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In reply to the discussion: What guns were like when the 2nd amendment was written [View all]packman
(16,296 posts)17. Sounds sensible - A good beginning anyway
Hope is the 2nd will be repealed and America will go the way of Australia , but would accept this as a start of a long road .
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As I've said elsewhere, some gun control proposals are certainly Constitutional,
Just reading posts
Jun 2016
#7
Sure it is. It ends, "And we have passed and repealed prohibition and slavery amendments."
Just reading posts
Jun 2016
#56
Easiest way to do something about it is to elect Democrats and change Supreme Court. Even Scalia
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#13
Why would you oppose something that you suggested and admit has ben effective?
stone space
Jun 2016
#37
And in the meantime, you can have all the quills you want to exercise your 1st Amendment rights.
Just reading posts
Jun 2016
#9
Yeah, I've noticed folks here threatening to exercise their First Amendment Rights...
stone space
Jun 2016
#33
Yeah, and Scalia only talked of guns in the home. We have a chance to get rid of the racist Justices
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#14
You really think that Supreme Court justices Kennedy, Roberts, Thomas and Alito are racists?
TeddyR
Jun 2016
#22
Ok, so members of the militia have to be in good working order too. In relatively good shape
MillennialDem
Jun 2016
#26
it doesn't need to be repealed--it just needs the kind of limits we place on speech, religion, etc.
yurbud
Jun 2016
#21
There are all kinds of limits that can be placed on gun ownership that are probably constitutional
TeddyR
Jun 2016
#25
Oh...if we're not using the FBI defition, the body count drops to under 100
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#63
Beats being afraid of something that's been used a single time and malfunctioned.
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#70