Letter to the editor: A new amendment can repeal the Second Amendment

The author identifies the symptom, but misdiagnoses the disease.

Yes, America has a gun homicide problem (symptom). The disease, however, is not guns, it is morality. Guns are simply the tools. It is the amoral mind, which thinks homicide is acceptable - even laudable! - which is diseased and must be cured.

Of course that would mean the radical progressives would have to admit that things like the nuclear family are good and should be encouraged, not mocked. So good luck.

Overturning the original Articles of the Constitution would start a civil war. The other amendments - that might be problematic. Here are 2 examples, the 1st historic and the 2nd hypothetical.
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Example 1: The Eighteenth Amendment or Prohibition was supposedly 'widely supported' but a quick perusal of the numbers shows that less than 12% of the US population wanted it. What happened was the Temperance Movement, backed by high society women (and their money) paid for the passage of the bill. Then 13 years later, 32 different states succeeded (2/3rds of the 48 states in 1932) in passing bills supporting the Repeal of Prohibition. This was enough states to force the convening of a Constitution Convention in 1933 on the issue of Repeal. Before that could begin, the US Congress of the day decided (pretty much in mass) that to 'keep control' of the lawmaking in federal hands (they WERE afraid of a second civil war, if only as legal means by the state governors and state legislatures) that they should re-look Prohibition.
Of the vote on the 21st Amendment, 2 states (North and South Carolina) rejected the 21st Amendment. The states of Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Dakota didn’t meet before December 5 and didn’t even act to vote one way or the other on the 21st Amendment since there was already approval of the 36 (3/4s) needed for the 21st Amendment. There were strong indications that 6 of those favored the 21st Amendment an 2 were undecided. There were 2 other states which declined to organize state conventions on the Repeal, which meant they effectively abstained.
Across the United States 75% to 78% of the voters wanted Repeal to pass. So much that they were replacing the 'Incumbent Politicians' in state election after state election with candidates that supported Prohibition Repeal.
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Example 2: What if there were organizations that gathered enough following to a start a 'Repeal' of the Reconstruction Amendments of the 13th, 14th, and 15th OR the 19th Amendment in an activist movement?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th are called the Reconstruction Amendments both because they were the first enacted right after the Civil War and because all addressed questions related to the legal and political status of the African Americans.
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except for those duly convicted of a crime.
The 14th Amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws for all persons.
The 15th Amendment prohibits discrimination in voting rights of citizens on the basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
The 19th Amendment ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote.
In my opinion - I think everyone in the United States would expect a Civil War to start BEFORE Congress could finish their roll call to vote the issues.
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What is your opinion?.

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Tagging on to Cpl Vic Burk’s earlier post regarding crap; what a crock of sh!t. The problem is mental health. Guns do not go out and shoot on their own.