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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswant to get rid of handguns???
repeal the 2nd amendment.
honestly unless that happens there's really no chance of getting rid of guns.
the simple fact is the 2nd lets people have guns. unless its repealed gun bans or any heavy gun restrictions rally have no chance
thats just simple reality
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)never mentions guns
former9thward
(32,023 posts)Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)To be much more specific about what is and is not allowed, and for what purposes.
rdking647
(5,113 posts)whats to stop a repeal of the first while your repealing the second?
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)to think otherwise shows a worldview at best naive and at worse delusional. The gun control extremists will NEVER get the votes in Congress or among the 50 states.
It's why I rarely participate in these arguments here anymore, it's boring, the same arguments every time and no one ever changes their minds.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)It would then just go back to the states under the 10th. Many states already have weapons ownership in the state constitutions.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)It'll take 3/4s of the States passing...won't even get half. And any pol supporting repeal will be committing political suicide.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)You might want to pick up a book on the enlightenment, then a modern textbook on constitutional law.
If you magically waved your hands and the bill of rights suddenly was minus an amendment, the right to keep and bear arms would go from being explicitly protected to being implicitly protected by the ninth and tenth amendments.
There are plenty of rights that we have that aren't explicitly protected. e.g. The right to travel- appears nowhere in the constitution or bill of rights.
The bill of rights is a 'the government shall not' document, not a 'the people can' document. It's right there in the preamble.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)the People.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)fucking assholes