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Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jan 25, 2023

Americans have now suffered 40 mass shootings in the first 24 days of 2023. More than 2800 total gun deaths—including 122 children. And yet GOP wants MORE guns & reject any regulation.

Honestly how corrupt & conscientiously ignorant must one be to ignore "well regulated" & only read "shall not be infringed" in your 2A interpretation?

Imagine if we read the 1A like that? "We would pass this bill but the 1A clearly says 'Congress shall make no law' so too bad!" It's absurd.

Pass Gun Reform NOW.

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Tom Bellin

@QasimRashid Unfortunately, it's not absurd. The game where we play "what do words mean" with the text of the Constitution is a losing one.

The founders were white, slave-holding men. The words of the document they wrote are going to reflect that no matter how open-minded they were for the time.

This country used to believe that the rough patches of the Constitution could be finessed if the end result was a "more perfect union." Let's get back to that.