The Second Amendment is safe, but are all of us?
Apr 2, 2018, 6:31 AM | Updated: 10:13 am
Don't worry, the Second Amendment is safe for now, KIRO Radio's Dave Ross says. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
(AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Last week, John Paul Stevens, the retired Supreme Court justice, wrote in the New York Times that the students marching against gun violence shouldn’t stop at banning AR-15s. They should go for broke and demand repeal of the Second Amendment, he wrote.
The NRA and the president immediately tweeted their defiance.
But wait, look who else is backing the sanctity of 2A. Are you familiar with Antifa – the antifascists? They wear black bandannas, hate confederate statues. The election of Donald Trump made Second Amendment believers of some of them too.
Last year, a BuzzFeed reporter covering the movement found that they planned to use the lax gun laws to create a “left-wing militia.”
A left-wing group called the John Brown Gun Club even put up a video of members firing AR-15s at Nazi targets. They were mercilessly ridiculed by conservative gun owners.
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“I would be more afraid of some chimpanzees turned loose than these people if it came down to any sort of conflict,” a firearm enthusiast said.
But an armed Antifa member was quoted as saying, “… the more people the left can arm effectively, the less the right can laugh in their faces.”
Sounds like a Second Amendment supporter to me.
So, relax America. Between the crack shots on the right and the amateurs on the left, the Second Amendment is safe. It’s those of us in the crossfire I’m worried about.
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