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The Constitution was indeed written over 200 years ago. Unless I missed it, however, nothing that was guaranteed to us in the Bill of Rights came with an expiration date. I doubt you'd argue that our Right to free speech or to assemble peacefully can be ignored because the Constitution is outdated or because today's problems are different than those in the past? My argument here is based upon the requirement that Constitutional Rights cannot be dismissed out of hand, only via the means of Amendment. Those Justices who told us that abortion was a Right, effectively amended the Constitution via activism, not by properly amending it. If our Constitutional Right to bear arms can be ignored simply because our founders were thinking in 18th-century terms, then so can our Right to freedom of speech, assembly, religion, etc. Yet, you would suggest that our Right to bear arms can be re-defined without a good, competent study, and without a Constitutional amendment?? IF such a study was performed, I know what the result would be! We'd find that it is NOT the prevalence of weapons that best predicts "violent behavior", it is the character and cultural norms of the people possessing those weapons, and the degree of dictatorial control exercized by their National leaders. I'd be only too happy to suggest many independent variables needing inclusion in such a study. Interesting topic!
The Constitution was indeed written over 200 years ago. Unless I missed it, however, nothing that was guaranteed to us in the Bill of Rights came with an expiration date. I doubt you'd argue that our Right to free speech or to assemble peacefully can be ignored because the Constitution is outdated or because today's problems are different than those in the past?
My argument here is based upon the requirement that Constitutional Rights cannot be dismissed out of hand, only via the means of Amendment. Those Justices who told us that abortion was a Right, effectively amended the Constitution via activism, not by properly amending it. If our Constitutional Right to bear arms can be ignored simply because our founders were thinking in 18th-century terms, then so can our Right to freedom of speech, assembly, religion, etc.
Yet, you would suggest that our Right to bear arms can be re-defined without a good, competent study, and without a Constitutional amendment?? IF such a study was performed, I know what the result would be! We'd find that it is NOT the prevalence of weapons that best predicts "violent behavior", it is the character and cultural norms of the people possessing those weapons, and the degree of dictatorial control exercized by their National leaders. I'd be only too happy to suggest many independent variables needing inclusion in such a study. Interesting topic!
