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But Winkler says revoking or significantly changing the Second Amendment is highly unlikely. “The truth is, there are only about 10 states with restrictive gun laws,” he says, including Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey. Notably, California is known for the strictest regulations, and it also has the seventh-lowest rate of deaths by gun violence. Since it takes a super-majority of 38 states to repeal an amendment, and roughly 40 states are gun-friendly, Winkler says the Second Amendment is more likely to be amended to expand gun rights than revoke them. Instead, we will have to continue talking about it and trying to find the sweet spot where our right to individual security and public safety are in balance. |
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PHORTO
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This is total garbage, top-to-bottom.
"[The Second Amendment] continues to evolve as Americans debate the right balance of individual freedom and public safety."
There is no 'debate'; it is Kabuki theater.
"We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding 'interest-balancing' approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government ... the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon." - D.C. v. Heller (2008)
"The Constitution’s meaning can change."
Only by amendment. Standards must be stable in order to BE standards. That's the whole purpose of a constitution.
'Progressivism' = cacadoody. |
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