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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You keep citing the Constitution.  [b]It also guarantees the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.[/b]

Yet those rights keep being taken away because of unfettered gun violence.

Why are those constitutional rights supposed to take a back seat to 2A?

How can that be justified?  The Constitution makes no provision for 2A reigning supreme over all other clauses.[/quote]

The Constitution does not guarantee the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.  That phrase is from the Declaration of Independence, where it is stated that the Creator has endowed all men with inalienable rights including those.  The Constitution's Bill of Rights for all citizens that the federal government may not infringe is where 2A is found.[/quote]

Preamble:

[i]We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, [b]establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity[/b], do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.[/i]

It's right in the mission statement of the Constitution...

Establish Justice:  So how does unfettered gun ownership establish Justice?  What about justice where it comes to the underground market place of guns fueling drug wars?  What about justice where it comes to mentally ill people being able to buy guns and then shoot children in schools?  The right wing is failing us there.

Insure domestic tranquility:  Unfettered gun ownership has only caused gun violence to increase in America.  Another fail.

Provide for the common defense:  Again a fail, since we have less security and peace of mind as a society

Promote the general Welfare:  How is it promoting the general welfare to have mentally ill people able to pass a background check to buy a gun?  How is it promoting the general welfare to have tons of guns circulated in an underground market place so that felons can easily bypass the system and buy guns?  Huge fail.

Secure the blessings of liberty:  How do we have liberty when we have to worry about locking down our children in their schools?  That is not liberty.

Ourselves and our posterity:  Again, where is our posterity if our children (our posterity) are being gunned down in schools?

The current interpretation of 2A has trampled all over the core intent of the Constitution as laid out in the preamble.  Something HAS to give.  And Heller, NFA and other things should be showing us the way, that 2A *is not* absolute.  It needs to give way.[/quote]

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