Second Amendment

President Biden on Wednesday called for more gun control after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school left 19 children and two adults dead, ...

We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. “We’re here today for the same purpose to come together and say, ‘Enough.'” “Where’s the backbone?

For four decades, the conservative Federalist Society has been playing the long game with both the judiciary and the Second Amendment.

The battle cry used to be, “Close the gun-show loophole.” Now, after Uvalde, the long-shot dream is finding 10 Republican senators who would join with the Democrats to pass a red flag law that would allow the legal confiscation of guns in extreme mental health situations. In sharp contrast, gun control advocates for the last two decades have been playing the short game. Next month, the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court is poised to overturn New York State’s strict limitations on carrying a concealed handgun.

The "Bowling for Columbine" filmmaker challenged TV networks to take up the cause after the Texas school shooting.

We need the hardcore stuff that’s going to protect ourselves and our children,” he said. “Look, I support all gun control legislation,” he said. “Who will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, ‘It’s time to repeal the Second Amendment?’

Across America, parents were raw with anger, despair and hopelessness after learning of the 19 children and two adults shot to death at Robb Elementary School ...

“These kids were just innocent, beautiful lives that were taken too soon by the senseless act of a coward.” Lexi was more reserved, Mena said, but on the court she was a force to be reckoned with who made every basket look easy. We were saying, ‘Let’s go’ because that is how worried we were, and we wanted to get our babies out.” "We respectfully disagree with the court’s decision and plan to appeal.” Garcia said he tried to stand up for him. Local schools in and around Uvalde frequently have to lock down, she said, because people arrested for crossing the border often try to outrun police or flee after being detained. He just needed to break out of his shell.” Instead, according to witness and police accounts, Salvador Rolando Ramos emerged wearing tactical gear and carrying an AR-15-style rifle he bought this month just after his 18th birthday. We want to place our trust in you.” “I want her to be remembered as someone who sacrificed her life and put her life on the line for her kids,” John Martinez, the nephew, said Wednesday. “They weren’t just her students. This time, the meeting is set to be in Houston, about a four-hour drive from Uvalde, Tex., where on Tuesday 19 children and two adults were killed by an 18-year-old gunman at Robb Elementary School. They were teary-eyed and shaken at the news there had been a mass shooting, another one, this time at an elementary school in Texas.

President Biden said he and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Uvalde Texas "in the coming days."

Even the manufacturer, the inventor, of that weapon, thought that as well. Where children feel safe in their schools." And hopefully, bring some little comfort to the community in shock and grief and in trauma. It's time for action." "Just violates common sense. President Biden on Wednesday said he and first lady Jill Biden will head to Texas "in the coming days" to do whatever they can to comfort the community ripped apart by the killing of 19 young students.

"Who will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, 'It's time to repeal the Second Amendment'?" Moore asked today.

[If] they had any idea that there would be this kind of carnage, you have to believe that the Founders of the country would not support it.” This country was birthed in violence with the genocide of the native people at the barrel of a gun. “I truly believe if Jefferson, Madison and Washington if they all knew that the bullet would be invented — some 50 years after our revolution, I don’t know if they would have written it that way.

In the wake of Tuesday's somewhat unfortunate events in Uvalde, Texas, which claimed the lives of 19 elementary school students and two fourth-grade ...

These cry-baby family members and people whose consciences are stirred by their tragic stories — bleeding hearts, we call them — are a threat and the memories of their slaughtered children are a bloody stain on the Second Amendment as it is currently interpreted. In their infinite wisdom, our Founding Fathers foresaw and accepted such carnage, as the Originalists who now dominate our nation’s Supreme Court assure us. Frederick Douglass High School, Forest High School, Highland High School. Alpine High School, Townville Elementary School, Vigor High School. Muskegon Heights High School, Independence High School, Madison High School. Mojave High School, Lawrence Central High School, Franklin High School. Brashear High School, West Orange High School, Arapahoe High School. Ballou High School, Randallstown High School, Bowen High School. Pleasantville High School, Waukesha South High School, Oshkosh High School. Marinette High School, Aurora Central High School, Millard South High School. Thurston High School, Columbine High School, Heritage High School. Jeanette High School, Eastern Hills High School, DeAnza High School.

Michael Moore, Hollywood's favorite left-wing propagandist, called for an end to the Second Amendment and said founders never would have included it in the ...

