Professor: “Repeal the Stupid Second Amendment”

[yota691]

Professor: “Repeal the Stupid Second Amendment”

January 6, 2015   

 

Writing in the Wisconsin Gazette, Professor Tom Hastings of Portland State University makes an earnest appeal against the Second Amendment. Conceding that the Supreme Court ruled that the right to bear arms applies to each and every American citizen (though he disagrees with that interpretation), Hastings insists that the only answer now is to repeal the amendment altogether.

Hastings, who has built his career on the study of nonviolence, claims that since he and many other Americans are sick of the many shootings that plague the nation annually, it’s time to do away with gun rights. “Surround it, grab it, bring it in the back room, pull down the shades, and end it,” he says. “Repeal the Stupid Second Amendment.”

Hastings is hardly the first liberal to advocate such a measure, though his phrasing is among the most amusing. But even allowing for the fact that a peacenik like Hastings is almost certainly going to oppose the Second Amendment, he is as wrong as every other liberal when it comes to cutting down on American violence.

A Dangerous Road

There is something uniquely unnerving about the growing swell of support on the left for such a drastic measure. In the more than 200 years since the Constitution was ratified, there have only been 27 amendments. Only one has been repealed, and it was the 18th. The one where America tried to ban the sale of alcohol. Is it merely a coincidence that the only amendment successfully repealed was the one stealing rights away from American citizens?

 

The Constitution and, by extension, the Bill of Rights is widely misunderstood by liberals who want to dismantle America’s freedom piece by piece. They see it as a document outlining the borders of human rights rather than a document outlining the borders of government power. But it is the latter, as anyone with a 4th grade education can tell you (although that may not be the case any longer, considering the liberal indoctrination of today’s public schools.) The rights established in the first ten amendments are not bestowed upon us by the federal government; they were there already. Putting them down on parchment simply ensured that the government wouldn’t try to take them away.

Oh, but try they will. And if this outpouring of disgust with the Second Amendment reaches a fever pitch, liberals may actually try to secure the two-thirds of Congress and three-quarters of the states they need to send it packing. While I would be stunned if they were successful, even attempting such a thing would throw the entire Constitution into jeopardy. Suddenly it would become politically feasible to start examining other rights secured by our founding document. Maybe we need to curtail freedom of speech next. Maybe it’s not trendy to demand a warrant anymore from police.

This is a dangerous road the anti-gunners want to travel. I’m not sure they would like where it ends.

[waterman13]

Hey professor up yours, and don't teach the children any of this socialist crap!

Wm13

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Hey Prof.

Stupid people shouldn't breathe.

[captl1]

Move to another country like France...Gun laws seem to be working good there!

[10 YEARS LATER]

How about we Repeal the Prof and send his damn a$$ to some country where citizens don't have a 2nd Amendment. Let's see him "TALK" his way out of trouble.

 

God Almighty, how I Detest & Loathe these Pin Heads.

[Shabibilicious]

Tenure  ~  the untethered proliferation of stupidity.    

 

GO RV, and NO BV

[kid4dinar]

Hey professor,

If you outlaw guns, then only outlaws will have guns.

I bet you were beat up when you were a little boy.....

[Lutie]

Hey professor,

If you outlaw guns, then only outlaws will have guns.

I bet you were beat up when you were a little boy.....

I'm pretty sure that is the left's goal. Divide unarm and conquer.  Sorry to throw all Dems in one basket but I think since Obama and his gang took over the country most Dems have supported him so it makes me believe they agree with his socialist agenda.  I don't kn0w why anyone would waste their money sending a child to most of these universities that are intent on teaching the left's agenda. There are plenty of other schools where they can get a good education without being brain washed.

[wildeman]

 

Professor: “Repeal the Stupid Second Amendment”

January 6, 2015   

 

Writing in the Wisconsin Gazette, Professor Tom Hastings of Portland State University makes an earnest appeal against the Second Amendment. Conceding that the Supreme Court ruled that the right to bear arms applies to each and every American citizen (though he disagrees with that interpretation), Hastings insists that the only answer now is to repeal the amendment altogether.

Hastings, who has built his career on the study of nonviolence, claims that since he and many other Americans are sick of the many shootings that plague the nation annually, it’s time to do away with gun rights. “Surround it, grab it, bring it in the back room, pull down the shades, and end it,” he says. “Repeal the Stupid Second Amendment.”

Hastings is hardly the first liberal to advocate such a measure, though his phrasing is among the most amusing. But even allowing for the fact that a peacenik like Hastings is almost certainly going to oppose the Second Amendment, he is as wrong as every other liberal when it comes to cutting down on American violence.

A Dangerous Road

There is something uniquely unnerving about the growing swell of support on the left for such a drastic measure. In the more than 200 years since the Constitution was ratified, there have only been 27 amendments. Only one has been repealed, and it was the 18th. The one where America tried to ban the sale of alcohol. Is it merely a coincidence that the only amendment successfully repealed was the one stealing rights away from American citizens?

 

The Constitution and, by extension, the Bill of Rights is widely misunderstood by liberals who want to dismantle America’s freedom piece by piece. They see it as a document outlining the borders of human rights rather than a document outlining the borders of government power. But it is the latter, as anyone with a 4th grade education can tell you (although that may not be the case any longer, considering the liberal indoctrination of today’s public schools.) The rights established in the first ten amendments are not bestowed upon us by the federal government; they were there already. Putting them down on parchment simply ensured that the government wouldn’t try to take them away.

Oh, but try they will. And if this outpouring of disgust with the Second Amendment reaches a fever pitch, liberals may actually try to secure the two-thirds of Congress and three-quarters of the states they need to send it packing. While I would be stunned if they were successful, even attempting such a thing would throw the entire Constitution into jeopardy. Suddenly it would become politically feasible to start examining other rights secured by our founding document. Maybe we need to curtail freedom of speech next. Maybe it’s not trendy to demand a warrant anymore from police.

This is a dangerous road the anti-gunners want to travel. I’m not sure they would like where it ends.

 

 

What an idiot. He needs to be banned.