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Mimosas or bloody Marys for Newt this morning? Or did he just get a case of The Old when typing this tweet?

 

What rights have been removed? Women's sufferage ? Prohibition Repeal? Indentured servitude? Direct Sentatorial Elections?

 

He's talking about Prohibition.

And it didn't take away a right.

 

Only one side is responsible for its actions (and it's non-actions), though.

 

Saint Sin is another dude who writes a lot of letters to the editor. How many do you write in a week, NC? Write about politics, or are you also outraged by how UAB sports are treated?

 

But there is no such right in the constitution.

It's been amended to expand and/or guaranty rights, not limit them.

 

So what?

 

Let's say that the Bill of Rights granted every man a right to slug his wife in the face, once a year. Would you advocate repeal?

You would be stripping citizens of a right.

 

Removing the right to purchase combat firearms intended as man killers is not removing the second amendment. Neither would taking thirty and hundred round magazines off the market. Hell, there is precedent. Back in the 1920's it was legal for a citizen to buy Thompson submachine guns and Browning Automatic Rifles in full auto, weapons that were carried in virtually every infantry squad during WWII. Bank robbers loved them, it gave them a huge advantage over police and bank guards carrying .38 revolvers. They were made illegal for the general public and highly regulated, and are to this day.

The only reason to carry an AR with a hundred round drum magazine is to kill a lot of people in a short time without having to reload. Sure, you can shoot a lot of rocks and trees fast with one, and it's fun... but they won't charge you while you reload a ten or fifteen round mag in an effort to take you down before you kill more people in a crowded theater.

 

I'm open to better wording. It's an example of the constitution being used to constrain the people, not the government, and it was a failure.

 

You have a talk-radio listener's grasp of constitutional law.

 

Now do the 13th Amendment.