And that was what made all the difference. If we want to stop school shootings, if we want to protect children from random acts of violence, if want to save our society from murders at the hands of the murderous minded, we must address the root causes — sin. That was the bullet of the day. “This country was birthed in violence with genocide of the native people at the barrel of a gun. The evil of murdering children should not be dismissed. The horrors of senseless shootings should not be downplayed. This country was built on the backs of slaves with a gun to their backs.” “All of the firearms that were used [during Revolutionary War] had flintlock technology,” Battlefields.org wrote. But such evil is a condition of the heart, a matter of the mind, an outward show of a sickened soul. “I truly believe if Jefferson, Madison and Washington — if they all knew that the bullet would be invented, some 50 years after our revolution — I don’t know if they would have written [the Second Amendment] that way. And that’s what Moore does; that’s why the left loves him so. Leftists like Moore care little for truth, however, preferring instead to twist history to do today’s Democrat bidding.

The First Amendment isn't bound by absolutism — because limitless speech would foster lawlessness.

The First is multi-layered. The Second is neither multi-layered, nor even binary. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. The First sides with victims, protecting against strains of verbal belligerence. The First defines our nation as a town square; the Second, a battlefield. The wisdom of humanity is understanding the flaws of humanity: illicit motives, impulses, and desired outcomes.

The relatively unregulated freedom to bear arms is literally "freedoming" Americans to death...

Rather than working to reduce the supply of firearms on our streets and in our homes, gun sales and ownership steadily increase. In addition, there have been significant drops in robberies involving firearms, and contrary to fears by some, no increase in the overall number of home invasions. Shame on the United States Congress and state legislatures for failing to pass comprehensive gun safety measures. Now we must put the Second Amendment out to pasture. The Falkland Islands comes in a distant second with 62.1 firearms per every 100 residents. The relatively unregulated freedom to bear arms is literally “freedoming” our people to death!

What makes individual gun ownership a lesser right? It's a right that only exists in the minds of a handful of hard-right Supreme Court justices who happen to ...

When war came in 1812 two things were immediately obvious: The number of soldiers then in the official U.S. military were far from enough to defend the nation, and the poorly organized civilian militias for which the Second Amendment was created were an absolute failure when it came to national defense. There were multiple drafts of the Second Amendment. Every one of them includes text explaining that this amendment exists only because it’s needed to provide for the nation’s defense. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires. To that end, they explicitly inserted the Second Amendment as an alternative means of providing national defense. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia – would be maintained for the defense of the state. It’s a right that only exists in the minds of a handful of hard-right Supreme Court justices who happen to be on the court at this moment.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” That's what ...

Or will we just wait for the next time, the next mass murder, the next slaughter of the innocents? “Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate — why do you go through all the hassle of getting this job, of putting yourself in a position of authority — if your answer is that as this slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives, we do nothing?” Murphy asked. What are we doing?” Murphy said on the Senate floor. “As a nation we have to ask, when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?” Biden asked. “Nearly 10 years after Sandy Hook — and 10 days after Buffalo — our country is paralyzed, not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that have shown no willingness to act in any way that might help prevent these tragedies,” he said. Rep. Tony Gonzales, who represents Texas 23rd District, which includes Uvalde, has bragged in the past of his staunch opposition to gun control. On Tuesday, he issued a stinging statement about the lack of action in our blood-soaked and weary nation. “In 2020, I blocked bills proposing unconstitutional red-flag laws to strip citizens of their right to bear arms. Three others were wounded before the shooter, like Ramos a young man who was heavily armed and determined to kill, was captured. “For God’s sake, we have to have the courage to stand up to the industry. “The gun manufacturers have spent two decades aggressively marketing assault weapons, which make them the most and largest profit,” he said. At least 200 innocent people were murdered, and several of the shooters died as well.

I cried as I wrote this essay on Tuesday evening, after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. I am more than disheartened.

“Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the right of young adults to keep and bear arms.” Now on the U.S. Supreme Court’s caseload is a challenge to New York’s anti-public display of firearms. The Second Amendment’s right to “ a well-regulated militia” has exploded into an almost unchallengeable right to bear any kind of firearm (from handguns to assault weapons). They’re Trump appointees: Judges Ryan Nelson and Kenneth Lee. Judge Nelson, in his 55-page opinion, heralded the young patriots of America. “America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army,” he wrote. I, who keep photos of the Sandy Hook children and their teacher near the Shabbat candles in my living room, forgot to mention another mass shooting. As a law professor, I recite those words in all of my first lectures for each class, no matter the topic.

By inscribing these words, I will draw the ire of every card-carrying NRA gun enthusiast in America—but I really don't care, to be perfectly honest. Not when ...