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What word, other than abortion, doesnt appear once in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or any other subsequent amendment?
Gun.
Whats that? The right to murder-death-kill-weapons is heavily implied? TS. Apparently, unless a word appears in the text, its not guaranteed. All I see in the Second Amendment is that the Government cant mandate I get a double amputation of my upper limbs.
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Walleye
(31,028 posts)essaynnc
(801 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)AnyFunctioningAdult
(192 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)I dunno ... maybe it can, but then someone has to amputate the arms of a Bear, and install them onto your torso.
Wonder who'd be paying for all that though?
RussBLib
(9,019 posts)not once, and yet the Christian Nationalists act like it's in there 1000 times
Freddie
(9,267 posts)Therefore all womens student loans are null and void.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Freddie
(9,267 posts)intheflow
(28,476 posts)Republicans would looooove to go all 18th Amendment on the the 19th Amendment.
LakeArenal
(28,819 posts)mopinko
(70,113 posts)he is mentioned something like 15 times.
Cerridwen
(13,258 posts)dumbcat
(2,120 posts)n/t
Bucky
(54,014 posts)The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated
dumbcat
(2,120 posts)If the OP can quibble that the word "guns" does not appear (though "arms" does,) then the word "privacy" does not appear either. Period.
BarackTheVote
(938 posts)Id call it a rhetorical absurdism. But as that seems to be the thrift of the Roberts Court ATM
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)sarisataka
(18,656 posts)LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)NotASurfer
(2,151 posts)Army and Navy are specifically enumerated. At the time the Constitution was written, the bleeding edge technology for flight was a hot air balloon, and Ben Franklin I believe witnessed demonstrations while ambassador to France. So it was a known, they just omitted it as an option available to Congress. To be literal, the Supreme Court should rule the entire Air Force has to be grounded until the Constitution is duly amended