Opinion: Republicans have twisted the 2nd Amendment to suit their extremist purposes — that lie is killing our children.
Yet Republicans in Congress have voted down all these proposals , because to win a Republican primary, you have to cater to the rabid, nearly-all-white, right-wing populist base. Any common-sense gun safety measure is seen as heresy. All Republicans can do is send thoughts and prayers.
The lie at the heart of all of this insanity is the Right’s ludicrous perversion of the Second Amendment. Contrary to what you may have been led to believe, until 2008, no federal court had held that the Second Amendment conveyed a right to own a gun. On the contrary, theWhy? Because of the obvious language of the amendment, which reads, in full, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
For nearly two hundred years, there was widespread agreement that the Second Amendment meant what it said: that the right “of the people” meant the right to bear arms
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