The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(08-18-2020, 09:01 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: We have never had a president try to tamper with the postal service in an effort to tamper with the election. We have never had a President tamper with an election in any way.

...It will be a good idea to rewrite the Second Amendment. If it gives the right to bear arms it uses language very different from other Amendments that authorize certain rights. I interpret the Second Amendment largely to give the States the right to keep militias responsible to elected State governments intact as an alternative to a large standing army, militias regulated by State legislatures . To be sure we no longer rely upon state armies as the basis of a national army as in the American Civil War (when we had such units as the "Third Michigan Cavalry" or "25th Pennsylvania Infantry"), but the Second Amendment certainly established State's rights to determine who could own a firearm and what sorts of firearms one could own. Typically then military weapons had civilian uses  as in defending against dangerous creatures and in hunting food. Machine guns, mines, flamethrowers, grenades, cannons, and Katusha rockets are unsuited to personal defense. Warships were obviously not such weapons, and tanks and military aircraft that did not exist in the time of the Founding Fathers.

I would include in any replacement amendment language reminiscent of the Twenty-first Amendment:

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors firearms and military weapons, in violation of the laws thereof and not in accordance with the activities of the Armed Services, is hereby prohibited.

...Does this sound reasonable? States have the right to rigid gun control, which implies that someone prohibited from purchasing a firearm in his own state not have the right to travel to another state with more permissive laws on the sale of firearms. So if one lives in New York one should not be able to purchase a firearm in Virginia and bring it to New York State contrary to New York state laws that disqualify one from owning a firearm in New York State. 

So what should not be grounds for denying someone a firearm?

We have non-discrimination clauses on several Amendments on the right to vote. 

No person of majority age shall be denied the right to keep and bear arms due to race, religion, national origin, gender, or sexual orientation. I have removed "previous condition of servitude" only because it is no longer relevant.

Dude, the only place you'll find a post office box in the metropolitan area is at the local post offices these days. I plan to vote like usual on election day this year.