Sen. Lindsey Graham wants every Democrat to answer, ‘Is it a good idea to repeal the 2nd Amendment?’

By Chris Field

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) believes there’s a civil rights question Democrats don’t want to be forced to answer truthfully: Do they want to see the Second Amendment repealed?

And the lawmaker wants the media to ask the question to every Democratic politician.

Why ask that question?

Since the Feb. 14 mass killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, renewed calls for gun control have reverberated across the U.S.

Anti-gun Parkland students and their supporters have demanded that Congress “do something” about gun violence, ranging from restrictions on guns sales, registries, bans on certain firearms, and more. Their cries climaxed with the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., and other cities over the weekend.

Some of the students and their supporters have even called for a repeal of the Second Amendment — the most recent coming from former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.

Stevens, a famously liberal former jurist on the high court, was one of four justices who dissented in D.C. v. Heller, which declared that the Second Amendment does indeed protect the individual right to possess a firearm. In his dissenting opinion in Heller, Stevens wrote that the right to bear arms is a “collective right,” not an …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze