{"id":81822,"date":"2022-06-02T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81822"},"modified":"2022-06-02T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T22:10:13","slug":"81822","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81822","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

SO YOU WANT TO REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT<\/a><\/p>\n

Jabba the Hutt<\/a>\u00a0Michael Moore<\/i>\u00a0thinks it\u2019s time to\u00a0repeal the Second Amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, \u2018It\u2019s time to repeal the Second Amendment?\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bad idea, Lardo Calrissian.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t repeal the Second Amendment, any more than you can repeal any of the other nine. It was a package deal, you see, an absolute prerequisite to ratifying the main body of the Constitution. Repeal one, you repeal them all. Do that, and you repeal the whole Constitution \u2014 and with it, any legal authority that the government has to exist (let alone repeal the Second Amendment).
\n\u2014\u00a0Alexander Hope<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That comes from chapter five of\u00a0Hope<\/a>, by\u00a0Aaron Zelman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0L. Neil Smith<\/a>. The style makes me think that particular passage was penned by Neil (and it seems like he had a stand-alone essay to the same effect), but I don\u2019t believe Aaron would have let that go into their co-authored novel unless he agreed with it.<\/p>\n

As a casual student of history, who has read much about the ratification of the Constitution, I also agree.<\/p>\n

Lose one, lose them all. Lose\u00a0it<\/i>\u00a0all.<\/p>\n

I suspect that Moore, and most Dims currently in DC \u2014 and far too many Repugnicans, as well \u2014 would be happy to lose the few remaining Constitutional limits on their power. They don\u2019t particularly\u00a0care<\/i> about \u201clegal authority\u201d just power.<\/p>\n

The problem is\u2026 if our wanna-be tyrants are no longer restrained by that pesky Constitution, neither are the people.<\/p>\n

The people pissed off at senseless bans, and illegal ballot drop boxes, might just decide that turning to constitutionally-enabled courts \u2014 who already defecate on individual rights at the slightest provocation \u2014 really isn\u2019t necessary.<\/p>\n

Voting out scumbags, and voting in new replacement\u00a0scumbags who promise to use KY<\/a>\u00a0while screwing us? Why bother with that discarded constitutional process? Wouldn\u2019t high-velocity lead be cheaper and faster? Not to mention proactively educating would-be replacements.<\/p>\n

Court-blessed \u201cconstitutional\u201d takings of property? Get rid of the Constitution and former property owners might resort to ex-constitutional re-takings, enforced with ropes and lamp posts.<\/p>\n

Lose one, lose them all. Moore himself might want to consider the ramifications of chucking\u00a0his<\/i>\u00a0First Amendment protections to defame folks for a buck. The\u00a0people<\/i>\u00a0might decide, lacking that lost constitutional recourse, to go\u00a0bowling<\/a>\u00a0for lying documentarians.<\/p>\n

Get rid of the Constitution, and the people\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0pretend recourse\u2026 and they might stop pretending they do.<\/p>\n

Maybe the tyrants will be counting on the\u00a0out-numbered police<\/a>\u00a0to prop up their post-Constitution regime. How many officers would continue to be willing to do that once they\u2019ve lost \u201cconstitutional\u201d sovereign immunity, and the\u00a0people<\/i>\u00a0know it?<\/p>\n

Perhaps the Constitution has only been an illusory\u00a0paper<\/i>\u00a0restraint on government. But it has been a\u00a0potent<\/i>\u00a0symbolic restraint on the\u00a0people<\/i>, preventing them from eliminating abusive politicians and government agents\u00a0out of hand<\/a>. I do not truly comprehend the willingness \u2014 nay, the\u00a0eagerness<\/i>\u00a0of the Left to go there, to surrender that protection, given the likely\u00a0consequences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d be starting from scratch, with new rules written by the survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SO YOU WANT TO REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT Jabba the Hutt\u00a0Michael Moore\u00a0thinks it\u2019s time to\u00a0repeal the Second Amendment. \u201cWho will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, \u2018It\u2019s time to repeal the Second Amendment?\u2019\u201d Bad idea, Lardo Calrissian. You can\u2019t repeal the Second Amendment, any more than you can … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rights","category-rkba","category-unintended-consequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81823,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81822\/revisions\/81823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}