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The Second Amendment: If They Had Their Way

Brians356

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Mary Anne Franks is the Michael R. Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair at the University of Miami School of Law and the author of “The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech.” She proposes in the Boston Globe today that we rewrite the Second Amendment:

Now:

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.

Proposed:

All people have the right to bodily autonomy consistent with the right of other people to the same, including the right to defend themselves against unlawful force and the right of self-determination in reproductive matters. The government shall take reasonable measures to protect the health and safety of the public as a whole.

Note how the right to bear arms morphs into the right to kill the unborn abortion.

She also proposes rewriting the First Amendment to essentially stipulate that what you say is protected as long as it doesn't offend someone.

Not a joke: https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/...he-constitution/redo-the-first-two-amendments
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So why is anyone surprised , or shocked , that this liberal leftist would attempt to compare abortion to gun rights . She knows there is no covenant in the Constitution to cover it but tries to equate it with the 2A , as to legitimize her unfounded , and disgusting point of view . This is just one more of many reasons why the Socialist Democratic Party is going to be un-seated from their throne of power in 2022 and 2024 . As always ; they over-promise , and over-reach , and under deliver . Causing a lot of pain and financial hardship along the way .
 
That's what it's been about for a very long time. Rewriting the Constitution to suit their fancy. We would no longer have a Constitutional Republic. With democrat leftists we have an Oligarchy.
We have work to do.
 
She writes; “This in turn allows the most powerful members of society to reap the benefits of these constitutional rights at the expense of vulnerable groups. “

I say BS. The amendments had the specific intent of protecting the vulnerable from the powerful. This is a typical (non) argument of the left, that the US Constitution is designed to empower and protect one class and suppress other classes and by classes I basically mean races, countries of origin and religions.

In her first paragraph she writes that arguments of the First and Second Amendments are fueled “by competing interpretations of the Constitution. Perhaps more than any other parts of the Constitution, the First and Second Amendments inspire religious-like fervor in many Americans, with accordingly irrational results.”

Again, BS. One side of the argument is based on straightforward understanding of the certain and deliberate wording of the Amendments, scholarship and history. The other side is based on the desire for the two amendments to not be there.

Specifically on the Second she writes; “Far better would be an amendment that guarantees a meaningful right to bodily autonomy...”

Hmm I wonder if she realizes that would prevent her from forcing others to take a vaccine. Oh, wait...

“...and obligates the government to implement reasonable measures to protect public health and safety:”

I see.
 
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Apparently she doesn't know they just made the morning after pill available so leave my freedom of speech and my right to own a gun alone!
When are people going to understand the Constitution is for us to use against this Tyrannical Government and not them to use against us.

Joe Salt
 

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