The rabid right believes the Second Amendment has no limits -- not even nukes

[TexasTowelie]

"Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered." — Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League, 1850


Private citizens have the right to stockpile nuclear weapons under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Or so says David Barton, the former vice chair of the Republican Party of Texas and director of Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential super-PAC. Here's Barton's unedited quote on the WallBuilders podcast earlier this month:

"If you've been trained with responsibility and morality and the concept of when and where you use them — the Founding Fathers are trained extensively in the concept of defensive warfare — you don't start anything. Now, if somebody else starts it, you can take it on, but you don't start it. I don't care if my neighbor has a nuclear weapon, as long as he has that defensive concept that he will never use that unless it's being used against him."

How comforting that Barton didn't defend a first-strike nuclear policy, just mutually assured destruction in the unlikely event one of your fellow 260 million American adults happens to step out of line. I'm sure we're all capable of abiding by Scout's honor when possessing weapons that can level entire cities and render whole regions of the globe uninhabitable.

We can see the bumper stickers now: "Don't start no nuclear conflagration, won't be no nuclear conflagration." "Nukes don't kill people, people kill people." "The real problem is not nuclear arms, but mental illness." And so forth.

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[elleng]

1. They 'believe' what NRA wants them to believe.

[Girard442]

2. But only if the nukes are muzzle-loaders.

[Irish_Dem]

3. The human lust for needless killing is so strong, will it ever stop?

[pansypoo53219]

4. should be limited to flint locks. WELL REGULATED again.

[Javaman]

5. just blatantly stupid. period. nt