Is there a point in our current political environment here we must change the constitution?

[Paper Roses]

The second amendment needs to go.!!! That so many support this 'right to keep and bear arms' is so outdated as to be ridiculous.

The time has come. It is my opinion that there should be an amendment to the Constitution to outlaw guns and anything else that is considered 'arms'. Please tell me why this need to shoot and kill is relevant to the world as it is today.
To Congress: Do something, damn it.

Thank you Seth Moulton and others who stood up and expressed their opinion on this ridiculous 'right' we have.
Times have changed, we need for laws that protect the people, not the gun-slingers!


The NRA and its minions would be dancing to a different tune if one of their family members was shot and killed by a gun-slinging idiot., whatever his ideology.

[Lizzie Poppet]

1. Not the highest priority in amending the constitution, IMO.

An amendment that renders moot the ghastly Citizens United decision has to be at the top of the list, in my view.

YMMV...

[tonyt53]

2. I've got no problem with the Second Amendment. It is the interpretation that gets me.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

8. I think the interpretation is spot on - or, if anything, more lenient than intended.

The goal of the 2nd amendment is very explicit: it's to enable the formation of private armies sufficiently well armed to defeat the armed forces of a state, probably including their own.

I think that interpreting it correctly would entail not just privately-owned assault rifles, but privately owned nuclear missiles.

The way forward is to repeal it. Of course, that's not going to happen, so actually the only way forward is to accept that thousands of innocent people are going to go on being needlessly shot every year.

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. No, it's not

the purpose of the second amendment was to allow state militias and ensure that the federal government would never try to disband/disarm said state militias. There's historical context for this in British history (the last exercise of the royal veto by a British monarch was in 1708 when Queen Anne vetoed the Scottish militia bill).

[Johonny]

16. Pretty much

Supreme Court justices used to know this then Scalia and the fake originalists created a "new" meaning out of thin air. Now what is common knowledge as to its meaning is something that is basically false.

But we don't have to pretend to appease them.

[Just reading posts]

3. There is not the slightest chance of repealing the 2nd Amendment.

[HereSince1628]

4. But is there a chance of creating an amendment that makes Amend 2.1 (beta)

I think the NRA has sufficient control to prevent repeal, not sure a majority couldn't be found to strike all the militia related language and to modernize the punctuation.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

5. So, "strike all the militia related language . . ."

. . . and "modernize the punctuation"? Something along these lines, you mean?

"The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

[HereSince1628]

6. yes, congressional compromises could result in something like that

although I don't think it would be worded quite that way as there will be a strong push to be able to prevent the "dangerous trigger people of the moment" from buying at least some types of them.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

7. No, there isn't

Anything that changes the interpretation will not only not pass Congress, it would never get the requisite number of states needed to be added to the Constitution.

[deaniac21]

9. 2/3 in the house and senate and ratified by

33 states. To quote Bush "That's hard".

[SickOfTheOnePct]

15. 38 states

Even harder.

[meaculpa2011]

10. When the Democrats last controlled...

the House, the Senate and the White House they passed ZERO gun control legislation.

Now you think that there's a possibility that the Second Amendment can be repealed. (?????)

[aikoaiko]

12. You are a dream come true for the NRA.

[Doctor Jack]

13. 2nd amendment changes would be lower on my list of needed improvements

Overturn citizens united

Get rid of the electoral college

Get rid of presidential term limits

Get rid of elected judges

Have congressional districts drawn by independent authorities, no politicians

[GulfCoast66]

14. Keep entire Bill of Rights.

Go to a parliamentary system. Yep, throw the whole thing out and use a system that has proven to be more democratic.