Market Mad House

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

Repeal the Second Amendment

My Thoughts

Should America Repeal the Second Amendment?

For example, I calculate that there are six states (Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Delaware) with less than one million people. Each of those states has two US Senators. So 12 US Senators represent those states with under six million people.

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Politics

What Bret Stephens gets wrong about the Second Amendment and Gun Control

The right to own a gun comes not from the Second Amendment, but from a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision in a case called District of Columbia v. Dick Anthony Heller not the Second Amendment. All the Second Amendment grants is a very vague “right to bear arms.” Lawyers and constitutional scholars have been arguing about the meaning of that phrase since the Amendment was written.

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