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If America banned the Second Ammendment tomorrow what would you do?

If America banned the Second Ammendment tomorrow what would you do?

  • Join a violent revolution

    Votes: 20 29.9%

  • Start a National Petition to repeal the act

    Votes: 17 25.4%

  • Move out the Country

    Votes: 2 3.0%

  • Celebrate

    Votes: 2 3.0%

  • Go on with my life and comply with the new law

    Votes: 17 25.4%

  • Other - state opinion below

    Votes: 9 13.4%
  • Total voters
    67
Justice For All

Justice For All

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Personally if this happened I wouldn't consider it America anymore, so I'd probably go with violent revolution.
 
Same as what I did today. Go to work. I would LOVE to see the Federal government try to enforce the repealing of the 2nd Amendment. Probably cause a coup.
 
.... I'd tell America that we should sit down and talk about this like sensible adults. America can't do whatever she wants. You know, because America is not even 250 years old yet. She can't do as she please. First she bans guns, then what? She'll start smoking weed, hanging out with North Korea and as we all know, it's all down hill from there. No, America can't do whatever she wants so we'll just all have an intervention if she ever decides to just up and ban the 2nd amendment.
 
Hatuey said:
.... I'd tell America that we should sit down and talk about this like sensible adults. America can't do whatever she wants. You know, because America is not even 250 years old yet. She can't do as she please. First she bans guns, then what? She'll start smoking weed, hanging out with North Korea and as we all know, it's all down hill from there. No, America can't do whatever she wants so we'll just all have an intervention if she ever decides to just up and ban the 2nd amendment.
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Sounds like some "tough love" is in order. :2razz:
 
Everyone always speaks big on this issue but they have been restricting it when they have no authority to do so for decades and which one of them did anything about it? A big fat none. I can't just say I will revolt because no one will ****ing join me! It will be a party of one getting shot in the street.
 
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I'd lol, because I think Americans are already revolting. :mrgreen:
 
spud_meister said:
I'd lol, because I think Americans are already revolting. :mrgreen:
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Right now? Who? The OWS? They are just helpful idiots that don't understand capitalism, economics, money, or the problems that exist in the country. I don't need that kind of help.
 
Henrin said:
Right now? Who? The OWS? They are just helpful idiots that don't understand capitalism, economics, money, or the problems that exist in the country. I don't need that kind of help.
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I think spud thinking that Americans are revolting has less to do with the OWS and more to do with the quality of women he cruises for at the Walmarts.
 
Justice For All said:
Personally if this happened I wouldn't consider it America anymore, so I'd probably go with violent revolution.
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I would sit back with some hot-wings and watch them try to enforce it.

In all seriousness, though, if the US successfully banned personal firearms, and there was no real hope of getting them back, I would become a citizen of Israel and renounce my US citizenship.
 
I voted that i would go on with my life.

If we banned the Second Amendment - which I DO NOT favor doing - it would be done via another Constitutional Amendment. To pass one would require support of an overwhelming number in both houses in Congress - 2/3 - plus the legislatures of 3/4 of the states. That could not be done without large and significant support from the citizenry. This would be impossible now. However, if the winds changed and it was possible, I would then have a choice to live in America with all its great things or leave. And I would simply accept the will of the people and make due the best I could.

By nature, I am not a violent person and to participate in a violent revolution would require a whole lot more than that for me to join in.
 
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haymarket said:
I voted that i would go on with my life.

If we banned the Second Amendment - which I DO NOT favor doing - it would be done via another Constitutional Amendment. To pass one would require support of an overwhelming number in both houses in Congress - 2/3 - plus the legislatures of 3/4 of the states. That could not be done without large and significant support from the citizenry. This would be impossible now. However, if the winds changed and it was possible, I would then have a choice to live in America with all its great things or leave. And I would simply accept the will of the people and make due the best I could.

