What Does it Take?
Must we have Senators’ wives and sons killed in a mass shooting? Or Representatives’ husbands and daughters? Is that what it takes, and the only thing that will prompt real action?
Maybe I’m just dense.
Possibly I care too much about people, and we seem to lose an awful lot of them to gun violence. Seven mass shootings in a week. Sick.
Not being a gun freak, I’ve never bought into the (false — the Constitution does not say that) absolute gun rights BS — have I missed something extra-Constitutional that matters?
Hyper-conservatives are “originalists,” or “textualists,” not believing in adding anything to the Constitution— except, somehow, when it comes to gun “rights.” How, and why, is that so? We’ll forget for the moment that the original text of the Constitution didn’t include any Amendments at all (including the 2nd one), so the whole insistence on the “original text” is logically and legally bankrupt.
What the Second Amendment actually says is: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
They wrote this when we had a Militia; and when the Militia was necessary to a nascent country’s security. You will notice also, please, that it says nothing about an unfettered right to use Arms…
