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In reply to the discussion: Can you be a Progressive Democrat and still the support the Second Amendment? [View all]hack89
(39,179 posts)20. Can we support the Democratic party version? Obama's version?
The one that says it supports an individual right?
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Can you be a Progressive Democrat and still the support the Second Amendment? [View all]
Berlin Vet
Feb 2017
OP
Support the Second Amendment does not mean supporting Scalia's version of it.
guillaumeb
Feb 2017
#8
You avoided his. When and where has private gun ownership been strictly tied to militia membership?
Marengo
Feb 2017
#126
Oh, a smoke screen is it? Let's try again: When and where has a Federal court ruled that militia...
Marengo
Feb 2017
#128
Was he a "hack" on Texas v Johnson, Maryland v King, Brown v Entertainment, Florida v Jardine...
Marengo
Feb 2017
#145
When and where has a Federal court ruled that militia membership is a prerequisite for the private..
Marengo
Feb 2017
#135
When or where has a Federal court ruled that Militia membership is a prerequisite for the private...
Marengo
Feb 2017
#139
In reality, what is understood is that your position stands utterly unsubstantiated as you...
Marengo
Feb 2017
#146
Your question has nothing to do with open carry, or concealed carry, or supposed self-defense.
guillaumeb
Feb 2017
#147
God God, what a comedy. You're going hide behind THAT? Where's the evidence I asked for?
Marengo
Feb 2017
#149
Do you read the Amendment and decide for yourself what words really matter?
guillaumeb
Feb 2017
#155
All that really matters is the SC's decision, and in Heller a majority agreed the 2nd protects...
Marengo
Feb 2017
#158
So using your link, we can infer that the original intent was that possession of firearms
guillaumeb
Feb 2017
#31
SO, reading your second statement, we can infer that Amendments can be amended?
guillaumeb
Feb 2017
#34
Why is it that somehow with you pro-restriction folks there is always a need for a "need"?
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Feb 2017
#73
A nice response. And polite as well. Something that is occasionally lacking in this venue.
guillaumeb
Feb 2017
#75
As to the points you raise and a thanks again for the polite exchange
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Feb 2017
#86
And yet the gun lobby is rapidly pushing to allow gun owners to carry everywhere.
guillaumeb
Feb 2017
#108
I think it's rather obvious what my preferred list of restrictions would cover
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Feb 2017
#109
Free white women, as a group, were universally prohibited from posessing firearms?
Marengo
Feb 2017
#207
Where was militia service a prerequisite for the private ownership of firearms by free citizens?
Marengo
Feb 2017
#216
Like Scalia, you ignore what you cannot explain in the individual vs group argument.
guillaumeb
Feb 2017
#43
You have always been a good debater, even if I don't agree with your premise...
tortoise1956
Feb 2017
#120
In Plymouth, well before the Second Amendment, it appears that free blacks could own guns
HoneyBadger
Feb 2017
#180
As your "scholarship" is so superior, please provide an example of a Federal court ruling...
Marengo
Feb 2017
#143
When and where has a Federal court ruled that militia membership is a prerequisite for the private..
Marengo
Feb 2017
#141
Re. mental health issues, "progressives" reward lip service, ignore *complete* malfeasance.
pablo_marmol
Feb 2017
#16
Sorry, Berlin Vet, for my not-so-clear attempt regarding "mental health issues"
democrank
Feb 2017
#22
Precrime is a regressive fantasy- all of us have to trust *everyone* we interact with
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2017
#239
The very idea of "earning" or "qualifying for" trust is anti-rights n/t
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Feb 2017
#240
As GE has mentioned, UBCs can only aspire to create very slight improvement.
pablo_marmol
Feb 2017
#18
No, if you support the NRA interpretation of the 2nd amendment you're a RW nutjob
SecularMotion
Feb 2017
#38
"There is not one Progressive or Liberal organization that supports weakening gun regulations."
wincest
Feb 2017
#59
Do they know you're using the name of their organization to pimp gun rights on DU?
SecularMotion
Feb 2017
#111
Are you attempting to silence that poster with a threat? Sure appears that way to me.
Marengo
Feb 2017
#142
yes, especially if you consider that the Bill of Rights protects civil liberties.
aikoaiko
Feb 2017
#124
Yeah, and I'm as progressive as it comes but I'm like Scalia on this, a strict constructionist...
brush
Feb 2017
#162
Re: "...there is no regulation to keep them out of the hands of the mentally unstable."
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Feb 2017
#163
How do the mass killers get them then, all thru the gun show loophole? We both know that's not true.
brush
Feb 2017
#164