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

[Billy_Kinetta]

What a disgrace.

 

[EverCurious]

It is astounding to me how "ungrateful" so many are - that they want us to be like other nations and "give up" on the freedoms that America affords us. I cannot help but believe that they are deficient in knowledge of what those other nations are truly like...

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

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

We saw how well that went for those US citizens.

 

[shockedcanadian]

You have to question the sensibilities of someone when they decide to go against a successful Constitution that has allowed America to flourish for 200+ years. Do these fools believe that if they had a nation like Europe, Canada or some other lawless, unaccountable, neo-communist country, that they would have the level of success and human contribution they've enjoyed?

Short sighted, selfish and harmful. Rally the troops and their families, it's a vote on the 2nd Amendment! Trump might get that Red wave after all, considering how many have worked to undermine it's chances.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

You have to question the sensibilities of someone when they decide to go against a successful Constitution that has allowed America to flourish for 200+ years. Do these fools believe that if they had a nation like Europe, Canada or some other lawless, unaccountable, neo-communist country, that they would have the level of success and human contribution they've enjoyed?

Short sighted, selfish and harmful. Rally the troops and their families, it's a vote on the 2nd Amendment! Trump might get that Red wave after all, considering how many have worked to undermine it's chances.

Do these fools believe that if they had a nation like Europe, Canada or some other lawless, unaccountable, neo-communist country, that they would have the level of success and human contribution they've enjoyed?

1st off those who want to repeal the 2nd amendment AREN'T the ones who have achieved success in the United States, so want US to be disarmed like the US Indians were, so then these liberal losers can take the land we worked hard for, and make it their own, like the Manifest Destiny did for the Democrat Andrew Jackson's voters. As long as the 2nd amendment stand for the people, those liberal murderers, rapist and thugs are held at bay.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

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.

This is somehow a surprise? Of course. This guy HATES freedom. Look at his opinions. He is one of the worst justices to ever sit the bench. He deviated wildly from the original intent.

He was one of these guys:

It's alive!!! It's alive!!!!

 

[skookerasbil]

Meh...we see this banner/symbolic chest pounding all the time from progressives. In the end doesn't add up to sick. Even going back to the late 60's with the DC marches....they said the world was changing permanently. Then nixon freight trained the left in '72.

Progressives always get duped by the msm....lol....STILL stunned Trump landslided their asses

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Froth on, Baggers. Amendments are coming. SOON.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Just as there's no political will for a new AWB, so too is there no political will to amend the Constitution to repeal the Second Amendment.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Liberals imagine that they can get 2/3 of the states to vote for gun grabbing. They should bypass the constitution and go straight for overthrow of the constitution itself.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

There is no doubt, that the end game here of todays Dimocrat party is to eventually ban the private ownership of firearms.
It won't happen overnight, but the fight is coming.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Just as there's no political will for a new AWB, so too is there no political will to amend the Constitution to repeal the Second Amendment.

Not just will, but interest. Those who would may be loud, but are hardly a blip in the citizenry.

 

[Lakhota]

Yes, it certainly is "a relic of the 18th century." It's confusing and obsolete. It's actually embarrassing.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

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

Opinion | John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment

Here's the funny thing: If you repeal the second amendment the federal government still doesn't have the power to outlaw guns.

 

[hunarcy]

Yes, it certainly is "a relic of the 18th century." It's confusing and obsolete. It's actually embarrassing.

As I have pointed out several times, there's nothing confusing about the 2nd Amendment. You just want it to say something it doesn't.

 

[Lakhota]

Are you in a militia? A well-regulated militia?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Are you in a militia? A well-regulated militia?

Only problem with your meme is the guy on the right is on our side.

 

[basquebromance]

"Told ya, quit arguing with those kids, just let them talk. Teenagers are going to be teenagers. Now they openly admit they want to repeal the Second Amendment. More air time for them, more air time for Hillary Clinton, and the November elections might actually be competitive." - Crazy Mike Cernovich...i totally agree!

 

[Lakhota]

Are you in a militia? A well-regulated militia?

Only problem with your meme is the guy on the right is on our side.

Says who?

 

[Mr Natural]

Only problem with your meme is the guy on the right is on our side.

For now.