Huffing Post: Gun Owners Have More Rights Than Women

By Tom Knighton

The Constitution of the United States of America guarantees that each and every American has the exact same rights as every other American. How that shakes out in day-to-day life may be another matter, but the Constitution is the Constitution.

However, at Huffington Post, it seems they don’t understand how that works. Why else would they publish a post titled, “The Constitution Gives Gun Owners Greater Rights Than Women,” anyway?

Here’s a disturbing fact to consider in 2018, the year women supposedly began to topple the patriarchy: Gun owners in the United States, a majority of whom are men, have better constitutional rights than women.

Gun owners have the Second Amendment, in place since the 18th century. The U.S. is one of only three countries that offer constitutional protection to gun owners.

Women, meanwhile, have been fighting for an equal rights amendment for decades. That’s because the Constitution does not actually grant women equal rights under the law, setting the country apart from 131 other nations that explicitly guarantee gender equality in their constitutions.

This failing means that when it comes to a raft of issues ― including equal pay, sexual harassment and domestic violence ― women lose.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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