{"id":78514,"date":"2018-03-27T12:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78514"},"modified":"2018-03-27T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:38:57","slug":"john-paul-stevens-repeal-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78514","title":{"rendered":"John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retired Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens called for a repeal of the Second Amendment in the pages of the New York Times<\/a> today. He says that he was impressed by “the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington” this past weekend, so he’s advising us to repeal the Second Amendment to honor them;<\/p>\n

That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n

Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that \u201ca 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.\u201d Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stevens claims that repeal of the amendment would be simple – even though only the repeal of the 18th Amendment, making alcohol illegal, has ever been accomplished in our history. <\/p>\n

The process is hardly simple. It would take two-thirds of the House and the Senate to ratify an amendment, with two-thirds of state legislatures calling for a Constitutional Convention and then three-quarters of each of the state legislatures would have to approve the amendment traditionally within seven years from the votes in Congress.<\/p>\n

Stevens calls the Second Amendment a relic, and I guess he’d know, being a relic himself. While he’s at it, he can go ahead and declare the Third Amendment protecting citizens from being forced to house soldiers a relic, too. <\/p>\n

The Times uses this graphic to help the senile old coot make his point;<\/p>\n

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Scary, huh? <\/p>\n

Here’s my graphic to convince you to repeal the 1st Amendment;<\/p>\n

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