There must be some sort of race to get all of the hottest takes published before the end of the year. Salon is known for its hot takes, but give them an anti-Second Amendment piece co-written by none other than Ed Asner, and you’ve got something so hot it melts right through reality.
Sorry, NRA: The U.S. was actually founded on gun control https://t.co/pPvNCHoHnH
— Salon (@Salon) December 16, 2017
OK, let’s hear him out. He’s essentially relying entirely on a draft of the Second Amendment written by James Madison to prove his case:
Here is Madison’s first draft of the Second Amendment:
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, a well-armed and well-regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.”
Madison’s intent could not be more obvious: his Second Amendment refers only to state militias. If not, why include that exemption for what we now call “conscientious objectors?”
We’ll be the ones to break it to Asner — there were other founders who made sure that wasn’t the final draft of the Second Amendment. Also, it’s still right there in black-and-white: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Madison wasn’t talking about hunting when he wrote that.
https://twitter.com/PolitiBunny/status/942127477492772864
boy howdy this is a real hot take https://t.co/BKbycA0LP3
— Luke Brown ? (@lukeisaacbrown) December 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/KesaraRiku/status/942074748556656640
The "shot heard round the world" was fired during an attempt by the British army to confiscate arms from the colonists but ok… https://t.co/ItDwAKK4b0
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) December 16, 2017
Sorry, Salon: the shot heard round the world was the relsut of an attempt at gun confiscation, but nice attempt at revisionist history https://t.co/39FVk2UFS6
— Twenty-Something Grandpa (@20SmthngGrandpa) December 16, 2017
That’s why the founders said that everyone should have the right to own and bear firearms. Oh… that’s the opposite of what you said. https://t.co/dzhLFjUPO1
— Mike Beasley (@MikeBeas) December 16, 2017
Wow. More like the US was founded to combat gun control. Free people are armed people. https://t.co/fYye3xifHU
— Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) December 16, 2017
Redcoats are still not quite over getting their backsides kicked by private gun owners.
You can tell. https://t.co/5Iycbc3wSt
— D.W.Robinson (@_DWRobinson) December 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/942087951026151424
This has gone beyond lying or even propaganda. This is some weird self-soothing hallucination they're engaging in. https://t.co/HCxtdGxuvd
— Small Gov Lizard (@smallgovlizard) December 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/cmahar3/status/942119312982081537
https://twitter.com/CriticalMessUS/status/942115630664253440
Have you tried reading the final draft?
I heard they made some pretty important changes. https://t.co/QOgQmNyey8— ANiceHonker is suspended (@AJewishMemer) December 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/brown_denism/status/942103603849957378
Uh, no.
Sit down, Salon, and put down your bong. You've made asses of yourselves yet again. https://t.co/tlkODoZtVI
— Justin #SaveLodge49 (@AdmiralOfAges) December 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/DizzyDean79/status/942129765091299329
Good thing the "Worst Take of 2017" contest hasn't closed yet. https://t.co/jrgVliTFlE
— John L. Pitts (@JohnLPitts) December 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/TheCalCoconut/status/942084274408140802
https://twitter.com/ShamashAran/status/942119533665497088
Whenever I'm feeling blue, I can always count on Salon to deliver a hilarious joke. #NRA #2ndAmendment #guncontrol https://t.co/1nrRdwPu5U
— Joe Townsend (@Jtownsend95) December 16, 2017
Ed Asner, LOL https://t.co/9yKyVQkuY0
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) December 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/Jim252525/status/942107540443328512
https://twitter.com/Timerican/status/942091271191105536
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