Do you agree with Harvard liberals that it's time to abolish the 2nd Amendment?

Question

November 30, 2007 1:15 AM

..the Second Amendment is neither relevant nor useful. Rather, it has become an impediment to vital public policy, and it should be repealed and replaced with nuanced federal legislation.

In the context of today’s society, the Second Amendment is outdated. Constitutional debates over its interpretation stand in the way of the implementation of pressing public policy.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521013

Yea, and that pesky 1st Amendment is outdated too, right libs? Free Speech was for a time back when when the printing press was the major mode of communication. The Founders certainly never envisioned Al Gore's greatest creation -- the Internet

Answer 1

They've been attempting the manipulation and ablation of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution for decades, much in the manner Hugo Chavez is in the process of doing in Venezuela, to no serious avail. This simply exposes them as the true enemies of the democracy in which we live. This sort of Marxist premise further negates anything, intellectual or social, that comes out of that Ivy League Sh*thole...
The 2nd Amendment is not negotiable!

Answer 2

Abolish the 2nd amendment? Who thinks that a war on guns will be any more successful than a war on drugs? Boy are you out of touch with libs like me! I'll take universal health care tho.

Answer 3

No.

However, I'd LOVE to see the liberals try to pass a Constitutional amendment to repeal the Second Amendment--the only Constitutional way of getting rid of an amendment. Watching them try to round up enough votes for the Constitutional supermajority of 2/3rds in the House and Senate, and then in 3/4rs of the state legislatures would be a treat.

At least it would be a much more honest attempt than all of this nibbling away of our rights in the courts.

Answer 4

The Second Amendment is the only thing protecting us from complete anarchy.

When criminals start observing and abiding by the laws designed to keep weapons out of THEIR hands, I will no longer feel the need to have an option to protect myself and my daughters from the filth that would do us harm.

Oh, wait! Criminals, by definition, DO NOT OBEY LAWS (gun or otherwise). Silly me. I thought as soon as they came up with a new weapons ban the criminal element would be able to be reasoned with, would throw up their hands, and turn in their guns for a ticket to a Sonics game. Afterall, they're always looking out for new ways to become better citizens.

Of course, at the business end of my S & W .357 snubby, they would tend to see it my way a bit more quickly.

Yeah, abolish the Second Amendment. That makes complete sense. There will be happy criminals nationwide for they'd be the only ones with weapons.

Answer 5

I must say i have never understood this. you can buy whatever weapon you want no matter who you are, and then you get surprised at the high rate of criminality, murder, robberies, stick ups. do you even think?
what do most people in america need guns for anyway. for hunting, thats okay, but there is no way anyone goes hunting with a UZI or a tech 9.
are you going to fight the government? forget about it. the army would flatten any dumb *** militia in a matter of seconds.
and the whole NRA argument if guns are outlawed and so on is bullshit.
truth is that american society would be better of without the second amendment. but if you wanna keep it, then on your own heads be it.

Answer 6

Absolutely NOT!! The whole purpose of the 2nd ammendment is to protect ourselves from an oppressive government!! That fact that people feel that we should abolish this ammendment is a true sign of the movement towards socialism. Without private sector having fire arms it would be a lot easier for the government and any radical movements to take over. None of this surprises me when you have people like Hillary running for president. Not to mention all of the bans lately, smoking, trans fat, now they want to ban salt and the list will continue to get bigger. I have warned against this for years but nobody would listen. Maybe now they will.

Answer 7

Isn't disarming the public, straight from the Communist playbook?

In the USA, our liberals goose step towards communism, while in complete denial of the very fact. Apparently, all the "class envy", negativity and disparagement of what made America great- like freedom, patriotism, the right to bear arms, etc, fools people, to believe we should give up our rights, to government.

Well, liberals, take a look at who's driving your bandwagon, people like Michael Moore want to take you to a "Stalinist" hell on earth. If liberals cared about guns causing crime, they wouldn't work so hard to create the environment for crime to happen; side with the criminal, undermining the family, exploiting minorities, etc.

Nope, they want to take your guns away because it's a step towards over-throwing the American way of life. Reducing crime is only a disguise.

Answer 8

Who cares if these Harvard kooks believe that the 2nd Amendment should be abolished? Whether they are from Harvard or Harvey's Corner Bar, it is JUST their opinion. And opinions only have as much value as YOU decide to place on them. So they managed to get their opinions put into an article that could be found on an internet. Big deal. That doesn't necessarily validate their opinion, it just gets more people to take notice of it.

Besides, no one will allow an amendment to be abolished, due to the fact that this action would create the precedent that would allow the other amendments to be modified and/or abolished.

And speaking of opinions, my opinion is that if guns were outlawed, it would just remove the guns from law-abiding citizens, while the criminals would still hold onto theirs. Recreational drugs are outlawed, but does that stop people from using, selling, buying, and making them???

Answer 9

Wouldn't it be a marvelous show of their conviction to publish the addresses of those people that do not believe in the right to bear arms on the internet? The criminal element will no doubt be voluntarily turning in their weapons, so they should have nothing to fear by being defenseless.
Personally, I prefer to have the break and enter types wonder whether or not they will live through an intrusion into my home.

Answer 10

Yeah... from my cold dead hands, I'd sooner die then let a bunch of stuck up, flag-burning liberals try to take my 'arms' away, only after I have discharged every last projectile into them. The whole point of the second amendment was to stop the government from getting too much control, which the liberals prove is a very real threat.