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How the gun lobby rewrote the Second Amendment
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Mark A. Taff
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After yet another gun-related tragedy, the U.S. is in the midst of a flurry of new efforts to control people’s access to firearms. As before, those efforts are running into serious trouble. The major problem is simple: The Second Amendment has come to be seen as a constitutional barrier, and perhaps even more, a political one.
Somewhat awkwardly, presidential candidate Ben Carson captured a widespread view: “I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.”
No one should take away people’s rights. But with respect to “the right to arm ourselves,” we have lost sight of our own history. |
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jac
(10/10/2015)
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Need a subscription. Being that it's the Chicago Tribune, I can pretty well imagine the gist of the article.
If this scribe believes that the gun lobby is rewriting the second amendment, he is obviously ignorant of the history surrounding the bill of rights. Unfortunately, the low information crowd is also ignorant of history and is easily misinformed by the liberal media. |
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