Dumbest argument yet or THE dumbest argument yet? https://t.co/ycy9Vqvtbd
— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) June 13, 2016
The "musket" canard. @piersmorgan would be proud.
— AllModernCons (@AllModernCons) June 13, 2016
This is amazing. And not in a good way:
The men who wrote the 2nd amendment would never recognize an AR-15 https://t.co/F7cAqHkqLN
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 13, 2016
Dude. Dude.
Maybe the article itself will make a little more sense:
In short, guns today are capable of inflicting far more carnage than anything the framers could have imagined […]
In itself, that isn’t an argument for banning everything other than muskets. Technology evolves. It makes no more sense to say an AR-15 isn’t protected by the Second Amendment than it does to say that computers or ballpoint pens aren’t protected by the First.
But evolving technology does call for evolving regulation. And, in practice, the implementation of the Second Amendment has never been strictly “absolute.” Most gun owners accept that civilians typically can’t own fully automatic rifles or tanks or nuclear weapons. Our understanding of the “arms” of the Second Amendment has evolved over the years, subject to shifts in political and legal norms.
OK …
What's your argument? That technology invalidates Constitutional rights?
— $7WorthofHoobastank (@busterbivin) June 13, 2016
Piece seems to accept that AR-15s are covered, so I’m not really sure what it’s arguing.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 13, 2016
It’s not entirely clear what it’s arguing.
¯_(?)_/¯
— Matthew DesOrmeaux ⚜ (@authoridad) June 13, 2016
Well, guess the take-home message here is supposed to be that modern-day guns are kinda bad because they weren’t around when the Second Amendment was written? Or something?
What "arms" looked like when the 2nd Amendment was written https://t.co/3bh8Ly79Cd pic.twitter.com/L4WGXTczTk
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) June 13, 2016
This just seems like a really dumb way to try to win the gun control argument.
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/742466410950053888
https://twitter.com/FBillMcMorris/status/742467561971974145
Tell me more about your quill pen and hand-pulled printing press. Tell me more about the Post's Town Crier service. https://t.co/fdgUaRbBNz
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 13, 2016
There are an awful lot of things that didn’t exist in the Founding Fathers’ days.
Nor would the men who wrote the 1st amendment recognize the internet on which this piece is published. https://t.co/F7UyBMusaS
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) June 13, 2016
.@washingtonpost The men who wrote the 1st amendment would not recognize this online article, either. Your point?
— KeepCalmAndDrawl (@FormerlyFormer) June 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/742466218200817664
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/742466391069057024
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/742466588734017541
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/742466801703997440
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/742467081728348160
https://twitter.com/RivalThoughts/status/742469243350831105
The Founders wouldn't recognize this cartoon. The First Amendment was never intended to protect something so inane. https://t.co/HtwVCApxBE
— Lucy Steigerwald (@LucyStag) June 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/JoePerticone/status/742470914479161344
https://twitter.com/SuperiorBear/status/742461608241299458
https://twitter.com/c_m_barnhart/status/742473726139072516
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/742467755450990592
They wouldn't know what to make of a vacuum powered abortion either.
— Wodeshed, Peep Derple (@Wodeshed) June 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/742471372060917760
Still, as asinine as this is, it at least sheds some more light on progressive hypocrisy:
Pretty amazing how the Constitution is a "living breathing document" when it fits your agenda though, huh?
— This Tweet is unavailable (@AlwaysPickdLast) June 13, 2016
Though it’s kind of fun that the crowd that loves the “living document” argument drops it when convenient. https://t.co/ycy9Vqvtbd
— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) June 13, 2016
Isn’t that interesting?
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