Really? Half your fellow anti-17thers claim this happened in 1865, and Abraham Lincoln "destroyed our Republic". The other half of you claim we were a "storng constitutional Republic" in 1912. Your argument make more sense if the anti-17thers could get together in a room and agree on a unified talking about whether our Republic was "destroyed" in 1865 or 1913. Make up your minds.
>> We got gun control, abortion, restriction of private property and a dozen other attacks on our liberties. <<
Now you're blaming an amendment in 1913 for a bunch of legislation that didn't come up until the 60s and 70s. Liberals will blame the 2nd amendment on modern day school shootings, their argument doesn't have any more validity than yours.
“Now you’re blaming an amendment in 1913 for a bunch of legislation that didn’t come up until the 60s and 70s. Liberals will blame the 2nd amendment on modern day school shootings, their argument doesn’t have any more validity than yours.”
If you think gun control started in the 1960s, you need to sue your history teachers for fraud or buy a new set of reading glasses.
The rest of your strawmen are poorly constructed and fell down in the wind.