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You know, people on FR are as a whole much better informed than run of the mill folks walking the streets. Nonetheless, I see things like this about who will save the 2nd Amendment or anything else, and I shake my head.

The precedent that the Court has the right to overturn a law passed by the Legislature and signed by the President rests on Marbury v. Madison and claims that right solely on the basis of the "fact" that judges were expected to apply the words of a written document according to the original meaning of the words. That is, based on what the words meant at the time the law was enacted, not redefinitions or current usage.

Given the fact that Griswold v. Connecticut overturned the Comstock Laws based not on applying the words of a written document but rather on the "penumbras" and "emanations" of other Constitutional protections, the only thing that will actually protect any of us from anything the government wants to do is to have Marbury v. Madison overturned and judges on the bench who make decisions based on the written word of laws and the written words of the Constitution..

That means not just Justices on the Supreme Court, but at a minimum, all Federal Judges.

There are steps we have to take if we want to retain and recover our rights and making sure we end the parade of liberal USSC Justices is without a doubt one of those steps. But there's no magic bullet.

People have to get involved, become a LOT more knowledgeable about how their rights have been eroded, and act accordingly as if they're Citizens of the United States rather than continuing to just sit and simmer in the stew of distractions served up for them by the same machine that has been taking away our rights.

The foundations of the theft of our rights needs to be destroyed, not just the current crop of scum building on that foundation.

A giant step towards destroying those foundations is to repeal the 17th. Amendment.

JMHo