Reply #49: Yes and no. [View All]

[Xithras]

The NRA primarily exists in its current political form specifically because the ACLU and other civil rights groups generally ignore the Second Amendment. They pay attention to it because nobody else will. Still, during the many years I've been a member, I've seen position statements from them on all sorts of issues touching every amendment in the Bill of Rights except for the Third.

They are primarily a Second Amendment organization, but not to the exclusion of other rights. To the contrary, most NRA members see the Second Amendment as critical to defending the rest. They also do not like the precedent it would set if we allowed the courts and Congress to legislate an Amendment out of existence. If you want to remove an Amendment, pass a new one to override it. But "restricting" an Amendment is risky business. Anything done to the Second can be done to the First.