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One in five Americans wants the Second Amendment to be repealed, national survey finds
Washington Post ^ | March 27, 2018 | Christopher Ingraham

Posted on 03/27/2018 2:40:35 PM PDT by Innovative

One consequence of the success of the National Rifle Association's expansive gun-rights agenda — and its lobbying power in Congress — is that groups favoring more gun control have pared down their ambitions in recent years.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, for instance, no longer talks about banning handguns. Advocates have moved away from the term “gun control” in favor of more specific language like “gun violence” and “gun safety.” Democratic leaders in Congress have grown timid about proposing significant new restrictions on gun ownership.

In that context it's a bit of a jolt to read an op-ed published Tuesday by retired Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens titled “Repeal the Second Amendment.” Stevens is something of an expert on the issue, having considered the proper scope of the Second Amendment in the 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; poll; secondamendment
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To: Innovative

I want the pro-abortion amendment repealed.


21 posted on 03/27/2018 2:56:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: Innovative

> One in five Americans wants the Second Amendment to be repealed, national survey finds

They never do a survey to ask how many Americans think Communists should be shot on sight.


22 posted on 03/27/2018 2:56:46 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Don't like my guns? Molon labe.)
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To: Innovative

A 2002 survey by the National Geographic apparently indicated that “(a)bout 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn’t even locate the U.S. on a map [of the Earth]. The Pacific Ocean’s location was a mystery to 29 percent...”


23 posted on 03/27/2018 2:57:25 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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To: Innovative

20%?

That’s good news!

I expected 25%.


24 posted on 03/27/2018 2:58:23 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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To: Innovative

Wait until the baby boomers are gone. Then these young idiots will be like sheep going to their slaughter under a tyrannical government, or foreign invasion.


25 posted on 03/27/2018 2:59:08 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Innovative

Demanding to lose a civil right... demanding less freedom, what a slave mentality.


26 posted on 03/27/2018 3:00:29 PM PDT by GregoTX
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To: Innovative

80% of Americans intelligent. 20% not so.


27 posted on 03/27/2018 3:00:46 PM PDT by mulligan (The)
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To: Innovative

And 4 out of 5 Americans would like to deport the top 50 journalists who push fake news to a waterless, treeless island in the Pacific ocean where they will be stranded three days in the blazing hot sun before we finally drop a dozen spiked baseball bats and one juicy, well-chilled black diamond watermelon onto the beach.


28 posted on 03/27/2018 3:00:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Innovative

IF they think it is OK to repeal one amendment because of modern feelings and excuses, they can repeal the rest via the same emotional blackmail.


29 posted on 03/27/2018 3:02:03 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Innovative

Repeal if you like, but the inalienable right will remain.


30 posted on 03/27/2018 3:02:19 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: Innovative

That’s not too bad. Only 20%.

My fear is that 20-40% “don’t care”.


31 posted on 03/27/2018 3:06:07 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: weston

That would be 4:1


32 posted on 03/27/2018 3:08:37 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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To: Who is John Galt?

“Ask Americans to name the former U.S. president whose face currently graces the U.S. $10 dollar bill and most will be quick to answer Alexander Hamilton.

Sure, it’s a trick question. But a new study from memory researchers at Washington University in St. Louis confirms that most Americans are confident that Alexander Hamilton was once president of the United States.

Perhaps more striking, nearly a third of those surveyed falsely recognized the common name “Thomas Moore” as someone who was once an American president.”

https://source.wustl.edu/2016/02/americans-recognize-past-presidents-never-study-finds/


33 posted on 03/27/2018 3:10:36 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: Old Yeller

“Then these young idiots will be like sheep going to their slaughter under a tyrannical government...”

My 20-year old daughter made the comment the other day. So these people protesting Trump and calling him a dictator like Hitler, also want their guns taken away from them?


34 posted on 03/27/2018 3:11:16 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: Innovative

Add their names to the list...Seditionists will be dealt with if shooting starts...


35 posted on 03/27/2018 3:11:37 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Innovative

And apparently, at least one recent Supreme Court Justice.

Why bother with the long difficult process of amending the Constitution, when 5 unelected black-robed dictators can decide it means whatever they want it to mean on any given day?


36 posted on 03/27/2018 3:12:02 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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To: Innovative
So...maybe one in five....is stupid.

I actually thought it would be higher...

37 posted on 03/27/2018 3:12:17 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: Innovative

Wonder what percentage of those that want it repealed are immigrants.


38 posted on 03/27/2018 3:13:27 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Innovative

Yo, one in five Americans are utter libtard progressive idiots too....so go figure.


39 posted on 03/27/2018 3:14:00 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Innovative

One out of five Americans can kiss my patriot ass.


40 posted on 03/27/2018 3:14:37 PM PDT by tuffydoodle (A moral wrong cannot be a Civil Right.)
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