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In reply to the discussion: Are you for or against the 2nd Amendment?? [View all]Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)78. I like to think I fall into that category.
The NRA can piss off. No organization that swells Republican coffers like that one does is okay in my book. More to the point at hand, its failure to differentiate adequately between draconian gun control measures and perfectly reasonable, useful ones makes it no fit representative of my views.
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Some insight on the "way it is written", because etymology matters.
cherokeeprogressive
Dec 2015
#98
True - it is. And so is the Constitution, which refers to very specific Militias.
jmg257
Dec 2015
#114
I'm against it in it's present form. American's have proved that they can't handle guns.
BlueJazz
Dec 2015
#14
It was an idea that had some merit when passed at the time this country was founded...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#19
If a state or city chooses, via its elected representatives, to restrict firearm ownership,
Nye Bevan
Dec 2015
#22
I see the right to an abortion as more important than the right to own a gun.
Nye Bevan
Dec 2015
#83
I am opposed to the way the NRA, the gungeoneers, and the Gun Industrial Complex
madinmaryland
Dec 2015
#23
If, as you say, and they are not NRA members and do oppose the NRA and GIC,
madinmaryland
Dec 2015
#32
You do realize that many Democrats, non NRA people support the second amendment, right?
darkangel218
Dec 2015
#33
How are you going to take the weapons from the illegal owners , to start with?
darkangel218
Dec 2015
#31
I see it as archaic concept intended to support a national defense via citizen militia.
Agnosticsherbet
Dec 2015
#69
To me that is defined in, yet often ignored right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Glassunion
Dec 2015
#90
I'm against the insane, baseless interpretation of the 2nd ammendment that prevails today. /nt
Marr
Dec 2015
#99
Whatever...I would pay to see what the founders think of what it led to
BeyondGeography
Dec 2015
#102
i do not believe it applies to individual unrestricted gun ownership. nt
La Lioness Priyanka
Dec 2015
#108
I think that the Second Amendment should be repealed; it's an archaic anachronism...
Spider Jerusalem
Dec 2015
#111