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Gun Control & RKBA

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discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,603 posts)
Sun Oct 30, 2016, 01:48 PM Oct 2016

It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them. [View all]

https://newrepublic.com/article/125498/its-time-ban-guns-yes-them

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The first issue shouldn’t be so complicated. It doesn’t take specialized expertise in constitutional law to understand that current U.S. gun law gets its parameters from Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment. But it’s right there in the First Amendment that we don’t have to simply nod along with what follows. That the Second Amendment has been liberally interpreted doesn’t prevent any of us from saying it’s been misinterpreted, or that it should be repealed.
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Ban Guns, meanwhile, is not discriminatory in this way. It’s not about dividing society into “good” and “bad” gun owners. It’s about placing gun ownership itself in the “bad” category. It’s worth adding that the anti-gun position is ultimately about police not carrying guns, either. That could never happen, right? Well, certainly not if we keep on insisting on its impossibility.
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I've read a lot about police being over aggressive. I believe a minority of them are. I'm not aware of any police police force in a modern industrialized country that is 100% gun free.

Is there any case at all for repealing the 2A or any part of the BoR?
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