By John Wayne on Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Category: Race, Culture, Nation

A Leftist “Rewrites” the Constitution By Charles Taylor (Florida)

Some light relief, for a change. US Communist film maker Michael Moore, who has been anti-gun and anti-everything else involving conservative values, published his draft of a new constitutional amendment to repeal the Second Amendment. It is really the work of a legal amateur, with phrases such as “The inalienable right of a free people to be kept safe from gun violence and the fear thereof must not be infringed and shall be protected by the Congress and the States. This Amendment thus repeals and replaces the Second Amendment.” Well, just repeal it and get it over with, no introduction and preamble ramble needed. But rather than going out and explicitly saying that the people do not have a right to own firearms, and shall not own them, only the state, he waffles along and ends up with people actually being able to own firearms, something along the lines of Australian law, perhaps stricter, contradicting himself, and thus looking like a goose.

 

The proposed Moore amendment also outlaws "any homemade equipment and machinery ... that can make a gun or weapon that can take a human life" (section 5). Since swords and machetes can be readily made with steel and angle grinders, Moore will have to ban a lot of tools, used in doing work to the houses of elites such as him. Well, let him put up with a leaky roof!

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“Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore was mocked on Sunday after he published a draft of a new constitutional amendment that would repeal the Second Amendment.

What does the proposal say?

Just days after recounting the privileges of "full citizenship," Moore published his draft of a new constitutional amendment that would severely restrict firearm ownership.

The proposed amendment contains eight sections and demonstrates clear misunderstandings of constitutional law.

The first section focuses on protecting Americans from "gun violence and the fear thereof." It reads:

The inalienable right of a free people to be kept safe from gun violence and the fear thereof must not be infringed and shall be protected by the Congress and the States. This Amendment thus repeals and replaces the Second Amendment.

The amendment also raises the minimum legal age for firearm ownership to 25 (section 4), establishes a national firearm registry (section 2), outlines a lengthy and strict process for firearm ownership (sections 2, 3, and 4), and outlaws all semi-automatic firearms (section 5).

In Moore's dystopian utopia, then, only firearms like revolvers and bolt-action rifles are legal. Moore similarly limits who can own firearms to licensed hunters, those who are licensed for sport shooting, and "the few who can demonstrate a special need for personal protection," which inevitably limits firearm ownership to the elite and privileged.

The proposed amendment also outlaws "any homemade equipment and machinery ... that can make a gun or weapon that can take a human life" (section 5).

Finally, the proposed amendment says that police officers who carry "shall be subject to comprehensive and continuous monitoring and shall be dismissed if found to exhibit any racist or violent behavior" (section 7) and demands that any American who owns any firearms made illegal under the amendment has only one month to surrender them to the government (section 8).

What was the response?

The proposal was met with a range of criticism.

Some critics noted the amendment would significantly empower the federal government, others noted the proposal itself would violate other parts of the Constitution, while others noted that vague language in the proposal could have unintended consequences.

Fortunately, the Constitution establishes a high bar for amendments — two-thirds approval in Congress and approval by three-fourths of the states, or else a convention of states called by two-thirds of the states, followed by ratification of three-fourths of the states — thus Moore's proposal will never become constitutional law.”

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