Posted on 06/08/2014 8:55:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On June 8 The Daily Beast ran a column by Dean Obeidallah which argues gun rights opponents either need to get serious about opposing gun control or forget it.
It is time to go big or go home.
According to Obeidallah, going big entails lawsuits against the NRA – seeking to hold them culpable "if [a] loved one was killed by a gun obtained because of the NRA's opposition to universal background checks" – and rewriting the 2nd Amendment.
Obeidallah claims the "pro-gun lobby" worked for "20-plus years" to get the Supreme Court to recognize the "then-radical notion that the Second Amendment bestowed a personal right to own a gun, thus making it more challenging to enact laws that restrict access to them." He wants gun rights opponents to begin working equally hard to "rewrite" the 2nd Amendment so as to undo these protections....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
LOL! I was talking about the obediah guys saying “radical notion”. Not you. Seems like they re-decide stuff constantly overturning things and then re-deciding them. It’s all a little nuts.
Actually, Mr Oblahdeeoblahdaa, James Madison is the radical you
can thank specifically for explaining the gun ownership and the
private citizen. I refer you to Federalist #46.
Gun grabbers have always operated under the assumption that 2A
is about militia members having access to arms. I would submit that
the 2A is about armed private citizens having that ability to form
militias.
The NRA should counter sue for stupidity.
Once women as a whole discover guns the elites will never be able to get rid of them.
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