This is a deeply misleading headline
I fundamentally disagree. The fact that it still exists on paper is immaterial if you cannot safely exercise the right.
Well, the headline is an outright lie, not just misleading. But the point about the Democrats not screeching about this from every corner is a good one.
He doesn’t have the power to abolish 2a, he just has the ability to tell his DOJ to not investigate matters when his administration’s agents violate it. This constitutes a massive abuse of executive power, fostering a culture of impunity and abuse but we all should understand that if and when executive and legislative power fall out of the hands of this admin, these sorts of crime have very long statutes of limitations and accountability (if belated) is entirely in the cards
Well if he really wanted he could sign blanket pardons like his predecessor, though obviously rank and file need nor apply.
For the MAGAs keeping score at home:
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America First, no foreign entanglements. Yeah, tell it to Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Gaza, Canada, Mexico, etc.
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Lower Prices on Day One - Still rising on Day 365
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Release the Epstein Files - except the really good stuff of course. Unless it exposes the nasty “victims,” who were just slutty 13 year olds.
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Protect the 2nd Amendment, unless, y’know, you want to actually carry your gun the way the Constitution and SCOTUS allows. Can’t be doing that. Soon they’ll just take them away, but it will be okay if MAGA does it, right?
So with all your precious MAGA promises being broken, why are you still in? The open corruption? The open treason? The virtuosic incompetence? The paramilitary Death Squads murdering innocent American citizens in spontaneous firing squads? The humiliating daily court losses for their all important retaliatory prosecutions? The embarrassing public statements multiple times a day? The frenzied hours long manic posting of racist memes? The shitting his pants during press conferences?
I’ll bet it’s the Pedophilia. The one thing that MAGA can be absolutely counted on is to cover for Pedophilia. Hiding it is LITERALLY their most important job, and they are ALL on board with that objective
That why ALL MAGAs are Pedophiles.
Spot on! Add Racism to your list.
Here in Canada we have three major parties and a few minor ones. A decade or more ago ago our three major parties could be described as progressive, centerist, and conservative. These days they can be referree to as progressive, conservative/center-right, and far-right.
How many people do you suppose switched from the Conservitives to the Liberals, from the originally conservative to the now conservative/center-right, in more recent years as the parties changed their alignment and began representing different people? Next to fucking no one. Most originally Conservative voters, if they genuinely believed in what they were saying, should be voting Liberal right now as that party now aligns with their supposed views more closely. Liberals, likewise, only care about voting for the party that puts itself between the two options on either side, calling anyone to the right or left “extreme” or “idealists” no matter what their positions actually are and so it’s difficult to get them to actually make real change.
The moral of this story is that MAGA voters are voting based on following their tribe around and they are completely locked into branding and stereotypes. They believe anything they’re told because they want to align themselves with an image, not vote for a representative. The more this shit goes on the more I think the world needs to ban the idea of political parties so that voters have to actually listen to the campaign promises of candidates.
Some cities have non-partisan elections for offices like mayor. It seems like that would be a good thing, but it’s really because some cities are so partisan, it can be hard to come up with a candidate from the opposing party. By making it non-partisan, they can offer more than one candidate, even if they are both from the same party.
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FYI - nothing happened
Amending the constitution requires a super majority… Not a deranged despot.
He doesn’t get to decide which parts of the Constitution are in force or not.
So you look at Trump, his goons, his record and you say: “That good ol’ piece of paper is going to defeat facism.” ?
So is anyone stopping him or are people just claiming that he can’t do that while he’s doing it.
Yet federal officers follow his orders. No one enforces the constitution, even if the courts back it up, and they will find a way not to.
Yes he does, because you’re not fucking doing anything about it. You can say “That’s illegal!” like it’s a magic spell all you want, but Trump doesn’t care what is legal. Either you go stop him, physically, or he will keep doing whatever he feels like.
My dad has been saying that the Republicans were going to be the ones taking guns when people go on about “gun grabbing democrats” since Reagan apparently. I was only long enough to hear him say that around Bush era onward but this is my shocked face that he was right.
I fully agree with your father and I’ve been saying the same thing since the 2001 Patriot Act and when the Orange Kool-Aid guzzlers won in 2016. Those fucks will eventually abolish 2A for the full power grab.
Oh, dear. I hope you’re no longer like that.
Every republican accusation has always been a confession. Their base will parrot whatever talking point they’re given with dead eyes
« Harris will comes for your guns » -MAGA
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
I’m pro 2A and a lot of my 2A buddies knew damn well Harris wasn’t coming after our guns because she was just going to continue what Biden was doing which was pretty much nothing.
Trump on the other hand has repeatedly lied about his stance on 2A, moved to ban accessories and certain firearms and at one point the ATF had the longest wait times under his first admin. The wait times are nearly non-existent but there are some who argue that is thanks to Biden.
And for those who claim that the “Gun Personality” people voted for Trump, I can tell you from first hand experience those gun nuts did not vote for Trump. It was the faux 2A who go to the range for a photoshoot and buy the Gucci gear who voted for Trump.
Add two more factors. The fucking Russian and Chinese mobile phones responding on social media.
