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lindysalsagal

(22,999 posts)
Wed Oct 4, 2017, 12:06 PM Oct 2017

Constitutions are not sent from the heavens in stone. The [View all]

Founders planned on growth and evolution, and created the amendment system, requiring debate and a 2/3 vote. I don't care what it says because what matters is how we collectively agree to enforce it.

The founders were wrong about women and slavery. Hello! Even bible enthusiasts no longer kill their wives, several concurrently, or keep slaves. For the most part the world no longer allows child labor.

As we change, so do our laws. No one has a right to kill others with machine guns. It. Is. Not. A. Right.

It is an indulgence we are no longer willing to accept, and it's got to change.

Throughout our experiment in representatIive government we have always balanced our freedoms against what is good for the general public.

A government that allows carnage of its own people doesn't deserve our support.

It's simple: we need election reform, to take the huge money interests out of it. The NRA keeps owning the politicians because they need the money. It's the biggest lobbying machine, and it's killing us.

ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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