Gavin Newsom Hopes to Amend the Second Amendment - Liberty Nation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : It would mandate universal background checks for all transfers, even among individuals.
56% : In short, it amends the Constitution so that the Second Amendment has no power at all.
55% : It seems the governor's idea of respecting the Second Amendment is allowing it to remain attached to the Constitution, powerless though it would be, for nostalgia's sake.
54% : Raising the federal minimum purchase age, mandating universal background checks, instituting a waiting period, and banning so-called assault weapons all make the progressive wish list - and all this while somehow "leaving the 2nd Amendment unchanged and respecting America's gun-owning tradition."
52% : The Second Amendment to the US Constitution - when interpreted properly by the courts - proves quite the stumbling block to strict gun control laws.
51% : The Second Amendment reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
45% : As far as longshots go, it's hard to tell which would prove the greater miracle: getting this amendment added to the Constitution or the proposal actually "respecting" the Second Amendment.
45% : "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," the I Annals of Congress 434 quotes James Madison, the man who wrote the Second Amendment.

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