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In reply to the discussion: Gun Control? We Need Domestic Disarmament (Huffington Post) [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)But you knew that.
Regardless, the sacred texts do have the concept of change in them, and they were not given by god to man at mt. Sinai. I know this s shocking, but the originalist position, (Jefferson) is for these documents to...I know shocking, evolve and change with the times. He, in fact, believed a new Constitution was needed every generation.
Not this generation, but as the US becomes an increasingly urban culture I can see a serious change in the Second...countries do evolve.
I at times think a historian who once said democracy came too early to the US might have a modicum of a point. In some ways whole swaths of the population are still stuck in the 17 century...why things like national health care and a safety net are seen as "un american."
Yes, even the view of the second is changing...and a few, more than a few, are looking at the Second and actually taking a more we look at it, instead of I, which Heller did not get rid off either. It still gives the state the right to regulate and an AWB is not against that ruling either.
Nor does it mean anybody is coming to take away my guns.