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The Cancer in the Constitution
NEW YORK TIMES ^ | 06 OCTOBER 2017 | TIMOTHY EAGAN

Posted on 10/06/2017 3:28:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Not so with guns. The Second Amendment, as applied in the last 30 years or so, has become so perverted, twisted and misused that you have to see it now as the second original sin in the founding of this country, after slavery.

It wasn’t meant to be the instrument for the worst kind of American exceptionalism — setting up the United States as the most violent of developed nations. But it is now. The more we stand out for random mass killings daily, the more the leading cause becomes clear: the warped interpretation of the freedom to own lethal weaponry.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; constitution; fakenews; fute; guncontrol; gungrabbers; guns; knockitoffliberals; nyt; nytimes
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1 posted on 10/06/2017 3:28:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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LOL... The MSM is the cancer in the 1st Amendment.


2 posted on 10/06/2017 3:31:02 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

And the Press wasn’t meant to be a Propaganda tool for Socialism.


3 posted on 10/06/2017 3:31:12 PM PDT by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I would rather like with an abundance of firearms than so-called progressives. Guns do no harm just existing. Progressives corrupt everything.


4 posted on 10/06/2017 3:32:31 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
--this is where the lying starts--

" setting up the United States as the most violent of developed nations"--

5 posted on 10/06/2017 3:32:57 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

NYT versus Liberty.

Again.


6 posted on 10/06/2017 3:33:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I wonder that they have never considered the second amendment is to protect us from our government? The fact it also protects us from each other is incidental.


7 posted on 10/06/2017 3:33:09 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (He who lacks the will does not need the ability.)
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To: Ben Mugged

LIB: 2ND amendment? Whats that?


8 posted on 10/06/2017 3:34:49 PM PDT by beergarden
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To: Gene Eric

TV, radio and the internet were both unknown to and unanticipated by the Framers ... so obviously those things aren’t covered by the 1st the way legitimate modern Arms aren’t covered by the 2nd, right?

I mean, the left wouldn’t want to be inconsistent?


9 posted on 10/06/2017 3:35:05 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The Right to an Abortion is the cancer in the Constitution.

Oh, wait...


10 posted on 10/06/2017 3:35:10 PM PDT by henkster (The View: A psychiatric group therapy session where the shrink has stepped out of the room.)
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To: Gene Eric

And the NYT building is a cancer in NYC. Needs serious radiation treatment.


11 posted on 10/06/2017 3:36:30 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Morning in America Again, again.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

(major facepalm)

Of course this little dicktator wannabe doesn’t get it. It’s to protect us from UN-Constitutional power grabs like this leftist movement, this little tyrant author and the NY Times, believe so much in and crave.

CGato


12 posted on 10/06/2017 3:37:04 PM PDT by Conservative Gato (There are NOW 4 kind of LIES; Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and the Media.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Sez the paper that glorified the Soviet Union in print


13 posted on 10/06/2017 3:37:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: beergarden

Compared to the way they treat the 10th the left positively loves the much hated 2nd.


14 posted on 10/06/2017 3:37:22 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The CANCERS of overreaching Fed power, the ignoring of the 10th Amendment, the rationalization of discrimination against whites and males in the name of “diversity” The failure of Big Brother to protect borders and sovereignty, letting illegals, criminals, drugs, weapons into the lower 48.

So yeah, the Second Amendment is the problem

Good grief, what ignorant totalitarian bastards.


15 posted on 10/06/2017 3:39:16 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee" Hey, NFL, why didn't you any of you bold guys hire Kaepernick? #GoodbyeGoodell)
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16 posted on 10/06/2017 3:39:17 PM PDT by Bobalu (The NFL, Watching their demise is more fun than watching their games.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Surely the NYT and other Democrat media would not object to laws regulating the practice of the First Amendment’s freedom of the press. For example, Fake News and the publishing of classified material should be punished with lengthy prison sentences.


17 posted on 10/06/2017 3:39:18 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The old gray whore is the cancer that should be cut out and buried far, far at sea like Usana bin Ladin


18 posted on 10/06/2017 3:39:25 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (whites seem to actually be supreme)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Anyone writing a screed like this has to have the outlook of a commie dictator, but then this is a NY Slimes guy.


19 posted on 10/06/2017 3:40:18 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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20 posted on 10/06/2017 3:40:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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