How you do you feel about gun rights?

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Originally Posted by creekster

You are talking in circles. Your reason is unreasonable to the next guy. That is the whole point. That is exactly why it is hard ot amend, and why it works so beautifully; it tends to resist the whims of the moment and only adjusts over the longer arc of history.

I don't deny that the difficulty of changing something is a good thing. I just think that it makes more sense to decide according to centuries of rational thought than to try to read the minds of the long dead. The very procedure to which you refer, that of amending the constitution, seems to demonstrate this point. It's just that in this case, I'm not sure that an amendment would be necessary in most cases.

For the most part, I'm pro-2nd amendment (I voted for status quo in the above poll) but am sympathetic to all sides, and think that most of the current views can be had through an honest interpretation of constitutional verbiage.