One in Five Americans Wants To Repeal The Second Amendment
And two in five Democrats.
So the vanguard of the left is now against both the First and Second Amendments. How long before we start getting Vox explainers extolling the virtues of quartering soldiers in private homes? Or arguing that search warrants are relics of the 18th century foisted upon us by dead straight white males?
So the vanguard of the left is now against both the First and Second Amendments. How long before we start getting Vox explainers extolling the virtues of quartering soldiers in private homes? Or arguing that search warrants are relics of the 18th century foisted upon us by dead straight white males?
posted by Winston Smith at
6:28 AM
10 Comments:
Slipper, slope, argument.
Tongue, cheek, in.
Everyone should be allowed a brace of pistols and a flintlock rifle, just as the Founding Father wanted us to be armed.
Also, freedom of the press only covers smudges of dead dinosaurs on thin piece of dead trees.
OK, good to know. Sorry to take it at face value, I should have known better.
Aa,
Nah, no way to figure those cases out without tone. Also...I suspect I wasn't exactly 0% serious. So it's good to be called on it, actually.
Sorry in advance if I'm wrong, but there did seem to be a serious implication that opposition to a constitutional amendment is, as such, bad. To which the Eighteenth seems to be a counterexample.
I'm not denying that there are good Burkean arguments for a strong presumption against going around repealing constitutional amendments. But it's of the essence of such arguments that they include very weighty ceteris paribus clauses.
An interesting common feature of the Second and the Eighteenth is that no other western democratic nation as far as I'm aware has ever remotely contemplated taking such regulations seriously. (Obviously this by itself doesn't prove that the Second is a bad idea.)
An interesting common feature in political dealmaking is staking out an extreme position from which you expect to compromise.
Yes, because the advances in technology in both cases were identical.
One last observation here: the amendment most frequently violated is probably not the first or second; it's the 6th, with its right to a speedy trial. That one leads to all sorts of injustices, from crooked bail bondsmen, to poor people languishing in jail without a trial. Bottom line: there needs to be an absolute limit on time to trial. If it's violated by the prosecution, the charges should be dropped.
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