as it was then.
If weaponry weren’t lethal, it wouldn’t be much good, would it?
FREEDOM be Baaaaaaad stuff, eh NYT??
The violent crime rate among Norwegian-Americans mirrors that of Norway.
Just sayin'.
These guys always want to interpret IIA with reference to the actual weapons that existed then, as opposed to the private-government balance of arms. OK, cannon were perfectly fine back then and lots of people had them. Can we have cannon?
The cancer is these un-American hacks that hide behind the 1st Amendment.
The amendment itself is not the problem. Yes, it’s vague, poorly worded, lacking nuance. But the intent is clear with the opening clause: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.”
A lot of people think it was written to protect the Republic from an over zealous government. Like the Demoncrats.
New York Times ,,, the cancer in journalism .
Violent crime has been decreasing in America for 30+ years. The number of guns in America has been increasing for about the same amount of time.
The cancer is the low IQ, low T pervs writing for the NYT.
Journalism: when you are as dumb as a politican, but too ugly and loathsome to be elected.
But, a barrista is always a good backup job.
Dumbasses.
He quotes briefly and selectively from Heller, but apparently he failed to read the fine historical treatise that Justice Scalia included with his ruling opinion.
The cancer is actually in the lame stream media with the New York Slimes leading the way.
for revolutionaries that fought an Armed Rebellion. and the flashpoint that triggered the rebellion was the government trying to confiscate their weapons (Lexington and Concord)... it would be damned ridiculous for them to turn around and ban citizens from owning weapons
Makes you think Roe v. Wade wasn’t that bad of an idea...
New York Times is the cancer of the country.
Go to h@ll New York Times!
There is a cancer in the Constitution. It started with a single suspect spot, like real cancers. There were many founders who questioned the blank slate the Constitution provided to the Judiciary. Like cancer, this spot grew, and grew... and has involved many lympth nodes, and has metastasized all over the place.
If you "progressives" have a problem with the 2nd Amendment,as recently defined by the Supreme Court,repeal it.
You clowns are convinced that it's universally reviled coast-to-coast so repeal should be a piece of cake.
How many people died from mass shootings last year?
From car accidents?
From Roxy overdoses?
Perc overdoses?
Heart attacks from the terrible food they ate (that’s gonna be me if i dont change my ways!!)
So ban prescription pain killers, junk food, cars, hell, ban leaving the house and only allow drinking water and eating tomatoes.
And still no enforcement of gun laws in Chicago. Where massive killing of black kids goes on, and the Mayor goes on TV to lecture Trump. Or he goes fishing.
The Dems don’t give a goddam if black kids die. This is all a kabuki dance for votes.