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    | Why Gun Control Is Now a Matter of National Security Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
 Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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    | Increasingly, as militias acquire and stockpile weapons, they’re turning guns from a public-health concern into a threat to national security. And it’s possible that if proponents of reform—including advocacy groups, congressional leaders and Biden—began addressing it that way, they’d have a chance of energizing the debate against the National Rifle Association and its allies. Indeed, the shock of the insurrection has increased the political burdens of an NRA in internal disarray and offered a new perspective on the need for significant gun control legislation.
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    | Comment by: 
     MarkHamTownsend
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    | In the Founder's day national security was the reason we wound up with the Second Amendment. 
 Now it's the reason to destroy it.
 
 President Ponysoldier O'Biden has not a clue what kind of  sheisse-storm he is going to unleash.
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    | Comment by: 
     PHORTO
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    | "Generating bipartisan consensus for an effective crackdown on firearms will always be difficult." 
 "Crackdown?"
 
 Not difficult, immaterial. Enumerated fundamental rights are not subject to any consensus, but that fact is essentially alien to you because you refuse to accept it.
 
 "We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding 'interest-balancing' approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government ... the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. . . The Second Amendment is no different. Like the First, it is the very product of an interest-balancing by the people[.]" - D.C. v. Heller (2008)
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