Beto O’Rourke Suggests 2nd Amendment Is Outdated

By Cam Edwards

He didn’t come right out and say it, but Beto’s edging ever closer to taking my advice and calling for a full blown repeal of the 2nd Amendment. Speaking this afternoon at the March For Our Lives/Giffords forum on gun control, Beto approvingly referred to an anti-gun meme he saw recently that said something like “it took three minutes to reload a musket when the 2nd Amendment was ratified.”

Times have changed, says Beto, so why can’t the 2nd Amendment change with it? Because of the Constitution? Beto tried to claim that Antonin Scalia would be going along with the candidate’s plan for a gun ban and compensated confiscation plan, because (in O’Rourke’s words) Scalia agreed that “there were some understandable, commonsense limits”. What Scalia said is that the Heller decision recognizing an individual right to keep and bear arms should not case doubt on “longstanding” laws prohibiting gun ownership for felons, or those adjudicated mentally defective, “or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”

In fact, Scalia would most certainly not have supported Beto’s ban of the most …Read the Rest

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