K9s wrote: Tue May 07, 2019 10:44 am
Good luck passing something like that with the current SCOTUS. Congress wouldn't let it through, either. That's why they don't scare me.
The fact that it is a primary campaigning platform for several of the candidates does scare me. No, nothing of the sort will pass unless dems hold the house, senate and president slots, but the outward in your face of it is very worrisome. Recall, the dem party is supposed to stand for civil rights. This is the equivalent of running on banning the internet to solve human trafficking or requiring licenses for voting or only allowing abortion at one specific clinic. The right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right these people are openly promoting abolishing and people are cheering it.
Rosa Parks didn't
need to sit at the front of the bus, but she had every goddamned right to. Women didn't
need to vote, but they had every goddamned right to. I don't
need to own an AR15, but I have every goddamned right to. When we substitute "need" in place of a right, we lose our freedom, especially as subsequent rights are supplanted by the falsity of "no one needs." So, this is not merely about guns. It is about running on restricting citizens' constitutional rights by banning an entire class of arms, something SCOTUS has already said is unconstitutional.