It’s Time to Repeal the Second Amendment According to Some Activists

Gun control is likely to be a high priority in the next administration, especially if a Democrat is elected. We have already heard the rumblings since the shootings at Virginia Tech.

However now there is talk that the second amendment should be repealed, not just controlled.

This quote is from Benjamin Wittes, a guest scholar at the center-left Brookings Institution

Wittes, who said he has “no particular enthusiasm for the idea of a gun culture,” said that rather than try to limit gun ownership through regulation that potentially violates the Second Amendment, opponents of gun ownership should set their sights on repealing the amendment altogether.

“Rather than debating the meaning of the Second Amendment, I think the appropriate debate is whether we want a Second Amendment,” Wittes said.

While the idea of repealing the second amendment is absurd, at least this person has a couple of points correct here. His point that controlling guns is unconstitutional is of course correct, but what he also has right is the fact if you want to control guns the proper way to do it is to repeal the second amendment. This is ,of course,is ridiculous but at least he would be going about it the proper way. However, one of the reasons  the founding fathers gave us the right to keep and bear arms so that we would be able to revolt against the type of government that would apply such restrictions.

Benjamin Wittes does ackknowledge this point.

“One of the things that they believed was that the right of states to organize militias, and therefore individuals to be armed, was necessary to protect the liberty of those states against the federal government,” Wittes said.

Although he then said.

“This is something we don’t really believe as a society anymore.”

Just remember this when you walk into the voting booth.