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The 2nd amendment is, you know, an amendment -- ratified by the states. Congress can't nullify it even if they wanted to regardless of the party. In case people don't know it, Democrats are gun owners. I suppose the Supreme Court could reinterpret the 2nd amendment away from the current interpretation prohibiting any infringement on the right of nut jobs to gun down our kids in schools or commit other mass murders.
BTW, if the 2nd amendment were somehow repealed, the Fed govt still would have no authority to make laws restricting or banning guns. Because no part of the Constitution gives them that power, and never did.
Only difference would be that now states could make such laws. They had that authority (if they wanted to take it), on the first day the original Const was ratified. But when the Bill of Rights was added a few years later, the 2nd amendment took away the states' power to restrict or ban guns.
The 14th amendment didn't change that, since the 2nd amendment already extended to all governments in the U.S.
No, they wouldn’t. I say this as a lifelong Democrat who has owned guns since I got my first one as a birthday gift in 1958. I was a gunsmith for four years, and I have probably owned 4-500 assorted firearms in the last 64 years.
I agree, my husband and I both own guns, he was on the Marine Corps pistol team and has continued to compete off an on for decades. Come to think of it, I don't personally know any democrat who would be in favor of banning all guns. I think guns that can kill dozens of people within a few minutes should only be entrusted to people who can demonstrate that they aren't bat crap crazy or too young to make rational decisions.
The Founding Fathers intended to maintain an armed militia. That didn't mean every Tom, Dick and Harry. When did the militia come to include everybody ?
The Swiss got it right anyway. All members of the the Swiss Army are required to keep and maintain their standard issue firearm at home. They dont have sick lunatics who should never have even been allowed a water pistol to get their hands on assault weapons and slaughter at random.
Japan, Israel, Sweden, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada - take your pick of systems. All of these have violent video games and people with mental health problems. None of them have any problems with mass shootings, or an incidence rate that is statistically negligible. Gun violence on a wide scale is a problem unique to the United States.
On a side note, deaths of children by firearms in Texas has doubled since Abbott took office, and guns have surpassed automobile accidents as the leading cause of death of children in the U. S.
Yep...ONLY ONE MASS SHOOTING SINCE 1996 when gun laws changed in Australia!
You are so right! Look at the way the Democrats are trying to ban abortion or ban what can be said in school classrooms.
Oh wait......
Dems are trying to override states rights with national abortion laws - who thinks it is ok to have an abortion at birth - some even allow after birth. You do know even if Roe V Wade was overturned that it would be up to the states - abortion would still be legal.
IDK why some think it is ok to indoctrinate a kid with their personal views - teachers should be fired instead of just barred from pushing their politics and beliefs - why all of a sudden, did teaching think it was ok to move from the basics to indoctrination.
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