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Rightwingconspirator10/03/2017 8:07:55 am PDT

re: #199 HappyWarrior

The counter to that is “Well cars aren’t in the constitution and guns are.” I know it sounds radical but we really do need to consider when the 2nd was written. And I get that maybe that could set up a dangerous slope considering the 1st as well but whereas speech has merely taken on different forms, guns have gotten more deadly.

The other counter is the gun laws that have been upheld time and again. Very few gun laws get thrown out by the Federal courts when compared to how many held up.

Officially, we do have a contemporary reading on the 2nd. Heller. A historic, and controversial decision. So we have a clear path to regulation within the 2nd.

Not aimed at you, but at those who cry for a Constitutional convention. I see a severe need to show first and foremost how a bunch of legislators unable to get it done under the constitution can be trusted with a fundamental do over. Where is the necessary ethical balance and political competence? In a post Citizens V United nation?