Tag: enumerated rights

• We’re Having The Wrong Debate About The 2nd Amendment And Guns: “Own” Isn’t In The 2A

  This is very much an “Emperor’s New Clothes” situation. America watches a naked king ride by every day while pretending that this bloated, pink-skinned, pimply-and-pock-marked monarch is clothed. As we sit here today, we have it in our heads that the Second Amendment guarantees all Americans the right to own all the guns they want.…

  A L Katz

  January 7, 2023

  Culture, Gun Control, Racism, SCOTUS, Second Amendment, Suicide Prevention

  2A, enumerated rights, Federalism, Gun ownership, Heller, James Madison, Keep and bear, Militia, NRA, Originalism, Samuel Alito, Scalia, Second Amendment, State’s Rights

• We’ve Been Framing The Gun Debate All Wrong: There IS NO RIGHT TO GUN “OWNERSHIP” In The 2nd Amendment

  I’m not sure if anyone’s ever made this argument before. If they did, I’m not sure how we got past it. If James Madison – the author of the Second Amendment – saw us arguing today about the sacred right of gun ownership in America, he’d want to shoot himself in the head. Hopefully, he’d…

  A L Katz

  June 3, 2022

  American News Media, Corruption, Culture, Gun Control, Magical Thinking, New Ways of Thinking, Racism, SCOTUS, Second Amendment

  enumerated rights, Federalism, Gun ownership, James Madison, Keep and bear, NRA, Originalism, Samuel Alito, Second Amendment, States rights