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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: 2nd Am history: Until 1959, every law review article concluded it didn't guarantee an individ right [View all]sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)17. So you agree the NRA changed the meaning of the 2nd Am
        Republican political operatives and billionaires built the Federalist Society primarily to install judges that would decide for businesses and CEOs and the wealthy against the middle class.  But then Republicans realized gun politics was a great way to get uneducated white people to vote for the billionaires.  So voila, Republicans became in favor of changing the 2nd Amendment.
I trust that readers can see through the sophistry of your argument details.
It is nice to see, however, that you confirm ultimately that SCOTUS unanimously ruled that the right applies only to militias.  
Guns in America get kids killed.  Lets ban all semiautomatics.
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                        2nd Am history: Until 1959, every law review article concluded it didn't guarantee an individ right [View all]
							sharedvalues
							Aug 2019
							OP
                        
        
        Yup, Scalia's opinion in DC vs Heller enshrined something made up out of whole cloth
        RockRaven
        Aug 2019
        #1
      
        
        Can we change the name of this forum? "Gun control and made-up Republican RKBA"?
        sharedvalues
        Aug 2019
        #5
      
        
        It's been considered here several times before, and shown to be false
        friendly_iconoclast
        Aug 2019
        #63
      
        
        As you've seen, if ones' only strengths are 'repeated argument by assertion'...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Aug 2019
        #11
      
        
        It's sad that you and 16 other people believe that law review articles actually have legal weight
        friendly_iconoclast
        Aug 2019
        #10
      
        
        Thank you. I didn't have the energy to deconstruct sarisataka's many misleading points
        sharedvalues
        Aug 2019
        #29
      
        
        Wow.  DOJ 1938:  "2nd A does not grant to the people the right to keep and bear arms"
        sharedvalues
        Aug 2019
        #32
      
        
        Obvious answer: Because, when read in full, it doesn't say what James claims it says.
        friendly_iconoclast
        Aug 2019
        #52
      
        
        Yes.  Scalia was a right-wing partisan and his "originalism" was just a front
        sharedvalues
        Aug 2019
        #31
      
  