05-27-2022, 08:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-27-2022, 08:45 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-27-2022, 08:30 AM)David Horn Wrote:(05-26-2022, 10:41 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(05-26-2022, 03:31 PM)David Horn Wrote:(05-26-2022, 01:16 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Rumor is that the Trump court will soon negate all gun-control legislation. So don't get your hopes up.
... making repeal of the 2nd the only game in town. Packing the court might work, until the Right does the same in reverse. Better to go for the Gold!
I agree. I also agree with whatever gun control we can get. We should not give the gun advocates any quarter. Refute their arguments. Shame them.
It's hard to shame people who believe this nonsense. Even those who know better seem to have parked their shame into the GOP Cloak Room and have no intent of being unelected (their #1 fear). Disgusting? Of course. Solvable? Unlikely now or any time soon.
Advocating repeal of the 2nd amendment now may prepare the way for action later, maybe not in our lifetimes. Right now, a 2/3 vote in the Senate and 3/4 of the states seems impossible.
The 2nd amendment mainly provides the argument for gun culture members to say they have the right to have a gun (of any kind, they say). Repeal would not make guns illegal, but it would make certain controls and bans more possible. If it was ever repealed, the political mood would also favor more gun laws.
We were also in 2016 one electoral college voting session away from a Court that would reinterpret the 2nd to apply only to members of a well-regulated militia. Which is what needed and still needs to be done. But the electoral college and the Republican Senate has now stacked the Court to prevent this for a while. If Democrats got more senators elected, packing the Court would be an option here too.