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Stupid 2nd Amendment – Constitution Obsolete
What country fetishizes, lionizes, valorizes, idolizes, and sacralizes guns as much as does our United States? OK, possibly Mozambique — the only country with an AK47 on its flag, but really, it’s long past time to end this obsessive “My Precious” attachment of Americans to instruments of death.
This morning of Dec. 25, 2014, of the nine top stories from US Reuters, six were about shootings — four new ones and two about the national movement against shootings of citizens by police. This pandemic of sick violence, punctuated by mass killings of children, has gone on far, far too long. It is long past time to repeal the stupid Second Amendment.
The fate of the Second Amendment should have been sealed when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that past rulings by their predecessors were wrong, that in fact the amendment that provided for a “well regulated militia” really guaranteed every individual the right to own a gun. Wow. That is an interesting reading of the English language. What the Supremes have done is to not only warp the meaning and make it into twisted law, but to further prohibit states and local governments from declaring their places free of legal guns. The conservative court once again rules against the power of states, a principle that used to be associated with darn liberals who wanted to make sure everyone had the right to vote, for example, even though they weren’t properly white enough. Now when a city or state wants to outlaw firearms, too bad. The conservatives took away their powers and rights in favor of Big Brother.
http://www.wisconsingazette.com/opinion/time-is-overdue-to-repeal-the-second-amendmentr.html
Constitution Obsolete
A full-time professor at Texas A&M University’s School of Law called for the repeal of the Second Amendment yesterday, a view not popular with students at the university.
Students place pennies on the feet of the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue shown here for luck prior to exams. The Academic Building in the background was built in 1914. Credit: StuSteeger via Flickr
Students place pennies on the feet of the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue shown here for luck prior to exams. The Academic Building in the background was built in 1914. Credit: StuSteeger via Flickr
Mary Margaret Penrose made her statement during a panel discussion on gun control at the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford.
“Unfortunately, drastic times require drastic measures,” the professor told the audience according to CTNewsJunkie. “I think the Second Amendment is misunderstood and I think it’s time today, in our drastic measures, to repeal and replace that Second Amendment.”
She also suggested that gun rights should be reduced to mere privileges by allowing each state to determine its gun laws.
“The beauty of a ‘states’ rights model’ solution is it allows those of you who want to live in a state with strong restrictions to do so and those who want to live in a state with very loose restrictions to do so,” the professor said.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) believes that President Barack Obama and “most liberal Democrats” really want to repeal the Second Amendment.
On Thursday, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham asked Hatch, “Do you think, if he had his druthers, President Obama would repeal the Second Amendment?”
“I don’t think there’s any question about it. Most liberal Democrats would,” Hatch replied. “I don’t know of any liberal Republicans that would, but most liberal Democrats would. They’ll mouth that they wouldn’t, but look, what are they doing? They want more and more controls.”
Hatch has been adamantly against gun-control measures. He opposes bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines as well as increased background checks, a proposal with overwhelming bipartisan support.
“One reason most conservatives are very concerned about universal background checks is that’s the beginning of the end of government controlling every aspect of our lives,” Hatch told Ingraham.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/orrin-hatch-second-amendment_n_2733862.html