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In reply to the discussion: The second amendment is bullshit, and we all know it [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)77. In other words, you won't even try and argue that the right-wing interpretation of 2A is
a good thing. Just that it exists, and as long as the GOP continues to be able to get crazy teabagger nutjobs elected, it's not going to change.
Kinda like, when we were invading Iraq, the fact that there were no WMDs was, in a sense, irrelevant, because Bush was going to use that as a rationale for war no matter what the truth is.
Kinda like, all of the scientific evidence demonstrate that global warming is real, and that humans are to blame, but as long as the James Inhofes can keep getting elected, we're never going to do anything about it.
Etc.
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Welcome to DU. The availability of guns and ammunition can be separated from the 2A.
Loudly
Apr 2013
#4
Do you hold similar views about the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, shares?
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2013
#17
You have no Constitutional right to say that as you didn't post it with a quill pen...
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2013
#20
Seems to work just fine in all the civilized countries. That is without the "right to bear arms"
ErikJ
Apr 2013
#15
"Comparisons of the second amendment with the first, or with any of the others... are invalid."
AtheistCrusader
Apr 2013
#14
Cafeteria Constitutionalists don't want people thinking about where their logic may lead...
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2013
#19
And that's the problem really... to most 2nd amendment might as well outright say guns
MillennialDem
Apr 2013
#22
Well, like I said the .50 cal is specifically designed as an anti-materiel round. A .458 for example
MillennialDem
Apr 2013
#46
LOL. Nope it was designed as an anti tank and anti aircraft gun in WW1. Yes it is used sometimes to
MillennialDem
Apr 2013
#48
I can picture them charging in with guns claiming they're just for show,...and loaded...
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2013
#109
There are parts of the country where everybody having guns makes a lot of sense
Recursion
Apr 2013
#30
It's also been completely twisted by modern gun fanatics into something that the founders
DanTex
Apr 2013
#39
This is why we have the Bill of Rights - to protect against people like Bill Maher.
Zax2me
Apr 2013
#43
The Second Amendment does not confer the right to possess a firearm. That's the important fact.
cherokeeprogressive
Apr 2013
#68
In other words, you won't even try and argue that the right-wing interpretation of 2A is
DanTex
Apr 2013
#77
What is that even supposed to mean? I've never heard of someone having as many abortions as possible
Electric Monk
Apr 2013
#75
Try again after someone goes on an abortion spree, giving a bunch of people abortions against their
Electric Monk
Apr 2013
#84
The text of the second section of the Declaration of Independence reads, “We hold these truths to be
AlinPA
Apr 2013
#70
Lindsey Graham and Peter King: The Fifth Amendment is bullshit, and we all know it.
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2013
#76
Deal with it. You, Graham, and King are *all* trying to undermine the Constitution.
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2013
#115
I agree that the laws gun restrictionists want are not going to happen with the 2nd in place
aikoaiko
Apr 2013
#85
You want severe restrictions against against civilian gun ownership like Mexico and Jamaica?
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2013
#116