he is a retired justice who was talking about ways to get quick legal change on access to weapons. he is not an elected official or part of any effort to repeal 2A. it is a bogeyman to keep people scared and as such resistant to ways to stop the shootings.https://twitter.com/A_O_Andy/status/978960059291103232 …
He’s a former Supreme on the pages of the NYT. This is not a bogeyman. It’s not a fantasy. One of the more admirable things about this round of gun-control debate is people’s willingness to be honest on this front. Let’s not close our eyes to it.
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Chris’s point is that he’s in no position to push for any type of repeal of 2A & he’s apart of a very tiny minority in the gun debate.
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That minority is very powerful and accounts for three Repeal the Second Amendment op-eds in the NYT in less than a year. It’s a thing.
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I imagine over a dozen op-eds have been published in the NYT about the gun debate in that same time frame. It’s a position a few people have, sure, but to suggest the 2A is in serious jeopardy due to this minority opinion is disingenuous & fear mongering.
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To suggest people reacting to three op-eds in the NYT (and numerous other messages) amounts to naught but paranoia is disengenuous. You can’t have it both ways.
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Is it? If these comments came from Chuck Schumer or were the forefront of the “march for our lives” movement, I could understand the fear. However, neither of those are true. People are often susceptible to the loudest voices which unfortunately tend to be the most extreme.
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I believe they have: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/380135-parkland-student-corrects-fox-im-not-against-the-second … Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped right-wing media like Fox News from painting the pro-gun control side of the debate as “anti-2A.”
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The 2A is NOT up for debate! Best gun control is to take all guns away from liberals. Problem solved.
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So? His record clearly shows he was a liberal while on the court
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His judicial record is to the left of RB Ginsberg!! Worst SC appointment made by a Republican president ever. Worse than Souter! Jerry Ford had CTE from his Michigan football days.
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Only one side is being honest. The other side still claims the 2A confers a mythical constitutional right to own a weapon of your choice without membership in a well-regulated militia.
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The Constitution doesn't give any rights. Our rights are natural rights given to us by God. The Constitution is there to regulate the government, hence the "shall not be infringed."
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But the left wants our eyes closed to it. That's the whole point. These guys hate when one of their brethren go off script, pull back the curtain and reveal confiscation is their ultimate goal.
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Maybe there's some honesty, but the dialogue that is going on on the left is totally unrealistic. 2A ain't going away.
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Is Karen Carpenter Peterson "nobody" too? Or are you just full of shit?
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And some folks, dismissive of Stevens, ought to read the former Justice’s dissenting opinion on Heller..another 5-4 decision..as was Citizens United..one more piece of Constitutional invention.
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Bingo!
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