By nature, I am not a violent person and to participate in a violent revolution would require a whole lot more than that for me to join in.
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Actually, all it would take is Congress passing a law, the President signing it, and five old people deciding the SA had been misinterpreted all these years. :doh

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TOJ said:
Actually, all it would take is Congress passing a law, the President signing it, and five old people deciding the SA had been misinterpreted all these years. :doh

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we came within one vote of that
 
The rest of the world would sit back and watch and wait for an opportunity as the US turns into a hellhole
 
TOJ said:
Actually, all it would take is Congress passing a law, the President signing it, and five old people deciding the SA had been misinterpreted all these years. :doh



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If you believe that, you are horribly misinformed about the process as well as reading the national political temperature.
 
haymarket said:
If you believe that, you are horribly misinformed about the process as well as reading the national political temperature.
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I didn't say it would happen in the current envionment, only that that is all it would take. If that is incorrect, please explain how the process would prevent it.

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If the sun exploded, it would be a bloody mess here on this planet. If the SA was removed from the Constitution, which it would be impossible, our nation would be a bloody mess.
 
Removable Mind said:
If the sun exploded, it would be a bloody mess here on this planet. If the SA was removed from the Constitution, which it would be impossible, our nation would be a bloody mess.
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The good citizens of the USA would never have the stomach for an armed revolt if the Supreme Court ruled that the SA did not apply to private persons.

It would not have to be repealed; only reinterpreted, and five old people could do that. :doh

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TOJ said:
I didn't say it would happen in the current envionment, only that that is all it would take. If that is incorrect, please explain how the process would prevent it.

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I have already explained to you the process of overriding a portion of the Constitution like the current Second Amendment. 2/3 of both houses of Congress then the ratification by 3/4 of the individual state legislatures.
 
spud_meister said:
I'd lol, because I think Americans are already revolting. :mrgreen:
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This from someone living in a nation where the gun owners willingly handed over their arms to the government and leave themselves defenseless. We need to learn from the stupidity of what you Aussies did, and the Scots and the English. It's that simple.
 
Jerry said:
In all seriousness, though, if the US successfully banned personal firearms, and there was no real hope of getting them back, I would become a citizen of Israel and renounce my US citizenship.
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Whereas I would have died when they came to take my guns, and more than likely a couple of them would be on their way to Hel right beside me.
 
Justice For All said:
Personally if this happened I wouldn't consider it America anymore, so I'd probably go with violent revolution.
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Join a violent revolution.The 2nd amendment exist so that the people can overthrow the government should it ever become to tyrannical. If they take away one constitutional right then nothing would stop them taking away the first amendment. In a sensethe 1st amendment exists so we can criticize and speak out against the government and the 2nd amendment exists so we can put the government in it's place should it step way out of line.
 
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haymarket said:
I have already explained to you the process of overriding a portion of the Constitution like the current Second Amendment. 2/3 of both houses of Congress then the ratification by 3/4 of the individual state legislatures.
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And as I stated, it does not require repealing the SA; only that it be reinterpreted. Maybe you don't understand your system as well as you think. ;)

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TOJ said:
And as I stated, it does not require repealing the SA; only that it be reinterpreted. Maybe you don't understand your system as well as you think. ;)



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We strongly differ on that. In this nation today, you cannot even get small changes in gun laws because of the political environment. Wholesale slaughter takes place with nationwide publicity and nobody even introduces a law in reaction to it. The pendulum has swung that far the other way. The idea that you are going to completely ban guns through a mere court decision in the face of the Second Amendment and the support for it is simply a denial of political reality.

This is just the kind of political paranoia that is pushed by the NRA and others to keep the memberships rolling in and them well funded.
 
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Even if your scenario were somehow possible (and it is not)...the worst that could happen would be that the states would be left to decide and the vast majority of states still cede to private gun ownership.

The states HAVE managed to prove that gun bans dont work. Criminals that are already not 'allowed' to have firearms have shown no problem in getting firearms. They ship them in on the crate...next to the banned illegal drugs.

I suspect that most thinking adults (even those that are not gun owners) would rebel pretty quickly against this. The implication being that 1 of the original building blocks of the Bill of Rights would be eliminated without the voice and consent of the citizens of this country. How much would that put 'at-risk' the other 9?
 
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