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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Repeal the 2nd Amendent [View all]totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)52. The Constitution was written over 200 years ago by privileged white guys that owned slaves.
If you are going to use that as a reason to repeal the Second Amendment you may as well repeal the entire constitution.
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Repealing the 2nd would mean gun ownership's still a property right, but gun use is now a privilege.
ancianita
Dec 2012
#2
Agree. Tough restrictions need to be imposed through Courts and Congress. More importantly
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#4
SCOTUS says preexisting rights do not depend upon words on paper to create. It follows
jody
Dec 2012
#5
PA & VT said individuals have "natural, inherent and inalienable rights, amongst which are,
jody
Dec 2012
#19
I agree that increased permissiveness in our cultural standards is probably the major culprit for
Midwestern Democrat
Dec 2012
#16
Never understood how a progressive could call for government censorship of private expression.
Kurska
Dec 2012
#21
Representations of violence are not violence. This sounds just like the calls to ban books in the
ancianita
Dec 2012
#46
That will never happen. A good start would be demand Congress bring back the 2004 assault weap. ban.
Sunlei
Dec 2012
#14
AHAHAHAHAHAH... I've never seen ONE gun owner protest publicly to protect their own constitutional
ancianita
Dec 2012
#48
The Constitution was written over 200 years ago by privileged white guys that owned slaves.
totodeinhere
Dec 2012
#52