It was the faux 2A who go to the range for a photoshoot and buy the Gucci gear who voted for Trump.
I am FINALLY starting to see some guntubers start to call this shit out, and call attention to the fact that their community is getting overrun with people who don’t actually care about proper gun safety and laws, and are only there for the politics and “masculinity” around having guns.
I hope this continues. I was first to speak up that we needed better gun laws in the US, but I also am a gun owner and have always been really disappointed how guns became a political issue and not a guarantee that these political issues don’t overpower us and take away all our rights.
The left needs to arm the fuck up. Political capital comes from force and patriotism, it’s a fucking shame the worst people have taken our most powerful tools for change in the US and used them to get us here.
The vast swaths of tuned-out, comfortable, liberal America look at two sides, the right kissing the flag and promising to defend the country with their lives, and then they look to the left, spitting on the flag and demanding de-armement, and they make a choice which makes them feel safer. It’s utterly stupid that they have this binary vision, but we have to understand how power comes from this perception, and we don’t win without power.
I hope to see you and your other 2A friends out in the streets. The folks I know are trying to catch up, but gun safety and marksmanship are slow skills to build, and we could use some support from the folks with the know-how.
Yea it’s for LGBTQ+ people mainly but even if you’re not in that demographic, and want to learn. I’m sure plenty of us wouldn’t mind.
I’m a lgbtq+ people, so this is perfect for me.
I thought that was hilarious given that she is known to carry and be proficient with a pistol, and Trump has never held a gun in his life.
The issue is that the dems won’t drop their gun control rhetoric, even with a huge portion of their base becoming armed and fascist literally killing people. I don’t give a shit that Harris own or fired a gun. I give a shit that they’ve not woken up to the realization that gun owners aren’t just maga chodes larping as nazis. They need to drop the anti-gun shit and actually focus on what needs to be done to correct our move towards full blown dictatorship.
I’ve said it a million times. Dems would sweep elections and destroy the GOP if they dropped their anti-2a bullshit.
Not just gun control, if democrats became populist they would sweep elections. We pay more money for less service in a great many areas, and we didn’t use to. Call out those gatekeepers that have taken from our shares, in our lifetimes, and promise to bring it back to us. It’s that simple.
The establishment was chosen to kill popular reform, not enact it. The only way forward is replacing them, and they are as secure as ever as they’ve convinced the sheep it’s the voters’ fault for not electing the most unpopular candidate they could find that offered zero reform in a time of anger while the republicans ran as reform.
I’m not helping the establishment democrats, it’s a waste of time, we need new leaders, fighting under these leaders is giving up.
I’m sorry, gonna call bullshit here on the last election.
The D candidate and running mate were gun owners and comfortable owning and using guns. The R candidate when he was President literally said “Take the guns first, go through due process second,”
YET when that’s discussed, somehow it’s (D)ifferent to the gun owners. The “Gun grabbing democrats” won’t stop but Trump saying that but not going through was fine.
So when coworkers are suddenly now worried he might be coming for their guns my response is just call me Cassandra because I saw it coming and here we are!
https://www.everytown.org/press/what-does-freedom-from-gun-violence-mean-for-kamala-harris/
What are you even arguing here? AWB is one of the top things she platformed on for gun laws. Same for ERPOs and UBC(which requires a registery).
I don’t know if you’re assuming I’m defending the turnip in power right now or not, but my point has been that dems are for more gun control and for banning a lot of firearms that are in common use, because they have no clue about firearms.
Isn’t the reason the 2a is so sacred is to be a check on the kind of authoritarian take over already in progress ? All those school kids were murdered so that access to firearms could continue to be unhindered so something could be done to correct your move towards full blown dictatorship?
The fascist are the ones who are heavily armed. On top of that, we’re not at the start a civil war yet. We’re at the ballot box right now, midterms will determine if we move to the next box.
Project 2025 creator or whoever said the second civil war we’ll be blooess if the left allows it. And so far he seems correct.
Yep, and the longer the left keeps pushing to disarm itself the quicker that becomes true.
Fascism can’t be voted out anymore than it was voted in. Continued support for the parties that have enabled it will allow it to continue growing. .
What dem has come out and said they want to take away 2a? The vast majority of dem proposed gun regulations are not anti 2a. Gun regulation isn’t anti 2a
Gun regulations are anti-2a, almost all gun regulations will not curb our violence or gun deaths in this country. Almost all gun regulations are designed to limit the access of minorities and oppressed groups to arm themselves.
https://fee.org/articles/lawmakers-in-hawaii-propose-repealing-second-amendment/
It takes half a second of googling to pull up links like this. Yes it’s not a platform they run on but to act like that’s not the end goal of a ton of dems is being naive at best and willfully lying at worse. The Democratic party’s end goal is to make it so, basically the rich are all that own firearms in the end.
The actual proposal to Congress in that article reads…
“adopt a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution pursuant to article V of the United States Constitution to clarify the constitutional right to bear arms.”
That’s not removing 2a. The comment of repealing was just that, a comment. That specific comment didn’t make it to the official request to Congress.
Really…you do realize that amending it is just an easier way to basically say it’s null and void.
