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Unrelated and on a lighter note, I'm about to head to the grocery store and their logo reminded me I was out of baking soda.
The right to bear arms is a liberal value. The new kids are fascist extremists.
Millennials will push for a Consitutional Repeal of 2A before all is said and done.
Or enough of them will get brainwashed and we’ll just keep on keeping on with the status quo.
That'd be nice. I've lived in the states and currently the EU and not living somewhere where there is literally more guns than there are people in the country is real nice. People aren't just getting shot all the time here. Imagine that.
Ok but what do you do in gym class if not play dodge bullet
With constitutional originalism being all the rage nowadays, a person could certainly ask what sort of arms existed at the time of writing.
I own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
I love how originalists have zero interest in playing that game wrt the 2a. Proves how full of shit they are.
Also with judicial review. Courts didn't have authority to invalidate laws until Marbury v. Madison. A true "originalist" would argue the judicial branch doesn't have that ability.
I'm surprised I hadn't heard of that case before. I wonder what Thomas thinks of it.
The supreme court does even have the nerve to do that when it suits them, but doesn't give one crap about the obvious hypocrisy. The conservatives ruled recently while striking down a hundred year old gun control law in New York, that no gun regulation laws can exist unless there is proof that law or something very similar existed in the 1780's. Well then does this mean I'm only allowed guns that existed or are very similar to what we had in the 1780's as well? No? Ben Franklin thought I should get to open carry an AR15? Well alright then.
The whole originalist junk has always been a load of made up bullshit conservatives use to justify whatever they already decided they wanted.
Yeah it's self serving bullshit that doesn't hold up to scrutiny at all
Works for me!
The appropriate work hasn't been done at the state level to pave the way and that's probably at least 20-30 years out, if ever.
We really need to scrap the current Constitution and create another one based on current known best practices. Maybe start with the 7N Bill of Human Rights (or whatever it's called). A constitutional convention would be pretty scary given today's political climate, though - see first paragraph.
Not gonna happen any time soon unfortunately.
It's not like they're being given any other choices.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Its surge in lobbying spending reflects one way it has capitalized on the financial and legal problems of the once 5 million-member NRA in the hopes of expanding the GOA’s political clout, say gun experts.
“The GOA was formed in the 1970s because they believed the NRA was too liberal,” said Robert Spitzer, the author of several books on guns and a professor emeritus at Suny Cortland in New York.
As it has ramped up its influence activity in Washington, the GOA also touts its member chapters and allies including the California Gun Rights Foundation and other ones in Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas.
“To that end, it is raising and spending more money, filing more suits against gun laws, and has formed its own Super Pac and political victory fund.
“The NRA’s loss has been GOA’s gain,” Kristen Rand, a veteran lawyer with the Violence Policy Center, a gun control advocacy and research group, told the Guardian.
One alert warned: “Now, Biden and the anti-gun lobby are dialing up the pressure on the same cowardly Republicans to find support for the next item on their endless wish list of gun control … a national ban on so-called ‘assault weapons’ and normal capacity magazines.”
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