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Politics : The 2nd Amendment-- The Facts........
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From: TimF3/29/2018 12:40:05 PM
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...Stevens claims that repeal of the amendment would be simple – even though only the repeal of the 18th Amendment, making alcohol illegal, has ever been accomplished in our history.

The process is hardly simple. It would take two-thirds of the House and the Senate to ratify an amendment, with two-thirds of state legislatures calling for a Constitutional Convention and then three-quarters of each of the state legislatures would have to approve the amendment traditionally within seven years from the votes in Congress.

Stevens calls the Second Amendment a relic, and I guess he’d know, being a relic himself. While he’s at it, he can go ahead and declare the Third Amendment protecting citizens from being forced to house soldiers a relic, too.

The Times uses this graphic to help the senile old coot make his point;



Scary, huh?

Here’s my graphic to convince you to repeal the 1st Amendment;


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