What If the Second Amendment Were Repealed?

The Huffington Post's Huffpost Politics ^ | January 30, 2016 | Paul Heroux, State Senator (D-MA)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bonus question: Who won Heller for us?

[Nachum]

Liberal wet dreams...

[Eddie01]

Law abiding citizens get slaughtered.

Govenment Doo-right steps in to save us all.

We become slaves to the State.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Where is “regulated” defined in the constitution?

[Da Coyote]

Bring it and die, liberal swine.

[BenLurkin]

What If the First Amendment Were Repealed?

[Fhios]

I think Article V is becoming a trap. They seem to be avoiding limiting amendments to changes in the 17th.

Mark Levin would be doing much better pushing this himself and avoiding things like supporting Cruz and criticizing Trump

[GregoTX]

Paul Heroux, State Senator (D-MA). The kind of politician the founder had in mind when they wrote the 2nd Amendment.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Settled law! Settled law!

[Smokin' Joe]

The second Amendment does not Grant the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. That Right, as the right to self defense, is an unalienable right, granted by our Creator.

The Second Amendment only serves as a reminder to our Government that our right to Keep and Bear Arms is sacrosanct.

Repeal the reminder, and the Right does not go away, only it will be harder to practice unless we do so in large groups.

[Vermont Lt]

It will never happen. Two thirds of the states in favor of that?

I am very comfortable saying it won’t happen.

[chajin]

Reminder: nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way liberals want it settled, and then it is settled.

[Vermont Lt]

Regulated, at the time, meant trained. Not regulated, in today’s term.

[MrEdd]

There is exactly one avenue to eliminate the right to bear arms:
Civil war.
There are many ways to instigate that, not just these two.

[Randy Larsen]

There would be a civil war to make the last one look like a sweet sixteen party.

[servantboy777]

Perhaps when two generations pass away, but try it within the next couple of decades and there will be war on our soil. Americans won’t take this lying down.

[sourcery]

Then Article I, section would still fail to grant any authority whatsoever to Congress to prohibit the possession of any object or substance other than counterfeit US money.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Regulated, at the time, meant trained. Not regulated, in today’s term.

Yep, kind of like NBC.

Like the Minor v Happersett decision read, we must go back to the nomenclature of the time.

But it only applies selectively here for some reason.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Regulated could also mean equipped in that usage.

[Salvavida]

Civil War 2. And the really unfortunate thing about the coming one, is there will be no way to turn it off. There will be no recognizable armies like the first one. There will be no chain of command to conclude peace. So it will be bloody beyond what the first offered, and the first one was damn-right bloody on its own.

It will be a contest to settle old scores. The wrong bumper sticker on your car will get you killed because it will not be confined to 2nd Amendment issues; civil war never is a one-issue proposition: it's about two different peoples who can not coexist with each other because the other side is perceived to want the other's destruction, and will gleefully celebrate on the way to that end.

So there's your answer. And by the way: we got all the guns.