Our enemies are dropping their “gun safety” charade. Let us remember this column the next time Bloomberg, MAIG, MDA, or any of our enemies claim they want “common-sense gun laws.” Jerry Large is a bastard, but he’s an honest bastard.
Columnist: Common sense calls for repeal of Second Amendment
SEATTLE — I don’t believe the Second Amendment was ever intended to support the kind of gun craziness we contend with today, but since it’s always used to ward off any common-sense gun reforms, maybe we ought to just fix the Constitution and be done with it.
Yes, I know the odds against that are immense, but maybe we could start by nibbling away at the idea that the Constitution is infallible or that the founders had the answers to everything. They were smart men but neither perfect nor prescient.
One of the ways they showed how smart they were, was that they made a document that could be updated when it needed to be, and today it needs to be on this issue.
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Regulation seems reasonable, but it can’t fight against the gun-lobby tide and win. We need to address gun violence at the root by taking away the appearance of mythic sanction the Second Amendment gives.
The founders struggled to get things right, but they knew what we’ve forgotten, that perfection wasn’t possible. They ditched our first Constitution, the Articles of Confederation and started over, then they ensured that the new document would be open to change in the form of amendments.
We ought to respect and honor the document, but realize it is not the last word, that democracy is a living, growing thing that the living must tend. And we must be on guard against people who abuse our reverence for the Constitution for their own political reasons.
We should repeal the Second Amendment.
Jerry Large can be reached at [email protected]
Source: http://union-bulletin.com/news/2014/may/02/columnist-common-sense-calls-repeal-second-amendme/
Please don’t send this guy death threats, instead tell him that criminals would love to see the 2nd Amendment repealed so the price of illegal guns goes through the roof.