27 Jul 2022 7:09 pm
I am a lifelong political liberal, and a longtime Democrat until it became clear the Democrats cared NOTHING for the Constitution except when convenient to them.IkeBana » 27 Jul 2022, 7:12 am » wrote: ↑ The Constitution is a living document, and a guideline for governance. It is not the **** holy bible of governance. We have courts, including the SCOTUS, that are there to interpret the application of the Constitution and Amendments to it. It's just too bad that right now the high court happens to be disgustingly politicized due to the shortcomings of a Constitution that is supposed to protect it, that what we need is a new Constitutional Convention.
The founders would be tearing off their wigs and spitting out their wooden teeth over the democratized gun carnage that we now have because of the vague guidelines of their Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is not chiseled in stone brought down from Mount Rushmore by Moses Reagan.
You rightwing "constitutional originalist" hypocrites are more than happy to have case by case interpretations of your holy Constitutional bible made when it's an interpretation you like.
The Constitution is THE LAW. It is NOT a "living document" in the way you claim. It is a "living document" because the people can come together and amend the Constitution to take into account things the Founders did not anticipate.
Your claims about the founders and their response to what you call 'democratized gun carnage' is simply wrong.
The Founders believed every citizen should have equivalent weapons to the average soldier to prevent the military being used to oppress the people. And don't make me laugh in your accusations about it being "rightwing" people who are only happy "when it's an interpretation you like." The extreme left is INFAMOUS for its hypocrisy about holding the court sacrosanct so long as it gives them the rulings they want.
The Second Amendment is not "vague" in its guidelines at all. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you think is "vague"??