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In reply to the discussion: Can you be a Progressive Democrat and still the support the Second Amendment? [View all]hack89
(39,181 posts)20. Can we support the Democratic party version? Obama's version?
        The one that says it supports an individual right?
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                        Can you be a Progressive Democrat and still the support the Second Amendment? [View all]
							Berlin Vet
							Feb 2017
							OP
                        
        
        Support the Second Amendment does not mean supporting Scalia's version of it.
        guillaumeb
        Feb 2017
        #8
      
        
        You avoided his. When and where has private gun ownership been strictly tied to militia membership?
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #126
      
        
        Oh, a smoke screen is it? Let's try again: When and where has a Federal court ruled that militia...
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #128
      
        
        Was he a "hack" on Texas v Johnson, Maryland v King, Brown v Entertainment, Florida v Jardine...
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #145
      
        
        When and where has a Federal court ruled that militia membership is a prerequisite for the private..
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #135
      
        
        When or where has a Federal court ruled that Militia membership is a prerequisite for the private...
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #139
      
        
        In reality, what is understood is that your position stands utterly unsubstantiated as you...
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #146
      
        
        Your question has nothing to do with open carry, or concealed carry, or supposed self-defense.
        guillaumeb
        Feb 2017
        #147
      
        
        God God, what a comedy. You're going hide behind THAT? Where's the evidence I asked for?
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #149
      
        
        Do you read the Amendment and decide for yourself what words really matter?
        guillaumeb
        Feb 2017
        #155
      
        
        All that really matters is the SC's decision, and in Heller a majority agreed the 2nd protects...
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #158
      
        
        So using your link, we can infer that the original intent was that possession of firearms
        guillaumeb
        Feb 2017
        #31
      
        
        SO, reading your second statement, we can infer that Amendments can be amended?
        guillaumeb
        Feb 2017
        #34
      
        
        Why is it that somehow with you pro-restriction folks there is always a need for a "need"?
        discntnt_irny_srcsm
        Feb 2017
        #73
      
        
        A nice response. And polite as well. Something that is occasionally lacking in this venue.
        guillaumeb
        Feb 2017
        #75
      
        
        As to the points you raise and a thanks again for the polite exchange
        discntnt_irny_srcsm
        Feb 2017
        #86
      
        
        And yet the gun lobby is rapidly pushing to allow gun owners to carry everywhere.
        guillaumeb
        Feb 2017
        #108
      
        
        I think it's rather obvious what my preferred list of restrictions would cover
        discntnt_irny_srcsm
        Feb 2017
        #109
      
        
        Free white women, as a group, were universally prohibited from posessing firearms?
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #207
      
        
        Where was militia service a prerequisite for the private ownership of firearms by free citizens?
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #216
      
        
        Like Scalia, you ignore what you cannot explain in the individual vs group argument.
        guillaumeb
        Feb 2017
        #43
      
        
        You have always been a good debater, even if I don't agree with your premise...
        tortoise1956
        Feb 2017
        #120
      
        
        In Plymouth, well before the Second Amendment, it appears that free blacks could own guns
        HoneyBadger
        Feb 2017
        #180
      
        
        As your "scholarship" is so superior, please provide an example of a Federal court ruling...
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #143
      
        
        When and where has a Federal court ruled that militia membership is a prerequisite for the private..
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #141
      
        
        Re. mental health issues, "progressives" reward lip service, ignore *complete* malfeasance.
        pablo_marmol
        Feb 2017
        #16
      
        
        Sorry, Berlin Vet, for my not-so-clear attempt regarding "mental health issues"
        democrank
        Feb 2017
        #22
      
        
        Precrime is a regressive fantasy- all of us have to trust *everyone* we interact with
        friendly_iconoclast
        Feb 2017
        #239
      
        
        The very idea of "earning" or "qualifying for" trust is anti-rights n/t
        discntnt_irny_srcsm
        Feb 2017
        #240
      
        
        As GE has mentioned, UBCs can only aspire to create very slight improvement.
        pablo_marmol
        Feb 2017
        #18
      
        
        No, if you support the NRA interpretation of the 2nd amendment you're a RW nutjob
        SecularMotion
        Feb 2017
        #38
      
        
        "There is not one Progressive or Liberal organization that supports weakening gun regulations."
        wincest
        Feb 2017
        #59
      
        
        Do they know you're using the name of their organization to pimp gun rights on DU?
        SecularMotion
        Feb 2017
        #111
      
        
        Are you attempting to silence that poster with a threat? Sure appears that way to me.
        Marengo
        Feb 2017
        #142
      
        
        yes, especially if you consider that the Bill of Rights protects civil liberties.
        aikoaiko
        Feb 2017
        #124
      
        
        Yeah, and I'm as progressive as it comes but I'm like Scalia on this, a strict constructionist...
        brush
        Feb 2017
        #162
      
        
        Re: "...there is no regulation to keep them out of the hands of the mentally unstable."
        discntnt_irny_srcsm
        Feb 2017
        #163
      
        
        How do the mass killers get them then, all thru the gun show loophole? We both know that's not true.
        brush
        Feb 2017
        #164
      
  