Absalom
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
Not only are we hearing about another "assault weapon" ban, we're hearing calls to REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT.
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What Hitler wanted was pretty easy to divine by reading "Mein Kampf". This is like Hitler SAYING what he wants every night, on every TV channel, on every radio station, in every newspaper, and on the internet, multiple times a day. At what point do you take him at his word?
So what does "taking him at his word" mean in this context? You sound like you believe you've discovered something nobody else is aware of.
Of course a repeal of the 2nd Amendment has always been the dream "solution" for people opposed to private gun ownership. And if a repeal effort ever gets political traction, we'd be in real trouble. Because in contrast to a lot of legislative gun control proposals, it would be perfectly constitutional.
Among gun rights advocates, all too many seem to think the Constitution consists of the 2nd Amendment, and they've never really bothered with the rest. Then there are folks who think gun rights are "god-given"; that may make you feel good, but is impractical since we don't live in a theocracy.
We have a constitutional republic, and that means that any "rights" exist exactly as long as sufficient majorities of voters, their elected representatives, and the judges who check-and-balance them, agree that they exist.
That's why we will always have to engage in politics to defend our rights, like it or not. The NRA has gotten as influential as it is because they're generally good at that. Of course that's going to tick off the purists. But absolutist whining about "rights" isn't going to cut it in a system which the Founding Fathers laid out to work by competing interests battling it out.