Election Thread 2016

[Joust Williams]

The second amendment was written 240 years ago. It wasn't until almost a century later that slavery was abolished. So I really don't care about the amendment itself.

[icarusfall]

[Yoshi]

Every abortion doctor is potentially killing the next Kennedy before the inevitable kicks in.

But if the mom shaved, it wouldn't be from the grassy knoll.

[Frogacuda]

I'd have no problem with an amendment that repealed the second amendment, I think it's irrelevant to the current reality of defense and government.

BUT, as long as the amendment exists, I want it enforced, because I want all the amendments enforced. Undermining the constitution troubles me more than lax gun control.

[Diff-chan]

Well, it is enforced. Even the SCOTUS said that there could be restrictions on it, just as there is with any other amendment. I mean, does the fourth amendment even exist anymore? The drug war has hollowed that one out almost to nothingness.

[Yoshi]

It may still exist, but I need to search your house just in case you're hiding it.

[Diff-chan]

Exactly.

[Frogacuda]

Well, it is enforced. Even the SCOTUS said that there could be restrictions on it, just as there is with any other amendment. I mean, does the fourth amendment even exist anymore? The drug war has hollowed that one out almost to nothingness.

Yeah, I know all this and agree.

[Doc Holliday]

I like how in the Republican platform, the second pillar is "A Restoration of Constitutional Government," yet in the third bullet point they already want to change the Constitution to fit their needs.

http://www.gop.com/2012-republican-platform_We/#Item3


I also like how Mitt Romney can suggest he supports a marriage amendment, when his very own great-grandfather fled America for persecution from a federal marriage statute.

Which, by the way, the family still owes bail money on...

http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-...ld-debt-2012-8

[Cheebs]

I like how in the Republican platform, the second pillar is "A Restoration of Constitutional Government," yet in the third bullet point they already want to change the Constitution to fit their needs.

Dude, think before you type. Changing the Constitution is exactly how you would go about governing by the Constitution. That is what we're supposed to do. Change the damn thing. It was specifically made to do that.

The current method of "do whatever the hell we want and never change the letter of the document we're violating" is some dangerous bullshit.

Having said that, I don't want any of these evil assholes anywhere near government, let alone the Constitution.