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Sponsor |  usmjam | Jun 14, 2007 1:48pm | Amendment II - A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Some opponents to our right to bears arms finally admit that its one of the clearest rights in our Constitution. Therefore the new tactic is to go right after the guarranteed rights and expunge them from the law of the land.
From the page: "Repeal Second Amendment, Analyst Advises
By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Staff Writer - June 12, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - The Second Amendment guarantees the right of an individual to own guns and for that reason should be repealed, according to a legal affairs analyst who opposes gun ownership.
"The Second Amendment is one of the clearest statements of right in the Constitution," Benjamin Wittes, a guest scholar at the center-left Brookings Institution, acknowledged in a discussion Monday. "We've had decades of sort of intellectual gymnastics to try to make those words not mean what they say."
Wittes, who said he has "no particular enthusiasm for the idea of a gun culture," said that rather than try to limit gun ownership through regulation that potentially violates the Second Amendment, opponents of gun ownership should set their sights on repealing the amendment altogether.
"Rather than debating the meaning of the Second Amendment, I think the appropriate debate is whether we want a Second Amendment," Wittes said.
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"The techniques that are used to show that the Second Amendment really doesn't have any contemporary relevance are absolutely available to anybody who wants to show that aspects of the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment have no contemporary relevance," he said.
Citing the Fourth Amendment, which protects "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures," Barnett argued, "Sure it was fine that persons should be secure in their papers and effects back in the old days when there wasn't a danger of terrorism and mass murder."
But advocates of warrantless searches could make an "appeal to changing circumstances," on the basis that the Fourth Amendment is "archaic [and] we don't need it anymore," he added." |
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Sponsor | | trevho | Jun 14, 2007 5:28pm | | Soon the whole constitution will be gone |
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Sponsor | | usmjam | Jun 15, 2007 12:37pm | | What is important to note is that these anti-Constitution fools are in the Brookings Institution. Thats an influential 'think tank' that advises gubmint people, even those who are supposedly conservative and/or republican. They are being portrayed as "center-left". Thats bullchips, they are neither left nor center. Instead, they are Neo-Cons all the way. Here's a good blog article on that issue. |
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|  |  1047169 | Oct 27, 2007 4:11pm | | What is important to note is the totality of certain people's refusal to actually ponder the meaning of the FIRST half of the second amendment as it pertains to the second. |
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Sponsor | | trevho | Oct 27, 2007 4:18pm | | 4 what do you mean? as far as I know militias are illegal so what? they killed the first half so let them kill the other? |
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| | | 1047169 | Oct 27, 2007 4:23pm | | Brilliant. No. The National Guard is a militia. The law means, since the state may not be able to equip you, you are entitled to keep and bring your own gun. To which militia do you belong, trevho? |
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Sponsor | | trevho | Oct 28, 2007 8:53am | | none lol Texas has very strict anti Militia laws...However Texas has great gun and carry laws...it is a wash I suppose...I do not see why the government is afraid of the very type of militia that fought to free this great nation of ours...I suppose they know they are wrong and fear revolution. |
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| | | 1047169 | Oct 28, 2007 8:57am | | Is what I was just discussing with someone last night. The second amendment is, unfortunately, mostly useless now, considering we're not really allowed to use our guns to even protect ourselves. It's been hobbled in about every possible way. |
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