Passages ‘Eliminated’ from the 2nd Amendment
October 7th, 2008
Part of letter written to the editors of the Chicago Tribune
I could write to members of Congress, who have the power to effect change, but by allowing the assault weapons ban to expire they have already shown how much they care. I could write to the courts, which also are powerful, but our highest court has already shown a willingness to eliminate passages from the 2nd Amendment so the justices can strike down gun-control laws aimed at reducing senseless killings. As a result of the action and inaction by those two branches of government, our cities are flooded with handguns, murders are on the increase, and the gangs’ weaponry is vastly superior to that of the police. I think I’ll save those stamps. [emphasis Murdoc's]
I don’t recall any passages being eliminated from the 2nd Amendment. I presume he thinks he means that the Supreme Court ignored the part about how the 2nd applied to the National Guard or something similar.
It’s also interesting that the sunset of the AWB helped flood the cities with handguns.
As for gang weaponry being superior to police weaponry, he apparently wasn’t paying attention during the ban. The golden example of heavily-armed criminals in the US is, of course, the North Hollywood Shootout. That occurred in 1997, during the Assault Weapon Ban, with weapons that had been illegal for decades because they had been modified to be fully automatic.
No other examples come close. And this example doesn’t prove the letter writer’s point.
Here is one more bit from the letter:
Where is the community rising as one to tell the gangs they are powerful against an unarmed few, but they are puny and powerless compared to 8 million strong rising against them.
Ah. The community should rise up. Sounds a bit too much like a call for “Kumbaya.”
Overshadowing all of this, of course, is the fact that all the guns he’s talking about and many more are all completely and totally illegal in Chicago already.
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