On top of that, you asked I provided. Let’s stop pretending that there aren’t dems who want it repealed.
Since when does amending ANYTHING mean removing it?
You didn’t provide anything, the linked article didn’t support your claim.
Their goal has never been to win against Republicans but act as a buffer between the working class and the ruling class, acting in the interests of the ruling class
No arguments from me on that.
Who are you going to shoot to bring our democracy back, Rambo?
The 2nd should be repealed. Kids getting murdered in school isn’t a fair price to pay so that gun fetishists can indulge their fantasies.
And this is the exact shit I’m talking about. Your whataboutism doesn’t negate anything I’m saying. It just furthers people who are single issue voters into the hands of the maga chodes because they’re saying “no we’re not going to take the guns” while you spout shit like “repeal the 2nd”.
What’s the point of having the 2nd amendment if it leads to kids being killed, but it’s not used to stop the fascists taking over the country?
You know more children die drowning in pools each year than have been killed via school shootings in the last 10 years combined? Let’s stop acting like the reason you want the firearms gone is because of the kids.
Before was Biden then Obama. Almost like gun lobbyist created panic to sell more guns.
And without fail, every accusation continues to be an admission
The US Attorney basically said no gun carry in Washington DC.
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This syndrome reached an apotheosis of sorts when Jeanine Pirro, best known as a reality TV judge and right-wing blowhard, and now (because of course!) appointed by Trump as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, issued this edict: if anyone brings “a gun into the District, you mark my words, you’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in another district and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else.”
That article was so long to bury that.
Historically every major piece of gun legislation has come from Republicans
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/jeanine-pirro-second-amendment-washington-00762347
It happened a few days ago and she walked the comments back within 24 hours, apparently.
John Commerford, executive director of the National Rifle Association’s legislative arm, said Pirro’s remarks “highlight the need for Congress to pass H.R. 38, the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.” That bill, introduced last year by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), would allow anyone with a state-issued concealed carry license to carry a firearm in any other state.
The cynic in me says it’s staged to drum up support for this deranged bill.
That bill, introduced last year by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.), would allow anyone with a state-issued concealed carry license to carry a firearm in any other state.
While I think laws on concealed carry being more consistent across states would be a good thing, this is a terrible idea. Laws across states aren’t consistent–one state may require some sort of education, for example, while another does not. The one that requires education obviously shouldn’t be recognizing a CCL from a state that doesn’t.
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What about states rights? What a bunch of bullshit politics have become.
psst “States Rights” only really became an argument from the right wing when passing the civil rights acts.
One abiding characteristic of the right-wing personality is that when he is not dominating others, he feels persecuted. That explains LaPierre’s outbursts in the 1990s just as it explains the lies that Trump, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, et al., require to rationalize their abandonment of a conservative shibboleth now that they are in power.
They all live behind military walls is another abiding characteristic.
Except he didn’t.
MAGA have gun rights. The rest do not.
Rights are only rights if everyone has them.
Expect selective enforcement or even some kind of DHS/ICE reserve officer program as an excuse to keep MAGA voters armed.
Wrong, we all do. All you have to do is go make the purchase and be armed.
Except Trump’s DOJ is not blind and just, they openly serve MAGA. They will let you buy guns but if you should end up in court over a shooting, you won’t win unless you’re MAGA.
If a judge rules against Trump’s wishes, he attacks them openly and moves to have them removed and replaced with a loyalist.
If you’re in a state that sides against Trump he threatens to freeze federals funds.
It is the same for the 1st amendment and other such rights. It’s how this whole debate has returned.
They want people to feel their rights are still in place so people remain obedient but the DOJ and SCOTUS have been weaponized.
None of that stops me from exercising my rights. I don’t ask permission. You shouldn’t comply in advance either.
The rights are inalienable, not a special privilege granted by a government.
But that is exactly what rights are. Given to people by government and they can be taken away.
You are mistaken, that is not what rights are or what the constitution says (“God-given, inalienable rights”).
If you let the government take them, that’s on you, but I guess it depends on how far the individual is willing to go in order to protect said rights.
If the government does something that is contrary to your rights, that’s them violating the rights, but they do not have the ability to rob you of your free will: You choose your actions, words, and what you are or are not willing to risk sacrificing to foil attempts to curtail those rights.
This George Carlin quote comes to mind:
Now, if you think you do have rights, I have one last assignment for ya. Next time you’re at the computer get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia, i want to type in, “Japanese-Americans 1942” and you’ll find out all about your precious fucking rights. Alright. You know about it.
In 1942 there were 110,000 Japanese-American citizens, in good standing, law abiding people, who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That’s all they did wrong. They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers, no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had was…right this way! Into the internment camps.
Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most…their government took them away. and rights aren’t rights if someone can take em away. They’re priveledges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a bill of TEMPORARY priviledges; and if you read the news, even badly, you know the list get’s shorter, and shorter, and shorter.
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GTFO with that religious bullshit.
“rights” are an imaginary vapid concept invented by hairless apes. and if you want to maintain your “rights” then you better get the fuck up and do something about it before the powers that be strip them all away.
This article is just history and speculation of the future.
