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S.C. Republicans introduce bill to consider secession over gun rights

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S.C. Republicans introduce bill to consider secession over gun rights

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The South Carolina statehouse in Columbia

April 6, 2018

A group of Republican state legislators in South Carolina introduced a measure Thursday that would allow the state to secede from the United States if the federal government began to seize legally purchased firearms in the state. The bill, which was referred to the state House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, would allow South Carolina lawmakers to debate whether to secede from the United States if the federal government were to violate the Second Amendment. It states that "the general assembly shall convene to consider whether to secede from the United States based upon the federal government's unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution if the federal government confiscates legally purchased firearms in this state." The South Carolina bill is unlikely to make it through this session. It faces an April 10 deadline to go to the state Senate for consideration. South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union in the lead up to the Civil War, withdrawing in 1860.

Shades of the CSA. Secessionists still abound 158 years later.

Related: South Carolina state House Republicans introduce bill on secession over gun rights
 
Political stunt at best... and a waste of time.
 
S.C. Republicans introduce bill to consider secession over gun rights. Shades of the CSA. Secessionists still abound 158 years later.

I love a good grandstand. Especially when the bill has zero chance of going anywhere. Kind of the rabid right's best move- meaningless votes and marking up meaningless bills... :peace
 
Same political stunt that California tries to pull when it wants to act tough.


Some people wish to see another civil war fought, this time over limiting rights instead of expanding them.
 
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