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To: rhombus; Maceman
Don't know the specific "why" part of your question.....

BUT

What scares me is that it simply took a rammed-through constitutional amendment to REMOVE Prohibition from the list of Amendments...

Can anyone think of "why" the Second Amendment (or Tenth for that matter) might seem threatened by the PREVIOUS case of a Bill of Rights item being simply deleted by popular ("democratic") pressure under the influence and propaganda of the mass media?

63 posted on 07/23/2002 10:45:51 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Can anyone think of "why" the Second Amendment (or Tenth for that matter) might seem threatened by the PREVIOUS case of a Bill of Rights item being simply deleted by popular ("democratic") pressure under the influence and propaganda of the mass media?

It's a possibility. For several congressional sessions, a congressman in PA introduced a bill to create an Amendment to do just that. It never got out of committee.

Frankly, I'd like to see them try. I think it would settle the issue for the forseeable future -- and not in the favor of the anti-gunners.

67 posted on 07/23/2002 10:54:25 AM PDT by justlurking
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Can anyone think of "why" the Second Amendment (or Tenth for that matter) might seem threatened by the PREVIOUS case of a Bill of Rights item being simply deleted by popular ("democratic") pressure under the influence and propaganda of the mass media?

"Prohibition" was not in the Bill of Rights. It was a Constitutional Amendment. Only the first ten are the Bill of Rights, and they can not be changed via Constitutional Amendment.

68 posted on 07/23/2002 10:56:46 AM PDT by FreeTally
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