wow -- former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says: Repeal the Second Amendment

[basquebromance]

ya still think they're not comin for your guns?!

Opinion | John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment

 

[cnm]

Shh. They're everywhere...

 

[IsaacNewton]

Remington should switch over to making security blankets. They'd sell like hotcakes to the gun licks.

 

[Erinwltr]

Remington should switch over to making security blankets. They'd sell like hotcakes to the gun licks.

LOL! And start a Linus Patrol.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Remington should switch over to making security blankets. They'd sell like hotcakes to the gun licks.

LOL! And start a Linus Patrol.

Soon the cry would be 'the gubmint is going to take your blankies away'! They'll have a pic of Charleton Heston holding up a blanket "from my cold dead hand, well it won't be cold because I have the blanket, but you know what I meant".

 

[basquebromance]

The first amendment has restrictions. The second amendment has no restrictions. These weapons are not in the hands of “well-regulated” militias. The changes the people are demanding do not desecrate the second amendment, they just make it a safe addition to our constitution.

 

[martybegan]

The first amendment has restrictions. The second amendment has no restrictions. These weapons are not in the hands of “well-regulated” militias. The changes the people are demanding do not desecrate the second amendment, they just make it a safe addition to our constitution.

Bullshit.

The 2nd has plenty of restrictions, and the courts don't apply strict scrutiny as they do with the 1st. That shows the disrespect your average progressive justice has for the 2nd, and why we don't trust anyone who says "we just want reasonable regulations"

Jersey is now moving to make it next to impossible to get a concealed carry permit unless you can "show cause" which means a de facto ban on CCW.

 

[basquebromance]

Here is why the Republicans will pick up 10 Senate seats. This is a former SCOTUS Justice openly calling for repeal of 2nd amendment. We will have a retirement spot to fill on court. It will be THE issue in about 10 states.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Source: The Hill

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is calling for a repeal of the Second Amendment, decrying the right to bear arms as outdated and misunderstood. Note: Stevens was nominated for the Supreme Court by a Republican, Gerald Ford.

In an op-ed published by The New York Times, Stevens, a Republican, said that students and anti-gun violence advocates should press lawmakers to take on the amendment.

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"That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms," Stevens wrote.

"But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform," he continued. "They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment."

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His NYT op-ed is here:

Opinion | John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment


Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “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.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.

For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation. In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated militia.”
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During the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge, federal or state, as far as I am aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign claiming that federal regulation of firearms curtailed Second Amendment rights, Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the N.R.A. as perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned Chief Justice Burger’s and others’ long-settled understanding of the Second Amendment’s limited reach by ruling, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that there was an individual right to bear arms. I was among the four dissenters.

Stevens goes on to say that Heller "has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power" -- but overturning the decision with a constitutional amendment to get rid of the 2nd Amendment "would be simple and would do more to weaken the N.R.A.’s ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun control legislation than any other available option."

This guy gets it..the NRA baggers don't.

 

[my2¢]

Going that route is the best way to leave it up to the people. For me it is hard to see the 34 or 35 states needed for its removal, but at least either way it is up to the representatives elected at the state level. I definitely see no problem doing things in accordance with the Constitution.

 

[Geaux4it]

With what is going on in Oregon, and now this idea perks, it is playing out just like we have been saying. Democrats and leftist will stop nothing short of confiscation. And when we call out the gun grabbers here, we're told to take off our tin foil hats. Thing is, we are smarter than you and know your plan

-Geaux
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Former Supreme Court associate justice calls for abolishing right to bear arms

A New York Times op-ed published this morning calls for repealing the Second Amendment in its entirety in order to “make our schoolchildren safer”.

Written by John Paul Stevens, a retired associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, the article claims that merely calling for age limits on purchasing firearms to be raised is not enough and that gun control activists should “demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.”

Asserting that the right to bear arms is a “relic of the 18th century,” Stevens decries the 2008 Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court ruling, on which he was one of the dissenters, which found that there was an individual right to bear arms.

“Overturning that decision via a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment would be simple and would do more to weaken the N.R.A.’s ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun control legislation than any other available option,” writes Stevens

NY Times Op-Ed: “Repeal the Second Amendment” to “Make Schoolchildren Safer”

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Yeah the loons picked up on it and it's all over social media.....good luck with that assholes

 

[EverCurious]

Let them run on this in Nov and 2020. Seriously. Just. Let. Them.

We might be able to fix the mess that is DC if they do.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

By defeating Hillary, Uncle Vlad saved the Republic! She would have had a 5th gun grabber on SCOTUS and they would have ruled that only the militia - the government - has the right to arms, there is no individual right to arms

Thank you Uncle Vlad! Biggest Hero since Lafayette and for the same reason

 

[Geaux4it]

I laugh every time I hear 'Nobody is advocating taking your guns, just sensible gun laws.



-Geaux

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

How are the Democrats going to get their criminals and terrorist to turn in their guns?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The government tried to confiscate guns once before, it was called the Massacre at Wounded Knee.

 

[depotoo]

He was a descending voice in DC vs Heller, as well. A minority opinion.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

How are the Democrats going to get their criminals and terrorist to turn in their guns?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Here's the piece. What a disgrace.

Opinion | John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment