On Wednesday evening, a rifle-toting gunman murdered 18 people and wounded at least 13 more in Lewiston, Maine, when he opened fire at two separate locations—a bowling alley, followed by a bar. A manhunt is still underway for 40-year-old suspect Robert Card, a trained firearms instructor with the U.S. Army Reserve who, just this summer, spent two weeks in a mental hospital after reporting that he was hearing voices and threatening to shoot up a military base.
While the other late-night talk show hosts stuck to poking fun at new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Thursday night, Stephen Colbert took his rebuke of the Louisiana congressman to a whole other level.
“Now, we know the arguments,” Colbert said of the do-nothing response politicians generally have to tragedies such as this. “Some people are going to say this is a mental health issue. Others are going to say it’s a gun issue. But there’s no reason it can’t be both.”
well, they’ve already shat on the rest of the bill of rights. what’s one more?
The Founding Fathers would never have signed the Bill of Rights if they thought it would ever be amended in any way, yeah. Great point.
Are you more free because the GOP refuses to regulate the militia? These people aren’t. Are we more secure? Absolutely fucking not. Go back and read your precious bill of rights and tell us what the point of the second amendment is. Republicans wipe their ass with the bill of rights.
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Are you dumb?
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Why are people with your positions rarely able to hold more than the most simple conversations?
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Well when laws are woefully out of date they deserve to be shit on. That’s how democracy and progress works.
These aren’t laws they’re supposed to be guaranteed rights
How’d that eighteenth amendment work out for you? Just so you don’t have to go search for it, it’s the one that made production, distribution, etc. of alcohol illegal. AKA prohibition.
The 21st amendment eventually repealed it.
So these things are not set in stone as much as everybody would like to believe. They can and occasionally are amended, repealed, etc.
Thats not part of the bill of rights
The bill of rights are still just amendments. There’s nothing inherently different about their status as amendments.
Rights become out of date and change over time as well, with that brain dead logic we should still have the right to own slaves.
you can still own slaves as long as they committed a ‘crime’. also afaik there was no explicit guarantee on the right to own slaves prior to the ratification of the thirteenth amendment.
Prison work is not slavery since it is voluntary.
https://lemmy.kya.moe/imgproxy?src=en.wikipedia.org%2fwiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#/media/File:13th_amendment_slave_labor_states.png
Instead of being simple minded linking a Wikipedia article you don’t understand you could instead search for a source of any US prison that enforces labor without consent.
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The Bill of Rights is a set of laws, that’s what laws are.
In any case, who wrote the Bill of Rights in the Constitution? Men did. So, rules and laws were made by men for people. They were not ordained by God. They were written by people, and they can be changed.
How you gonna do that?
I dunno man, if golfing killed 100,000 people a year don’t you think someone would investigate? Why should this sport be different?
As it is, the most dangerous sport in America (mountain climbing) kills 30 people a year.
you could argue golfing probably kills way more people you would expect with all that fertilizer and pesticide runoff
Let’s not let women or black people vote either /s
It’s fine, just because you want a killing machine doesn’t mean you or anyone else is entitled to it. Guns in 1776 were a little different than what we got now. I like guns and I think they’re neat, but the proof is in the pudding. They’re doing more harm than good.