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eddessaknight — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:33:04 GMT

<br />Correction: make that INGRATE LIBTARDS

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eddessaknight — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:29:01 GMT

<br />It's at the pleasure our Bill of Rights & Constitution that the libdards exsist

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KAL035 — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:55:35 GMT

eddessaknight, the good thing about this crackpot left wing retired Supreme Court Judge coming out and making known that he supports the repeal of the 2nd Amendment is that Democrats are starting to reveal their true colors. They are dropping all pretense and going full libtard mode. Now other radical leftists are getting behind the crackpot judge and echoing the same sentiments. Some of them are going even further and calling for the abolishment of the Constitution and the entire Bill of Rights. The leftists view these as antiquated documents that no longer have any relevance or place in today's 'enlightened' society. I say let them continue down that path and we won't have to worry about a Democrat ever being elected to the Office of POTUS, at least in the foreseeable future.... [ More ]

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jarasan — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 23:30:32 GMT

It is our only defense against the fascist leftist demoncRATS, just like Hitler did and Chavez did, took them guns away first.......................................................

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eddessaknight — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 23:05:05 GMT

Original Blog Entry: Former Justice wants to repeal our Constitutional Second Amendment

eddessaknight — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 22:59:34 GMT

The former Justice wants to repeal the Second Amendment

John Paul Stevens for the NRA

The former Justice wants to repeal the Second Amendment.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens speaks at a lecture presented by the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark. in 2012.

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The Editorial Board

March 27, 2018 7:15 p.m. ET

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Critics often accuse the National Rifle Association of paranoia for arguing that gun controllers want to eliminate the Second Amendment. Well, being paranoid doesn t mean the NRA is wrong.

Look no further than former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who is arguing this week that the Parkland, Florida, students and their allies shouldn t settle for mere restrictions on guns. They should lobby Congress and the states to abolish 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, the 97-year-old former Justice wrote in an op-ed published in The New York Times Tuesday, adding, today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.

Apparently Justice Stevens is still sore about losing the argument in the 2008 landmark gun-rights case, D.C. v. Heller. He wrote the dissent in that case arguing that the Second Amendment was merely intended to support a militia, not the individual right to bear arms.

But he lost 5-4 as the majority held, with extensive citation from history, that the Founders intended the right for individuals. Some regulation of guns is legal under the Constitution, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, but not restrictions that would ban guns in common use.

That decision which I remain convinced was wrong and certainly was debatable has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power, Mr. Stevens wrote in his op-ed. He added that 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.

We re not sure what he means by simple since repealing the Second Amendment would require a vote by two-thirds of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states. Good luck with that, since even now most Democrats in Congress won t come out in favor of even an ban on so-called assault rifles, much less repeal of the right to bear arms.

But give credit to the former Justice for honesty about what most gun controllers believe deep in their progressive hearts: The right to own a weapon should be preserved for the state. Look for the NRA to use him as a spokesman more than it does Dana Loesch.

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