YankeeTarheel wrote: Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:39 am
EVERY right has circumstances where it doesn't apply. And 2A is no exception to that.
In my personal opinion, the Second Amendment Right does not apply when the exercise thereof presents a substantial, credible threat to the security of a free state.
Traditional Bill of Rights burdens, standards, and scopes of review should apply in making that determination. I don't see why a pro-gun politician can't simply say that. Doesn't seem like too much to ask.
They could then get on about their business of other liberal issues.
I'm no psychologist, so I can't opine on what kind of person it would take to appear before a Sandy Hook parent/teacher meeting and defend the foregoing, but I'd sure like to see it. Maybe just STFU and listen? I don't know. But that's the kind of metal that I think thinking people, on both sides, would have to grant at least a grudging respect.
Next train stop would be the Church of Life-No-Matter-What, where the candidate launched into why abortion is nobody's business but the woman and her doc. Next train stop . . . etc.
Instead, we find candidates engaging each other on the floor, at most, and usually just attending their own love-fests. I think they should go directly to the opposition people and talk to them. To hell with the politician (spit) the people supposedly elected to represent them. The ship of representation of the people done sailed a long time ago.