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The Velveteen Ocelot

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15. Dream on. There's a reason there have been only 27 amendments

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #14)

Wed Feb 21, 2018, 08:26 PM

Feb 2018

out of more than a thousand proposed. It is not easy, and that's on purpose. And the one thing we do NOT want is a new constitutional convention.

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Once again, it's time to consider repealing the 2nd Amendment. [View all] Girard442 Feb 2018 OP

You believe that the gun lobby would not Sherman A1 Feb 2018 #1

JFK: Girard442 Feb 2018 #6

Nice quote and I recall when he Sherman A1 Feb 2018 #18

Have you looked up the procedures for amending the Constitution in any way? The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #2

Thanks, Ocelot. Not just 'vanishingly small,' elleng Feb 2018 #7

Yes, but... yallerdawg Feb 2018 #14

Dream on. There's a reason there have been only 27 amendments The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #15

We are way overdue for repealing it. The sooner, the better. LonePirate Feb 2018 #3

We are way overdue repealing the 2nd samir.g Feb 2018 #4

Foolish suggestion, elleng Feb 2018 #5

Twenty years ago I would have agreed with you. Girard442 Feb 2018 #8

The Right will push back by calling for a ... MicaelS Feb 2018 #9

Dont repeal it... just restore the first 13 words... farmbo Feb 2018 #10

Yes - that's the way. The definition of "arms" needs to be amended since the days of muskets. erronis Feb 2018 #13

It was never enforced before. Nt hack89 Feb 2018 #20

To the contrary, there was No Personal Right... farmbo Feb 2018 #33

Really? hack89 Feb 2018 #37

It would need a tremendous shift to achieve something like that Hav Feb 2018 #11

YES! Ban and confiscate all guns. Only the police should have guns. johnpowdy Feb 2018 #12

Until we have the fairness doctrine back and less concentrated media ownership kimbutgar Feb 2018 #16

So true! jazzcat23 Feb 2018 #23

This gun issue could split the country up in a civil war. kimbutgar Feb 2018 #25

Or consider actually reading it as it was intended to be read. guillaumeb Feb 2018 #17

Not repealing it, but getting a Supreme Court that will interpret it stressing the madinmaryland Feb 2018 #19

There is absolutely nothing preventing strict gun control hack89 Feb 2018 #21

Other than the makeup of the SCOTUS. They can interpret it anyway they want. madinmaryland Feb 2018 #24

States have AWBs and registration hack89 Feb 2018 #26

+ struggle4progress Feb 2018 #22

But even this conservative Supreme Court has held The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #28

I would like to shenmue Feb 2018 #27

With you. sfwriter Feb 2018 #29

works for me. KG Feb 2018 #30

My 18 year old put it best. GreenEyedLefty Feb 2018 #31

Not a good idea. PatrickforO Feb 2018 #32

What do you think it would do? Make the right go away? X_Digger Feb 2018 #34

All we need do is follow it randr Feb 2018 #35

Nope. Just need to enforce it. Xolodno Feb 2018 #36