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I Wear Pants;1516093 wrote:The 2nd Amendment says that no restrictions can be placed on gun ownership or the types of guns people are allowed?

The ACA says that big businesses and unions will get one year exemptions?

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BoatShoes;1516492 wrote:^^^In my experience, in the gun control debate I have encountered a lot of folks who act like the 2nd Amendment is somehow above and beyond regulation. This way we can avoid the question of whether or not X firearm regulation is Constitutional and try to figure out whether or not it is a good idea.

Let me ask you, would you view the First Amendment as being equally able to be regulated?

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Yeah, nobody is pulling Reid and Pelosi's strings because they are already the far left of their party.

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Fuck, forgot this is the meme thread. Gonna stop replying for the sake of the lols.

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BoatShoes;1516393 wrote:All fundamental rights can be regulated when there is a compelling public interest for doing so.

James Madison and Thomas Jefferson coauthored a bill in the Virginia Legislature that would've limited individuals from carrying long guns outside of their homes when it wasn't hunting season unless they were on active duty militia.

Their fellow contemporary in the Virginia Legislature, Isaac Shelby, went on to become the first governor of Kentucky and then in his second go around was the first to sign a law outlawing concealed firearms in 1813 while James Madison was president and he didn't say a word about it.

All of these men were Democratic-Republicans....AKA the original tea partiers.

Nevermind of course all of the southern states that outlawed free black men from carrying firearms in those early days.

Ironic you use examples of those espousing state not federal power to make your case. Perhaps Boat you have fallen prey to those like Harry Reid that attempt to portray the Tea Party as anarchists.

BoatShoes;1516393 wrote:All fundamental rights are subject to reasonable regulation when there's a compelling interest for doing so and the founding fathers and their contemporaries regularly provided support for the notion that these rights may be regulated.

True they are. Some of us just believe that the Constitution has something to say as to which levels of governance hold regulating authority over those fundamental rights.