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I'm not saying that people are consistent in their positions. To re-iterate my original post, I'm just surprised when people are surprised that someone who act

• dllthomas 13y ago
  You make the mistake of assuming the surprise is due to unconstitutionality rather than violation of other shared principles, and you make the mistake of assuming everyone has the same understanding of the Constitution. The second amendment in particular is grammatically awkward, which facilitates misinterpretation. It is also, in its strictest sense, unworkable - nuclear ICBMs are discussed in "arms control talks"; the guy down the block shouldn't be able to keep and bear nuclear ICBMs. Now I think the best thing to do would be to update the second amendment, but we've sort of agreed (since about the 1930s) that we're instead going to be ignoring the strict wording beyond some arbitrary line. Once we're in that position, saying "your views are flagrantly unconstitutional because you draw that line differently than I do" is not really a well founded position. I say this as someone who thinks we've generally gone too far with gun control.