from 2018 - Former Australian Prime Minister: Why Not Change The Second Amendment?

[magicguido]

(sorry about Chuck Todd)

[ancianita]

1. That's exactly the pretext Charles Koch needs to change the whole Constitution. If

anyone wants to see what his version would look like, all they need do is examine the Chilean constitution in the days of Pinochet, the one that required all new legislation to pass, and candidates to win, by 60% majority.

Reconstituting democratic constitutions is how autocracies are made. It's the James Buchanan, University of Chicago, Mont Pelerin and now, Republican model for keeping minority white rule.

I have family, grandkids in Australia, love Australia, but this PM dude is truly stupid about the U.S.

[malthaussen]

2. Because we'd never get the State legislatures to sign off on it. n/t

[J_William_Ryan]

3. Constitutional Amendments can't be 'changed,'

they can only be repealed via Constitutional amendment – which isn’t going to happen with the Second Amendment.

Instead, Amendments are interpreted by the courts, and those interpretations can be changed.