How many Americans must die before we rethink the Second Amendment?

One Million Moms and Dads Against Gun Violence

So so so fed up with our politicians' lack of action.

And how many Americans even know what the 2nd Amendment says or meant? 


The Second Amendment fanatics will surely remind us that guns are quintessentially American. That’s true, of course: the Second Amendment exists. But that’s not the end of the conversation. That something is written in the constitution doesn’t mean it’s sacrosanct. The document, after all, enshrined slavery and denied full personhood to black people. At any rate, contrary to the disastrous Supreme Court ruling in 2008, the Second Amendment protects militias, not the individual’s right to carry a pistol in a supermarket or a theatre. It wasn’t until the NRA bought the Republican Party (Jindal included) and began pushing for a reinterpretation of the amendment that it came to mean something other than it does.

Salon

We have to ask this question too often...

How many Americans must die before we rethink the Second Amendment?

We have too many guns. We have too many shootings. And too many people die. A misinterpreted amendment is no excuse

SALON.COM|BY SEAN ILLING