Common Sense Calls for Repeal of Second Amendment

Seattle Times ^ | 1 May 2014 | Jerry Large

[Publius]

I don’t believe the Second Amendment was ever intended to support the kind of gun craziness we contend with today, but since it’s always used to ward off any common-sense gun reforms, maybe we ought to just fix the Constitution and be done with it.

Yes, I know the odds against that are immense, but maybe we could start by nibbling away at the idea that the Constitution is infallible or that the founders had the answers to everything. They were smart men but neither perfect nor prescient.

One of the ways they showed how smart they were, was that they made a document that could be updated when it needed to be, and today it needs to be on this issue.

We’ve had another of those disturbing clusters of shootings in Seattle the past week, and gun violence continues to injure and kill across the country in public, and frequently private, ways. Most gun deaths are suicides.

But some Americans embrace their guns even more tightly even as the headlines call out for sanity. You know what I’m talking about.

[Publius]

Good red meat for FReepers. Have at it.

[Ouderkirk]

Second Amendment protections were put in place so that citizens could shoot operatives of an oppressive government, not deer.

[tet68]

Come and take them Jerry, just try, please.

[Gay State Conservative]

Passing both houses of Congress might be tough.Getting three quarters of state legislatures to go along will *surely* be tough.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[TigersEye]

Good luck!

[DuncanWaring]

Go ahead and repeal it.

I’ll still have a God-given right to effectively defend myself against those more-numerous, more-powerful and less-principled then myself.

[Malsua]

He should just move to Mexico where gun ownership is illegal for just about everyone, that way he can avoid all the gun violence.

[SandRat]

Freeper Red Meat.

[Publius]

“Ah, I love the smell of napalm in the air.”

[cripplecreek]

LOL Detroit Firearms instructor and blogger Rick Ector spoke to a state senator representing Detroit the other day and the senator wants to do something about Detroit’s Justified Homicide “Problem”.

[Moonman62]

Yes, I know the odds against that are immense, but maybe we could start by nibbling away at the idea that the Constitution is infallible or that the founders had the answers to everything.

Could the author possibly give more evidence for his ignorance?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Repeal the second amendment: HAR! HAR! HAR!

[Repeal The 17th]

Jerry Large
Seattle Times staff columnist
Jerry Large’s column appears Monday and Thursday.
You can reach him at 206-464-3346 or jlarge@seattletimes.com.

[The Toll]

As if my rights come from parchment. Repeal and arm yourself for the war of enforcement candyass.

[Flycatcher]

Most gun deaths are suicides.

If so, then I'm more than happy to lend him my gun.

[Westbrook]

OK, cops, criminals, villains, tyrants, and feral gumming alphabet agencies disarm FIRST!

Can’t do that?

Impractical yous say?

Then, forget about disarming us.

As long as cops, criminals, villains, tyrants and feral gummint alphabet agencies have as much as a knife, we RESERVE the right to defend ourselves against them with firepower!

[jughandle]

Someone have a “My home is gun-free” sign for this guy?

[mongo141]

Jerry, The 2nd amendment was put in place to protect every one else from people like you.

[abishai]

Or Chicago. He’s definitely be safe there.