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CK_John

(10,005 posts)
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 12:23 PM Dec 2012

It's time to amend the second amendment. A new amendment may be needed

like the one to repeal prohibitions. I'll leave the method to the legal eagles.

But, we need to better define the type of weapons in the public domain, the place of storage (maybe in public gun lockers), limits on purchase/ownership of guns per person, and the capacity of gun loads (maybe only single shot weapons).

Amend the amendment.

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Indydem

(2,642 posts)
1. Do you understand the method by which the constitution is amended?
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 12:24 PM
Dec 2012

There is a snowballs chance in hell of getting a new AWB and you want to amend the constitution?

Not likely.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
2. We'll need a new, more liberal SCOTUS to overturn the current misinterpretation of the 2nd.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 12:25 PM
Dec 2012

But it's inevitable.

Then we can work on Amendments.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
3. SCOTUS has already said Congress and the states have significant ability to regulate firearms
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 12:25 PM
Dec 2012

Pretty much anything short of a full ban a la DC and Chicago is OK.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
4. The mood I'm in lately the wording
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 12:27 PM
Dec 2012

of a new second Amendment would be one that couldn't be posted in civilized places. It would have to do exactly where to store the guns.

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